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Glob posted...

If Im honest, I dont really have to think about what Im spending and budget at all. Its a fortunate position to be in.

I'm really guilty of lifestyle creep, I've been in the position before where I felt no better off while earning a 6 figure salary than earning $20k a year. So I'm trying to get on top of that.

Or basically, just budget for everything, including vanity stuff?

I.e. every month you drip a small amount of money into different piles for the most innucuous of things. I have a pile for new gym clothes, a pile for new headphones I'll probably need in 2 years, another pile for a new phone I'll need in 3 years, a pile for gifts, etc.

Each of these piled gets topped up by a small amount each month (in some cases, just $10), so when I want to buy something in that category I've got a little fund to draw from.

I've started doing this and it's been really helpful (mostly because my banking app let's me). Means that ad hoc purchases never really feel ad hoc.

Waddlez posted...

They get fatigued quickly from raising them up. Even if I'm not holding anything. Not the shoulder blade. The joint or rotator cuff maybe?

You have poor mobility and you don't do this often so it's an uncomfortable and unfamiliar position for you.

Guide posted...

I can't believe that. I'm taking my health more seriously than ever, but the calories no longer disappear into what was formerly a nuclear reactor of a metabolism.

https://tinyurl.com/22y65vv9
The data suggest that our metabolisms dont really start to decline again until after age 60. The slowdown is gradual, only 0.7% a year. But a person in their 90s needs 26% fewer calories each day than someone in midlife.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/surprising-findings-about-metabolism-and-age-202110082613
Adulthood (20 to 60 years): Total and basal expenditure and fat-free mass were all stable from ages 20 to 60, regardless of sex. Adjusted TEE and RMR remained stable even during pregnancy, and any increase in unadjusted energy expenditure during pregnancy was accounted for by the increase in body mass. The point at which adjusted TEE started to decline was age 63, and for adjusted BMR was age 46.5 (although the researchers indicate a small number of BMR measurements reduced their confidence in this estimate).

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe5017

There's a lot of reasons why you find it harder to lose weight now that you're older (aside from the other things I mentioned, maybe you just have more fat cells now), but it's almost certainly not because your basal metabolic rate has significantly changed.

BDSMKane posted...

Im trying to understand the situation. So was the assailant armed? If so, with what? The cop who fired, I saw in the body cam he fired three shots at the suspect. So one of them missed, hit the wall, went through, and killed the girl on the other side? Im not sure Ive ever given a cop the benefit of the doubtbut if he was trying to stop an armed assailant and didnt know there was anyone on the other side of the wallI dont know.

Im still down for disarming the average cop, but if the one with the rifle was part of a tactical response unitthat wouldnt help much. This definitely isnt your average case of reckless cop shoots kid though. Without the freeze frame pointing out the dressing room wall, Im not sure I would have noticed it. Then again, from the body cam dialogue, the cop did seem too eager to lead the charge with the rifle, so Im not quite sure what was going on.

Who was he and why did he have the rifle?

You're overcomplicating this. In his head he was rambo and the person he was shooting was the Taliban about to unload a deluge of terrorism. The rest is just collateral damage that they sincerely "regret".

Aloc posted...

Rugby players aren't good athletes lmao

What rugby players are you talking about? Maybe in small time american leagues, sure

Second point - we're probably just going to end up discussing what "athletic" even means, because the demands of different sports have different needs for physical ability, and people tend to inherently value certain kinds of athleticism over others in these discussions.

I bet the source of this argument is really just that NFL requires people to be very fast and powerful but not a whole lot in terms of cardio endurance.

Compare that to Aussie rules football, a sport you may never even have heard of. These guys need to be as tall as basketball players, as fast as soccer players, able to take hits like rugby players and they need to do all this while running (not jogging, running) 10kms every game. They may well be some of the greatest athletes in general fitness of any sport, and its a sport that is barely known outside of australia.

Ultimately, athleticism is hyper specific, and doesn't always carry over to other sports. I'm not sure why you'd think rugby players could go to the NFL when it already took them a decade or more to just learn how to play rugby at the top level.

Aloc posted...

Lots of strongmen are guys who couldn't make it in the NBA or NFL. Brian Shaw literally played d2 basketball lmao. And he's like top 3 in history for that sport. It's a nobody cares sport.

I wasn't talking about strongmen, I was talking about John Haack, a powerlifter. But that's by the by.

I'll probably end up saying this again in this post but why the fixation on money? You'd have to be an idiot to chase a career in sports if money is your primary motivation, you'd have better odds winning a lottery.

Consider what's actually involved to become even an elite athlete. You will end up spending 15-20 years of hyperspecific training just to become moderately good, and if you're lucky you'll be able to quit your main source of income to focus on your sport and just get by with a mediocre salary. That is 99.99% of athletes in every sport, including football.

