I am a big fan of tastefully done open hearts. I really like the Orient Bambino Open Heart
Reasons to like it
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Classic look
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but has a little bit of restrained fun to it
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Cheap, but well-regarded subsidiary of a more reputed brand (Seiko)
Other variations on this idea:
If I had infinite money, then I'd go for the Cartier Ballon Bleu [3] [4]. It is a thing of timeless beauty and I won't be convinced otherwise. Like a Ferrari Roma, C1 corvette or a Karman Ghia.
fartVader
1yr ago
- relatively cheap
- Cartier tank
Sir, plz choose one. Even the cheapest ones go for $3k+ right ?
They do look lovely. Something about it appeals to my very soul. It's an excellent heirloom gift.
edit: Can we make the post preview actually reflect what my comment will look like ? Some weird spacing issues here.
I don't get why all graduate students need to be paid the same amount. (behind the scenes they aren't. Top fields and top students get external fellowships & endowments, but it's the exception) It makes even less sense for the entire UC system to negotiate together. The students at UCLA, UCI and Berkeley clearly have higher expenses than the other UCs.
It makes no sense that people in fields where they'd be completely unemployable are demanding higher pay, by holding more valuable STEM fields hostage. A STEM researcher at a top UC is foregoing a $100-300k salary to pursue their graduate degree. Most liberal arts students would struggle to make anywhere near the grad student stipend. Collective bargaining makes sense when there are collective risks. Eg: Line workers at a factory or screen writers. Research does not have that kind of uniformity.
I don't like how American Social-welfare continues to attend to the symptoms and never the causes. Most extra dollars given to a UC student, are going to go into them being able to finally move into livable houses. IE. This is a direct handout to local landlords and nothing more. (This is $7000/yr effective increase)
If a UC can get a subsidized student residential tower going, then the students might be able to have similar benefits as increased salary, all while getting lasting infrastructure, still contributing to the economy (let money go to real construction workers instead of a lazy bum sitting on his house), not eliminating their social-welfare by changing their tax bracket and saving a ton of money when amortized over a long time. Best part is, it might even force unproductive local landlords to finally enter the work force. (or more likely, it will eliminate their secondary vacation income. Neither will happen tho, politics always protects landlords)
California is a social welfare state, where all the handouts go to local upper-class landowners. Source
fartVader
1yr ago
Graduate students in STEM are hilariously overworked and underpaid
"The US outlawed slavery, except against prisoners and grad students."
fartVader
1yr ago
Naah, the people who control institutions and wealth operate at $$ magnitudes that far surpass that of the people stuck in these squabbles.
Not that I agree with your hypothesis to begin with. New England is quintessential old money, and the land use policies there are liberal enough to allow for lower rents and a lower influence of landlordism. The west coast is the worst affected and home to the 21st century's noveau-riche that's taken over.
Ironically, old money neighborhoods are rather averse to renters in general, so they dont do too much landlording. (Not colocated with the actual halls of power at least.) Their neighborhoods are almost 100% owner occupied and handed down over generations.
To a degree it is hilarious that west coast people even talk about old money and culture. The oldest money in california would be considered noveau-riche anywhere else in the US or the world. There really isnt much (white) history or culture here.
fartVader
1yr ago
concrete examples
The key is to work in a very-high cost of living area. IE. NYC or SF. Practically all tech jobs pay well above $100k in the Bay Area. Here are incredibly reliable exact salaries you'd get if you joined as a new grad at a tech company.
A moderately competent citizen in the bay area with sufficient math knowledge can wiggle their way into a Data Scientist job within a year of post-grad training. And those pay around 80% of starter software engineer salaries.
Similarly joining as a consultant with a big 4 / big 3 consulting company in NYC should put you around $100k (all included) for starters.
Those are the fields I know of.
STEM researcher at a top UC
To be clear, I am talking about someone who is smart enough to be accepted as a phD student at a top UC.
Healthcare startups are a good place for people with less mathy and more chemistry/biology oriented backgrounds. We are living through the golden age of health-startup funding. So there is VC money to go around.
fartVader
1yr ago
music unsophistication of East Asia
That is a big claim to make. Western music elevates traits of music that they've identified as important, and undermines aspects of music that they've not paid attention to. For ex: western music (pre-20th century) cared a lot about Harmony & melody, but IMO, was little lacking in their understanding of rhythm, jamming and the power of space (silence). More here(I know, ignore the title, it has good substance.)
