exasperation

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[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago

12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!

Canyonero! Canyonero!

Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!

Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)

She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Minor nitpick: he was Captain, not Chief.

And him trying to pass for straight was some of the funniest scenes in the show:

Guard: It just seems like you wanna be with Jamie-Lynn. I mean, you keep talking about her thigh gap.

Captain Holt: That's my favorite part of a woman. There's nothing more intoxicating than the clear absence of a penis.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

sorry all I got is quarters

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

You're also allowed to just tell lies on the internet.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because so much depends on the income tax based on the tax year. We calculate our taxes based on our annual income. Our qualifications for government benefits (subsidized housing, food, healthcare, financial aid for universities) are keyed to our annual income, as reported on our taxes. Many programs, even for richer people, also look to income: tax credits for electric cars, specialized retirement accounts, etc.

And because lying on your taxes is a serious crime, many private banks and landlords use those annual figures as proof of income for loans, credit cards, long term leases, etc.

It just pervades how we think of money, on an annual basis.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

In theory some configurations have stronger or weaker first mover advantage. This is known as white privilege.

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

Week 2 of my 5/3/1 journey, the 3x3 week in the cycle.

On my AMRAP sets, I managed:

  • 10 reps of 345 lbs on deadlift
  • 10 reps of 300 lbs on squat
  • 10 reps of 160 lbs on bench

I'm still getting decent bar speed and power, although not as good as last week. Next week's 1+ sets, I think I'll try to do additional sets at higher weight to 100%/105% or higher of the training max, to get a sense of whether I should jump up more than the 10 lbs/5lbs strongly recommended by Wendler.

Also felt good about 3x5x225 on front squat. I'm moving up pretty quickly on front squats since actually training them consistently for the first time in my life, even though they're a lower priority (always after I've done my back squat work).

As for setbacks, I've got some bicep pain flaring up, probably related to how I hold my kids, but interfering a bit with rows and pull ups. I'm gonna take it easy on any pulling motions with my arms for a week or two, see if this goes away.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

It wouldn't be a 30% higher electrical bill overall. It would be 30% more for whatever power you're using for this specific device, which, if it's ordinarily 10W while in sleep and an average 100W while in use, and you use it 50 hours per week, or 215 hours per month, that's a baseline power usage of 21500 watt hours in use and 5050 watt hours from idle/sleep/suspend. Or a total of 26550 watt hours, or 26.5 kWh. At 20 cents per kWh, you're talking about $5.30 per month in electricity for the computer. A 30% increase would be an extra $1.60 per month.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That wasn't the real Tesla, though. It was actually the Goblin King.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

Many kid movies raise some troubling implications about personhood and moral agency with anthropomorphized non-human characters (Toy Story and life/death/abandonment, what do obligate carnivores in Zootopia eat, etc.).

But Bee Movie inexplicably just dives right into it instead of leaving it unexplored on the edges. If the bees are fully intelligent beings with rich inner experiences, what moral obligation do we owe them? It's a mess of a concept.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

I halfassed every exercise and did nothing on my plan.

That's actually fine. Most fitness goals require steady, long term progress, and the nature of a plan with 100+ workouts is that you can afford to have a suboptimal workout, to shift things by a day or two, without setting yourself back on that medium or long term journey.

Terry Crews has talked about how he sometimes has days where he just goes to the sauna, or sits on a bench, and does nothing other than getting his gym clothes on. And it counts. Because on many days where he just intends to go to the locker room, he figures "well I'm here" and does a few exercises. And doing a few exercises is better than no exercise.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

All this is just saying that you personally put more weight on the things that are better about later adulthood than early adulthood or adolescence. And that can be your choice, but it doesn't have to be everyone's choice.

You acknowledge that the health and friendships piece gets harder with age but push back against the idea that it inevitably gets worse. But averaged among all people, things will tend to get worse, and some people who actually experience that deterioration will conclude (as is their right) that things were better when health and friendships were easier.

But we also make new relationships as we get older. Is life better when you have a grandparent? Or when you have a grandchild?

These aren't symmetrical. When you are a young person who loves your grandparents, you haven't actually mourned a loss of a grandchild you personally knew. On the flip side, when you have a grandchild you might also view that relationship through the lens of a lost relationship with a deceased grandparent. In other words, only one of those experiences is 100% good, rather than a bittersweet mix of good and sad.

Not to mention, plenty of people will never have grandchildren. To them, the mourned loss of a grandparent is the end of that road. There's no replacement on its way.

Put it this way: if given the opportunity to wake up 10 years in the past, in your body of 10 years ago, how positive or negative would you view that? Plenty of people would vote on different sides of that, and that's OK to have different views based on one's own experiences.

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I'm aware of a few different ways to make perfectly clear ice, but each has its own tradeoffs.

I'm also aware of a whole bunch of different ways people claim to be able to make clear ice, but I've been unable to replicate.

What are you doing? Does it require special equipment? Do you recommend it?

 

I bought an 8 pound (3.6 kg) chicken the other day. I partially deboned it, placing the wing tips, neck, and carcass into a stock pot with some vegetables and aromatics, and made some stock, and set aside the meat.

Dinner 1: One boneless breast, probably about 1.5 lbs (0.7 kg), got cut up into cubes to cook into a soup noodle dish (think fancy ramen, but lazier).

Dinner 2: The 2 thighs, 2 drumsticks, 2 wing drumettes, 2 wing flats were deep fried (breaded for the big pieces, naked for the wing parts) and served as fried chicken with some sides.

Dinner 3: The remaining boneless breast was cut up into cubes for a homemade kung pao, using a modified recipe from Kenji Lopez Alt. I served it with rice and a separate stir fried broccoli dish.

Each meal fed me, my spouse, my 2 young kids (who eat slightly smaller portions). I didn't set out to be frugal with it, but I think each meal cost less than $10 for 4 portions. And I managed to pull it off on weeknights after work, after picking up my kids from school/daycare, so I'm pretty proud of that.

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