Never tried the European one but the one here tastes like a manufacturing precursor to battery acid

Common misconception :3 the spleen actually exhales the spleen juice

Fun fact, most of the weight you lose is exhaled through your lungs :3

If it wasn’t for it not mattering, it would matter

See my other comment. But for additional information, the technical reason she was ultimately disqualified was for failing to post a total.

Due to having her third squat sabotaged, she needed to push her deadlifts more aggressively later on to have a chance at the podium, and she ultimately wasn’t able to put a deadlift on the board

What an odd thing to say. People have died with far less. Bumping into the plates and causing her to list at the hardest portion of the lift (both for her and for the spotters to help) could easily result in serious injury or death.

She had almost 740 pounds on her back. Go to a gym. Load that much weight onto a bar. Try to roll it around on the floor a little.

Now suppose this sudden unexpected jolt from the interference causes a muscle tear. Again, it’s happened to people lifting far less. Assuming the saboteur decides to help, now every single member of the team of five spotters would suddenly need to catch 150lbs in their outstretched arms.

Yes, he absolutely did risk her life, to say nothing of the risk posed to her health and her career

Absolute scum. Sonita is such a cool and down to earth person it’s insane that someone could be so blinded by racism as to basically try and kill her (which is easily on the table with that much weight on your back).

Here’s a cool video they made for her for Scheffield 2024 (pretty much like the world cup of powerlifting) where she talks for a few minutes about her life and her hopes for the future of the sport, for anyone who wants to check her out

https://youtu.be/F6IcU4a4pV8

What are we complaining about? I’m here for it I just want to know where we’re directing the anger

Too busy celebrating life to worry about it

I have no knowledge or expertise whatsoever, but could it simply be that the trees are very popular with the bees? Thus they’re not dying for any particular reason, but since they visit so frequently, many of them happen to die there as well?

Yeah, good music and movies are evergreen. And every so often, some of the old hits get mega popular among new/younger audiences from being randomly featured in a new show

Usually if onions are making you cry it’s because your knife is too dull!

Sorry so I mean, I literally just don’t know what you’re referring to exactly by “physicality and the tran debate” so that it can be taken out of the discussion. I guess from your reply just now that it has something to do with avoiding arguing about transgender people but I don’t see the relevance to the rest of your question.

Otherwise I hope I was able to respond to what you were asking!

What’s the first sentence of your title mean?

But I think you’re asking, “Isn’t drug addiction ultimately the result of a personal choice since a person has to choose to try it in the first place?”

You could boil it down to that. Personally I chose to start smoking cigarettes at a point in my life when I was spending like 25 hours a week with people who would take smoke breaks outdoors every 45 minutes or so, and we’d use the outdoor time to discuss the project we were working on. In that instance in time it just felt like a natural thing to start smoking as well.

For me personally, I view at that as a personal choice I made (really several choices). Was fully educated about all the dangers and everything.

On the flip side, I feel like we can’t really entirely discount genetics right? Like there’s probably layers to it. Some people possibly would be enticed by the smell of smoke, for example. Plus there may be genetic predispositions to succumb to peer pressure, or marketing, etc.

Put it this way. I walk past a slot machine and hear the jingles and see the cheerful flashing lights, and I roll my eyes and forget about it. Someone else might see that and get totally captivated by the idea that they could change their life forever.

For me the “choice” not to gamble is super easy, but someone else might have a ton of difficulty making the same “choice” as me, and even if they succeed a hundred times it’s just constantly wearing them down until they eventually cave.

I don’t know what the full answer is. I personally find power in identifying that my addiction was a choice (that same power helped me quit! Clean for over 7 years now).

If someone else does or doesn’t feel the same way about their situation, it doesn’t really affect me, because either way I can still choose to treat them with compassion, understanding, and respect. I don’t really care if, when someone needs help, it was an uncontrollable act of nature or a mess they created for themselves or whatever. If they’re ready to get help, then I think we should help either way

What if you simply announce that you are recording and remind them they have the option to hang up if they don’t like it

Normalization is a legitimate, effective, and popular technique employed across the entire entertainment industry. Most well produced audio will have degrees of the effect applied tastefully.

I have no idea what youtube’s “normalization” is doing that ruins the quality of their audio to such a noticeable extent. It’s also totally indiscriminate of the video’s existing audio production. It sucks for someone to work hard and produce a good mix only for youtube to ruin it without your consent, possibly years after release

Could be the opposite as well, youtube a while ago rolled out a “normalization” thing by default that absolutely ruins all audio on the platform and needs to be disabled on every device you have. Supposedly it was set to automatically disable for music but that depends on the uploader

Spotify streams have always been garbage in my experience, but I haven’t had a subscription in about a decade now so no idea if that’s still true

A dude going “yeah bro I’m like a thousand times faster bro I get a day’s worth of work done in ten seconds bro” is the opposite of concrete lol.

And then for details he mumbles about “calendars bro and uh, meetings! It’s all connected bro!”

There have been case studies about this. Your buddy, like many thousands of other people, is simply delusional regarding the perceived efficiency gains. People whose productivity literally decreases, measurably, often report that they have more than doubled their productivity.

However, I doubt they’d care to waste time arguing with such a hardened skeptic

Why not send them over? I mean they get their whole year’s worth of work done by the second week of January, right? Even with ten or fifteen jobs they should have tons of free time yes? Or is their financial reality, for some unknown reason, not in line with their enormous head turning productivity?

I’m on ten seconds of thought now and I am FREAKING OUT

If AI requires so much patience and persistence to use properly, how do you expect to achieve anything with it? You, who by your own admission, quits when you are initially unsuccessful?

Is “less than once a week” of time investment your official recommendation of how much is needed to “not get left behind” in developing our “prompt engineering” skills that will be in such high demand?

To be honest I don’t understand why I’m supposed to be anxious about your random office worker buddy using AI set up some reminders and calendar invites. Does it not strike you as odd that literally nobody can come up with specific, concrete examples of how the technology has improved their efficiency as a matter of fact? Like it’s all just a vibe they have followed by the bare claim that they are working 20 times faster, but that reality never seems to materialize in a way that can be measured by anyone else.

He also describes it as “soooo easy”, so again, where is this investment of skill that I should be worried about not doing? Like are there any “prompt engineering” skills that take more than a few minutes to learn?