It’s sudden death syndrome!

He died randomly for no reason!

The Guardian:

The mountain bike rider Rab Wardell has died at the age of 37, just days after competing at, and winning, the Scottish MTB XC Championships.

Scottish Cycling confirmed on Tuesday evening that Wardell had died in his sleep. Wardell had appeared on BBC Scotland’s The Nine programme on Monday evening to talk about his victory on Sunday.

“We are devastated to confirm the news that international mountain biker and former employee, Rab Wardell, has passed away today,” a statement from Scottish Cycling said.

“We have very little information at this stage, but we send our love and support to his family, friends and all those in our community who knew him. We ask that you respect Rab’s family’s privacy at this incredibly sad time.”

Wardell’s partner, the track cyclist Katie Archibald, tweeted on Wednesday that he had suffered a “cardiac arrest” on Tuesday morning.

“I think you’ve heard that Rab died yesterday morning,” wrote Archibald, “I still don’t understand what’s happened; if this is real; why he’d be taken now – so healthy and happy.

“He went into cardiac arrest while we were lying in bed. I tried and tried, and the paramedics arrived within minutes, but his heart stopped and they couldn’t bring him back.”

The Guardian calls this woman his “partner,” because saying “wife” is evil and will cause a holocaust

Wardell won the elite men’s title at Kirroughtree Forest in Dumfries & Galloway on Sunday, overcoming several punctures to win on the final lap. His victory was described as a “show of incredible resilience” by British Cycling.

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Wardell, who lived with Archibald in Glasgow, had been racing mountain bikes since he was a teenager, but only turned professional earlier this year.

Here’s the deal: the vax is killing people from heart attacks right now, so athletes are the ones getting the worst of it. Therefore: “if you’re vaxed, try to relax.”

I think it’s clear that in the future, the vaxed will start developing all kinds of strange cancers and neurological conditions and everything else (along with obviously being sterile). But right now, it’s primarily a heart thing.

those making tributes. I can't bear to talk about him in the past tense to say anything myself. You mean everything to me, Rab. I love you.

— Katie Archibald (@_katiearchibald) August 24, 2022

The gyms are closed, probably forever.

But hey – at least you can ride around on a bicycle like an asshole.

The Guardian:

GPs will be encouraged to prescribe cycling as a way for patients to lose weight, as part of a new government strategy to tackle the nation’s obesity crisis to be announced on Monday.

In what Downing Street says is its biggest initiative to encourage more people to take exercise, the plans to be revealed by prime minister Boris Johnson could also mean GP surgeries participating in bicycle schemes, to make cycling easier and cheaper to take up.

Government officials say that a key challenge will be to make people feel safer on bikes in busy urban areas. This, they accept, will mean spending huge sums on segregated cycle lanes and secure cycle parking as well as developing low-traffic neighbourhoods.

Initially the plans will be trialled in areas with poor health and physical activity rates, with a view to expanding them across the country if successful.

A government spokesperson said: “Covid-19 has given us all a wake-up call [on] the immediate and long-term risks of being overweight, and the prime minister is clear we must use this moment to get healthier, more active and eat better. We will be urging the public to use this moment to take stock of how they live their lives, and to take simple steps to lose weight, live healthier lives, and reduce pressure on the NHS.”

Johnson, who cycled to work when mayor of London and as a backbench MP, has taken a personal interest in the new strategy, particularly since he was admitted to hospital and then intensive care with coronavirus.

It comes amid growing evidence that excess weight is associated with a higher risk of severe illness from coronavirus. Recent studies have also shown that cycling to work is linked to a 46% lower risk of heart disease compared with a non-active commute.

Two-thirds (63%) of UK adults are above a healthy weight, with 36% overweight and 28% obese. Alarmingly, one in three children aged 10 to 11 are overweight or obese.

Seriously – no offense to anyone who does biking.

It’s fine. I’m not against it. It’s not like, jogging or something insanely bad for your health. Biking is good for heart health, at least, though it’s probably overrated.

But nothing is anywhere close to as good for your health as strength training. That increases every aspect of your physical wellbeing, and it is the number one way for men to increase their testosterone levels.

