I agree there are edge cases. I just think it shouldn’t be billed as the ultimate productivity solution to the average person.

Yep. Can get a 600cc sport bike for not much. Of course, you also have, like, a 50% chance of death if you try to outrun the cops on it.

Otoh, iirc the cops in my area just have a standing order to not chase bikes that run. Too much chance of someone getting dead, which is more paperwork and bad pr than they want to deal with.

I’m currently in the middle of a workout, doing endless sets of dead bugs as remedial core work so I can eventually have bigger lifts and better climbing performance.

This kind of attitude (like, the one the meme is joking about, not the meme itself) annoys me, since I feel like it ultimately sets back most of the people it is supposedly trying to inspire.

Like, waking up at 4am is dumb for almost everyone, almost all the time - especially if your goal is to work out. Your body needs a certain amount of sleep to recover and function well, and shorting it sleep to get more training in is likely setting you back more than giving you gains. And if you are getting the same amount of sleep total each day anyway… why not just wake up later and get your workout in in the afternoon? If you are really that crunched for time and stressed out, the optimal solution is more likely to simply reduce the number of workouts per week. More recovery time means both less overtraining, and a better training stimulus with each workout since you are more rested going into it.

Get pork shoulder from the grocery store. Usually sold in, like, 10lb hunks for $2 per lb. Super cheap. Get a can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce from the mexican section. Put the whole hunk in the slow cooker and dump the peppers and sauce over it. Put it on low before you leave for work. At dinner time, pull the pork apart with 2 forks to shred it. You have taco meat for at least a week for one person.

Not the point of OOP. The point is that people often see success (say, doing well in a marathon or whatever) and discount it by saying the person is naturally good at whatever. Then they compare to themselves, and use the difference in outcome to claim that the person who is doing better just has some uncontrollable advantage over themselves. The meme tries to subvert this idea by pointing out that while the result is all you see, what you don’t see is all the hard work and sacrifice that went into achieving the goal.

I said in OP that I’m doing this for my partners benefit. It is reasonable for people to tell me that I should ask my partners their preference if I am doing it for their benefit. Even if I didn’t say that, it is a reasonable suggestion to make, as most people care about their partner’s experience as well as their own.

This really seems like some kind of ethical issue for you, and imo, if you really care that much, you should do some reflection on why it is such a big deal for you, since no one else here gives a shit

Because I don’t really care if I’m shaved or not and I’m willing to put some effort in so my partners will have a better experience?

I mean, at least you can cast magic missile in real life now, right?

Right???

Theres a difference between looking at twitter screengrabs and being on twitter. Same with 4chan.

I pretty consistently have new partners, so I can’t say. Really my main concern is going from bush to shaved or trimmed quickly and easily without cutting myself.

I feel like the bike is a luxury, but the tires are a necessity, lol

Scaroused

This is important news, and relevant for us to discuss here. But surely there was a better medium than a nearly hour long video blog???

Depends on the job

Ah, yes, grrr, capitalism bad

Typically these sorts of polymaths were supported in their discoveries by patrons (wealthy merchants or nobles), the state (an inbred king who likely attained the position by murder), the church (which might also be the state), or their own family (who were wealthy merchants or nobles). And then their discoveries were basically completely unknown to common people, since most people couldn’t read.

You were probably consistently training too hard.

Basically, if you say you always felt like you were dying, you were almost certainly always engaging your anaerobic system. This is the kind of running that “feels like training”, because our physical culture has conditioned us to believe that all progress requires suffering. But this zone goes by the name “black hole training” for a reason - it beats you up enough that you can’t get the volume in for further aerobic adaptation, while simultaneously not sufficiently taxing your aerobic system to create sustainable gains. Runners who follow a scientific training approach spend 90% of their time below the anaerobic threshold, running at a comfortable conversational / nose breathing pace. If you can’t sustain running while nose breathing, then just walking, power walking, or using a walk-run protocol is preferred to simply trying to push through.

Meanwhile, it is also possible that you would have benefitted from heavy lifting or sprint work. Efficient runners bounce, rather than slog. The rely more on muscle stiffness and tendon elasticity to propel them forward, instead of relying on muscle contraction. The stiffness and coordination required is created by having a solid core (so the snap doesn’t wiggle out) and exerting maximum force.

No, like, the song

You managed to cram an impressive amount of false dichotomies and unfounded assumptions into a single sentence.

If there are so many refutations, then it should be trivial to point me to one. Assume I am an idiot who doesn’t know how a search engine works - I very well might be. Would you be able to point me to one of these innumerable refutations that would disprove me - otherwise, how am I to learn?

Why do libraries work?

I’m not sure what you mean here. If you explain your point of view, I can explain mine. But I will point out that libraries are not a full, functioning society - just part of one.