exasperation

Zercher squat

What muscle/movement feels like the potential point of failure for you on these? Is it balance? Arm strength?

I've done Zerchers at 135 lbs, years ago, and it just felt super awkward, and I'm wondering whether if I got used to the movement I'd still be lagging way behind on weight from balance or arm strength.

@shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works has been super helpful at working through the details of switching programs.

I did my first week of a 5/3/1 this week. It was actually a good week to do so, as I was coming off of some soreness and fatigue doing a Murph workout on Memorial Day with some of my neighbors, which left me sore enough to where I was really questioning my motivation to push hard on weights. So sub-maximal sets this week were helpful, and I still got to push to failure on one AMRAP set per day:

Bench: 155 lbs x 10 reps
Squat: 285 lbs x 6 reps
Deadlift: 325 lbs x 8 reps

Overall, I feel like I was getting great bar speed on my reps, definitely had the feeling of following textbook form, despite having soreness from earlier workouts. I'm excited to see where I'll be with AMRAP sets next week and the week after.

Dude don't you have a department of health and human services to run?

The proper way to use it in a sentence is "stigma dick in your mouth." Trust me, I've got a really good vocabulary.

I’m just gonna eat this burrito though.

But pray tell doth the burrito qualify as a sandwich

But most people who are invested in small talk will be giving the signals they think the other person wants, making it less useful than not talking at all.

I don't think this is true. When I engage in small talk, I don't see it as me bending flexibly to the conversation partner's wants. I'm testing to see if there are common overlaps that we can talk about, and talking for the sake of being entertained. If the other person turns out not to be a good conversation partner for me in that moment, I don't think anything of just moving on. I'm not trying to please them, I'm trying to enjoy myself.

I can't imagine I'm in the minority here.

There was an OkCupid analysis about this in 2010, with a mostly bell shaped distribution of self reported heights slightly skewed taller than the real world, with an an interesting stretch of a larger portion of people willing to stretch slightly more to a self-reported 6 feet tall.

Yes, it's true.

Are we all assuming everyone in this conversation is white? Because I know plenty of black and Asian friends who I don't recall having wrinkles. Most of them have pretty solid moisturizing/lotion/sunscreen routines, though, so it's hard to tell how much is cultural versus genetic.

If you have wrinkles at 40 you need to wear more sunscreen and drink more water.

But also even if you don't have wrinkles you should wear sunscreen and probably drink more water anyway.

why a train journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles has to be 12 hours long

That's its own saga, with a bunch of factors specific to California politics (and national politics with funding and permitting California projects). The California High Speed Rail project intends to connect SF to LA in less than 3 hours (and the original 2008 plan aimed for a 2020 operational start date), but we'll see if that ever comes to fruition.

Also, I guess you guys do not regularly travel from New York to Los Angeles for a weekend trip, just as we Europeans don't usually do that with Stockholm and Barcelona (which is a distance the average European would also travel by plane).

One wrinkle in comparing things is that the US's cultural affinity is less tied to geographical proximity than in Europe. Obviously European villages and cities and major population centers were established long before rail, much less before automobile highways and commercial air travel (or even before global television broadcasts), so each local region will have its own culture and language.

In the U.S., with the population centers built up much more recently, cultural affinity between cities or regions is distinct from geographical proximity. So for many, a weekend getaway or a one-week vacation will tend to look to other similarly sized cities. One joke in the TV show 30 Rock was the idea that someone from New York would want to move to, or even visit, Cleveland. This is especially true for those who aren't straight white Christians, where much of the geographical footprint of the United States represents urban islands where you might feel like you belong, and where you'd want to hop from island to island rather than explore the vast areas geographically nearby.

So I had my dick out, which was the style at the time. "Dicks out for Harambe," you'd say. Now, where were we? Oh yeah, I had my dick out, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any zippers then, because of the tariffs. The only thing you could get were those shitty button fly pants.