If they’re not going to open the gyms back up – and it appears that they are not – you need to get a home gym together.

All you really need is a bench and a rack that allows you to do squats, and ideally also pull-ups. One rack is all you need.

A simpler rack like this will also work, though it does not have the pull-up bar.

If you get a rack that doesn’t allow you to do pull-ups, you’re going to need a separate pull-up bar, which you should be able to hang from a rafter in your basement.

You need:

• Bench
• Squat
• Deadlift
• Pull-ups
• Row
• Military press
• The rest of the crap (sit-ups, curls, flies, reverse flies, etc.)

One rack with a pull-up bar or a rack and a separate pull-up bar accomplishes this. You just need a barbell, some plates and some dumbbells.

If you follow the Stormer plan, your home gym will work better than the routines of the assholes who crowd up normal gyms – and it will definitely work a lot better than riding a bike, I can tell you this.

If you want to do biking, I would be much more likely to recommend off-road biking.

That’s going to be a lot more of a serious workout. Moreover, it’s going to be more fun, and get you in touch with nature, and it’s not going to result in you breathing the carbon monoxide of car exhaust fumes, which is virtually impossible to avoid if you’re engaging in biking on the open road.

This is the new face of hate in America.

In a shocking turn of events, a white female who lost a biking contest against a trans woman has lashed out with pure hatred against the superior rider, claiming that the race was somehow “not fair.”

The white supremacist and transphobic bigot Wagner-Assali whined on Twitter in the most hateful manner, enraged at her inability to compete in a fair race and win fairly against Rachel McKinnon, another woman.

“Not fair,” she says – implying that a transwoman is somehow different than a CIS gender woman.

Absolutely disgusting.

In a just country, this tweet would have resulted in arrest. But in Trump’s America, all it resulted in was mob harassment on the internet.

Some women have penises – deal with it, bigot. 

The hater Jen Wagner-Assali – who is believed to be a Trump supporter and possibly a member of the “Proud Boys” White Supremacist gang – was eventually bullied into apologizing.

But should we really let her off that easily?

With an apology?

After she implied that a transwoman is somehow different than a CIS woman?

I think not.

If Drumpf insists on refusing to pass laws that protect the rights of trans people not to be insulted, we need to contact this woman’s employer and ensure she is fired.

Furthermore, we need to report this hatespeech to Twitter and get her banned.

This clearly violates their long-held policy against dehumanizing language.

Here is Jen’s account.

Please report her dehumanizing language and help protect the trans community worldwide from questions about whether or not it is “fair” for them to compete against women in sports competition.

Remember: hey hey, ho ho, these transphobic bigots have got to go, hey hey, ho ho, this is what democracy looks like, show me what democracy looks like, shut it down.

The progressive stack exists for a reason.

Wikipedia:

A progressive stack is a technique used to give marginalized groups a greater chance to speak. It is sometimes an introduction to, or stepping stone to, consensus decision-making in which simple majorities have less power.

The progressive stack technique attempts to counter what its proponents believe is a flaw in traditional representative democracy, where the majority is heard while the minority or non-dominant groups are silenced or ignored. In practice, “majority culture” is interpreted by progressive stack practitioners to mean White people, men and young adults, while non-dominant groups include women, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, people of color, and very young or older people.

If white women think they’re above trans women in that equation, they have another thing coming.

This is the current order, in order of least to most oppressed:

1. White men
2. Crippled white people
3. Asians
4. Homosexual white men
5. White women
6. White people with Down Syndrome
7. Sikhs
8. Lesbians
9. Indians (Hindu)
10. Mexicans
11. African Americans
12. Homosexual people with Down Syndrome
13. Illegal Mexican immigrants
14. Homosexual African Americans
15. Transgender African Americans
16. Homosexual illegal Mexican immigrants
17. Transgender illegal Mexican immigrants
18. Transgender people with Down Syndrome
19. Muslims
20. Muslim refugees
21. Homosexual Muslims
22. Transgender Muslims
23. Homosexual Muslim refugees
24. Transgender Muslim refugees

That order is subject to change at any time, but I’ll tell you – white CIS women aren’t going to be moving up any time soon! If anything, they’ll be moving down – right above white men!