spiffy_spaceman

@spiffy_spaceman@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetical: Can a person "citizen's arrest" themself? And if so, how (and why) would that even work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, this is probably almost exactly how it went down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetical: Can a person "citizen's arrest" themself? And if so, how (and why) would that even work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my old bosses once went to the police station when he was drunk or high (or both) to complain about something crazy, and maybe about a crazy person trying to drive his car that he was actually driving. I think they talked him into spending the night while they checked it out. He had issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is "son of a gun" an insult?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard an old man use it this way a long time ago in the west. You would only hear it from someone who’s very old or thinks they’re a polite cowboy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When on a diet, does you body have the same weight loss across the entire person including visceral fat?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree: for most people, the beer gut is more pronounced because of the laxity of the front abs (also causing a hyper extended spine which causes back pain), it’s not all just fat. So, proper training and strengthening of the abs will help pull those things back in line, but won’t do much for burning off fat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When on a diet, does you body have the same weight loss across the entire person including visceral fat?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. You cannot target areas to lean out. This also holds for exercise: doing sit-ups will not burn the fat off your abs. The fat will also not necessarily come off evenly. Sometimes it does, sometimes the saddlebags stay until the bitter end even when your ribs are clearly visible. Genetics does play a role, but it can be dealt with.

  (I’m a trainer and physiologist and helping people to lose fat is something I do.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the Perks of ownership...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Going to home depot at 9p to get one more of a simple washer or nail that you could have gotten on any of the 3 previous trips that day to finish fixing whatever broke in the middle of the night is what I call the adult walk of shame

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is jogging on sidewalks harder on joints than if one jogged on dirt?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an athlete and a biomechanics student who studies this sort of thing. Technically, if you do the physics, yes, pavement is harder than dirt. Will your body actually notice that difference given the forces that you experience from an easy run in modern shoes? Not likely. For a few hours a day, day in and day out over decades, then yes you will. But if you run a few miles once or twice a week, no, you probably won’t see a huge difference. (And most trails frequented by runners are packed dirt that is not much softer than pavement. Getting onto shift and squishy loam tails isn’t feasible for everyone.)