MollieTheMare
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MollieTheMare
1d ago
I typically use leather teardrop pattern straps for anything that's grip limited. Hook grip for competition lifts.
The trick is to just lift more than the people mocking you.
I would typically silently judge someone using gloves. That being said, if you're lifting enough (800 solid-ass pounds), chalk, gloves, straps, and mixed grip all combined somehow does not look goofy at all.
MollieTheMare
2d ago
Generally just leave them be.
If they are so thick they are painful, have a distinct ridge, or in danger of tearing remove them. Typically using a 1-3 blade safety razor and very carefully shaving them down. It's easier than it sounds. Don't go too deep. Going over the residual with your wife's pumice stone can help the transition, just be prepared to answer some questions if she sees you using it.
MollieTheMare
5d ago
As I said down-thread I'm not a YIMBY.
The closest I've come is not objecting when a neighbor wanted to build a garage that required a zoning waiver because it was 10% bigger than allowed. I didn't object because their property is otherwise adequately sized, I have to live next to him, it doesn't obstruct my view, and it was so he could store his boat. I think it's more attractive than keeping the boat on the drive, and I wouldn't mind being invited out on the boat. If he had wanted to up-zone his lot from R-1 to R-5 you bet I would have broken out all the NIMBY tropes.
Whether a particular policy proposal from a self-identified YIMBY makes sense probably depends on the YIMBY and the proposal.
For the laundromat example, I do think there exists some system where the zoning and permitting requirements do not have to be so onerous. This would still be a small or marginal change to the total cost, but not zero. For example, if the opportunity cost for the zoning of that building was reduced by $3MM, there were 40 residential units built, each with a value of $1MM. That is a 7.5% cost savings. $1MM is not exactly affordable, but 7.5% is 7.5%.
I think it's also clear that the North America, specifically the US, specifically high cost of living US also has other problems. General cost disease being a big one. I don't think just deciding to build will fully solve this. The Golden Gate Bridge cost $630MM in 2024 dollars to build in 1933. The Golden Gate Bridge suicide net cost $400MM in 2023. Currently San Francisco has density of something like Copenhagen. Clearly they can "afford" to do more density as Singapore has much higher density and much lower GDP Per capita. Do I think they can just build their way to Singaporean quality of life? No. Do I think there is some fundamental limit that would cause a public services collapse above current density? Also no. Do I think public services could collapse if people don't get their act together? Yes.
MollieTheMare
5d ago
Sorry, I wasn't maximally clear in what I was even responding to.
You asked the question:
But what kind of housing?
My answer is the kind of housing where there is:
- Strong latent demand
- By purchasers who will pay market rates
- Where market rates will support direct constriction costs and marginal infrastructure requirements
With current aggregate zoning requirements, new market rate construction is on average purchased by families well above the median income family. Therefore you can make marginal changes to relax aggregate zoning requirements without reaching the point where
you build housing that the median income family can afford
Further, because of effects from initiatives like Prop. 13, public services are not necessarily diminished by even a median income family making a housing purchase.
My basic math argument is: the marginal elasticity is sufficiently small, and the existing equilibrium is sufficiently far from public service collapse, that marginal changes should not produce a catastrophic phase transition.
Yeah, I'm not necessarily in favor of any of these things. As an actual property owner IRL, I personally do not want a bunch of shitty development in my back yard. I'm just willing to admit it's down to wanting to protect my own property interests rather than making the argument that it's obviously in the public interest.
You would for sure have to rework the zoning code for those to work.
- For ADUs, they are currently not allowed in my municipality. If it came down to it I would rather my mother-in-law live in a ADU on my property than put her in a home or live in an attached suit. In that situation my MIL would not put significant additional strain on local traffic, because she would not be commuting to work and would probably share grocery runs. If you allowed rental of ADUs in a car-dependent place on minimal lots I do think that would be bad. Is there a way you could allow the former without the latter, IDK.
- For starter homes 400 ft2 would still not allow Connestoga huts. I've guess we've already discussed 800 ft2 homes here. I think that could work for utilizing otherwise unbuildable lots if combined with generous setback requirements.
- The key is eliminate minimum lot-size would be for existing neighborhoods. Again, this would need to be combined with generous setback requirements.