Now, the 17-21st century were a golden period of prosperity and time for the West in a manner that the east simply couldn't compete. I don't think it is fair to compare the recent exponential flourishing of western music in a couple of the richest places on earth (Vienna, USA) to places that were struggling to make ends meet in the east.
My theory is that just as the west looks to a few locations for their artistic direction (NYC, LA, London, Paris, Vienna), East-Asia largely relied on China and India as the their sources of artistic direction. (especially SEA, Japan, Korea). Indian classical & contemporary music comfortably goes toe-to-toe with anything western classical or contemporary music throws at it, but Indian classical has failed to flourish over the last 400 years for obvious reasons. Chinese classical music on the other hand, stagnated from colonial humiliation and was destroyed like all classical structures due to communism. So now you have this naïve blank slate that appears pretty bad when compared to contemporaries elsewhere. The rest of the continent despite its best efforts could not recover from having its 2 main sources of aesthetic understanding collapse. (Japan was less affected, as 2 centuries of isolation forced it to come up with it's own aesthetic identity separate from Indian-inspired Buddhism or Chinese cultural influence)
is sufficient music-listening necessary to fully appreciate complex music
I believe so. I have had an interesting journey with pop. I used to find it bland and only listening to progressive (almost deliberately complex) music for a decade. Those 10 years made me a discerning listener, listening for atmospheric queues, syncopation, tension-release and the precision of good production. Now that I can discern good pop from bad pop, I've begun to appreciate the magic and the power of simple yet effective tools.
The specific things that took a lot of learning were:
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What is a pocket, why do people like dancing ? -> it unlocked my enjoyment of funk & Rap (Only after I learned to play the drums)
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What does an odd-time signature actually do emotionally -> Unlocked tension/release and African-style music (After listening to a lot of prog)
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What is the "free feeling" & stank-face ? -> unlocked my enjoyment of blues, jazz, Indian-classical(After actually jamming with people in real life)
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What is atmosphere ? -> unlocked my enjoyment of western classical. (After brute forcing my way through Black metal and Black gaze. I hated it until I started loving it. Also, attending real life concerts. It just hits different.)
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What is production -> unlocked my enjoyment of pop (after trying to get a note to sound just-right when I was tuning my guitars and drums)
That being said, the best works can be enjoyed by noobs and experts alike. Lose yourself, Comfortably Numb, Hotel California, Pavrotti's Nessun Dorma, 10,000 days part 2, All along the watch tower or Certain Ragas are universal experiences.
I have gone through a similar journey with soccer. From being a kid that loved flamboyant tricksters like Ronaldinho, to now appreciating players like Fabregas or Berbatov who use the basics to absolute perfection. I can also finally appreciate players who seemingly stand in the right spot every time. (Busquets, T.Silva, Giroud, Jorginho). That being said, just like great music, even an idiot can see the greatness of Messi.
what’s happening when we hear a song (for a lot of people: Satie’s gymnopedie) and it brings us a new emotional state?
Like all aesthetics, there are some universal cues (symmetry, Height, Clear face) and some that signal higher-level societal phenomenon. (Japanese like crooked teeth, attraction for thin frail sickly-looking women in China and western modelling, attraction towards lighter skin to signal class and not needing to work in fields in India)
is too much music bad because it desensitizes us to the significance of real life sound cues?
I refuse to buy that. If anything, music makes me a more discerning listener towards real life sound cues as well. But yeah, don't wear headphones everywhere and aurally separate yourself from society.
fartVader
1yr ago
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Externalize your commitments
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pavlovian condition yourself
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make it as frictionless to start as possible
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Prioritize continuous removal of past inertia, no matter how small the change
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Once removed, leverage present inertia to keep the chain going
Self-motivated learning shouldn't be learning in isolation.
