srf0638
1d ago
Kinda curious, if you know that
a lightly modified version of the Greyskull LP, 1g protein per lb. of lean body weight, creatine, and sufficient rest
is what you want, why bother with a personal trainer?
srf0638
6d ago
Yeah, guys were just figuring out that electric guitars could do more than just be heard over the horns, they were futzing around with vacuum tubes in the amps and stabbing speakers with pencils and suchlike to get fuzz.
The Sonics (1960ish): https://youtube.com/watch?v=7hAT-Lz7M_g&pp=ygUUdGhlIHNvbmljcyBib3NzIGhvc3M%3D
Link Wray (1958): https://youtube.com/watch?v=ucTg6rZJCu4&pp=ygUGcnVtYmxl
Also see the guitar sound on "Rocket 88" (1953) and first comment on the video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0&pp=ygUJcm9ja2V0IDg4
srf0638
6d ago
If you haven't read The Pale King, it may be consoling. Or infuriating, it could go either way.
srf0638
6d ago
On one hand, sure, there's probably a signal there.
On the other hand, this comment immediately reminded me of "Train Kept a Rollin", which I thought was first recorded in 1956 by Johnny Burnette: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hbw_jI4S924&pp=ygUjdHJhaW4ga2VwdCBhIHJvbGxpbiBqb2hubnkgYnVybmV0dGU%3D Upon closer investigation, the actual original was in 1951, by Tiny Bradshaw, and rather less suggestive to my ear: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ci4EQDD4CqA&pp=ygUYdHJhaW4ga2VwdCBhIHJvbGxpbiAxOTUx
She might do better to find a physically active hobby that she enjoys and/or a physically demanding performance goal that she cares about enough to train for. Or just integrating a higher level of activity into her daily routine (though this is obviously contingent on logistics)--self-propelled commuting and/or errands, treadmill desk, whatever. A modest actuarial improvement in health outcomes is not enough to motivate most people to do something that would otherwise be pointless.
I'd also not expect much change in her appearance/body composition merely from starting to exercise. Lots of people can quite easily eat enough to keep up with whatever energy output they can sustain. If she's not bound and determined to change her physique, her physique probably isn't going to change much.
Alternatively, get her into a punishment/humiliation kink and have her do burpees and tuck jumps and so on as punishment, as per a greentext that I can't find at the moment.
srf0638
8d ago
I generally see the smarty pants contrarian "reduce MD salaries" suggestion paired with a proposal to change the training pipeline, notably by going straight to med school instead of making it a postgraduate program (which I gather is how things work in much of the rest of the Western world.). I don't know whether other countries run their residencies like the US does but presumably worth looking into as well.
srf0638
25d ago
old-time pugilists and rockstars had: chemical enhancement to aid that greater grind.
You think boxers used to be on more effective drug stacks than they are now? I'm quite skeptical of this for any sense of "used to", but particularly a sense of "used to" that includes, like, John L. Sullivan. For that matter, I'd be sort of surprised if it was true for musicians either.
srf0638
25d ago
One I remember was about consumption in New York
I don't have a link handy, but I seem to recall it being demonstrated to my satisfaction that what the Fire in a Bottle guy and the Slime Mold Time Mold guy were presenting as evidence of high historical calorie consumption failed to account for food wasted rather than eaten. Like annual production divided by number of people or something.
srf0638
1mo ago
you can at any time go join an Amish community
I don't believe that this is in fact true; they don't take converts.
srf0638
1mo ago
Being able to spin fast without spazzing out is a learnable skill especially on flat pedals, one-leg drills and so on, but outside of some fairly specific applications I endorse all this.