I actually do think the strongtowns people take it too far, but it's a pretty big gap from build 1,000,000 Connestoga huts to allow dense infill where there is latent demand. Might as well the gap to my actual position which is that it should not take 8 years and millions of dollars to get zoning approval to replace a laundromat with medium density mixed use development along an existing transit corridor.
MollieTheMare
5d ago
I'm actually not sure this is correct. The steel-man case for YIMBIsm is for market rate new construction, not incentivizing a bunch of Connestoga huts.
The marginal new construction unit is typically purchased by people above the median income in a given location.
This is obvious at an aggregate national level. The median sales price for new houses sold in the United States is $413.5k. At 20% down, prevailing 6.48% interest rates, and 30% of gross income spent on housing, this is a household income of $98.6k which is well above the ~$83k national median income.
In areas with higher housing prices the marginal income of home purchasers is also higher. For example the media sales price of all homes in California was $833k. While in Santa Monica the median sale price is $1.9MM. Connestoga huts are not competing for developer dollars in an area where the marginal sales price is in the millions. Because of Prop. 13 those purchasers are also paying far more in local property taxes towards local schools than people who were already locked in.
The nice married family with two kids moving into the new built house down the street is well above the average income, and therefore definitionally increases the per capita income. At the national level for example, married family households have a median income of $122.5k, again well above the unconditional median.
A marginal change in zoning will lead to a marginal change in the marginal new home purchaser. You might be able to make a reductio ad absurdum argument for the most extreme straw-man YIMBY, but the "official" YIMBY position is more like revise model zoning codes to allow triplexs where duplexs are now allowed.
MollieTheMare
8d ago
Good luck.
If you don't already own a pair, I highly recommend a good set of cycling bib-shorts at those kinds of distances. Also possibly chamois cream.
Don't underestimate fueling. If you "hit the wall" at hour four of a five hour marathon you only have to survive one more hour. If you "bonk" on hour five of a seven hour century you have to survive for twice as long, and also be lucid enough not to get run over. People have been talking about 60+/-30 g/hour of carbs for such long efforts. The upper end is quite a disgusting amount of sugar to be eating if you are not used to it, so it does require training as well.
Part of me wonders if this is the result of the European origin of TPTB in cycling lead them to particularly want to forget the period when an American came in and dominated the sport.
I think this is not a small part of it. After the LeMond-Fignon battle there hasn't been a French winner of the TDF. And oh boy, if you get one of the home fans drunk on the side of the road and ask them the right questions, 100% there's quite a few that are salty about it. It probably has hurt local sponsorship as well which isn't great give it's quite burdensome for the local towns to host. The dependence of cycling on Lance followed by his fall, was probably bad for the sport in net. Not unlike the Tiger Woods effect, but golf has arguably recovered better. I have no doubt Lance ruled peloton with an iron fist, but I also doubt anyone at Tour level was riding clean in that era. Ignoring the ethical question for a second though, to me his greatest tactical error was not having a plan to bow out gracefully. Lance had enough clout to tie up the UCI and quiet LeMond, but he left a void when he left the first time. There's no way the Tour organizers were going to let Floyd Landis of all guys continue the American domination of the sport. The crazy thing is Lance probably could have gotten away with it if he had just staid retired, and like did anything else. I doubt anyone would have cared about the B-samples if he had just chosen to slowly fade from public view. The UCI busting Landis and then Landis immediately outing him should have been his warning not to come back.
I do think it's strange people accept The Court of Arbitration for Sport/UCI/ASO committee decisions for who "won" a given race. Like the race is "won" when you crush your enemies and see them driven before you. Take for example in the 2001 tour. The experience of following the tour was that on the road Lance Armstrong won the day he gave Jan Ullrich "The Look" on Alpe-d'Huez and Jan couldn't follow. Sipping champagne rolling into Pairs or hoisting the trophy on the Champs-Élysées were just formalities after that point.
olympic weightlifting
I know the problems associated with it, but I still think they should have brought back the clean and press when they redid the weight-classes in weightlifting. In its modern form the lifters are very explosive and athletic looking, but there's not really an event in the Olympics that has a pure test of static strength. I for one am willing to sacrifice the 20 km walk from the program if it means we can have the clean and press.