I have had times when learning alone, where a close-friend would call me every morning to ask me what I was promising I will do today, and if I had achieved yesterday's goal. They barely even understood what I was doing. But, the shame of saying 'I didn't do it' would force me to keep myself accountable. (be warned, be kind to yourself. I have adopted this towards things I deeply cared about and failed. The shame of not finishing a commitment has sent me into depression before. I am better at having release valves now.) In a weird way, external deadlines forced on me never seem to provoke the same shame (sprint reviews, stand ups) that external deadlines I choose for myself do.
Also, make it as frictionless as possible. I was self motivated to learn the drums for years, until I could I put one right in my own garage. When its right there, it makes it so much easier to just walk to it and just start playing. Similarly, I always keep a book I want to read in my bag. When an ounce of motivation strikes, you want your ability to access the activity to be as seamless as possible. Mediums make a big difference in frictionless-ness too. I have found podcasts to be a much easier way to access learning. It isn't as efficient as books or videos, but I end up using it a lot-lot more often simply because of how easy they are to access.
Also, have loops that close. Many people who start too many things, get stuck in the rut because they don't have enough experience what that last 20% (that's 80% of the work) feels like and don't intuit the insane reward that comes with finishing something. Always start easy and build that "start-> enjoy -> suffer -> victory" loop. The more you do it, the easier it gets.
I have an interesting metal journey. As a brown hindu kid who found his metal on MTV, I started off listening to 'Christian metal' without realizing that's what it was. I had "As I lay dying^[2]" and "August burns red^[1]" albums on repeat.
So there you had a (young) atheist, reading lyrics that sounded atheistic from bands that were very clearly marketed as Christian metal.
Curiously, when you don't know the context behind their lyrical under/overtones, you simply view it all as a pursuit in spirituality and philosophy. IMO, metal lends itself a little too well to internal journeys. The entire genre is constructed around intense buildups and climatic releases of negative emotions. After you get out all of your teenage angst in your first album, you will inevitably find yourself needing to a address new questions of similar intensity, all while also needing to resolve them at the song's climax.
Because of that, all of these religion-interfacing metal bands seems to yo-yo between the 2 inevitable conundrums.
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Religion as a shelter from all the pain and sorrow of the real world irrespective of divinity (ABR started here)
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Religion as the cause and shackles that lead to a lot of pain and sorrow (Tool started here)
Like any good gem that allows itself to be polished, they usually end up somewhere in the middle: Making peace with spirituality, but not allowing themselves to be strongly pulled by any religious authority. ABR and AILD have moved away from the Christian metal moniker and not-so subtlety have disavowed the more political & judgmental side of American Christianity. On the other hand, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden - the faces of pop-satanism are now comfortable in their identity as Christians. Hell, even Maynard of Tool has mellowed out.
Eventually, I find that late in a metal bands career, they echo the same emotion from 2 views - making peace with the inevitable, but in 2 different ways.
They end up writing songs about mortality & contentment, such as Empire in the Clouds, Invincible, mama I'm coming home, wither, sound of perseverence and Tears of a clown. They don't reach any real conclusion. It is a tacit acknowledgement of human hubris and being at peace with no knowing what comes after. Just, that it will end and that's okay.
Alternatively, the same emotion leads some to Doomerism. Take Black Crown Initiate which similarly never gives us a release/answer. Just eternal pain and inevitable doom. They first few albums were angsty, but their latest 2 albums are peak-Doomer. (I love it)
So why all the rambling ? IMO, metal composers are philosophers first. They seek answers and allow themselves to feel discomfort in a manner that feels like a permanent mid-life crisis. The one thing they complain about the most, is shackles and limitations on what what ideas they're allowed to explore. Until the recent past, that meant the limitations imposed by the church. Since then, we've transitioned into an era of soft-atheism in the west and are more-so slaves of our endless consumerism. Their same quest for answers now leads them down a path of virtuosity that comes across as religious. A huge number of contemporary metal artists are straight-edge vegan environmentalists. On paper, much better Christians than most self-professed ones.
