- 0 Posts
- 94 Comments
1·1 天前Went ahead and did Week 5 of my 5/3/1 journey, still fatigued from testing my 1RM on deadlift. Switched up the order of my 3-day routine to be Squat-Bench-Deadlift on W-Th-F instead of my normal Deadlift-Bench-Squat on M-T-W.
So on my AMRAP sets this week, targeting 3+ reps:
Squat: 4 x 320 lbs. Lower back was still fatigued from max effort deadlifts 2 days before, and I felt myself starting to get stuck at the bottom of the lift.
Bench: 9 x 170 lbs. Felt pretty good, making good progress on bench.
Deadlift: 3 x 365 lbs. Definitely still recovering from my 1RM on Monday.
Two things.
First, dating and commitment is about matching and compatibility, not about some kind of objective ranking system of quality or merit. It’s about how a partner or potential partner rates on your own personal scale, not some sort of societal scale built by social consensus. So while it is ok for you to find a particular trait to be a negative, or even a deal breaker, your point is completely irrelevant to the advice being given, which is not to hide important traits of one’s identity.
Second, your own preference here is stated in unnecessarily condescending terms, as if your preferences are right and the opposite preference is wrong or the sign of some kind of disorder. Whatever your definition of “toys and dolls” are, it probably isn’t a very tightly defined term, and I’d venture to guess that you are OK with some kinds of “toys” but not others. People collect stuff. People develop emotional attachment to physical things all the time. And for you to gatekeep and say which things are acceptable or unacceptable is kinda an asshole move.
4·1 天前Any pizza can be a personal pizza if you believe in yourself.
It’s already a modification to the word to describe something smaller (a cake baked in a cup), so going back the other way seems like a redundancy.
Like a giant pygmy hippo.
With your knife/sword example, maybe the best analogy is describing the shortest longsword.
7·1 天前Right now in California natural gas is about $14-15 per thousand cubic feet (yeah it’s a stupid unit), which is about 1 million BTUs (another stupid unit of energy). That translates to about 290 kWh.
The average residential price of electricity in California is about 30 cents per kWh. So the same amount of energy in electricity would be about $87, about 5.8 times as expensive as gas per unit energy.
If a heat pump is 4 times as efficient at heating than a gas furnace, then we’re still looking at higher heating costs for heating a home.
And things like stoves and hot water heaters tend not to be as efficient as heat pumps, so you’re still looking at a 4-6x cost difference from electrification on those.
My single, “My single is dropping,” is dropping.
2·2 天前I don’t care what anyone says, Zach Woods as Gabe Lewis and James Spader as Robert California (aka The Lizard King) were fantastic.
That’s kinda the thesis of the whole article.
Stories about rich people where their wealth is part of the plot are getting tired, but more insidiously, stories not involving wealth are still defaulting to very well-off people with expensive homes/furnishings/clothes/style/cars.
It’s True Wagner. He does flyers like this and they are pretty funny.
Obvious Plant puts products on shelves, and True Wagner puts flyers up.
He’s the same guy who did “one day blinding stew” and “conductor of this train threw up on my kid,” both instant classics.
5·3 天前404 is great, too, for coverage of those topics.
Defector is worth a special mention in large part because it’s one of the few places on the internet that still makes me laugh out loud. It’s ostensibly a sports site, but when they stray off topic it’s some of the best stupid shit on the internet.
Yeah, I agree. I drop in on CrossFit style classes from time to time, maybe 2-3 times per month (not actually named CrossFit anymore as my local gym de-affiliated from CrossFit itself). They help me identify things that I’m not good at, and give me ideas for programming in stuff to build in those weaknesses.
So compared to the typical regular CrossFit gym members I’m probably much stronger on powerlifting, slightly stronger on Olympic lifting, middle of the pack on steady state cardio like rowing or running, and way behind on metcon type workouts where you do a bunch of barbell or kettlebell or body weight exercises for time.
After I hit my strength goals this summer, I’m probably going to switch to 2 strength workouts and 2 metcon style workouts per week, specifically to address that weakness. And then I’ll have to program mobility and flexibility work, too, as that is another significant weakness of mine.
I think of it more as a set of skills that needs to be maintained, and is easier to do when regularly engaged.
There was a comment recently that I really liked, here, by @RBWells@lemmy.world :
I think people do not recognize the immense value of weak interpersonal bonds, like going to the same corner store all the time. But they are the glue that holds society together. It’s not the deep friendships, you can only have a few of those. It’s those people you are acquainted with, and look forward to seeing, people you wave to, all those little connections add up.
The little weak bonds help keep you grounded so that you can tighten and bolster the deeper and more meaningful bonds. I’m a better friend to my closest friends in large part because I have the experience and lessons learned from past situations with friendship: how to be supportive when a friend is going through a death in the family, a divorce, a period of unemployment, how to celebrate with a friend getting married, having new kids, etc. Each little situation presents an opportunity to be a good friend (and gives better information about what you can expect from your good friends), and just basically sharpens those social bonds and your ability to navigate them in a way that enriches your own life and your friends’ lives.
So it’s not a finite amount of juice. It’s a muscle that can be made stronger, and I’d argue is worth actively making stronger.
I’m making lifelong friends in this Wendy’s right now.
I’m baffled by some of the responses in this thread. Yes, it’s harder to make friends in one’s 20’s than in the teens, and harder to make friends in one’s 30’s than in one’s 20’s.
But to act like it’s inevitable, or even desirable, to not make new friendships after the age of 20 seems like overstating things.
The people you grow up with and befriend at a young age share those similar roots. That will always be valuable in friendships.
And the people you befriend later in life, through your hobbies, your career, your neighborhood, your mutual relationships also share those commonalities, and that will bring something valuable to those relationships, too. One of the most things I love about meeting, dating, and marrying my wife is that it mingled our two worlds of friends, and a lot of the friends I met through her in my 30’s are now some of my best friends today.
I rely on local friends for things that require geographical closeness. I rely on fellow parents for parenting support (including favors, advice, even jokes/rants). I am close with former and current colleagues, and we talk shop, careers, people we know, and sometimes refer each other to job opportunities or other work.
There is a certain richness that comes from multiple social relationships evolving and developing over time, including repeat acquaintances, superficial friendships, all the way to very close or very intimate friendships. We’re all just walking through life in different stages, and each stage has different needs and opportunities to rely on and provide support to your social network.
Is there a correlation, inverse or otherwise, between the quality of friendships and the quantity of friends?
Natural gas is abundant and cheap in North America, and transporting gas overseas has always been inefficient and expensive, so each continent tends to have their own price for natural gas.
Electricity is expensive in California in large part because the transmission lines cause devastating wildfires, so the rates now includes the cost of preventing fires by continuously trimming trees and other vegetation near power lines, and paying off past liability for billions of damage in previous fires.