atlhart

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[–] atlhart@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some People may consider this sacrilege, but I keep a small jug in my fridge that I pour any extra coffee in. In brewing this would be the solvers method :). 1/4 cup left? It goes in the jug.

Then I use this to make iced coffee.

If I’m completely empty, I’ll brew a pot of French press, and then pour it in the jug to restock.

[–] atlhart@kbin.social 72 points 2 years ago (11 children)

There are no cake days, this isn’t Reddit. Don’t try to make it Reddit. Let it be it’s own thing.

[–] atlhart@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In principle, these type of weapons are immoral even in war. We’re talking about things like mustard gas, chlorine gas, sarin gas. Nerve agents that are incredibly cruel and painful. They painfully, sometimes slowly, kill or incapacitate indiscriminately.

I think in practice warfare and weaponry have changed enough that the U.S. military feels it can wage war more effectively without these type of weapons.

[–] atlhart@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Based on past behaviors from Russia, this sounds like they are considering a false flag attempt on their own nuclear facility to justify additional escalations and war crimes.

[–] atlhart@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

This is some very ironic, animal farm energy here. The government has forgotten who gave them their power.

[–] atlhart@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m coming here from kbin and see the link fine

[–] atlhart@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Spez has been correctly advised that investors are going to be concerned with profitability, or at least a viable pathway to profitability.

There’s a huge startup bubble starting to burst. Companies reliant on cheap money to supplement a business model that at best is years away from profitability but in some cases decades or will never be profitable.

Uber and Doordash IPO’d when money was cheap and investors were fine with speculating on these disruptive, yet unprofitable, companies.

I work broadly in the VC funded start-up world. My observation is that money is running out. All of these companies are trying to commercialize, even if the product isn’t fully ready, because they have to show revenue and there has to be a path to profitability of that revenue. That’s the only way they’ll get more money.

In this context, Reddit is more like these startups. They’ve been funded by investors, including big ones like Condé Nast and Ten Cent, and they need more money, so they have to show a path to profitable revenue.

The IPO is going to be a shit show. I wouldn’t touch it with a 9 foot pole. Reddit has been notoriously unprofitable for its entire existence. Now there’s no more juice to squeeze and their backers want to pawn it off on retail investors.

[–] atlhart@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can understand the interest in watching the drama unfold. It’s like reality tv.

But you should also ask yourself, deep down, why do you care?

Reddit will never go back. It was going downhill long before the 3PA-crisis. Spez will never back down. Even if Spez gets fired it’ll be an Ellen Pao situation all over again. The new CEO will say nice things and then not undo anything Spez did.

At this point the most anyone left on Reddit can do is damage Reddit’s valuation. It’s retribution for destroying the community we all enjoyed.

The mods can do this by impacting what subs can be monetized. Users can do this by decreasing traffic. Even being on the site is traffic.

[–] atlhart@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

It’s funny you phrase it that way. I have a number of plants that I “bring in” for winter. It’s the same thing, just I view them less as “house plants” and more as “not winter hardy”.

I’ve got a few cacti, a jade plant, peace lily, and and orchid that all come inside for the winter time.

I used to have a lot more, but I pared them down. They took up a lot of space inside and it was just a lot of hassle to deal with.

[–] atlhart@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think an equal component to number of days you can go, is how long you can go each day.

That being said, I’d recommend the StrongLifts 5x5 program to begin with. It’s an A/B program, meaning in just two workouts you get a total body workout. There’s no reason you can’t use it 5 times a week. Week 1 would look like A/B/A/B/A and then Week 2 would be B/A/B/A/B and so fourth. I’d put the rest days after every B exercise.

The downside of this is StrongLifts does squats every day, so you’d be doing squats two days in a row.

It’s still a great beginner program. You may chose to only lift 3-4 times a week and throw in some very good cardio on additional days.

This program will probably take 1:15 the first few times you do it, but you should be able to get it down to an hour or less for each workout.

I use StrongLifts as a beginning program but also modified it over time. Now I’ve moved to PPL which is technically a 6-day a week program but you can just do 5 days a week and keep up the rotation the next week. It’s a longer workout. I’m lifting for at least 1:30, but usually 1:45 each time. It’s a lot more volume but the gains are large. I would start with PPL because it’s lot to jump into as a beginner.

[–] atlhart@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I can see how that’d help, but I don’t think it’s practical in my case. I’m squatting around 240 off the rack.

Maybe it would help strengthen stabilizer muscles though.

[–] atlhart@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. Will check it out.

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