If you want to understand all of metal's journey in a song or an album. Listen to 10,000 days part 2 or Odyssey to the west. 10,000 days clearly sees Maynard launch a tirade towards god, all while also wishing for the existence of heaven so his mother can truly find peace as he grieves her death. It addresses the conundrum neatly. On the other hand, Odyssey to the west very literally tracks a journey similar to a pilgrim's progress. He starts a nonbeliever and turns into a pilgrim, then fundamentalist turn fool who eventually accepts his own hubris & mortality. [3]
tl;dr : They aren't atheists. They simply care too much about the nature of existence and keep continuously questioning it. It sounds agnostic, but many end up mellowed-out Christians by the end of it.
[1] Maybe an entire Christmas album should've clued me in. But Carol of the Bells was such a banger.
[2] The front man did try to hire a hitman to kill his wife after a custody battle, but the hitman was an undercover officer and no one was hurt. Seems to have served his time in prison silently and doesn't seem as evil in hindsight. Still kind of up there for bad-things-to-do. Kinda stopped listening to them after that. Could be worse. Could be Lost Prophets.
[3] Btw I highly recommend all the albums mentioned here. Here are links to my favorite songs on them 1 2 3
P.S: I have had a similar mellowing out, but I like that Hinduism is a lot more comfortable with athesism/agnosticism than Abrahmic religions, so I let myself be a 'shrug emoji' when it comes to my religion.
P.P.S: haven't listened to metal core in half-a-decade, so Idk if it has changed. My tastes are very different today, so don't crucify me if my comment isn't up to date with the times.
fartVader
1yr ago
25% chances - At least one nuclear weapon used in Ukraine
Yeah, I am dead sure this won't happen.
The others look reasonable to me.
Unfortunately, I am now realizing that it is necessary.
The only way to get a fair offer is to have at least 2 other competing offers. Assuming a rather optimistic 30% interview success rate, OP would have to schedule ~9 interviews to have sufficient competing offers for the next negotiation phase.
I know close friends who got a 50% offer-bump just cross-negotiating between multiple offers. I hate interviewing, and have left a lot of money on the table because of the it. My job hops have been fairly under market for my desirability, due to my inability to negotiate against another real offer. (I also refuse to do 5 rounds of Leetcode on principle. I'm weirdly stubborn about some things)
Hell, I'd say that even if you don't want to switch jobs, it is useful to interview outside and get a counter offer from your current company. A close peer of mine got passed up for promotion because the manager has 'no budget' (it would have been a $10k pay bump). Right after, he was offered a $100k one-time-bonus to stay when he put in his resignation letter. Hah, 'No budget', sure....
fartVader
1yr ago
Yeah, but HR structures the payout to be in those buckets for a reason. If there is a retention budget, you should be using that lever to get what you are due. This is especially true, because replacing you generally means paying a higher fee on the open market. You're purely leveraging every avenue to get paid a fair market value.
geomCDF(p=.3, x=2..inf) = .49
Ah damn, I am pleasantly surprised.
So if I understand right, assuming a binomial distribution, the probability of at least 2 successes from 9 tries (at p = 0.3) is almost exactly 50%.
I just threw a ballpark figure that I would be in the right order of magnitude.
I would love actual data on the typical number of onsites people have, and of pass rates
Maybe it's because I apply for ML roles more so than SWE roles , but I usually know from the screening if I will be able to ace the interview. There is weird feeling in the air.
Like its almost more deterministic than probabilistic. I would never give this advice to anyone else. But I do tend to follow vibes-based-interview protocols myself.
generally vindaloo
There might be a couple of funny things happening here.
1. They aren't ordering Vindaloo
I have never once seen an Indian order Vindaloo ever (in USA/India). It's actually incredible when I think about it. A lifetime of eating Indian food with Indians (me included), and not a single Vindaloo that was ordered. (and I grew up on the western coast on India where the dish originates from).
Most Indians are likely ordering other familiar dishes like Chicken Tikka Masala and Butter Chicken. The American preparations for these 2 dishes are orders of magnitude sweeter and milder.
For reference. I'd say an Indian style Tikka Masala should land at a 7/10 in spice. A butter chicken should land at a 5/10. American versions are usually lagging on both by 2 points.
So it is likely, that your friends order the milder Tikka Masala or Butter Chicken and continue complaining about it.....while the actually spicy Vindaloo remains underexplored by the Indians.
2. 'Spicy' doesn't mean what you think it means.