As far as general principles on records go, I treat it like my head cannon when I don't like what they've done with a show I like. I just ignore the "official" cannon. It's not like they can forcibly reprogram my mind (yet) and it's not like I'm going to all Custer's Last Stand to argue with someone about it. I just nod politely if someone wants to talk about the official cannon, then promptly go back to ignoring it exits.
MollieTheMare
14d ago
I had an apartment with almost the same layout as your build. Very functional and reasonably comfortable for two. Of course we only had windows on one side, unlike your build. We did host another couple for a total of four for a while, and it was fine. Probably could have squeezed another person in if needed. I wouldn't want to live that way long term, but seems very reasonable for two for now, hosting up to five.
Given current construction prices and the size of your build, you either got a great deal or live in the middle of nowhere or both. If you really are staying for a while, I think the splurge is worth it. We can't all build a Monticello, but there's something to be said for living in a house of your own design.
Opening a window is a good option for ventilation as long as the weather is good and there's not too much outdoor pollution. Unfortunately the number of places that have good weather most of the year, don't have wildfire smoke or car exhaust outside, and are affordable is pretty small. For a house that small though, you probably are fine with just exhaust fans and some makeup air to a small air handler. The extra energy cost over an ERV/HRV is probably pretty small given the small square footage.
MollieTheMare
14d ago
I do think sketching floor plans is quite fun.
Where did you end up for final square footage? Closer to 1050 ft2 based on removing 120+ a bit ft2 from your smallest seven person design, closer to 1200 ft2 like your seven person design / scaled larger design, 1500 ft2 like the PGH 2 persion target, or 1875 like the PGH 4+ person target, even smaller since it's actually for only two?
I'm very much in favor of building the design of house you want with the best quality materials you can afford, even at the tradeoff of square footage. Provided, that is, resale does not have to be a consideration. Unfortunately, square footage is the most dominant factor in sale price. For most of the housing market , price and price/ft2 seem to be the dominant considerations.
If you've actually signed for a custom built, you probably know better than me, but I always though custom would be a 20-30% premium over a spec-built house, which would be a 10-20% premium over a tract house, which would be a 20-30% premium over a prefab. I'd be interested to know what the final premium is over just dropping a same bed/bath cheap trailer on your lot ends up being. I would rather live in a small custom than a trailer, but I assume most people living in small homes in cheap areas are doing it because it's cheap, rather than aesthetic preference.
I did see the utility rooms in your plans. It's pretty generous for a washer drier, but I imagine pretty tight if you also need to fit an air handler, return, ERV, and 80 gallon hot water heater. You could make everyone take cold showers or pay the premium for an instantaneous hot water heather though I guess.
The square footage based HVAC calculation probably assumes average bedrooms/people per square foot. If you are following IRC you would at least need it to be based off of bedrooms. I'm pretty sure that table is based off of ASHRAE 62.2 though, and they just assumed 2 people in the master and 1 in each other bedrooms. I think ASHRAE probably prefers HVAC techs to use their (person + ft2) calculation if you actually intend to occupy at very high densities. I don't particularly mind a small space, but small and stuffy sounds very unpleasant.
Let's say I want to build a house for seven occupants.
I guess your calculations are just for fun? What kind of living situation are you envisioning where such high density is required, but you are able to get what look like relatively modest building costs?
In an modest sized city or inner suburb of a larger city 2-1/2 level town homes or even 5-over-1 stumpies seems like the more common solution to medium density moderate cost housing. In exurbs or rural areas pre-fab is more typical of small home lower cost housing. To make new construction marketable, you would be talking about like factors of 2-3x on square footage for anything that would actually sell to a seven person household market.
The HVAC costs also look suspect for meeting current ASHRAE guidelines for 7 occupants. To have decent air quality for seven people in a house that small you are talking about 4-5x the total HVAC cost you have estimated here. Probably a dedicated enthalpy recovery ventilator, dehumidifier, and roughly 2x sized HVAC unit than would normally be used for a 1200 ft2 house. You also would need to scale up other mechanicals if you are going to house seven, like electrical service, hot water heater, sound isolation, etc. Square footage also need to be allocated for mechanicals if you assume you are occupying the basement and/or attic. If ducting and plumbing is going to be run between floors, you also need to a assume extra cost for engineered open web flooring trusses. That or oversized basement walls so you can drop the ceiling, again additional cost over the per ft2 pricing for typical construction used here.
