captainlezbian

@captainlezbian@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨didnt do it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, also just, when I’m active moving my body takes less effort. I’ve got more muscle, a stronger heart and lungs, and I’m typically more trim. I’m also getting more sun.

  And yeah competetive exercise is great if you love it, but I find only functional gains improve how I feel. Speed is good if I need to build cardio (I normally ride at a leisurely pace), but I like sticking to aerobic and keeping it at a pace I enjoy, mostly ramping up my capacity in distance and terrain. It’s far more valuable for me to be able to bike my mental health better or keep up with a riding group than to achieve a personal best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's gonna take lots of chain falls and smooshed fingers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For all he knows the ot is preventing you from finding a partner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨didnt do it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 31 and have been in and out of shape my entire adult life, and yeah, I’m not surprised by either of your comments. When I’m out of shape I have no energy to even do all my chores and I definitely don’t have time, but by some miracle spending half an hour to an hour of biking most days leaves me with more time and energy after the initial hump. Add in some bodyweight exercises and for some reason then I have the time and energy to keep my home clean.

  I don’t know why I let the periods of tiredness go on as long as I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is your brain on drugs⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, but a lot of research chemicals’ intended purposes are opening your mind, and them doing anything helpful is a bizarre off label usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is your brain on drugs⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, secret third thing, yes, secret fourth thing.

  Psychedelics for discovery are different from ones for fun and also from ones for dealing with ptsd or addiction

  That said, doping to cheat is maybe recreation, but doping for body modification without attempting to resolve any issues is far closer to a piercing or tattoo than a line of coke imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is your brain on drugs⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In general look up drug interactions for your recreationals and prescriptions. It’s not much work and can spare you a very bad time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah 23 is a bit old for that, but only a bit. I wasn’t much younger when I lost my virginity and had my first partner. Go out, meet people, flirt, ask people out, and it should happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is key. And if you don’t get along with one, that’s ok, look for a different group.

  If you don’t have any interests, browse meetup or something looking for something that you might enjoy. You can just try things, and it’s probably good for you to do so.

  My general recommendation is board game groups are awesome. They often split up into people interested in social games and people interested in a more involved game (I like both, but my wife wants the most difficult and involved fame she can attempt to solve). Sitting there chatting as you do something fun is basically a cheat code to making friends and community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some cheeses are luminescent.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow, I’d heard of her positively in the past, but yeah, she’s really summed up as “a conspiracy theorist who found feminism first”. Even where I agree with her, she’s definitely not who I want representing those ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some cheeses are luminescent.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Solar eclipse. The near side is blocked from being lit in a lunar eclipse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it has plate tectonics. A big part of why our continents look like this is them. That said, yeah that’s a lot of mid continent seas/great lakes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full circle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So I will concede that he doesn’t give half a shit about 4, and thinks that people who have less rights in interior states shouldn’t have those rights anywhere. Furthermore I think he wants to separate the victims of his beliefs from ordinary working class people. Easier to hate a caricature of someone when they aren’t your neighbor.

  But I’ll add 2 more:

  6. The cost of living is going up in many previously cheap places now too. Some it’s not, my first apartment is apparently cheaper now than when I lived there, but it’s not a place many people are going to want to live. The nearest cities which are historically budget friendly cities on the other hand are no longer budget friendly. And no the places that are cheap aren’t scenic bumfuck nowhere, it’s small towns that aren’t pretty and don’t have much to do, even outdoors stuff.

  7. Cheaper places are increasingly non functional in basic governance and public services. Public transit? Yeah good fucking luck even in the cities people think should be fine. When you get to really small bumfuck nowhere you better hope you don’t need medicine fast, Benny boy helped ensure that the hospitals in those places shut down by fighting against Medicare and Medicaid. The water? Contaminated. What are you getting for your taxes? A bad school, a censored library, asshole cops who are bored when you’re coming home from the city, and not much else.

  Alternatively high cost of living areas are starting to engage in urbanist policies which will reduce the cost of living. Sure you won’t have a big yard in the city for cheap, but a reasonable sized apartment at a decent price or a reasonable priced house in the suburbs are possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full circle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s why your country has plenty of immigrants, but you never seem to run into any of your emmigrants. Or for the linguistic reason i- as a prefix can mean into and e- as a prefix can mean out of in latin, coming from the Latin words in and ex meaning in and out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"bird watching" goes both ways⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hz is cycles per second. It’s used in monitors because monitors are refreshing their screen with a new image each cycle. Fps is frames per second, it’s more about the media itself. Hz to mean fps makes a certain sense though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your opinion is important⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair, and yeah I’ve definitely had those interactions as well, plenty of times even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Words to live my life by⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Mood

