oats_son
1mo ago
Hmm, I may have a skewed idea of how much a pound of meat looks like. Maybe I really ought to start tracking like some other people say in this thread. My kitchen scale kind of sucks. Maybe I'll buy a neat digital one.
oats_son
1mo ago
1 gram per kilogram is pretty hard to get, though, isn't it? You'd have to eat like, a pound of chicken thighs to get that far. That's a lot of meat... I try to get some protein in every meal, but that's kind of a lot.
oats_son
1mo ago
Lifters in this thread, do you track your calories or try to hit protein targets? I didn't really advance my lifts very much when I was doing barbell training last year, and I'm seeing on reddit that apparently properly bulking is a big component of lifting nowadays. But I don't know how much I want to do dieting stuff.
oats_son
1mo ago
Way to call it. And then it happened anyway. What an obnoxious thing to do. I don't understand. I think humans should have less variability in behavior.
oats_son
1mo ago
My kettlebell finally came in the mail. The thing is a lot more intimidating in person, and just doing the "halo" move is sort of exhausting. The "face-the-wall" squat (thank you for being Russian themed, Pavel) feels easy, and I have yet to try the "pump" warmup exercise or the main Turkish get-up exercise. The swings are surprisingly exhausting, though I am still not quite sure I am doing it with proper form, though I managed to swing it with a towel attached like the book said and it went okay. It's fun. I will take it slow and try to find the right spot to swing it in, but I can already feel it in my legs and back, and arms a little bit, though I'm not sure how, since the swing doesn't really seem to use arms much.
oats_son
1mo ago
You'll be disappointed by my answer. I just cook the fish. I never really cared that much about the taste of raw fish. The texture is interesting, but I never could taste any subtleties. The thing I like most about sushi at home is the hot vinegared rice; salted cooked salmon or trout is good in it, and so is cooked chicken, and so are the other crap I like to add. Spicy mayo can taste good on the top or inside, unagi sauce can taste good on the top or inside, but usually I just dip each piece in some tamari soy sauce and have at it.
As for fish, yes, I have a sushi book that says flash frozen is best. I think freezing at all will kill parasites, so if you're paranoid, you can just freeze it yourself. Or just cook it.
oats_son
1mo ago
I manage it by not eating during the workday or anything for breakfast at all. I look forward to the black coffee I have after noon. I also take a nap at lunchtime.
My real weakness is the weekends. The association of home = food time is very strong for me. Not eating at all at work is comparatively extremely easy, especially since my boss stopped ordering full pizzas for lunch and letting me have the leftovers multiple times per week.
Related: for some reason, when I am by myself, I am never motivated to go get fast food or takeout or eat anywhere except home.
oats_son
1mo ago
Now he probably valued money over self actualization(no one dreams of becoming an accountant, let’s be real) when he was ~20, which is a red tribe value that does go a ways towards explaining the conservative under representation in academia
Yes, thank you for saying this. Conservatives tend to be a lot more practical about career choice, and working at a museum just isn't the kind of thing you can make a career out of that can support a family. When I was growing up, my parents told me a big long list of careers I should not get into, including music and art.
oats_son
1mo ago
Posts get pretty bloated if you want to say something snappy but then also have to put in every single thing wrong with gender changing operations. I see this as a point where pretty much everyone knew what hydroacetylene was getting at, but more... analytical? minded people could want to demonstrate that that argument alone is bad. I suppose he should have written it better. I've always gotten annoyed at the "I know what you meant but let's argue out the phrasing" types.
oats_son
1mo ago
Great post and actually reverses my opinion. You've Singal-pilled me. I don't understand how any of those studies can be taken seriously by anyone else, but I guess it is important we get anything at all to satiate the people pushing this before axing it. Though I will point out that there are still plenty of communists, even though the communist experiment has failed several times over now.
I guess I'm Singal-pilled in that I see the utility in continuing experiments. I don't actually care if they're government funded or not. Certainly, if I was cutting research, research into something I despise would be one of the first things I cut. But, more nuanced than what I thought, I guess.
oats_son
1mo ago
What's cookin' this weekend, The Motte?
Ever since I restarted intermittent fasting, my passion for creating and eating exotic foods has increased quite dramatically, since I'm thinking about food nearly constantly in the latter half of the workday. It is probably for the same reason that I am torn about what I should be doing: creating new exotic foods with ingredients from the Asian grocery store? Eating old food that I don't even know exists yet? Or maybe I should be going cheap and cooking up old beans in the cabinet or roasting/boiling some chicken leg quarters?
Yesterday I went with a compromise option, maki sushi with slightly old frozen fish that had been taking up space for a while, along with some taberu rayu (Japanese spicy chili oil) I had never been brave enough to actually use. It was great. Now there seem to be plans for going to a new wings place tomorrow, which really throws a wrench in the rest of the dinner plans, if you ask me, but I also have been craving wings recently, too, so not the worst thing in the world.
oats_son
1mo ago
My God, yes. I got so mad seeing the ~40k year old human fossils be buried. On the one hand, we're enlightened by science and we don't need this pesky Christianity anymore. On the other hand, give into (some of! not even all of them are calling for this!) the natives' homebrewed ideas about what belongs to whom and ancient customs and destroy priceless artifacts. Western civilization deserves to die if it's gonna be like this.
