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[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Jessica and Ashley and Jennifer took over.

Karen is not particularly special as a name that became overwhelmingly popular in just one or two generations, and then fell back off. And so even as earlier generations considered it to be a child's name, later generations came to associate it with older women.

Gladys and Gertrude and Edith are other examples, highly associated with certain older generations.

One day we'll think of Madison and Emma and Mackenzie as old lady names too.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If we used all the pasture land viable for farming we would have abundant and varied produce at a budget cost. Unfortunately that's not the case.

That doesn't sound right. A big part of the reason why beef keeps getting expensive much faster than pork or chicken is because it's getting a lot more expensive to raise pastured animals than factory farming feedlots. It's also why, historically, a culture's preference for pork over beef (or vice versa) could be predicted by looking at how urbanized that culture is.

Not all meat is equal, and beef is particularly inefficient at turning plant biomass (and water) into meat, and needs a lot more land area for traditional methods. Even modern feedlot methods don't actually help that much in terms of competition with other meat animals, because chickens and pigs are also easier to feed in feedlot settings.

Vegetarian diets are pretty cheap for meeting the bare minimum nutritional requirements. Legume+grain is the staple food for many cultures for a reason.

But also in the real world, most people want variety and taste, and meat is often a cheaper and easier way to provide that higher level of enjoyment, compared to the work necessary to process non-animal sources into certain tastes and textures that are easier to find from animal sources. So when we're talking about the diets of rich societies, who can afford to spend money and effort well beyond the bare minimum to keep us alive, we're spending plenty of effort on adding non nutritive flavors, including stuff like spices or fermented sauces.

So you're probably right when focused only on the rich western societies where it is true that the typical vegan spends more on food than the typical omnivore in the same rich society. But it's not broadly true across the board, and at the very upper ranges of luxury spending, I'm not sure that still holds up (some meats and seafoods can get quite expensive at the very very high end).

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 92 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The worst is instructional manuals being replaced with videos.

Going back 10 seconds, 20 times, so that you can visually see how two pieces fit together is way more annoying than just looking at a visual diagram on a printed page. Especially when you've got both hands full with stuff.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago

I’d rather read twenty minutes than watch a 5 minute YouTube video.

Part of the reason why I have no patience for video as nonfiction is because I read a lot faster than videos (or audio) can communicate information. So for me, I'd rather read a 5 minute document than a 20 minute video, even if one is literally a transcription of the other.

At least with audio I can take that in while doing something else.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The 787 has 8 main tires and 2 nose tires. The main tires are 218 lbs (about 100kg) and the nose tires are 114 lbs (about 50kg). So a set is roughly 1970 lbs/900kg, pretty close to a short ton. 5 metric tonnes would be about 5.6 sets of 787 tires.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Deep dish is delicious. Lasagna is delicious. Baked ziti is delicious. Calzones are delicious.

Look, you can't go wrong with tomato sauce, cheese, dough, and optional meat. It's all delicious, and playing around with different ratios is still great.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Next, the researchers examined how fitness was associated with the risk of dying in random accidents such as car accidents, drownings and homicides. They chose random accidents because they assumed that there ought to be no association between the men’s fitness in late adolescence and the risk of dying in random accidents. This method is called negative control outcome analysis and involves testing the validity of your results for a primary outcome by comparing them with an outcome where no association ought to be found. If, however, an association is found, it may indicate that the groups studied are not actually comparable, and that the study suffers from what is typically referred to as confounding. The researchers found that men with the highest fitness levels had a 53 per cent lower risk of dying in random accidents. Yet, it is unlikely that the men’s fitness would have such a big effect on their risk of dying in random accidents.

This seems like a completely unsupported assumption.

Physical fitness can make a difference in the survivability of unexpected drowning risk. Imagine a boat overturns and people have to swim to safety. One would expect that the extreme consequence of death would tend to happen to the least fit people in the group, even if everyone experienced the same traumatic event.

How much do bone density and muscle mass affect survivability in car accidents? Does good cardiovascular circulation help with healing, fighting off infection, etc.?

And I'm not sure about homicides. What are the methods of killing, and what percentage of these deaths involve reckless or negligent homicides? Can physical fitness play a role in simply getting away from the danger (whether that danger is intentional, reckless, or negligent)?

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Nope, no real discomfort. Just normal fatigue and some mild soreness after particularly heavy days. I'm up to squatting sets of about 1.5x body weight, and deadlifting almost 2x, so warming up takes a while.

Honestly, my knees and ankles feel more after running than after lifting. It's part of the reason why I switched emphasis from running to lifting. I used to run a lot, but nagging injuries caused me to step back about 10 years ago.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I am tired of not being able to run after bulking all winter

I went running earlier this week for the first time in months. Somehow I was able to knock out a 30 minute 5k, despite not being able to run continuously more than 2 miles (around 3.2km) around a year ago, at around a 10 minute mile pace.

I suspect that just going all in on lifting volume has actually gotten my cardio and leg endurance to be able to run without specifically training it.

Just an anecdote, but for me lifting heavy and high volume has somehow improved my cardio.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

New In Town came out in 2009, 16 years ago.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 79 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hallucination feedback loop

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