blarghly

@blarghly@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨accused of being a man pretending to be a woman, CCP incel, ragebaiter, let know i've been blocked... but i'll keep going on here🫶⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Your hornyposting is the positivity I need in my life. Please never change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨men’s chests, bellies, backs, pits, legs, arms, happy trails, bulges, feet, underwear, smell make me feel some type of way⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m down with this kind of hornyposting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats Where I Want To Be!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I get some support rn please⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I will say, I am doing OMAD rn. What you are describing sounds like a very significant eating disorder.

  You say you dry fasted for 60 hours. The most obvious problem here is that the human body can die from dehydration at around 72 hours, or sooner, without water.

  You say you fasted for 60 hours and then “failed”. How long were you intending to fast? I doubt that basically any medical professional, even proponents of IF, would recommend fasting indefinitely for fat loss.

  Feeling better when you are in ketosis is normal. I suggest that if you are chasing this feeling with increasingly long fasts, that instead you simply switch to a ketogenic diet. Or take up distance running.

  Eating after 60 hours of no food would not be considered indulgent by anyone. Eating food is a normal function of literally every animal species - you are not diseased. The idea that eating food is endangering your family is, to be frank, delusional.

  To be clear, there is nothing wrong with having a desire to lose bodyfat, nor to pursue reasonable strategies to doing so. However, here is the secret: one of the biggest drivers of gaining and keeping bodyfat is stress. So if you are constantly stressed about being fat, you will keep the fat on. The most important thing for you to do right now is to talk to a mental health professional about the emotions you are experiencing and discuss your current body comp strategies with them. It will be far better for both your health and your long-term bidy comp goals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK where you come from⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mean I can use the n-word?

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logical fallacies were created by John Atheism, creator of atheism, to stop you from turning into a cat by meow meow loud enough.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  downvoters trying to keep the truth hidden

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bunny2028

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acciracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  also, side note, nobody but the east coast is pronouncing it “aboot”. there’s a clear difference between “about” and “boot”. americans just really draw out the “ow” in “out”, so yes it sounds closer to “boot”, but it’s hardly ‘exactly how it sounds’. /angryrant

  He says “aboot” instead of “about” and gets really, really upset when you point it out, claiming you’re hearing things and that it’s a harmful stereotype. It’s not a stereotype, and that’s exactly how it sounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be an extremely time consuming and potentially destructive process.

  First, take a grinder and chop off the tips. Then go to the hardware store and get a 1/8, or maybe 3/16, bit that you think is long enough (note- these are expensive). Then go home. Tap a pilot divot in the flattened tip of the lag bolt to get started. Drill your bit all the way through the bolt without snapping it. Take frequent breaks to cool the bit and avoid dulling the edge. Note that bolts tend to be made of quite hard steel to deal with the high forces they are put under, so expect this to take an annoyingly long time. Then do it again with a slightly larger drill bit. Then again. And then again. Etc. Until your bit is just barely smaller than the bolt. Finally, you go in with a drill bit as large as the bolt, and absolutely destroy all your hard work, tearing down the sides of the bolt in a haphazard way. With a large amount of finagling and cursing, you manage to set the bit in thr hole in the top of yhe stripper pole, and finally completely destroy the bolt, so the remains fall on the floor below.

  Far more expedient would be using the grinder to grind the tip off, then cut a slot in the flat surface you made. Or maybe a +. Then put either a flat or phillips bit in your impact driver, and reverse the bolt out. How well this works depends on how hard they cranked down the bolts. If this fails, I would get a hole saw, cut around the bolts, and clamp some vice grips to them to turn them out from above.

  But really, I would call a real estate lawyer and force my neighbor to pay a contractor to do all the work for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thinner than the lag bolts are long…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant

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  OP is getting a lot of downvotes. I assume, from straight guys who are offended at this notion. As a straight guy myself, I understand their frustration. But straight up (ha!) - if you are a straight guy who is pissed off by this message, you are fucking up.

  Why? Because it’s the truth. Go outside, go touch some grass, and observe how women interact with each other (or with obviously gender non-conforming people). They hug as soon as they meet. They give each other compliments. They ask for contact info and proactively make plans to spend time together. In the context of this post, this is what is meant by “treating them like a human”. It isn’t just basic respect. It is giving them a feeling of warmth, support, and acceptance.

  So if you’re a guy, and you feel like the world is cold, unsupportive, and unwelcoming - great! Here is some validation of that feeling! You are right! Enjoy the ego boost!

  But also - now you know this information. And this is good, because even though it feels bad to know that half the planet doesnt trust you by default while they trust the other half implicitly, it also points you in the right direction for solving your problem.

  Here’s the thing. Women do, in fact, like to fuck. Even with men?? Yes! But what they don’t like is dealing with the emotional turmoil of guys who want to fuck them that they don’t want to fuck back. This could come in two forms:

  1. The guy who asks them out, clearly a bundle of nerves that could explode into rage or tears at any moment. A lot has been said about how women have legitimate fears about men becoming violent or vindictive when they are turned down, but I don’t think this is worth focusing on, because we’re all very nice people here who wouldn’t do anything to hurt someone else even if we feel bad about getting rejected. However, I think it is also important to keep in mind that most women are nice and they feel bad about making someone feel bad by rejecting them. And so if you ask a woman out and will clearly feel bad if she rejects you, then when she rejects you she will also feel bad, which is an emotional load on her, and she doesn’t like that.

