Lifting 21× Bodyweight: Records, Limits, and Requirements

The idea of lifting 21 times one’s body weight is far beyond any known human feat.  For context, top relative lifts barely reach 5–6× body weight.  Eric Kim (a 75 kg lifter) recently performed a 471 kg rack pull at 75 kg (a 6.3× ratio) , which is extraordinary but still well below 21×.  Even small powerlifters like […]

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Photography is NOT the future — YOU are.

Here’s the distilled ERIC KIM take: Photography is NOT the future — YOU are. The camera is just a dumb hunk of metal. The future is your mind, your body, your courage, your community, your ownership. Let AI have the generic. You double‑down on the specific: your life, your city, your friends, your fears, your […]

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Adult Content on Apple Vision Pro: Availability and Restrictions (Porn)

Apple’s Vision Pro is a high-end mixed‐reality headset running visionOS.  Like Apple’s iPhone and iPad, it inherits Apple’s strict App Store content rules.  Apple’s App Review Guidelines (which apply to visionOS) explicitly ban apps with “overtly sexual or pornographic material” . In practice, this means no pornographic apps have been approved for the Vision Pro’s […]

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The Many Facets of “Soft”

Physical Properties Digital Design Aesthetic & Art Psychology & Philosophy Marketing & Branding Technology Fashion & Lifestyle Sources: Authoritative research and expert sources from materials science , UI/UX design literature , art and color theory analyses , political science and psychology texts , branding guides , robotics and computing overviews , and fashion style sources […]

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