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by whamlastxmas 2825 days ago
This record is like having a record for bench pressing with the aid of hydraulic lifts. How much do the hydraulic lifts help? How much is the person contributing? The whole premise just seems really stupid, and it's even dumber if they were to make the headlines "Woman smashes world record bench press at 23 tons". Just throw someone in Elon's hyperloop vacuum tubes on a bicycle fixed to the rails, make them wear a pressurized diving suit, and let them go to town. I'm sure they'd break 184MPH and it would be an equally pointless dick measuring contest.