Personally I love it when people who are not my doctor offer me specific, actionable medical advice. Especially so when it entails surgery to permanently remove my body parts

Personally I’m just yearning for Silksong

Total shot in the dark,

I had this problem for a while. It turns out the whole time my firefox was set to a different dialect of english (British) lol. I think it may have been set that way by default because of Ubuntu being headquartered in the UK lol

My spellcheck seems to be working fine these days though, could you list some examples of common words that you’ve had to add to the dictionary? I can check how mine responds when I get home

Lemmy now definitely reminds me of the very early days of reddit, enjoying it immensely

Oh, wow thank you this looks rad actually. Notable for US users: it appears to only work with T-mobile

Could you direct us to some ethically sourced smartphones?

Yeah! It’s actually a pretty major pitfall that I feel like doesn’t get talked about enough. Many people have a tendency to conclude “this isn’t working anymore” when they reach that point, due to the lack of soreness. People often feel inclined to switch up their exercises to reintroduce the soreness.

But it’s a terrible irony, as that is usually the point where you will begin to see really great progress on your program.

The critical thing to ask yourself is whether you are progressing in your lifts. If you added 5lbs or got more reps (without changing your technique), then you’re on the right path

Check out the “repeated bout effect” as well! If you stick with it week after week the DOMs will gradually vanish!

So much so that I’ve had clients ask if something was wrong because they weren’t sore at all, usually after 3 or 4 weeks of a training block. But all is well, soreness is not actually the goal of a workout.

If you take a break though, even a short one (for me it’s literally like 10 days of not training) it kind of “resets” and you get the full soreness again. It’s become a great motivator always sneak some volume in somehow, even on vacations and stuff

Interesting argument, but I have already hand drawn you as the soyjack and me as the chad

if the device is designed and tested well (which admittedly, only like 10% of devices are)

Pretty condescending post only for you to “admit” that the overwhelming supermajority of products on the market are badly designed. And then to agree with me that the information they extrapolate is “crap”, too.

Did you know that virtually all runners are using tech from that 90% crap category? That’s also who my post aimed at. You know, the people currently being scammed by these marketing companies, not people with the specific medical grade equipment you personally designed.

Thank you, nonetheless, for the interesting info and further reading. Hopefully it will help steer people towards good equipment if they do decide they want to track these metrics as accurately as possible

I do trail running primarily these days so my actual distance I’ll just pull from the trail map.

If you do roads you can actually just drive the route in a car once, and use the trip function. You can also plan a route with a map or map app.

But the other, easiest thing to do would be to actually switch training paradigms from distance to time. Right so instead of running a 12k, or hitting 50km per week, you could say “On this training day I want to run at a tough but manageable pace for an hour, and I want to train 6 hours a week in general”

From there you just mix in some track days (or days you run any familiar route with a known distance) to get an idea of how far you might be running in those intervals of time, if you feel like you really need to.

You have to remember portable gps tech is an extremely recent thing compared to how long runners have been training. I’m not against progress for progress’s sake mind you but I just genuinely don’t believe the introduction of these apps and trackers, with their many flaws, has improved the quality of people’s training. The old ways also cost nothing and have no privacy or security risks which is a bonus for many people

Seriously, this. The things are genuinely useless. They can’t even measure your heart rate correctly (seriously look it up. They use algorithms to “estimate” your heart rate. Different brands give different results. People wear elaborate chest strap setups to try and get an accurate value and even then it’s subject to a huge margin of error).

Get a $10 dumbwatch with a stopwatch function. Run or cycle a familiar route once in a while to track your progress. Find different ways to challenge yourself. Do some runs all out. Hill sprints. Do some longer runs a bit slower than you would think, so that even if your breathing is a little heavier you could still hold a conversation with someone while maintaining that pace.

Ignore all the senselessly overcomplicated 5 stage heartrate zone V02max aerobic astrology bull that these companies advertise to you as a big benefit of their product. Having a 3d map of your route is not going to make you a better runner. Having a virtual leaderboard where 99% of people you compete against are using a wonky cellphone gps that teleports them 1000ft off course isn’t going to make you a better runner

I guess the key difference here is they specifically want healthy animals that might have otherwise been able to have been rehoused. So it’s not like when you have to put your dog down at the end if it’s life, it’s like if it had a couple good years left but you needed to move and couldn’t take him with you.

But they’re not taking dogs fwiw. Article just says chickens, rabbits, and guinea pigs. As well as maybe horses in the right circumstances.

I think it’d be pretty wild for anyone who eats meat themselves to criticize the practice of feeding a chicken to a lion. The vegans I can’t speak for but I think they would probably take issue way higher in the chain than this, such as keeping the predator animals in captivity for our amusement in the first place.

Either way I think it’s waaaaay overkill to suggest someone donating their pet rodent to a zoo shouldn’t be allowed to have children lol. The pet store you get them from feeds rodents to the snakes.

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Virtually zero musicians are making enough money from performing/writing to pay rent and bills. Average income last I checked was around 40k, and that includes the money you make from your second job lol

Sounds like the Fire Emblem games would be perfect for this!

Oh awesome :p that makes sense, I played way way back in the day I didn’t know they implemented that

Do we know what game?

Do we have any direct confirmation that this is the letter and not one of the recreations that has been floating around?

I have not been following the situation very closely so I would confirm this with someone else, but I believe the actual letter has not been made public. A few images have been floating around that are “artist’s interpretations”, and occasionally these have been presented as Trump’s actual drawing in various forums.

Again, could be off, been a busy week this is just what I gathered from skimming comments