JayleneSlide

All other things aside, Mao has some legendary lack of chin. Like... Was this just a bad angle? I've only seen missing chins in caricatures and comic book villains.

You do know that almost all modern on-road motorcycles are CARB-compliant, right? Oh, but what about those small motorcycles? https://www.transportpolicy.net/standard/us-motorcycles-emissions/ As of 2006, all Class I and II motorcycles must be compliant with few exceptions.

I don't know where you are getting your numbers for your claims. These are some significant assertions that, even prima facie, don't make sense.

1 person in 1 car emits less emissions than 1 person on 1 motorcycle

Even from just a thermodynamics standpoint, this assertion not only feels wrong, but is wrong. Maybe a two-stroke motorcycle could out-emit a modern SOV.

I see a lot of specific examples, but here is a good engineering guideline: do not skimp on physical interfaces. **Anywhere energy is changing form or if it touches your body, don't skimp on those. **

For example

• tires
• bicycle saddle
• heaters/furnaces
• electrical inverters
• keyboard
• mouse
• engines
• shoes
• eyewear
• clothes (buy used if necessary, but always buy quality clothing)

Quality usually means more money, but sometimes one is able to find a high quality and low-cost version. In my experience though, trying to find the cheap version that works well means trying so many permutations; it would have been more economical to just get the more costly version in the first place.

Serious question: why are people downvoting this message?

Religion now throws a null pointer exception?

Then, with the recent Olympics, I started wondering: do you think those athletes are working out just three days a week? No way! They train every single day, and while they might mix up their routines, they’re definitely hitting their main muscles more than just a few times a week.

I think there's a lot of context missing in that comment. There's a huge difference between gym-strength and career-strength. Olympians are a type of career-strength. For example, I'm a sailor. There are plenty of seriously buff, gym-strong people who can't grind a winch for shit; I can do it for hours, for days in a row. Just because someone is swole doesn't mean they have the economy of motion and symmetrical/merged strength of a person who does complex strength motions for work.

For Olympic athletes, depending on the sport, they are absolutely taking recovery days. See "Body by Science" by Doug McGuff. The importance of recovery days cannot be understated.

All that said, how is your challenge going? And where are those progress pics? 😁

Eight what?

I'm fascinated by the fact that there is a whole site dedicated to ENF and CMNF, which is the first time I've heard of these. Ask 20 people what their arousal constellation is, and you'll get 100 different answers.

I'm down to reject bigots being bigots. But even a broken clock can be right twice a day.

I skew very hard to the left. I also used to think that voting third-party for presidential candidates would make a difference... 30 years ago. I get it; it's so alluring to think that, by voting for our best interests, we could suddenly magic our asses into a better country. Fully bullshit.

Want to promote third-party candidates? Start locally, where non-duopoly candidates can make a real impact. If we all participated locally and supported local candidates that best represent our interests, we'd start to see change work its way up the political ladder.

Holy hell! This was the most succinct, concise, and "yeah, your high school history textbooks whitewashed all this shit" summary of the modern Conservative political machine. It's like Robert Evans, Matt Taibbi, Jake Hanrahan, and Kurt Andersen had a love child that came out as a summary text.

If anyone got to my comment here, but only skimmed parent comment, please do yourself a favor and bask in that bit.

I wonder how much of a role palate refinement is for this trend. For example: Starbucks, for as terrible as their coffee is, did a lot to elevate the overall regard of coffee; bean juice was no longer just a bitter stew we tolerated to get our caffeine fix. Starbucks broke trail for craft coffee roasting more general popularity.

Could it be the same with alcoholic beverages? I used to think Maker's Mark was the best bourbon going. Now I know better, but so many of the craft bourbons are expensive or just plain hard to find. Ditto for my favorite hazy IPAs. Why binge drink the good stuff when your palate is going to be wrecked after three beers? And since I'm not going to drink swill, welp, guess I'm not going to get drunk tonight!