Is the idea two parents and five kids? A decent number of municipalities wouldn't even allow seven non-related people to occupy a single family residence. I know people do it, but asking three kids to share a 10x10 room is a lot by modern American standards. There aren't that many people who want to actually live out Little House on the Prairie anymore. More power to you if you're serious about raising five kids, that's truely excptional in this era.
Even people who are into smaller houses for efficiency/environmental reason like the "pretty good house" people are talking about:
Be as small as possible: 1000-1500-1750-1875 ft2 for 1, 2, 3, and 4+ inhabitants
You're talking about 1182 ft2 for 7 inhabitants!
Does it really make sense that putting the bedroom floor halfway below ground is significantly more expensive than putting it all the way below ground?
For your two-story finished basement example, probably a reverse living layout makes sense. Don't forget each bedroom would then require an escape well then though, which will substantially increase basement construction costs. That's a lot of extra form and mason work. I wouldn't be surprised by a $30k delta on cost even without the escape wells. For basements you have the extra concrete yardage of the basement walls including structural considerations for the extra back-fill pressure, extra excavation and haul away work, workers now have to set up ladders or scaffolding to get into the hole, extra below ground rated waterproofing, extra below ground rated insulation, extra water mitigation measures (you're closer to the water table), extra radon mitigation measures (you're closer to bedrock), etc, etc. Like the size of excavator the contractor will have to use is easily 2x the cost of ownership to the contractor.
Edit: I see you're estimate was that a finished basement is cheaper than the split level. This is entirely down to your assumption that you can halve the footprint square-footage. Practically speaking, if you are going to use a basement for bedrooms you should assume only 1/2 of the building footprint is usable in the basement for that kind of purpose. You're going to need redundant sump-pump wells if you are going to be putting finished bedroom space down there to start. The costs also obviously don't just scale, but have at least a constant component. Like if a contractor is going to haul a medium sized excavator out to a job site you're going to pay for at least a whole day regardless of the square-footage of the hole they are digging.
MollieTheMare
15d ago
During previous elbow injuries, I've had great success working it out with exercises, either flexing the wrist against tension using rubber bands or getting a Tyler bar. But nothing I've found has really helped with this one.
I'm going to go against the grain of the rest of the advise here and recommend you find an exercise that gets a bunch of blood pumped into the area. I would argue that like a 2/10 on pain, like a knot is getting worked out but not like I definitely am tearing something more kind, is a good sign. I like the Gyro Ball for a good forearm active stretch rehab thing. Hits the forearms from a bunch of different angles. Not a medical doctor, and it seems like this might be higher up than would get hit. If noticeably inflamed maybe contrast baths, starting and ending with hot.
I also recommend forgetting the hammer curl exists as an exercise. Incline curls, chins, and Bayesian curls (I'm sorry I didn't make up the name) as primary biceps exercise. Preacher curls, barbell curls, regular old dumbell curls, etc as secondary biceps exercise. IMO, hammer curl are way overrated with normally a better exercise for any particular objective.
I mean, he could have used unicode and abbreviated the error function 𝒩 or φ, and the cumulant Φ which is perfectly usable notation. Would have saved like 80% of the chars and 90% of the parens. Not that I would object to having better math support here.
A cutoff of 123 does correspond to a (rounded) average value of 130 by my calculation (for a population mean 100). I didn't understand the need for a CAS though. Seems like something that any modern programing language can numerically solve for. Or just Newton's method if you're too lazy to open up the documentation for your favorite solver and can only remember one root finding algorithm like me.
Edit to add the calculation in case anyone doesn't trust my math (nullius in verba, etc):
f <- function(l) { 130 -
integrate(function(x) { x * dnorm(x, mean = 100, sd = 15)},
l, Inf)$value/
integrate(function(x) {dnorm(x, mean = 100, sd = 15)},
l, Inf)$value
}
(l <- uniroot(f, c(100, 130))$root)
# 123.5779
scales::percent(1 - pnorm(l, 100, 15))
# 6%
I never quite understood why Europeans think that somehow there is a huge amount of friction with the every day usage of US customary units. They are customary for a reason.