Basically I'm saying your entire premise here is wrong. People aren't going into sports and just choosing the one they think will give them the biggest multi-million dollar contract. They're choosing sports based on what they enjoy doing and what they're gifted at.

Usain Bolt is rich and fuck and Sha'Carri Richardson is getting 10s of millions from Nike.

Extraordinarily rare it's not even funny. Go onto the world athletics website and scroll through the list of fastest ever 100m times. By the time you get to page two you're looking at people who still have to hold down a day job.

But I'm sure you'd see a lot more guys breaking the 10 second barrier if track paid. Tons of NFL guys have pretty good 100m dash times.

Lionel Messi was a top athlete in the world at one point. Yes.

There are less people that play certain sports. Hence they make less money. Rugby is full of unathletic stiffs.

See Zammit and his 28 inch vertical.

Zammit is a generational talent for rugby. Below average athlete by football standards.

There's also lots of incredible athletes in rugby.

While we are cherry picking examples, Tom Brady was famously unathletic.

Why are you drawing a straight line between earnings and athletic ability?

The strongest man on earth is a pharmacist. Most track athletes have secondary jobs. Most female athletes who are the greatest even in the biggest sports make hardly any money.

By your own definition, Lionel Messi today as a semi-retired man in his 30s playing for a baby league is a greater athlete than Patrick Mahomes.

It's not athletic ability that determines earnings. It's marketability and public interest.

Glob posted...

Yeah, recovery time and metabolism have been affected by age for me, but that doesnt really contradict TCs view.

While we're at it, research shows that metabolism doesn't change much at all as you age from your 20s to your 60s.

It's everything else that changes. Your diet, your lifestyle, your habits. When you were 20 you were broke, worked a hospitality job and found the taste of beer icky.

When you're 35 you buy all the snacks you want, you work an office job and get in less than 3000 steps a day and you finish off each evening with a crisp pale ale.

Finally (and often, the only actual reason), time. Maybe you were putting on weight your entire adult life, very slowly. 2lbs a year. You never noticed it was so gradual. Well 15 years have gone past now and you're 30lbs heavier. Go figure.

Mizznox posted...

Gambling would fall under the broader "gaming" term. The NBA's official release is titled "Jontay Porter banned from NBA for violating league's gaming rules."

https://www.nba.com/news/jontay-porter-banned-from-nba

So it sounds like he was basically insider trading.

That bill burr clip comes immediately to mind, and he was right.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

No posture is definitely a factor. I have a boring job so I'm hunched over looking at my phone a lot and I feel it. Only takes a few minutes of leaning back in a desk chair and letting my head fall all the way back for some relief though.

What you're feeling there is the benefit of movement. It's not that pulling your shoulders back and sitting up straight is good for your back. It's that moving is good for your spine.

If you say still in that upright shoulders back position all day, you'd feel relief by hunching forward too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSyMqDUkv8

Evidence based physio crowd: "Your next posture is your best posture".

TheSavageDragon posted...

Spoken like somebody with an office job

If you're shifting boxes all day or something then yeah, no brainer why your back is sore.

But there is a real pandemic of people who do exactly zero movement at all who are pretty sure that having a sore back all the time at 32 is just what ageing looks like.

Like sub-7 year old kids.

They just straight up push their heads around, smother them entire and grab their heads, ignoring all the clear "leave me alone" body signs

vycebrand2 posted...

Look I'm 50. I've had a farm since my mid 20's. I've been stepped on and knocked over multiple times. I've broken ribs on both side in the front and both sides of my back. I've loaded 120 50# bags of feed off a flatbed truck every 2 weeks for 20 something years. I've carried thousands of 8 foot 4x4 over many a acre. I've thrown many a hay bale. I've also have had shingles on my back and neck. My pain is from working hard all my life mostly. It's really not that I'm old.

this topic ain't aimed at you

KanWan posted...

https://youtu.be/Lq85Aj1p5pQ?si=cjdmayGuX-4lx-be

I cant remember what interview it was.. or what forum publication it was.. but iirc this was about some real life war instead of high fantasy

Wouldnt be surprised if the lyrics werent about Normandy

but it definitely contains those cheesy keyboards and that classic 80s singing

I dont think there is a way to separate a very niche section of music from the time period it was born in.. its not like rock that has evolved to include different conventions from different eras

if you asked me to write a power metal song on guitar for example, Id know exactly what to look for

same with death metal I suppose

but if you ask me to write a thrash metal tune, thats a little bit harder

Yeah, even in this example it's the usual talk of destruction, darkness, freezing winds, no one left alive, etc. Pretty much every megadeth tune is about this, lol

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Everyone always told me "You'll see. You'll start falling apart at 30, 35, 40, etc." I'm still waiting on it. Besides when I was specifically training for things, I'm all around in the best shape of my life.