Spicy & Mild in an Indian context can mean 3 different things :
I can mean the dish lacks a punch to its smell (aroma, garlic, onions, Kashmiri chilies), lacks khada-masala-heat (think coriander seeds, Kauri methi, or even black pepper. You feel this heat in your heart, not on your tongue) and lacks chilli-heat (Think straight habaneros or cayenne pepper).
In the sense, mild means under-seasoned more so than not-enough-chilies. So you might just be misunderstanding your friends.
American restaurants simply do not use enough aromatics or fresh-khade masale. So even when the food is chili-spicy, it tastes imbalanced. It is just heat for the sake of heat, no proper spiciness as we perceive it.
I believe that Indian restaurants make food less spicy for non-Indian patrons
3. Yes, they do discriminate based on color and accent
When I order spicy food (usually in Hindi or an obvious 1st gen immigrant accent) at Indian restaurants, they always ask me if I want it 'spicy' or 'Indian spicy'. And even if a white person asks for Indian spicy, they will like to see you handle a 7/10 in front of them, before they send out a 9/10 or a 10/10 for you.
Honestly, most Indians don't like a 9/10 or a 10/10 spicy dish either. We simply want our medium-spicy dishes to have fresh ingredients & attain the expected 6/10, instead of the Americanized 4/10s.
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Order common authentic Indian dishes that are supposed to be spicy - Kolhapuri, Solapuri, Saoji, Gongura, Andra etc. They probably aren't popular enough to have multiple spice options. Also, if you know these dishes, it is good sign for the owner to trust that you know what you want with spice. Be warned, these are above what I can take. It can be a lot. There is 1 tier above these too, but they are novelty dishes that exist as a meme, not actual staples.
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Speak in broken hindi and enunciate properly. Say "tiKKKAa" instead of "TEEkuh" masala. Order by saying : "Bha-ee-yah, ayyk Chicken tiKKAa masala aaydum spicy kerr kay day-nah". (brother, give me a chicken tikka masala made spicy). That's enough to convince them.
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Just tell them you visited India and had Tikka Masala there. And to make it at that spice level. They will buy it.
fartVader
1yr ago
Knowing the Indian culinary tradition, I would not be surprised if Tikka Masala was simultaneously invented in many different places. That seems to be the current opinion of historic sources too. [1] [2]
However, there is no question that Mr. Ali Ahmed Aslam improvised the dish & popularized his version of it around the world. Tikka Masala is not as insanely popular in India, and the preparation is generally spicier, smokier & less tomato-forward. You will still find it on menus around the country though. Part of it's struggle is that once you have ordered Butter Chicken, you don't want to order another incredibly similar dish.
There is no 'right' way to make an Indian dish. It is all about techniques, feel and adapting it to your region. Tikka Masala shares every ingredient & technique with India's biggest culinary invention of the 20th century : butter chicken. It is likely that some places made it sufficiently spicier and tomato-ier to become Tikka Masala. But, I don't want to split hairs over how much culinary innovation is needed for naming rights.
fartVader
1yr ago
I am always surprised at how similar Cajun traditions seem to western-Indian traditions. I made Gumbo yesterday, and it almost felt like I was making an Indian curry. (The dark roux was obviously a new thing. though)
just isn't the same as home-cooked
This is true about so many southern American dishes. A fresh homemade-made Biscuits and Gravy always lives up to it's hype, and restaurant B&G tastes like goop on a golf ball.
fartVader
1yr ago
minimizing the appearance of 'flaws' and 'ugliness' whilst also idealizing the subjects it examines so as to avoid
George Carlin was talking about this decades ago - Euphimisms
IMO, the content distribution has stayed the same, but content discovery has changed a lot. There is more of every thing. More flawed/yucky/ugly stuff and more sanitized garbage. It's just that when the recommendations systems don't know what you like, the sanitized garbage is pushed in your face more often than it used to be. The flipside is once you get into the ugly-offensive-flawed content, the recommendation systems will overwhelm you with that too.
It is about how content discovery changed. You can now eat straight sugar from the sachet, or straight black coffee. Our experiences aren't attenuated by having to all see the same 5 channels on network TV.
fartVader
1yr ago
The way I see it, more evidence is always a good thing. But, just like all forensic science, should be used to complete a hypothesis, not lead it.
