FtttG
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FtttG
3hr ago
I don't sweat nearly as much during strength training as I do during cardio, but I still get very thirsty very quickly.
FtttG
4hr ago
So more than a half-marathon? And you used to run that without drinking any water on the way?
FtttG
4hr ago
How long was your run on Saturday?
My water bottle is 750-1000ml and I will always refill it at least once during a gym session, even if I'm only doing strength training and no cardio. I can't even imagine trying to exercise without drinking lots of water.
FtttG
8hr ago
For what it's worth, I agree that characterising a man who only sees you as a fuckbuddy as "emotionally avoidant" could be a very effective cope to avoid confronting that he's just not that into you. But just because a term is misused doesn't mean that its real meaning is vacuous. Some people even characterise themselves as emotionally avoidant.
New year's resolutions check-in:
- Posted my seventh blog post of the year on Sunday, about attachment styles and infant mortality. Cross-posted here.
- Went to the gym twice last week. After writing the aforementioned blog post, I changed into my gym gear and was about to leave for the gym when my girlfriend pointed out that it closes at 7:30 on Sundays. Aghast: last week was the first week of the year I didn't go to the gym at least three times. To compensate, I'm going to go four times this week (and it must be this week: I'm not going to kick the can down the round indefinitely). Can deadlift 1.8x my bodyweight for 3 reps, squat 1.03x for 5 reps and bench press .85x for 6 reps.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
- Have completed 10/11 modules in the SQL course. Planning to do the eleventh today.
How goes it, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @falling-star and @Tollund_Man4?
I'm about halfway through recording myself reading my novel aloud, listening back to it and line-editing. Using this method, I have already cut out about 3.5k words.
FtttG
9hr ago
A few years ago I read A Hero of Our Time in English, now I'm curious which translation it was.
FtttG
1d ago
I think most self-identified Irish Catholics literally wouldn't know what purgatory was, nor that it had been abolished.
FtttG
2d ago
Curiously, although the authors of Attached acknowledge that men are more likely to be avoidant and women more likely to be anxious, they point out that cross-sex examples aren't hard to come by, and even go so far as to diagnose the title character of (500) Days of Summer as avoidant.
FtttG
2d ago
No, corruption is the idea that your personal goals are so important that you're willing to break the law to accomplish them.
I think this is an overly expansive definition.
FtttG
2d ago
I question your characterisation of Kaczynski as an environmentalist. I don't recall him mentioning climate change or acid rain even once in his manifesto. He was opposed to modernity primarily for what he saw as its deleterious effects on the human psyche, not for its impact on the environment.
I finished Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True during the week. It was pretty good, and I really did get the impression it had been gestating within the author for a long time. It concerns events which happened in the late 90s, but was only published in 2022. I really did feel like Hsu has been writing about these events in private journals for decades, trying to process his feelings.
Reading Lying for Money for the third time. One of the most entertaining non-fiction books I've ever read, I just cannot get enough of it.
FtttG
3d ago
I would say "discovery" is unearthing the physical laws governing our universe, and "invention" is designing tools which apply those laws practically. It's the difference between science and engineering.
FtttG
3d ago
Command strips are the way to go. They don't leave any marks on the wall when you remove them.
FtttG
5d ago
Do you literally not care about your partner at all?
Bold of you to assume he has one.
FtttG
6d ago
Fancy sharing it with us, so we can put words in your mouth and interpret everything you said in the most maximally uncharitable light?
FtttG
6d ago
I've been trying to get into the habit of reading my book on the loo for this very reason.
New year's resolutions check-in:
- Posted my sixth blog post of the year on Monday, about how it absolutely is a lie for journalists to describe the perpetrator of the Tumbler Ridge shooting as a "woman" without any qualification. Expanded from several comments I posted here arguing that exact point.
- Went to the gym three times last week and again last night, planning to go again this evening. After three sets of deadlifts at 1.8x my bodyweight, my lower back was very stiff for the rest of the week. This has been a recurrent issue and there's obviously something fundamentally wrong with my deadlift form, so my plan now is to go down to a much lower weight so I can correct it, then steadily work my way back up. Can deadlift 1.8x my bodyweight for 3 reps, squat 1x for 8 reps and bench press .85x for 6 reps.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
- Have completed 9/11 modules in the SQL course. Planning to do the tenth this evening.
How goes it, @thejdizzler and @birb_cromble?
I know what the word originally meant. I'm referring to how it is often used by left-leaning pundits e.g. this article in the Guardian which blames neoliberalism for pretty much anything the author doesn't like about the modern world, from environmental devastation to loneliness to anorexia.
I'm not even making fun of you, I'm just amazed that you even attempted it without. I think I physically could not run more than 10 km (~6.2 miles) without drinking a lot of water. If I tried running a half-marathon without water I'm sure I'd just collapse.
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