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was thinking in write a Star Trek fanfic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Star trek is one of the first TV series to get a serious fanfic community. It’s just that that happened in the zine era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polymarket bet: Will Trump praise Allah again by April 15?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just picture it as whatever it would have to be to be legal and acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some things were better in the good old days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No I don’t. And I’ve never had a smart appliance either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the best way to get rid of an old mattress? Wrong answers only. Worst idea I'll actually do.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Break into a neighbor’s house and put it under their mattress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maturing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly yeah that’s an important act of maturity. I love acid, but I waited until I was ready for it. I haven’t done it in years but it was hugely helpful for my self improvement during a difficult and transitional stage of life. Too early and it may not have gone so well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hi, I'm Paul!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah no stick to the hippie dealers. 3 kinds of weed, LSD, and they’ve been thinking of growing a batch of shrooms and want to know if you’re interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hi, I'm Paul!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That might just be a cultural difference. In the US it was always one of four people: the Paul type (a weird loser who you had to hang out with), as shown elsewhere in the thread someone weirdly smart and competent who’s doing it for some side cash usually in school, a friend who buys in bulk and sells to friends, or a professional who didn’t want to spend any more time with you than you with them but is generally sketchy as hell and not who middle class people were buying an eighth off of. All of these were typically in person

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your opinion is important⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, latine is the one that caught on because it’s pronouncable, but latinx and latin@ are both things that I see from an outsider perspective as similar to the use of womxn in English. Unpronouncable words that come with a very political purpose. Latinx was not good to catch on, and I think it only ever did because of a chain of who was speaking to each other, but it fairly quickly fell out of favor.

  Personally as a white American queer person I’m going to just mirror the language latin folks use. I have international solidarity with my fellow queer people and so I hope that if they come to a terminology they prefer that it catches on, but I also understand that I don’t have a say in the fight over another language’s terminology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your opinion is important⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a trans white woman, tbh I remember when the discussion was that privileged people should be amplifying minority voices and talking points, and at least on the axes I’m oppressed along I stand by that position. A lot of people are unwilling to listen to me about my humanity, but they are a hell of a lot more likely to listen to my cis relatives.

  Also those discussions can be exhausting for the affected and having the non affected doing 101 level talks with each other spares me them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads about Milton Friedman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah if you need more jobs either find work that’s good to do but normally can’t be justified like the American CCC did or cut hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A shrubbery!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The most sensical classification of species. Tracking shared traits and now shared DNA to group species by how recently they share an ancestor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is us rail travel so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok but high speed rail isn’t for connecting you to New Orleans, it’s more for connecting New Orleans to Chicago.

  We’re unlikely to wind up as train connected as Japan, but let’s look at the shinkansen. It goes between major population centers and sometimes stops at decent sized cities on the way. When I had to go to a smaller town in Japan I took high speed rail from Tokyo to the nearest major city, then I took their local rail to a town, then another line to the place I was going.

  For comparison this is the equivalent of flying into New York from Europe, taking high speed rail to Chicago, taking an Illinois rail network to Peoria, then taking it again to say Lincoln. Northeastern states have the rail network to do that last mile stuff. But even just having the ability to drive into your nearest city and take a high speed rail to a city your friends live in or that you want to vacation or do business in would be huge. That’s why the main proposals for high speed rail are to connect New York to Chicago or San Diego to Seattle. The latter would make it convenient to go from any major city on the west coast to any other one, even if you have to take BART or a bus or whatever first and last mile transit you need to get there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it was beautiful at the end, but it was a lot of boring to get there. And tbh it was easy to forget how beautiful it was because it was dwarfed by the beauty of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and the Cascades. I’m biased, I think there’s little on Gaia’s great green ass more beautiful than mountains, and forests and valleys, as well as lakes and oceans are among the few things that compete.

  I’ll also say Peoria surprised me as a hub of urban beauty. But I’m generally an Illinois lover, something about that state is beautiful and smells weirdly comfortable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are the interesting parts of the Midwest (and Minnesota and Wisconsin). Once you leave the Great Lakes Midwest for the Great Plains Midwest you’re gonna be bored out of yout mind until you hit the Rockies. Iowa is so boring its tourist traps are trucker themed.

  I did the drive from Ohio to the PNW a year ago and yeah, it’s bad when you’re missing Ohio and can’t wait for Wyoming… Minnesota rocked though, absolutely awesome rest stops, we were glad to take a detour there to shave some time off South Dakota.