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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • I’m not a doctor or any sort of medical person, but I do have two old rotator cuff tears that require constant exercise, so I’m pretty familiar with shoulder PT.

    Yes, pull your shoulders, and thereby your shoulder blades, back and down slightly, so they’re flat against your back and stabilized. Don’t squeeze them hard together.

    How I was taught to figure out how far back and down was enough was to take a two to four pound weight and hold it straight out in front of yourself. If you don’t already reflexively stabilize your shoulder, then pull your shoulder blade back and down until it feels stable. This will cause your shoulder to rise and pull back a bit. It’s hard to describe but you’ll hit a point where everything just feels like it’s in the right place. It’ll feel easier to hold the weight and more stable. That’s the position to use for rotator cuff exercises.

    On a related note, I’m a HUGE fan of spinning hula hoops on your wrists for rotator cuff rehabilitation and strengthening. I have some lumps of scar tissue that cause my shoulders to click and pop for certain movements, which happens to include most rotator cuff exercises. The hula hoops minimize motion and focus on building stabilizing strength.



  • The lie is that Israel is any different or morally superior than the terrorists they decry. It’s a genocidal apartheid state and no amount of apologists spreading lies to the contrary will change that.

    As has been done for decades, Israeli settlers invaders are using the ongoing fighting to justify forcibly removing Palestinians so they can take their things and live in their homes. They’re doing to them many of the same things that were done to the Jewish people by the Nazis and we actually have people trying to claim they’re in the right. It’s disgusting.


  • What’s crazy is people who think any criticism of Israel is support for Hamas and/or antisemitism. That objection doesn’t hold up under even the slightest scrutiny, yet we have people like you repeating it again and again. It’s like claiming critics of the death penalty believe murder should be without repercussions. It’s nonsensical and l, appropriately enough, I have yet to meet a single supporter of such an opinion who can provide any sort of explanation of how it makes sense.

    Do you just repeat what the government tells you without ever questioning it?