Like if a carpenter in the US dealing with dimensional lumber the US you deal with a 2x6 on 2 foot centers. That is nominally 2 inches by 6 inches, but of course not actually. If you were building the same wall in Europe you are dealing with a 6x2 on 60 cm centers. That is nominally 6 by 2 cols but actually 148 mm by 48 mm. No one who does not deal with that stuff every day has to care about why the nominal or exact dimensions are not the same in either system. People who deal with it every day are used to it and there would be a cost for them to switch. Clearly 2 and 6 as nominal measurements are easier to deal with than exact measurements of 148 and 48, that's why there is a customary unit that those timbers are still sold in. Marking off in units of 60 is not easier than marking off in units of 2. 60 is used because it is divisible by 3 while the nice round 50 is not. This is not a problem in customary units because the next unit down from feet is already divisible by 3.
Not that SI is perfect, either.
There is also the strange habit of talking up the metric system, but then acting like everything is in SI. This is not the case. For scientific use CGS is still extremely common for practicing professionals.
There are also extremely common metric customary units that are in use that are not SI. You still have to specify the unit, no one who regularly deals with a given application is confused by that unit, and if you have to make a conversion it's trivial to look up. This is exactly the same as if you deal with US customary units.
For example tire pressures are often quoted in the metric customary Bar in Europe. The SI unit of pressure is the Pascal. You also see in the extant literature depending of field: technical atmospheres, standard atmospheres, Torr, and mmHg. That's 6 metricish systems for the same unit. No one who deals with Bar when they pump up their tiers and Torr when they pump down their vacuum chamber gets confused or thinks its hard. Just like no one who deals with psi when they pump up their tiers and Torr when they pump down their vacuum chamber gets confused or thinks its hard.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
Surely this would be Cannondale.
There is in fact an entire youtube channel that is at lest 50% dedicated to roasting Cannondale's Bottom Bracket system BB30. What a world we live in where such a hyper niche topic can have 120K subs.
MollieTheMare
1mo ago
I basically only ride a hard-tail 29r XC MTB on local trails now. It's at the level of cheapest bike that I do not consider a piece of shit. For where I live, the best combo of: low maintenance, getting out and exploring a bit, and not risking being killed by a motor vehicle. It's also cheap enough I don't feel compelled to baby it.
I have an old road bike that needs a bit of work, and an oooold road bike that needs a lot of work.
In my ideal setup I would live somewhere where there are miles and miles of open road and good bike infrastructure in the city. In that case, my imagined lineup would be:
- E-cargo bike, for beer runs or taking the kids to the park
- Dutch style city bike for the café run
- Decent road bike for group rides
- Gravel bike for shit weather or shit roads
- Hard-tail for XC
- Full-squish for the trail
- Touring bike, Ti or steel with couplers, so you could break it down and fit it in a suitcase. You can never get a rental to fit exactly right. I do want to do some more of the major international cycle routs some day.
If someone just wanted "a bike," the suggestion would depend on location. But assuming generic suburban US middle age adult, an alloy hard-tail 29r XC MTB for local trails is probably the most accessible "real" biking. E-bike for those over the age of 70 with money.
Borrowing a bunch of bikes was a great idea, and sounds like fun.
I think I've mentioned here before, the number of bikes you'll want is N+1, where N is the number of bike you currently own. The optimal number to in fact own is M - 1, where M is the number of bikes where your spouse threatens to divorce you.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
One of my more unhinged pet ideas for the house is that the the main problem with Arrow's impossibility theorem and Gibbard's theorem are the requirements for a deterministic process.
In my fantasy each voter would be able to nominate one person to serve in the House for a two year term. You would then select 2,500 ballots to establish the house for the next two years, continuing to select random ballots one at a time in the case of duplicates. No one would be guaranteed incumbency, so you couldn't trade as much on future electoral success. Very popular politicians would still be more likely but not guaranteed a spot, so they would also have to maintain a real job or do a good enough job to maintain influence even when not in power. With a 2,500 strong body crazies should be a small enough minority, on an given issue, to be safely ignored. And if the sample is random you would have enough statistical representation to match the populace to within 1% on any given topic, even tighter if things are not 50/50. The idea would be that the majority go back to their regular life after serving.
Leave the institutional knowledge building and statesmanship to the Senate.
The Princeton site does have individual report card data in JSON format. There is a download button slightly inconspicuous.