I find fears about the legality of surveillance to be overblown. Not because it isn't happening, but because it will happen whether you like it or not. The NSA didn't wait for internet surveillance to be legal before widely deploying it.
In 2022, we live in a world where there is no real power balance between the state and the citizen. If the state wants to fuck you over, they will be able to. Your consent, safety and privacy are illusions that the state maintains so you can sleep at night, and that's that.
At the same time, to keep up appearances, public society has their hands tied. They can't use this technology to solve issues that are technologically tractable but are legally blocked off. If the NSA is going to spy on every camera in America irrespective of legality, then I want to see who was robbing my house.
In the same way, these geneology databases are going to happen whether you like it or not. If it's going to be at the disposal of 3-letter agencies, then I would want for it to be used when a loved one gets killed.
The USA gets the worst of both worlds. It allows overt violence in terms of what law-enforcement can do, but takes away all peaceful tools for conflict resolution from the same law enforcement.
It makes the immigration process painfully difficult, while allowing weird loopholes that encourage illegal immigrants to be 'at large' in the country.
It has an incredibly harsh sentencing system, but does not allow law enforcement to actually be sure of who the criminal is.
I am more uncomfortable with an innocent man going to prison or a serial killer being at large, than having my DNA be public. I am more uncomfortable with safety & sexual assault concerns due to street criminals, than being IDed using a country wide face recognition system. I am more uncomfortable with cities decaying due to people with mental health problems slowly dying due to fentanyl abuse, than non-consensual detaining of these people a homeless-shelter with stringent sobriety rules.
It is not that I trust the Govt. It is that I'm sure the Govt. WILL violate my rights if they really want to get me. (see Assange, Snowden or dozens other cases where the national guard gets called in). If those rights will be violated anyway, I'd rather also reap the benefits of this intrusive technology.
fartVader
1yr ago
Only 2 things matter when you're starting out - Fun & ease. Do an easy exercise routine, ie. it should be short, repeatable & form advice should be easy to implement. If it isn't fun, you won't keep doing it, period.
If you are already doing deadlifts, you're probably comfortable with barbells & full body work. Then barbell OHP, Squats, Deadlifts, Curls, Rows & Bench Presses will cover basically everything you need. Maybe add pullups & chinups to round it out. The only negative is that I find these to be a little intimidating in terms of form sometimes and gym squat racks can be a little hard to get for a full 1 hour workout. Standard recommendations of (6-12 reps x 3 sets) per exercise apply. Try to find a weight that lets you fatigue in that range. Early on, go lighter and focus on form & being able to engage the right muscle.
I like working with dumbbells more. So I end up doing all of those barbell exercises but with heavy dumbbells instead. Dumbbells allow me to do home workouts, don't need spotting and are just more fun for me.
A couple of caveats:
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I am yet to feel comfortable with heavy deadlifts because I have lower back pain. So I do barbell hip-thrusts (booty builder 2000) or cable-pull throughs (dick thruster 1000) instead. Yes, it does look a bit weird. No, literally no-one cares.
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Dead hangs are magic. I do them every single time without fail.
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If an exercise feels weird. Stop. There are a 1000 variations for every exercise. You don't have to do this one that feels wierd.
On one of my procrastination rabbit-roles, I ended up creating a hyper-optimized routine that covers every muscle, is effective and I like doing. I used Athleax as my source. Feel free to use it if you're interested.
I hope they don't end up like Pakistan, where your entire identity and history is tied up in hating the country where it all comes from.
Without Islam, Pakistanis are just Indians, and that reality is indigestible to them. So instead of making peace with our shared history, they are on a quest to be an Islamic nation like no other. Sadly for them, there is no such thing as a culturally Muslim country. At that point, you're just copying Arab traditions, while the Arabs themselves see you as an impure/inferior race. The people are confused, because at an organic level, their traditions are very much Indian.
