reverendsteveii

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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
I spent a year powerlifting and lost absolutely no weight, then spent 2 years powerlifting while restricting myself to 1800 cals/day and lost weight. If we're doing personal anecdotes. If we're doing hard data, I think you&#x
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
People who exercise have known this for years. The accepted wisdom in the gym has always been that you can't out-train a bad diet, and we've known for a really long time that outside extremes like marathon runners and swimmers the
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
https://archive.is/MCsDv
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
You're right, and I apologize. It's just difficult sometimes to not react to easily disprovable falsehoods designed to manufacture a political point. I'll do better in the future.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
>Click-bait headline makes you think otherwise, but this is just standard hospitality stuff. It's so standard that it's actually part of the training at that universally-known 0 michelin star italian travesty, the olive garden.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
>I would say that controlling what you put into your mouth is easier than controlling your anxiety Then explain why people have so much trouble with it without resorting to a thought-terminating cliche
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
As someone who took SSRIs for a while my plan w my doctor was always to use meds for support as I developed a toolkit to deal with my emotions without medication and then to re-evaluate periodically to see if the meds were still necessary.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
So what you're saying is when I file a claim and it's paid (precious miracle that that is) it comes from my employer and not the insurance company?
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
if you just search for urinal game you'll get a ton of clones that are basically the same experience
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
When you're used to having an entire team of people to act as a buffer between your impulses and their easily predictable consequences following through on your commitments and getting exactly what you asked for feels unfair.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
Not at all relevant. Address the merits of the argument, not whether or not most people like the person who heard it. Though you'll be happy to find out that this disagreement never actually made it to court and eventually Elon went th
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
>Don't serve a dish you wouldn't want to eat. BRB, off to the tattoo shop
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
Without accounting at all for my mental health and convenience (which are things of value) WFH has immediate material benefit in terms of commute and lunch costs. I can take less salary at a WFH position and still actually end up with more
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
Anyone remember the urinal game? It was a flash game that presented these scenarios. It struck me because I got a really good score despite never having been intentionally taught any of the "rules" of using a wall of urinals w oth
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
well we used to have a sort of inverse pareto where 80% of the work took 80% of the effort and the remaining 20% of the work also took 80% of the effort. I do think you're onto something with getting pebbles out of the road inasmuch as
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
for me the issue is that the non-AI predictive typeahead and the AI seem to compete, so that I'll see one suggestion and go to take it but it gets overwritten by another from the other suggestion engine.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
to my mind the function has always been the definition of the process and the data what that process, well, applies to. so you apply the function to the data and get an output.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
let's use conjure for method interactions and reify as a special case when that method is a constructor. the more this sounds like medieval alchemy the more I can get behind it, and I've already got misbehaving daemons
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
You'll remember that first he waived the right to make his offer contingent on that fact, then he tried to back his offer out because of that fact.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
The point of the story is that OP is absolutely aware of their lack of tact.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail... I misremembered an article from yesterday. It's threads that's catching up w twitter.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
idk because there are some circles in which boolean variables are called flags but I've never seen them referred to as being raised or unraised/lowered, only set and unset
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
holy shit we're fining people for invoking their fifth amendment right not to self-incriminate?
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
it's worth less than half of what he paid for it, lost 30 million users and went from being the default microblog to facing real competition in daily active users from ~~bluesky~~threads ( https://techcrunch.com/2025&#x2
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
I have to be reading this wrong. Is it just tracking the value of the S&P 500 vs the value of an average house? Does it assume that unless you buy a house you have no housing costs?
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
He legally obtained the marijuana in Germany, which is a place where the current conflict between US marijuana laws on the state and federal level is less relevant to the discussion. That being said, we're not here debating whether CBP
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
>I didn't mention TSA. Why not? Comment thread is about TSA. Article is about TSA. The policy is a TSA policy. Why expand the discussion to include things no one else is talking about, and why do it surreptitiously?
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
can you find any stats on yearly hijackings that are limited to only flights where hijackers made it through american security, though? all I can find are global aggregate stats and its a bit unfair to credit TSA with preventing the hijacki
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
imagine talking about american society in the comments of an article about an american law meant to enforce american standards of right and wrong in america. perish the entirety of the thought!
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
>Why did you conveniently forget to mention that context? He smoked marijuana where it was legal and he didn't get interviewed about drug use until after they spotted the meme, which they called "very clearly a piece of dangero

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