~10:30 on-track shave shower. Missing my little handheld mirror and ultimate razor.
gym 11:20 ~ 12:09 : 3 stam circuits
Lat pulldown 3 x 15 x 150# limit
Leg press 3 x 20 x 300#
Shoulder press 3 x 13 x 85# limit
Back extension 3 x 20 x 150#

Older guy who was waiting for the Back Extension after my 2nd circuit said "you must have a very strong back!" I don't really know, so, maybe? If you say so? (Comparison is the thief of joy?) Maybe the years of treadmill cardio work with sprints has hardened my posterior-chain glute/lower-back endurance. 150# doesn't seem like terribly much to me, it's middle of the weight stack and I only added Back Extension to my mix a few weeks ago.

grocery + recovery mgr special old bay / cajun cod
cook chickpeas; chop and brown brekarito meat
3:45 protein cocoa

pizza and a movie: _?

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I've known about the cultural dimension of "uncertainty avoidance" (or its flip-side, ambiguity tolerance) for a long time. It was popularized by Dutch social psychologist Geert Hofstede in his 1980 book "Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values". So maybe it was trending in the mid-late 80s when I studied psych; or maybe I picked it up from some science article since. Pretty certain I knew about it by the time I took WTCC's Interpersonal Communications class, where it was probably mentioned in passing.

Cultures with high ambiguity tolerance (e.g. Greece, Portugal, Carribbean) tend to be relaxed about time schedules, communications formality, and impromptu interactions. Cultures with high uncertainty avoidance value meticulous planning, detailed contracts, rigid heirarchies.

Pondering it recently, I hypothesized that bigotry in general would correlate with uncertainty avoidance, as it dovetails with a constellation of axioms that underlie racist essentialism, nativism, victim-blaming classism, social darwinism, sexism etc. If you're uncomfortable with uncertainty then it's comforting to not have to work at discerning on a case-by-case basis about who can/should/must be [trusted, exploited, married, obeyed] by immutable flags like sex, skin color, family relation.

Not a very original thought; it's been studied and the science concludes that yes there's not just a correlation, but a causality pipeline from cultural uncertainty avoidance, to authoritarianism and bigotry. And indeed, Germany and Japan with their rigid, uncertainty-avoidant cultural baggage, were the flashpoints for WW2's global fascism crisis.