How gerrymandered is difficult to score in a single metric, but the largest tell tail is probably a step jump in the "District by average partisan win percentage" chart. It is evidence that the districts are being arranged to isolate one party in fewer districts. Especially if the jump spans the "competitive" line. Shape irregularity is the most common "look at this map it must be gerrymandered," but is not a necessary or sufficient condition to show a map is gerrymandered. That video cites openprecincts(dot)org, but it seems to be down now.
Some of the step jumps are also simply the results of people "gerrymandering" themselves. e.g. Drawing a box around metro-Miami could be chosen based off of pure geographic considerations, but if all the Ds in Florida move to Miami they have secured on "safe" district but given up contesting every other district. It seems this a natural result of choosing to draw the boundaries based on geography, but there being clear partisan differences in geographic distribution. Maybe someone has a clear counter example, but shouldn't there be a trivial lemma as a result of Arrow's impossibility theorem where you just substitute candidates with candidate map. Essentially saying there is not perfectly "fair" map. Or if you substitute candidate representation system for candidates to show that there is no perfectly "fair" representative system.
Edit: To add an example of why you can't just take the grade from Princeton. VA gets an A because it is fair in the sense of proportionate. The jump around the competitive zone on the average partisan win percentage chart is still there. This is probably so that the vote is proportionate for court intervention prevention, but locks in a strong gerrymandered incumbency advantage.
I've done some overnight bike touring and quite enjoyed it.
The main impediments are:
- taking the time off for the trip its self
- justifying yet another bike purchase and associated storage in the garage (I know the optimal number is n+1, but the real optimal number is divorce-1)
- not wanting taking time off from strength training to devote to cycling
I realize these are not great reasons not to, but I honestly think I enjoy imagining doing it more than I would actually doing it.
I do quite enjoy casual cycling, but having to drive to a trail for real training is a pain, the roads where I'm at are too terrifying to ride on, and training indoors is the worst. We did do an overniter this summer without any sessions over 90 min in the month before. My taint was not prepared.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
Interesting, as usual. I almost think we should have a dedicated Saturday Series of Court Opinions: brought to you by ToaKraka™.
I wonder if the dissent with respect to "marriage and child-rearing" is some positioning in case the US Supremes ever revisits Obergefell Re. Roberts dissent:
It (marriage) arose in the nature of things to meet a vital need: ensuring that children are conceived by a mother and father committed to raising them in the stable conditions of a lifelong relationship.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
Annoying nitpick. Civilization ending and the human species existing are not necessarily equivalent.
I personalty would prefer for any future descendants to live in a high functioning civilization, but presumably the anarcho-primitivists might still have preference for human species existing but also for civilization ending. Return to Monke, and all that.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
10k mAh bank
I understand that mAh is the most common way to quote power bank size, but why do the manufactures insist on quoting it that way? Do they really run the cells in a 1SnP configuration? Or is it mAh per cell times n cells? Why can't they use Wh?
At 10 Ah, assuming nominal cell voltage of 3.6 V, and a 1C charging limit, that probably does limit you to 30W input banks. It's surprisingly hard to find banks that will charge at a full 1C though. A 60W+ charger still might be worth it, they can be pretty compact now. Then you could also plug in your phone, and over a one hour lunch, you should be over 80% on both the phone and bank.
I feel for you on the lunch situation. We once got trapped from 11:15AM-2:30PM in that area. There was only one hostess working a pretty decent sized floor and she decided to work it first in last out for a bunch of multi course meals.
It's very strange, given the high standard of living, but my anecdotal experience is that people from the US often get inexplicable GI things in the Franco-Swiss region. I had a friend who ended up hospitalized. She wasn't even drinking for streams or anything, just eating more or less normal stuff. I wish I knew what we are doing wrong.
Sounds like an awesome trip. Bikepacking has always fascinated me, but I've never been brave enough to embark on a "real" expedition like this one.
I'm a bit surprised that power was such an issue. What kind of power bank did you use? For (American style) backpacking using a power bank to charge devices, then charging that when you have a stop with wall power, is a somewhat common strategy. At 30W even a 15 minute charge while using the bathroom at random chalet or ski-lift should make an appreciable difference. A reasonably compact travel charger should be able to do 60W now, though you might be limited in light weight banks that can handle that kind of power.