  2. The guy who never asks them out, but who is clearly into them. The guy who always shows up, sticks by her side at every moment, laughs too hard at all of her jokes. This guy is annoying. Maybe if he just asked her out when they first met, she’d be into him, but he just keeps hanging around, making her constantly feel his now-unwanted attraction. But she can’t tell him to go away, or that she isn’t interested in him, because then she would feel like a presumptuous bitch. So she feels stuck, always trying to shake this guy off or avoid him whenever he shows up.

  So the solution is simple. Don’t be those guys. Literally all you need to do is not pin your self worth to whether or not any particular girl likes you. If your see a girl you are interested in, then go say hi and have a normal fucking conversation. Then, at a point in time when it wouldn’t be awkward as fuck, just say “hey, btw, I think you’re gorgous/adorable/super interesting/a total baddie/the girl with the best hair here. Wanna go out sometime?” If she says yes, great! Maybe she even wants to make out right now! If she says no, also great, you have a new friend and you can release whatever nerves you had about whether or not an attractive stranger likes you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lastly the day you no longer NEED a woman in your life, one will find you. Find a way to be happy alone, and you’ll never want for company again. Works wonders for cats

  I don’t disagree with the other things you said, but this analogy is a flop. I wanna pet cats because they are fluffy, not because they arent needy. As evidence, I submit the fact that I also like petting dogs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I NOT do in front of rich people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, just take a moment to feel whatever embarassment you feel about this event and accept that it happened. You can’t do anything about it now, except learn from it.

  I would say, in general, when you are in unfamiliar company you should just keep an eye on whatever everyone else is doing and follow their lead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is ironing clothes significantly less common now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your attempt at shaming people is cringe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a few⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Problematic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He/him⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate everyone involved in this conversation, and the whole affair has made me largely unhappy with the world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think probably the “purest” form of egg I eat is hard/soft boiled. In this case, I feel like there isn’t much of a smell, and it is fairly neutral. The taste of the whites is fairly neutral. Hardboiled yoke I’m not a huge fan of, but will eat out of habit. Soft boiled yoke is deliscious, and is the best form of egg.

  Beyond that, eggs are great because they don’t have all that much flavor themselves, but are very versitile in their ability to carry other flavors in various forms. Eg, cheese, spices, and chili peppers in a breakfast burrito; salt, pepper, and butter on an over easy egg, with some toast dipped in the yoke; etc.

  Its kind of like chicken. Chicken on its own doesnt taste that great. It tastes great when it is spiced and cooked well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bears or no bears?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The word Arctic comes from the Greek word ἀρκτικός arktikos “near the Bear, northern” and from the word ἄρκτος arktos meaning “bear” for either to the constellation known as Ursa Major, the “Great Bear”, which is prominent in the northern portion of the celestial sphere, or the constellation Ursa Minor, the “Little Bear”, which contains the celestial north pole (currently very near Polaris, the current north Pole Star, or North Star).

  The arctic isn’t named after polar bears, but after the greek bear constellations which hold the north star. And the Antarctica is named after being the opposite of where the bear constellations are. It’s just a coincidence that the correct one has bears and the correct one doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies are getting hit by rising prices, just like consumers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, this affects your locally owned organic grocery store and neighborhood taco truck just as well as it affects multinational corporations. Maybe moreso. If you have a corner cafe you like, or a hole in the wall gym, or maybe an ice cream parlor that you’ve gone to since you were a kid - they could be impacted and driven out of business by price increases. And if that happens, the owners and people who work there are out of a job.

  So yeah. I mean, I’m gonna think of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It appears that we are only now returning to normal after the 2008 horse bubble

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused, and I am wondering if we are using terms differently.

  To me, a set is a group of continuous repetitions. For example, if I do 20 bicep curls in a row, I did one set of 20 curls. But if I do 2 curls, then walk away and drink some water, and then come back and do another 2 curls, and repeat this 10 times, then I have done 10 sets of 2 reps of curls.

  So when you say the following, I am honestly quite bewildered at what you might mean -

  for me, sets of specific bodyweight exercises (like legs one day, shoulders/back another, and so on) is just more time efficient. It gives enough resistance to get sore, and gets me exhausted, all in one setting, instead of running separately

  I think the nomenclature I am familiar with would be a “split” - a way of structuring your workout routine so you do, say legs one day and arms another. Or pushing motions one day and pulling motions another. Which is great - lots of people do various kinds of splits and enjoy them and see the results they want from them.

  Also, if what you are doing works for you, I think that’s great and you should keep doing it. But I also want to gently push back on a few of your statements for anyone else who may be reading and interested.