If you follow the typical life path of an elder millenial, gen Xer or boomer then sure - you will fall apart. Because just doing less each year and decade will cause such an incredible amount of atrophy that you'll find basic every day tasks unmanageable by the time you reach 40.

It's such a huge lie that people tell themselves, like it's somehow normal to not be able to move around in a basic way before even half your life is over.

Assuming you're a fairly typical poster here and you're someone in your mid-30s and you're able-bodied and uninjured, but you have back pain.

Nor is it sore because of your posture. Humans requiring a specific posture to stand or sit at is nonsense.

It's sore because it's weak. It's tired. it's sore like your forearms get sore when you carry all the shopping inside in one trip. You have a weak back, so any time you use it at all it gets sore.

The reason your back was sore from gardening or carrying boxes or doing any activity isn't because you're past your prime and that's just normal for someone in your grand old age. It's just because you don't do any activity and now you've done activity and it's sore. That's the same kind of sore you get when you do some squats and your legs are sore. You did something you're not used to. It's no different for your back.

If you want to fix your chronic back pain, try training it. Do some deadlifts. Do some rows. Lift some stuff occasionally. Your back pain will largely go away. Ta-da.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

I wonder what like being a mod at this very moment. They must have some inside scoop about what Fandom wants. What's it like knowing that in a few days you're going to have to pull on the trigger on almost every user you have grown to known in the past decade. Sure you may not have gotten along with all of them, but they were still people you shared a laugh with . These were people that were there with you when Breaking Bad was still airing, when Super Smash Brothers Brawl got announced, and for many other precious moments. how can you honestly be okay with yourself for having to send your own brothers and sisters into purgatory for Fandom's Scorched Earth initiative? you are tasked with eradicating the current userbase to get rid of any board culture so the new userbase can create a new standard of strict gaming discussion.

Mods are community volunteers, not employees or slaves. I think you're slightly overselling their involvement in this.

Half baked showerthought incoming

Take power metal (for some reason I've been listening to this quite a lot the past week. It's pretty great to workout to).

The thing is, it's not enough for it to sound like power metal. The individual components of a fast blast beat and soaring melodic guitar solos and bach-counterpoint and some guy belting out the lead vocals in a tenor range should be enough for it to technically qualify, but that's basically never what happens.

No, it's absolutely necessary for every song's lyrics to be about fighting dragons, storming castles or fighting some other fantasy enemy. Everyone who plays this genre has to have a really big head of hair. The album art and band logos all have to involve skeletons and spiky bits and flames. Pretty much every single one. There's an entire feel to this genre and the feel is self-insert RPG fantasy lore.

I'm trying to imagine this genre of music but it's just some regular low-key dudes singing about, I dunno, having a bad day at the office or something. I can't really picture it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVYG1mu8Lg8

TL;DW - everything you used to get is now worse by design, because we are all chumps.

Like Uber eats offering you "priority delivery" at a premium, which just means...the driver won't make stops on the way to deliver your food...you know, like how food delivery always used to work.

Subscription services and tier systems are just a way of making things actively worse for you so that you have to pay more to get what used to be offered. All because what was the revolutionary new subscription service model is now just monopolies in a terrifying new format.

All you need to do is think about it from the perspective of obeying stakeholders and advertisers. They don't want politics, hornyposting, or really even communities forming at all. They just want people who will click on ads.

It's the same trap that basically every website is falling into - youtube, reddit, etc.

CSCA33 posted...

Holocaust denial is not an all or nothing prospect. There are people who dispute and downplay the figures, for example, and other forms of misinformation, why it happened, who was targeted or not, etc. which is engaging in a form of Holocaust denial.

Theres no grey area here for Rowling, she very clearly crossed the line into Holocaust denial.

Fair enough.

That "JK Rowling's new friends" is just appalling, btw. It's amazing how these people are so ready to cosy up with powerful conservative lobby groups that literally want a Handmaiden's Tale society so that they can continue to make life difficult for trans people.

Haunter12O posted...

I dont have Twitter or follow her tweets. I only know her for her anti-trans stance. The whole Holocaust denial thing is new to me. Sounds like shes turned into an irritating troll.

Tbh I think the holocaust denial thing is a bit of a stretch (she's not denying the holocaust happened), but I can see why it's basically six of one, half a dozen of the other as far as many are concerned.

I'll reiterate, JK Rowling talks about literally nothing else anymore. You can scroll through her twitter feed and she only has one thing to talk about and she's talking about it several times a day.