Indonesia effortlessly balances its Hindu cultural roots with Islam and Malaysia faces more friction, but still does a better job than Pakistan. You simply cannot build a stable country that is expected to hate its own cultural roots. In the subcontinent - Bangladeshis don't have this issue, because they have a real cultural sub-identity : Bengali. Pakistan can't adopt a similarly dominant local sub-identity for 2 reasons. First, Punjabi would be the most common sub-identity, but Sikhs have wholesale monopoly on that identity. Pakistani Islam can't make peace with a Sikh influenced co-identity. Second, Pakistan is multicultural, and separatist movements are rooted in resentment towards Punjabi dominance. Making that explicit will only give power to Balochi & Pashtun terrorists.
I can see some similar parallels here. From Hatred towards the mother-state, lack of a unifying identity that is separate from the mother-state and fostering snakes in their own backyard. (Islamists, Neo-nazis). Both of them are only important to NATO because they balance out hostile (to NATO) powers in the region. And the second you take the current military aid, their complete economic bankruptcy becomes hard to look away from.
Similarly, if you take away the history, then the mother-state is your most natural trading partner and prospective ally. Living with historic resentment actively makes life harder for your country.
I have more sympathy towards Ukraine because unlike Pakistan, their problems aren't of their own creation. But in 2022, Pakistan is the poster child of 'failed state'. I sure hope that Ukraine can avoid the same predicament.
fartVader
1yr ago
Just being goofy, but they are apt. The Barbell hipthrust is famously the exercise of the decade, as every woman will be seen doing it for butt gains. The cable pull-through is literally a explosive thrust that looks straight out of a porn movie.
They're both excellent for your glutes + lower back. More info on both here. Most importantly, the pull through teaches good hinging mechanics which you can use to transition into a deadlift down the line. The hip-thrust gives you the best bang-for-your-buck as a glutes(butt) exercise.
So yeah, go ahead, make those names mainstream. They fit pretty well.
fartVader
1yr ago
Deadlifting a lot of weight is not as hard.
Deadlifting without breaking your lower-back or giving yourself a hernia is harder.
those who strictly adhered to the recommended CDC/Pfizer vaccination schedule have a 25% of dying by the decade’s end
Any double digit risk would be end-of-civilization numbers. That's worse than the Black Death.
Covid's mortality rate sits at 0.01*.Assuming a worst case annual infection (like the flu), that still's a 0.1% mortality rate.
Even a 1% vaccine mortality rate would lead to societal changes beyond our wildest imagination.
I have personally come to the conclusion, that as someone who is incredibly safe wrt. the risk factors, the boosters are not worth it. I took the standard 2 shots happily. Pre-Omicron Covid variants were very scary.
Even in the most at-risk group, the benefits* biggest risk reduction comes from the first 2 shots.
I think in such a hypothetical
Honestly, any (5+%) high enough mortality rate might lead to such out-of-the-overton-window outcomes, that we won't even have an inkling on how things will pan out. It will be mayhem like nothing we've seen before, at a civilizational level.
*All caveats apply. aggregate rates don't account for the most important individual risk factors such as vaccination status, healthcare services, BMI, age; which have order of magnitude impacts on that little number above. There is also the issue where now-a-days people don't even get tested for mild cases. So the infection rate numbers are very likely off by a lot.
ps. : I was able to use strike outs with a "", Is there a known formatting reference guide. This is only some 50% markdown?
1 negation, and a couple of weird anecdotes.
The NFL player who collapsed had it happen due to a collision with direct impact to the heart. This was a completely different case than covid related myocarditis.
On the weird side, there have been 2 unique occurrences in the soccer world. Christian Ericsson is arguably the most high-profile death (and subsequent resuscitation) on the soccer field due to spontaneous cardiac arrest a few months after his vaccine. Players dropping dead isn't entirely unheard of. But Ericsson is the most high profile. On a similar note, Sergio Aguero, one of the greatest football players of his era, had to suddenly retire after his new club (in 2021) identified scarring on his heart.
Curiously, both players had spent their entire careers with world class medical teams, without any of them having any inkling of such major heart tissue scarring. Barcelona (Aguero's new club) famously called it gross negligence, saying that Aguero should have never been allowed to be a pro player, because someone during his 20 career should have caught this. This is after Aguero had just broken the record for most premier league career goals in the history of the sport at arguably the world's best team. Something doesn't compute.
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