  One thing you say is that it gets you sore. But I think it is worth noting that soreness itself doesn’t really indicate anything beneficial. You can hit your quad with a hammer and you will be sore in the morning. Soreness can be useful as a rule of thumb, since it typically indicates that you tried hard, which is a good proxy for stimulating muscle growth. But consistently being sore doesn’t, on its own, guarentee hypertrophy - and if pursued excessively, can actually work against potential gains, as soreness can inhibit one’s ability to perform optimally in their next workout. Instead, if you are pursuing strength or hypertrophy goals, the appropriate metric is progression in lifts over time. If you bench 135 for 5 reps today, and then in a month you bench 145 for 5 reps, or you bench 135 for 10 reps, or even if you just feel like benching 135 for 5 is easier, then we have an excellent indication that muscle growth is going to be stimulated.

  In the same vein, you talk about being exhausted. And if you like feeling exhausted after your workouts because it helps you sleep better or it elevates your mood, by all means continue. But exhaustion doesn’t necessarily correlate with improved strength, hypertrophy, or fitness. After all, I can exhaust you by telling you to walk across the Sahara desert. But if your goal is to win the 100m sprint, that isn’t going to help much. Some of the best training programs I’ve run into are actually quite short, and are designed to leave the trainee with plenty of energy in the tank after their workout so they can come back as fresh as possible for the next workout.

  Finally, I take issue with saying that running causes shin splints, or that lifting weights is dangerous. All physical activity carries the risk of injury, of course, but the biggest reason people develop overuse injuries is simply going too hard, too fast, and overdoing it. Or using poor form in their chosen activity. Or simply bad luck in the genetic lottery and dealing with the accumulated damage on the body over the course of a human lifetime. There is nothing special about calisthenics that make them some sort of injury-proof exercise - plenty of people note that push ups hurt their shoulders, pull ups hurt their elbows, or pistols hurt their knees. That doesn’t mean that push ups, pull ups, or pistols are bad exercises - it just means that if you try them and they hurt, you might need to make some adjustments, or else try a different exercise to reach your goal. Similarly, sure, some people get shin splints running, or hurt their backs deadlifting. But running and deadlifting are not bad or especially dangerous either - just some people may need to adjust their routines, or their form, or choose some different kind of exercise if they can’t resolve the issue they are facing. The human body is a wonderful thing, and in my view we should be encouraging people to use it in any way they can, in every way they might want to try - and if there is a problem for some person in particular, then we can deal with it when it comes up, rather than warning them off something before they’ve even tried it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The above poster may have a good idea… but I don’t think they have a lot of good knowledge of making body comp changes.

  I know what reps, sets, supersets, circuits, and training sessions are. I’ve never heard of a “group” of movements, other than maybe as an informal term, which is how the above poster seems to be using it.

  Their enthusiasm for calisthenics is admirable. But they aren’t any better or worse for you than any other form of exercise - whatever exercise doesn’t hurt, and that you enjoy doing, is good exercise.

  Also should I still pair this with the running? How much could I reduce my running if I started doing these? I’m currently doing an hour.

  You can 100% pair calisthenics with running, and it can be a wonderful combo for general fitness. However, I doubt it would really work to achieve your stated goal, which I assume is to burn a certain number of calories in a particular time frame without sweating. Problem being - to burn calories, you need to exercise. To burn calories faster, you need extra intensity - you need your muscles to work harder, faster. The chemical process that allows your muscles to contract creates heat as a byproduct, and when you work your muscles hard and fast, heat builds up. And when heat builds up and you aren’t in a cool environment, your body sheds that heat by sweating. If you want to sweat less, you either need to move to a cooler (or breezier) environment or else exercise for longer at a lower intensity. The type of exercise you do doesn’t matter.

  The solution to your problem is (1) wear technical fabrics, or less clothing in general, (2) crank the AC as much as possible, (3) blast as many fans as possible at your body, but most importantly (4) just get used to being sweaty, it’s normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AC does not require sweat to cool you down. It reduces the air temperature. If you exercise in a sufficiently cold room, which was cooled with AC, you would not sweat. You would also be extremely cold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged even as Trump continues to insist they be lowered⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lower interest rates typically drive inflation higher, since it makes money cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like those were the days where you could have true friendships in society, not “having friends to send memes”.

  Um, excuse me? You need to get out of your internet bubble. Tons of people still have friends in real life - most of them, actually. If you don’t, and you wish you did, then you have an unusual problem and you should start working on solving it asap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question for the Americans. If Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, or Greenland dropped a nuke on Washington DC, would you be angry at the bomb dropper, or would you think we had that coming?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be pissed, because

  (1) This move would create millions of civilian casualties in the DC area. Most of whom didn’t even vote for Trump.

  (2) Regardless of who gained power afterwards, this would almost certainly create further nuclear exchanges, making massive losses of life on both sides.

  This would be an unbelievably dumb move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  my pal tells me he’s reserved the gym slot at 17:00, so I reserve that time too and i just want to reply “me too” to let him know it worked for me.

  I would reply with a screenshot of my reservation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard they’ve stopped all fear mongering in China

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Currency⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, even more fascinating. …why???