It'd be one thing if she was brigading on all the women's rights issues that are important, or discussing the war, or climate change, or I dunno, cats and dogs or whatever. Nah. Her only concern anymore is *checks notes* writing lists of trans people and calling them men.

That's pretty unhinged in my book, whatever your views.

projectpat72988 posted...

Facts, this is exactly what happened when I got the S23 Ultra phone. The sub reddit made a rule to only post battery questions in their "megathread". AKA post here and no one will even notice your post. Certainly don't make a topic where many people can see and will surely answer.

Back when forums used to be alive I hated when people did that shit there too. IMO, it just kills the potential for activity. Especially on already slow forums.

The /r/fitness subreddit slowly elimated every organic thread in favour of daily megathreads, and then started to get confused when nobody wanted to participate in the subreddit anymore. They've started to relax the rules a little bit.

I hope everyone who invested in this loses all their money. Genuinely

Oh wow, they're really trying to kill CE huh?

Foppe posted...

That would work before they put a high karma restriction on CE and before they turned CE private and blocking every new account from viewing CE!

Wait CE is private?

Super_Slash posted...

I'm actually tempted to write an entire thread on it after I sleep and explain everything thats going on. I'm a little more comfortable doing so now that CE is private.

Has your partner ever seen you use gamefaqs, or ever had access to your phone/computer? I would just be careful of them knowing your username and reading your posts. If in doubt, you could create a throwaway account.

This being Ubisoft I wouldn't be surprised if it's been recycled in every Far Cry game before this, but basically -

When the game wants to inject some plot progression on you, one of the big bads will send out a hunting party to capture you. You can't get away from them, so you're kidnapped and forced into this cutscene. It will interrupt basically anything you're doing, even if you're halfway through a mission. And after watching a very long cutscene and playing some forced fever dream mission you're then dumped out on the other side of the map.

This isn't even the part that really annoys me though. What annoys me is how absurd the in-universe explanation for this has to be to make sense. You're left knowing that any of the villains of the game can kidnap you at any point and there's nothing you can do about it, and the only reason you ever survive it is because they decide they don't want you dead.

This happens maybe 6 or 7 times in the game, so the game keeps beating you over the head with the idea that the only way you win is if the villains let you. Fucking stupid.

projectpat72988 posted...

Never understood reddit myself. If I make a topic with a simple question someone always thumbs it down. I don't get the point of that? It seems they do it to all of them.

As for your situation. Sorry to hear that. There are numbers you may be able to call with resources.

By design reddit creates these weird little bubbles of people and curates content based on what most of them want to read or think is correct. You sort of have to be the baby bear to goldilocks' passion/knowledge on any topic if you want to fit in. Can't be too passionate, can't be unpassionate, you have to know just enough to sound impressive to a layperson but not know so much that you make others feel intimidated.

So in your situation, you asked a simple question but that was probably annoying for the regulars of that sub that have these rules about content. Maybe they expect you to do a search or read the wiki.

Yeah it's peculiar and people need to touch grass.

I prefer talking about american politics because that way I can pretend it's just some sort of twisted life Sim game and not real life.

What's to talk about with British politics? Ah yes, we're a joke country, we keep voting in tories who hate the ever increasing poor population, brexit was a fucking mess, rishi sunak is vile, they're all vile

ssjevot posted...

It's incredibly difficult to get fired in Japan.

What would be the typical consequence of something like this? Just shunned by colleagues and dressed down by bosses constantly?

It's a safeguard against spambots, russian bad faith actors and trolls.

That's a shitty situation though, I might be able to help a little if you can talk a little about what you're going through?

Typically arrive at the office around 9.03, for a 9am start. Then I open up my laptop, start up my apps and email. Then I go to the kitchen, put my lunch away, and start making a coffee with an aeropress. Then I go to the bathroom while it brews. I sit back down at my desk around 9.20 to start work.

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I would not be surprised if there's a growing arm of people on CE who would victim blame over it, though

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68739586

Small mercies I guess

Hey guys, we've brought in a consultant to help us fix the serious underlying structural, operational and cultural isues in our organisation.

They don't work in our industry. They're not a professional in any of the things that we do, nor do they have any of the contextual experience to understand our problems. In fact they have no expertise in any field at all, actually.

But we're paying this person a lot of fucking money to look at our company and fix it. Everyone tell the consultant what you do for a living.

Don't say yngwie malmsteen, I hate that guy

Other things welcome though. I want those nice minor scale changes mixed with hair, give me that

So basically, what happened with Dragonball Z?

Link_of_time posted...

This real? if so, i'm all for it. I've always wanted this done, in order see how far the human body can truly be taken. I also dislike the mass corruption of the current Olympics, which completely undermines the entire point.

It's real. It's been highly controversial too.