It seems like no country anywhere can stand up to indigenous peoples when they want something unreasonable. Even the Russians caved when it came to the Siberian Ice Queen. Look at this, too. Thirteen thousand year old kid. Modern Native Americans don't even have any more claim to that than we do, man. There's no way their cultures resemble each other at all at that point. And I don't see European natives kicking up a fuss that Otzi the Ice Man got dug up and put on display.
oats_son
1mo ago
A return to 2000s norms on this is hardly a wrong. The only reason we're here at all is due to about a decade of Overton window pushing. When these studies and techniques are the best they've got to offer on a fight they picked, it's a moral imperative to just kill it without even asking anymore.
I'm an American and I care, but I am assuming that like always, people will take what they want from Europe and sneer at the stuff they don't like. That goes for both sides. One side sneers at TERF Island but praises the public healthcare that it has (such as it is), one side praises the lockdown pullbacks and other Covid studies from Scandinavia but sneers at their high tax rate and large safety net. Seems like the good-science-enthusiasts have been getting Ws out of the area, though.
Edit: The comment got deleted. It asked something about whether Americans care about what happens in Europe, mentioning the Cass Report and the slow pullback of gender affirming care for minors across the continent.
oats_son
1mo ago
That version does look annoying! I'm glad that that's not what you meant, because it looks way more complicated than was advertised in this thread. I will see if I can get the book itself. Swings look fun. Thanks for the purchase advice.
oats_son
1mo ago
We already have evidence based results for trans healthcare. That's why I brought up the Cass Review. Jesse Singal himself is good at actually looking at the studies themselves.
But I mean, yes, there are other reasons to oppose it, which have been brought up on this site many, many times, such as allowing children to consent to permanent side-effects like infertility from puberty blockers. Your three steps become a lot more understandable when it's about lobotomies and someone says "you've got all this positive research for this procedure, but you're still drilling people's fuckin' personalities out of their brains."
oats_son
1mo ago
oats_son
1mo ago
Sweet, thanks. I'll take a look at the Program Minimum lifts somewhere. Hopefully there's a video. I don't want to buy the book. I'll check at the YMCA if they have any kettlebells there. Seems to me like a 35 pound kettlebell is a lot safer than loading up hundreds of pounds on your back and lowering yourself, but I might just not be creative enough coming up with failure scenarios.
I did 3 great chin-ups the other day. I was proud. Someday I'll be able to do 5, hopefully.
oats_son
1mo ago
First the lefties get Tesla stock prices down through distributed property damage, now they pick off a future minister of agriculture in Germany with trespassing and intimidation. Terrorism works.
oats_son
1mo ago
Today, Jesse Singal wrote an opinion for the New York Times where he argued that Trump defunding youth gender research was a bad thing, despite the terrible research coming out of that part of science. He thinks that reform is in order, not slash-and-burn practices. In my opinion, there is definitely enough research out there by now that you can confidently release something like a Cass Report without anything new. Certainly, funding bad actors makes no sense, but to me, reform is little gain, and even a good new study must follow around minors that have gone through the unethical transgender science grinder.
It reminds me of an (unpopular) opinion Trace shared the other day on Twitter regarding the axing of funds for museums and libraries. Even if anthropology is 99% leftist, well, the institutions belong to those who show up, so right wingers just need to get in there and fix it themselves. While I appreciated that stance as it related to conservative law organizations, and as it related to Twitter when left-wingers were leaving the site en masse, I find it pretty distasteful to give up anthropology to positive feedback loops, and let our history become a mockery when it is within one's power to just raze it.
Deus Ex took a look at this perspective. Spoilers for Deus Ex:
I'm going to guess most of this forum disagrees with Trace and Jesse on this matter in pretty much the same way that I do. Can you name any areas in government or other organizations where you do agree with them?
oats_son
1mo ago
Wow. I'm not keen on losing weight - I want to lose like 10 pounds but that's about it - but is illegal Chinese semaglutide any cheaper than the real stuff? I know some people that take it, and one paid for it at the start of the year and had to pay the whole deductible until it got covered, and it was painful. A prescription has to be $2k, at least...
Since I asked my question about protein Sunday, I went and bought a proper food scale and found that a pound of meat really isn't that much after all. In fact, my default "gonna eat some air fried pork or chicken with some seasoned salt on it now" meal is around a pound. And two chicken leg quarters seem to weigh something over 2 pounds before cooking, with the bones weighing something negligible like 3 or 4 ounces between them, which makes it make sense that I don't want to eat any more chicken after eating two chicken leg quarters.
Now my question is: what's the cheapest protein nowadays, and what protein isn't even worth your time? A few years ago, I tried tracking "protein per dollar". I think chicken breast and chicken thighs ranked pretty high in protein per dollar, but dried beans made a pretty good showing, too. The problem with beans in my opinion is that they're pretty high calorie for the protein they have on offer, and they also need a good amount of fat on top of that to make them palatable. Bad deal, I think.
Kettlebell get-ups and swings are fun. Get-ups are surprisingly tiring and work out a surprising amount of your body, and kettlebell swings are pretty exhausting. I'm wondering when I should start trying some of the exercises later in the book; I started doing one-armed swings the other day, and my left hand somehow didn't know how to grip like the right hand did and I ended up going too far away from a hook grip and every swing pinched the base of my fingers. This incident really progressed the state of my calluses.
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