That looks a lot like fugu. But I’m sure that shokunin prepared it properly!

Kick. Ass. So much congrats on the progress! Also, kudos on modifying the diet. As my first cycling coach told me: there’s no outrunning a bad diet.

• CV: cardiovascular
• HIIT: High Intensity Interval Training, basically sprints. HIIT burns through your glycogen, which the body will use carbohydrates to replace. Added bonuses: that is a metabolically expensive process (burning and replacing) which increases Excessive Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC)(an objective measure of exercise impact); see also: Tabatha Regimen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_training#Tabata_regimen)
• You can still go to the gym and not weight train AND still get in a workout.

Your original question was regarding your lack of strength gains. The human body requires recovery from stress. I gave you very specific book references. Take it from there.

Didn’t have to use your AK?

Edit: really trying to clarify my statements. :D

I could have stated that more clearly. Little, McGuff, and a lot of other research point to the 7 to 10 day recovery duration between weight training sessions, especially if you weight train to failure. Which, if you want strength gains, that failure + recovery is how it’s done. The CV system is capable of base/maintenance/load cardio as much as you want. HIIT approximately every other day, but some people, especially when well-conditioned, are capable of HIIT every day.

I’m with you. I’m in the gym and/or bike commuting every day.

Right there with ya, except I gave away all my consoles. Original 2600, 5200, Intellivision, NES, SNES, Game gear… on up through my two 360s. There were since esoteric ones in there, and some real stinkers: CD-i, 3DO leap to mind.

Yes please to the interviews! And as always, thank you so much for these! I always get a happy bounce when I see your banner appear in my feed.

Are you giving your body enough time to recover? Also, rather than reps, focus on time under load. Aim for a weight light enough such that you do two or three verrrry slow reps for more than 60 seconds, but too heavy for 90 seconds. Source: “Body by Science” by Little and McGuff; “SuperSlow” by Hutchins. According to Little and McGuff (and their bibliography), most people require 7 to 10 days in between weight training muscle groups in order to fully recover. Any less than that and gains are being left on the table.

I didn’t quite believe it myself, but it wouldn’t hurt to try. Sure enough, I started being about to go up about five pounds every 6 to 8 weeks, weight training once every 7 days.

seven MQ-9 drones shot down by the group over the past several weeks. The Houthis have brought down more than a dozen of the surveillance drones (emphasis mine)

Wow, something tells me the military had some editorial input on this article. In all kinds of materials, including General Moseley’s own statements, the MQ-9 Reaper is a hunter-killer drone. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper)

The relationship correlation data makes a lot of sense if only from a bandwidth perspective.

Correct. I can definitively say “I don’t know how this happened.” But I do know it creeps me out and spurs me to speed up my privacy efforts.

@[email protected] and @[email protected] both make great points, both of which can certainly explain the sudden change in suggestions.

I’m in my mid-50s and have struggled my whole life with crushing depression, paralyzing anxiety, and a pretty bad case of barely-medicated ADHD. I’m also just a person on the internet rather than your mental health professional, so these are barely guidelines. They are, however, decent guidelines on staying healthy and motivated longer.

As @[email protected] said: absolutely stabilize your sleep. The technical term for it is “sleep hygiene.” Find what works and that is your sacred ritual. Sleep hygiene takes lots of different shapes for everyone. For example, mine are:

• a super consistent sleep schedule of 7.5 hours
• same time to bed and wake every day, even weekends
• completely dark, cool room
• sunrise alarm clock
• no screens an hour before bedtime, unless it’s to read a book

You’ll need to find your own rhythms and what works. Don’t discount afternoon naps.

Ditto ProbablyBayesean’s suggestions on exercise and nutrition. We who struggle with mental health are utterly sick of hearing that, but in 100% of my travels, experiences, and social circle, it applies. We humans are evolved to move, a lot. And rest a lot. Even if it is just going for walks. A walk outside does wonders. So many people discount the restorative effects of a hard workout with a corollary recovery period.

Also, pay close attention to the effects of any foods on your mental state. You need to find out what that is for you. For example, most western diets, especially the Standard American Diet, are skewed towards Omega-6 and -9 EFAs, with too little Omega-3. The deleterious effects of this imbalance are well studied (ref: “Hacking of the American Mind” and “Sugar” by Robert Lustig, an endocrinologist). I called out EFAs, but it really applies to everything you put in your face. The difference in, say, a pastured-raised chicken vs a CAFO chicken are like… why these even called the same thing?!

Lustig also goes into great depth on the neurochemical differences between happiness and contentment (again underscoring ProbablyBayesean). It’s important to identify the differences and their effects on your brain. Modern society absolutely tweaks our brains to equate happiness with contentment. This is doubly hard for people who have been abused, especially if chronically abused. They are not the same, and it becomes especially clear when one reads about the neurological differences.

I’ll add one more that works for me and is a common exercise for a lot of mood dysregulation disorders: keep a gratitude journal. Write in it every morning, even just five minutes. Doesn’t have to be a lot, doesn’t have to be fancy. The gratitude exercise has something about the brain being unable to hold gratitude at the same time as negative emotions. But, for reasons I haven’t bothered to look into, it does need to be written. I initially tried keeping mine in digital format and things just didn’t stick. My bullshitspiration is there is some mind-body connection that occurs when handwriting out the entries. I find there is an added bump in my contentment in writing with my favorite pen (had it for 44 years) and using a notebook with really nice paper. But maybe I’m just weird like that.