For the viewing amusement of the board, here's a trackie hitting some high revs on rollers: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZiVa0zTRHJk&pp=ygUOMjUwcnBtIHJvbGxlcnM%3D
srf0638
1mo ago
The specific example is interesting. I don't notice a damn thing from NSAIDs for pain that can reasonably be assumed to be inflammatory, and IIRC they're indistinguishable from placebo for osteoarthritis pain.
srf0638
1mo ago
obtaining military experience
I won't commit myself to the project of enumerating counterexamples to all of these, but this specifically reminded me of the entertaining story of Paul Douglas, best known as Cobb's opposite number in the eponymous production function: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Douglas_(Illinois_politician)
srf0638
2mo ago
It doesn't matter how big the earnings premium is if you're not gonna do it.
Picking apples in autumn and a part-time gig at the butcher's shop she worked at for the rest of the year, mostly. I didn't have trouble with showing up to these jobs for some reason.
It sounds like you don't really need advice anymore, and I never had as bad of a problem as you or OP did, but there are outdoor manual labor jobs that pay better and have more of a pathway to retirement than those two. (I guess butchering isn't outdoors, which opens up even more opportunities.). May be worth exploring--not everyone has to be a programmer, and tasks involving trees are supposedly going to be difficult to automate.
srf0638
2mo ago
Low trait agreeability.
I've worked on some high-and-tight outfits and get fed up with their Mickey Mouse bullshit, worked with some chillers and get fed up with the slackness and lack of respect for tradition, sometimes going both directions on exactly the same issue. Is what it is at this point, I guess.
srf0638
2mo ago
In France this is a Monsieur Je-Sais-Tout, here in Quebec we call a Ti-Joe Connaissant.
I chuckled audibly, thank you.
srf0638
2mo ago
Yeah, this is all pretty fair. I might argue that in a modern educational and hiring environment most credentials and experience are pretty much as susceptible to manipulation as headshots, and not all that much more reliable. It's not something I believe with a great deal of confidence, and in this specific context I think it more or less assumes the consequent, but it's worth considering.
Really, do you think you could pick Omar Bradley and Dwight Eisenhower out of that West Point photo without being told who they are?
No, but I'm probably <1st percentile at facial recognition in general, and I'm reasonably willing to believe that normies would do better than chance (and that the entire West Point football team was already pretty strongly selected for Chadly leadership ability.).
phrenology. "You can just tell by looking at the strong-jawed white chad that he's a superior New Soviet Manalpha male
I mean, yeah, pretty much. I'm seeing a lot of pointing and sputtering at the idea that facial features and appearance are correlated with personality and aptitudes in unsurprising ways, without much actual convincing evidence to the contrary.
srf0638
2mo ago
They look like every person I see with a professional headshot on LinkedIn, from sales managers to software engineers.
Tomayto, tomahto. It's not a pure demographics thing: https://www.stevesailer.net/p/prima-facie-leadership
I'm autistic enough to dislike this observation and to not be particularly acute at picking it up myself, but not autistic enough to pretend it isn't real.
srf0638
3mo ago
Some of your bullet points reminded me that quality home gym stuff is way easier to get and probably cheaper when adjusted for inflation than it was.
srf0638
3mo ago
Yeah this has also been my experience. I don't think discipline or willpower have ever been helpful frameworks for me (as opposed to, e.g., making sure I was doing something I actually wanted to do.).
srf0638
3mo ago
That’s about the minimum speed a car can possibly do without constantly braking.
In addition to what everyone else has said, this is clearly not so. Idling in D is under 5mph in everything I've ever driven, same with giving it just enough gas to not stall in 1st in a manual (I can actually idle in 1st in my truck, which has a torquey diesel and a low first gear, but generally not in passenger cars).
srf0638
3mo ago
Even country roads can be bad, because people fly on them without regard for other traffic, let alone bicycles.
i'd endorse most of this post, but ime the rural roads around me are actually pretty friendly because it's easy to pass in the oncoming lane and people are used to passing tractors going from field to field, and honestly if you're in a hurry there are state highways and interstates to take instead. obviously not universal.
I wanna try a VK. Not really a thing in my area, alas.
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