I know that drinking directly from alpine melt is very common, but I always used a Sawyer Mini when drinking from streams in Switzerland. I once drank from a stream thinking we were well above cow level, ran into a Chamois 100 meters up stream. I assume they can pick up E. coli or giardia from all the cows. Aquamira might be lighter weight and more compact if you are space limited. For serious GI problems I recommend bring Pepto Bismol when traveling in continental Europe. It's surprisingly hard to get in parts of the continent. Not medical advice, but, it seems more effective when combined with imodium (which is available) than either alone. Again, combine at your own risk, the directions probably tell you not to do that. IMO though, better than having a blowout on the plane.
I guess you were bathing in a touristy part of Montreaux? There used to be a beach oh the other side of Lac Léman in Versoix that I quite liked. It had a roped off swim area and a floating platform. So it's not that weird to swim in the lake, just location dependent.
MollieTheMare
2mo ago
I recall making the point that athleticism and endurance performance were not wholly synonyms when the original post mas made. The qualifier of "at least in endurance sports" is appreciated. I would probably concede, not actively harmful, controlling for macro nutrient composition and micro-nutrient availability.
Its interesting you cite a gravel cyclist in your discussion. I see marathon distance running as one of the sports where it is the least sub-optimal. Cycling nutrition was a area where there was surprisingly little systematic study. It seems like not that long ago World Tour teams were only doing like 60 g/hour of carbs, while 120 g/hour is normal now. Given that, it does seem possible that the state of the art will change. That being said, Dylan Johnson is certainly cutting against the grain of what the World Tour teams apparently think is optimal. Honey is a common binder and carb source for rice cakes for Pro teams. I think most teams also allow riders milk with their coffee, even during the Tour. Whey is an extremely common ingredient in post-race recovery drinks, you see it featured in essentially every Tour nutrition interview where they disclose whats in the drink.
Looking at the very top level of gravel riding, arguably the Monuments like the Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix, and Strade Bianche were the top level of gravel before gravel was a category. Based on the UCI Gravel World Championships it seems like the classics riders are still at least one level above those in the UCI Gravel World Series. All this to say Pogi and Cancellara are clearly levels above Dylan Johnson (who is very very good). I'm very sure I've seen video or photos of them drinking either flat whites or cappuccinos. I think I even recall a video of Cancellara eating fish back in the Leopard-Trek days, and one where Pogačar has beef in his fridge. It doesn't seem likely that adopting a vegan diet is the key to optimal gravel riding performance. Not necessarily actively very harmful, but I'm actually a bit surprised Johnson claims it's for performance reasons.
This is part of the tragedy of the situation. It's easy to have such an impression, but knowing at least some of the details, it just seems like lives were needlessly ruined.
The problem with Kramnik's cheating allegations is that they are based entirely on his own subjective evaluation, and Danya is not the only one he has accused. His knowledge of statistics is farcically bad. His internal evaluation seems to be: at my peak was I better than them at classical, if yes then I should be destroying them in online blitz. The problem is that even though classical and online blitz are highly correlated, they do not have a correlation of 1. Blitz and classical are slightly different skill sets, and this is magnified online vs OTB. Imagine your boomer uncle trying to navigate a web-app with his worn out 20 year old Circuit City mouse and complaining the app is broken every time he miss-clicks. That's what it's like watching Kramnik playing online. For example, chess.com allows you to pre-move to minimize the time spent on your turn. Kramnik for some reason refuses to use this feature, then also complains that his opponents are moving with super-human speed. No your opponents are not cheating, you just don't understand how the platform works. Unfortunately, his accusations no matter how baseless come from the voice of a former World Champion. He could have been known as a great champion that helped train the next generation, instead he just looks like an angry old man who can't accept that he has declined and can't keep up anymore.
On the Danya side, the various rumors make it seem like an overdose was more likely than suicide. Either way, I don't think the incentives necessarily indicate cheating. While very good Danya didn't really make his living playing chess he made his living as a chess influencer. In particular, an influencer known for his wholesomeness. As that type of influencer your profession and self-identity revolve around how your are perceived. It seem from his last stream that despite the fact that many of the top chess names privately supported his innocence, and his fans remained loyal, the trolls were weighing heavily on him.
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