DrRatso

Yea, I had a series 3, hated it coming from a galaxy watch. Daily charging, dies on 24h shifts tons of useless features that I never use, looks weird for a watch, no always on display (granted not a problem for newer ones I gather). And the goddamn screen got scratched so fast, even more so when I started bouldering.

I was a actually kinda glad I busted the screen and could justify getting a Garmin Instinct 2 Solar. I was a bit apprehensive about how it would play with an Iphone, but it is pretty damn good.

Best watch I have owned, even the galaxy watch pales in comparison. I can actually track sleep because the battery lasts 2 weeks with nightly pulseox (should be 3 without), potentially a lot longer but the sun is a foreign concept this time of year. It gives me what I need and nothing more (although it is a bit off the mark on a few things. The fitness tracking is great, it is actually a lot better for bouldering. No annoying touch stuff, actual physical buttons, that while take a bit of adjusting to, are perfectly adequate for reaching all the functions quickly. Seems sturdy as hell too.

The only feature I miss a little is answering calls on it. Was useful 3 times a year or so when I used it while I was busy but could have a conversation on loudspeaker. Besides this I cant get it to track additional sleep episodes properly (say on my 24h shifts when I get multiple short bursts of sleep or just general naps). The sleep tracking is semi auto - you set a sleep time, the watch only tracks sleep in sleep mode. Theres no automatic workout tracking (I guess there is a weird half tracking thing), although I hated auto tracking on the galaxy watch, I was fine with apple but never used it. Now granted all of the above is a mild annoyance at best, for me.

For encouragement, if that helps, it is a lot easier to get it back than it is to gain it, muscles form a sort of memory (not the muscle memory people usually think of) and once you start using them again, it takes much less time to get back to functionally same strength.

Hard to give you too specific tips, but heres some:

• Spend time fingerboarding every session. During my warmup I like to do sets of 3x 5-8 on 3-5 off, at 60-80% (if closer to 60% then I might do sets of 5) of my maximum. In between hangs ill do 3-5 mins rests where ill be doing other warmup excercises. Don’t need to have legs off the floor, start lower intensity and increase with successive sets. This both helps with long term finger strength, but also makes your fingers grip better for the session since you’ve recruited the muscles by progressively loading them.

• Forget the grade, tape color or whatever system your gym uses. Grading is inconsistent and subjective and does not count your specific strengths and weaknesses. There will be higher grades you can climb and lower ones that will wreck you. Use it as a rough guide, but at the end of the day what matters is how hard the climb is to you.

• In the same vain, forget optics, dont focus on completion as intended, use other holds to make moves easier erc. The goal is to learn moves and get better and have fun. I always try climbs out of my range and I get excited when I can tack on a move I couldn’t make last session. Eventually you can string the whole sequence together.

• Focus on good form (silent, precise steps, good body positions, dropknees etc) on easy climbs, I find this transforms boring climbs into something more interesting. Focus on how this feels. It can make me feel like a pro climber climbing like this on a V0-1-2, you don’t really experience this when climbing hard climbs, the focus is just not there. I do this for my warmup climbs, but returning it can be worthwile dedicating longer sessions to this.

• If you feel climbs are too hard, maybe try the spraywall, if it is set well and the angle is doable. You can find easier versions of moves you can’t do on set problems and it takes away the stress of reaching the finish hold. Just try fun moves.

• Dont overtrain (keep the load reasonable, stop climbing when performance drops, you feel like the grip is just not there anymore), sleep well, eat good food after workouts (all the time, of course, but especially).

• Finish off your sessions with a strength workout, but don’t overdo it. You don’t need gymbro routines with 10 excercises at 5 sets each. Your main training is on the wall. Dont be afraid of “easy” variations. Pullups (with a band if you have to, horizontal or negative pullups), pushups or ring dips (latter is better but harder and more daunting, recruit a band if needed) and a core excercise or squats of some variation, don’t sweat the specific kind at the moment. Anything between 2-5 sets, as you tolarate and want will be fine. I usually jam these into a superset, shooting for reps around 1-2 reps in reserve, with 3-5 mins rest in between sets and since I like to be efficient, I do some flexibility work during that time. For upper body, difficulty in the 3-8 rep range will be best, generally, but this is dependent on the excercise. If you hit 10-12 3x, you can safely move to a harder variation.

E: Oh, and importantly, rest between attempts, dont keep throwing yourself at the wall and expect better performance without rest. Start from the place you failed so you can try the hard move rested.

If you have a grinder, why not just order separate beans for yourself? Or even supermarket beans? Beans are always higher quality and don’t deteriorate as quickly as ground coffee.

If you must use pre-ground, do either of the immersion brew methods. And all you can do then is tune your brew temperature, experiment with coffee to water ratio and brew times to taste, you can google generic advice on how to do so.