Finally, but critically: meditation. I wish I learned earlier. I dismissed it as woo BS for far too long. It’s like a workout for your brain. There are tons of woo and non-woo resources on how to meditate. To start out, you only need a quiet place to sit for less than five minutes. Hand-in-hand with meditation is mindfulness: being in this moment. It’s hard, but it gets easier with practice. Again, so much of modern society is always trying to steal your focus and attention. You can practice mindfulness anywhere, any time. For example, brushing your teeth. Try being in the moment, noticing how the toothbrush feels in your mouth, how the toothpaste tastes, the sounds. And mindfulness grows from there. You suddenly find lots of things you do wherein you were acting mindlessly (in the psychology context).

Hope that helps.

Edit to add: get down pat your daily dances and rhythms. For example, maybe Thursday night is your laundry day. Solidify that, and it’s now your weekly ritual. Maybe you like the look of a clean kitchen in the morning (don’t underestimate how much dirty/cluttered spaces tax your brain); clean the kitchen after dinner. Your daily kit and life maintenance should be muscle memory; these are the critical tasks to your day-to-day life and you should be able to do them blind and with a broken leg*. Shit like your wallet, keys, and phone, grabbing the lunch you packed, morning stretches, evening physical therapy exercises… These dances and rhythms might not keep depression from rising up, like it do. But having all that shit be daily muscle memory keeps a bout of depression from becoming a deeper hole from which you must extricate yourself.

*Not an exaggeration. People who crew on my boat have to be able to find the radio, EPIRB, their PFD, and maneuver around the first aid kit. We all drill that blindfolded with an alternating leg tied up.

We all know there are no pics because you actually used some high end hotness like a Ti dual leg. :D

You forgot “at night.”

Anecdote: (a little background) I don’t typically deal with narcissistic people; I’m not troubled by narcissists in my life. My tech life is pretty well locked down, but it could always be better (working on it). And my YouTube suggestions are tightly, carefully curated to topics pertinent to my professional and personal projects.

I had an utter piece of shit contractor working for me on a project; he was a grifting, conniving, manipulative shitbag. When I outright fired his ass, he first got all self-righteous then tried to play the victim, but I wasn’t playing any of his games. My phone was sitting on the workbench next to me.

The next day, I opened YouTube because an engineer I know told me he dropped a new video on software we recently discussed. There among my suggestions were a bunch of videos on how to deal with narcissists. So somehow, in only talking with the contractor (he doesn’t use email, text, or other electronic communications), YouTube decided I was curious about dealing with narcissism. I’m morbidly curious how YouTube made that decision, and whether it was audio or “we know you’re associating with this guy who we identify as a problematic narcissist and here are some resources.”

Now, I’m just some douchecanoe on the internet and you should probably dismiss me based on that alone. But GODDAMN, the data points sure do pile up quickly on how deeply we’re being surveilled.

That temaki and maki actually look great! Where is this?

In my experience, AYCE restaurants are just not worth it, especially sushi. The ones that have decent quality are too expensive; I’m always much better off just ordering a la carte from a much higher quality restaurant. And all of the other AYCE restaurants have garbage quality.

But if there’s an AYCE sushi restaurant that’s cranking out those rolls, I’d gladly conduct further empirical testing!

Ah, the large print giveth and the fine print taketh away. :D

I just stumbled upon this community, so apologies for the zombie thread response. I have an Air 3 with RC2, purchased October 2023. It’s been online twice when I first got it. No problems. I did a flight yesterday, and it hasn’t been connected to my office network (the only network I enabled) in at least six months.

Tangential: DJI fixed their crappy geofencing around the time of the Mini 3. They used to allocate a max of six (eight?) vertices for geofences, which would lock out large geographical areas even when they were absolutely Class G airspace. No-fly zones are way more accurate now. And I recently read they changed their software to put the responsibility on the pilot, so maybe it’s time for a software update.

Hiya, did you ever get a good answer or solution to this? I ran down this rabbit hole because I also wanted an open source solution, but everything I found was definitely not within my current skillset or time allotment for my drone ops. And I am very adept with electrical, electronics, software, and engineering. I’m hoping your journey went way better.

I found that cheap, beginner, and open source are all mutually exclusive in this arena. Jumping into the deep end and committing to the journey seems to be the only course, although I hope that I am wrong and just missed something. I began my drone journey with Ryze Tellos and wrote my own software, but none of their kit is even close to open source.

I’m sure you found these projects, but just in case anyone else is starting this journey: ArduPilot, LibrePilot, and DroneCode were the paths I started running down. Then I way overshot the timebox I allotted to getting my drone ops running.

100MP main camera

“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of hard drives suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

In a clear attempt to ease customer anger, Google is offering a $130 discount on the fourth-gen Nest Learning Thermostat in the US, $160 off the same device in Canada, and 50 percent savings on the Tado Smart Thermostat X in Europe since the Nest lineup will soon be gone.

Fuck right the fuck off Google. “You fell for this the first time. We’re betting you fall for this shit again.” I hope hope hope that nobody ever buys any of these connected, “smart” devices ever again unless it explicitly runs on your own infra such as Home Assistant.

I had a crusty, old programmable thermostat in my last house with an RF remote that worked everywhere from inside the house. Worked flawlessly and outlasted the first furnace. An acquaintance bought that house from me in 2014. Thermostat still works great.