conor

🇮🇪 Irish fitness professional ☘️ Working in Budapest 🇭🇺
BSc Strength & Conditioning 🏋️
MSc Coaching Science 🎓

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

One has to be blind to history to forget that Jews lived 1300 years in Arab lands, & self-identified as Arabs, without any marked social tension with Muslims (<< than between Muslim groups). A rabbi could certify meat as halal & could get involved in Islamic jurisprudence.
The wedge started in Algeria with Cremieux.

[In Ukraine @InUKRofficial]

After a year apart, dog welcomes the Ukrainian defender back home.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

one of the few benefits of Musk giving me the blue-check without having asked for it is that I can post long videos, so here's the full Louis Theroux documentary on the genocidal Zionist Israeli settlers and their pathological death-cult mania:

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

This is scary.

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

Today is a massive tax day &amp; that tax from ordinary decent Americans will go to the US Treasury to subsidise grants given to an African who is laying off Americans!.

There, that's the plan!

Nativism 101.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Appendix I. All it took is 1) a smile, 2) some compliment, and 3) a promise to take less than .1% of the Gazans that Trump was offering to displace.
.1%

https://t.co/z9axNn1Rhz

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

TRUMP: "Take 1 ½ million Gazans".
JORDAN: "We can take 2K (children) for medical treatment".
TRUMP: "OK"

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

2) For the last 40 years I have been driven by the adage that, if you stay in good physical shape, your best productive academic years are between 70 and 80. Or perhaps 75 to 85 if you are an endurance athlete.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Books by endurance athletes: all depressed by the inevitable decline in performance, which you can of course slow down (or reverse as I did), but you are fighting the clock.

Instead look at things that IMPROVE w/age: erudition, wisdom, experience, sophistication, finances.

[The Blindboy Podcast @bbboatclub]

Irish people have been peacekeeping in southern Lebanon for so long that the local Lebanese people have full Irish accents

[Gareth Sandford @Gareth_Sandford]

Physical preparation coaches, intermittent tests such as:

• The bronco

• 30-15

• Yo-yo test

Do not accurately reflect an individual's aerobic fitness level.

Let me explain why...

[Andrea Catherwood @acatherwoodnews]

They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity as @@davidmcw often says…

[Call me Keir @RUGBY_STR_COACH]

Nothing screams recovery like getting college kids up at 6am to bring their ass into the gym for 30 minutes of foam rolling and stretching 😂

[Gaelic Keeper Coaching - Dr. Donal Hughes @DocKeeperCoach]

If the All Blacks had a Junior B team.

[Duncan Trussell @duncantrussell]

Even if the AI isn’t sentient it’s still terrifying to think that an algorithm is powerful enough to make people think it’s self aware! Wouldn’t it be better if it were sentient in the sense that it might be capable of compassion?! Otherwise it’s basically a digital sociopath!

[Conor Finn @TheConorFinn]

This is what a house viewing now consists of in Dublin.
Over 100 people waiting in line for a rental property

[Call me Keir @RUGBY_STR_COACH]

How fucked is college athletics?

Well, here's an "summer conditioning" workout for female volleyball athletes.

Total distance: ~3900m

Average distance covered in a D1 game: ~400m.

This was written by a CSCS, and overseen by a CSCCa master coach.

https://t.co/GLwAs3nTm3

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram all going down at the same time sure seems like an easily-understandable and publicly-popular example of why breaking up a certain monopoly into at least three pieces might not be a bad idea.

Somebody should tell Elizabeth Warren.