If you want to do pour-over, you just have to find a brand that comes in the magic grind size for your filters and do the same as above.

Don’t feel bad, this is the reaction most people will have in a medical emergency.

As others have said, you need actionable knowledge and practice. Experienced emergency providers don’t have to think much to stabilise a patient, its all ingrained and practiced, almost like a reflex. A good team can deal with most emergencies efficiently without communication (not that they should).

Of all the interventions you could do during an emergency, heres the most important ones, find a way to practice them:

• Assess safety (this includes not touching blood with bare hands) and Call for help. Even experienced providers forget this, because noone practices this. Your first instinct should be this in any emergency. When you practice, you should always practice this step too even if you just audibly day “I check for safety and look for help”, ideally you practice yelling for help.

• Quality chest compressions, minimise downtime. Mouth to mouth is great, but not as important and not mandatory for bystanders, although it becomes more important in drowning and in younger people.

• Asphyxiation - back slaps (strong, not pats) and abdominal thrusts.

• Applying pressure to a bleeding wound. With gloves or the sole of your shoe on dressing.

• Stable side laying position - in any unconscious person without the need for any of the above. This is the one and only thing you do during epileptic seizures too. Do not shove things into unconscious peoples mouths..

• Ideally you know how to free up an airway via chin lift.

If you can practice these, you can actually save a life in an emergency.

All true, but propaganda is strong in Russia. Before the war polls still put Putin support in the 80% range. And just as it did in 2014, his polls have only gone up with the war and disapproval has gone down. Some of that, of course, is explained by people masking their true opinion.

That said, I think the more salient point is that people currently seeking refuge from Russia are much less likely to be supportive of Putin and the war.

French press as stated and aeropress will give you the most consistency across grind sizes. But a burr grinder is the most important piece of equipment for coffee. I was sceptical uuntil i got one. Surely the difference isn’t that big? Boy was I wrong.

Consider a hand grinder, even something cheap like a Harrio annoying as it is to use, it is passable at like 20 bucks. It was my first grinder, it did the job, but adjusting the settings is limited and annoying and it took forever to grind a cup, I quickly bought a Mignon Chrono.

If this isn’t an option, then maybe consider buying preground in smaller batches from a local place? The place I order my beans from offers to send them ground in a couple of generic preset sizes.

But the problem is not only the quality of supermarket coffee, and the preset grind size, it is also that ground beans will oxidise much more quickly and even when vacuum sealed, the moment you open the bag it will start to deteriorate and quickly. I would possibly even consider a blade grinder over buying pre-ground coffee, especially supermarket coffee.

Its not even a problem for only those jobs, who is doing 6 years if uni + residency to become a doctor? I would quit residency and go back to landscaping in a heartbeat.

Perinatal mortality is lower overall, but there is a huge selection bias at play. The problem with home births is they are often supervised by people that are underqualified, and even when they aren’t, they are without access to critical equipment, which delays care significantly when escalation is needed.

And while a skilled midwife can handle a lot of obstetric complications, neonatal critical care and resuscitation is a whole other ballgame. At a hospital you can perform a c-section within 10 minutes of recognising it is needed and treat complications, you have a pediatrician on standby and you have an intensivist in-house.

Low-risk pregnancies still result in complications and when they do happen, the outcomes are significantly worse. The vast majority of home birthing deaths are preventable with relative ease in-hospital. And this to me is tragic.

I just had an obstetrics rotation for 3 months and not a single obstetrician in our obstetric hospital had a good opinion of home births.

If you will shell out for elevated comfort during birth, you might as well do so for private care at a hospital, which might be more expensive in the USA, Id imagine, but over here, for the price of hiring an at-home midwife you can have a private midwife, obstetrician and suite at the hospital.

Ads don’t even bother me inherently. It’s part the maximum obnoxiousness of them these days, of course. But most of all, if I do manage to see an ad (like in a mobile app), I get irrationally annoyed at the fact that it is supposed to be tailored to me and yet here I am looking at a 20 second unskippable ad for something I would never in a million years care for.

Many people dont actually delete, but edit the content. Also, even if the data stays and gets used for training, so be it, not more you can do about it, at least I tried. But mass purging your account history still makes the site worse for searched topics and is the last bastion of resistance after shuffling off that cesspool.

I know people said reddit restored their mass overwtitten comments, but iirc this was a brief scare due to some problem with the tool used or servers or something. I think reddit even officially commented that they are not doing this.

I had not nuked my account history, because while reddit went to shit for me, I still used it as an info source via search. And so I wanted to leave my posts/comments in case they add value to someone else, who still uses the platform. But with this, if I am not lazy, I just might. I don’t even care about the AI training bit, rather that it is Google AI.