I doubt it would have any effect on the driver behind you. Too much light diffraction in general. And umbrellas are curved.

All non-norwegian speakers

self-exploitation of others

wat

Really? No one is making vids in simple norwegian and throwing them up on YT for the ad revenue?

You can do this in work related environments also. Not seeing a problem

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Suggesting potential matches for people is extremely common. Especially among people who are already friendly. If you are afraid of being accused of sexual harassment for trying to set up two friends… you need to touch grass

I def thought the same

“Maybe if we ignore the problem, it will go away”

Hot take - the recent surge in aromantic and asexual people is more a result of increasing levels of anxiety in society, rather than being driven by inherent personality traits. While some people doubtless have greater or lesser innate sexual or romantic drives, the increase we are seeing, especially in young people, is due repression of sexual or romantic desires in their psyche due to social anxieties around being vulnerable and comminicative with others.

Hypothesis - take 100 asexual, aromantic teens and put them on a desert island where they don’t have much to do except fish, poke the fire, and lounge on the beach in swim suits. After a year, 90 of them will no longer be aroace.

Trash bag full of gaseoline - the WORKING MAN’S fuel transport!

Based on the friend I have who is an autistic poly climber girl who keeps inviting me to blues dance nights… yes

Assuming 8 hours of sleep and a 4am wake up, that would be an 8pm bed time. Assuming the person works a 9-5, that is 3 hours from the end of work until bed time. I suppose that’s enough time to commute, do chores, eat dinner, and engage in a healthy amount of low stress social time… but I have a hard time imagining most people keeping this bed time consistently. Especially since, at least where I live, you’d be going to bed before sunset for about 1/3 of the year.

Again, I think a 4am wakeup is dumb for most people, most of the time. There are edge cases, of course. But the average go-getter 9-5er who wants long term success in their career, fitness, and relationships would be better served by waking up later, working out less, and spending more time socializing with other people (preferrably in a healthy way) during after work hours.

Imo, the problem would be easier with more frictionless payment methods.

But the real issue is that fewer and fewer people are reading at all, or have the attention span for a quality newspaper article. So you are getting fucked at both ends - no one is paying for the product, and they arent using the product anymore anyway. I certainly know my personal consumption of long form writing has dropped off over the last decade.

Idk, for a while we paid for it with, like, mildly misogynistic razor ads, and that felt okay

Looks like this is the biggest one, but pretty dead unfortunately.

I’ve heard this phrased before as “why are there so many engineers in climbing?” And most people say “something something puzzles.” I then present my theory that the reason is that engineers are a bunch of nerds with poor social skills, and climbing gives them an easy way to socialize

Idk, I work out a lot and have done pretty well on low carb. I would gas if I did, like, a crossfit workout. But my top end power and all day endurance were the same or better, and I had some really cut abs.

For myself, I found there was really no downside. Except no beer and pizza. So not worth it.

I agree there are edge cases. I just think it shouldn’t be billed as the ultimate productivity solution to the average person.

Yep. Can get a 600cc sport bike for not much. Of course, you also have, like, a 50% chance of death if you try to outrun the cops on it.

Otoh, iirc the cops in my area just have a standing order to not chase bikes that run. Too much chance of someone getting dead, which is more paperwork and bad pr than they want to deal with.

I’m currently in the middle of a workout, doing endless sets of dead bugs as remedial core work so I can eventually have bigger lifts and better climbing performance.

This kind of attitude (like, the one the meme is joking about, not the meme itself) annoys me, since I feel like it ultimately sets back most of the people it is supposedly trying to inspire.

Like, waking up at 4am is dumb for almost everyone, almost all the time - especially if your goal is to work out. Your body needs a certain amount of sleep to recover and function well, and shorting it sleep to get more training in is likely setting you back more than giving you gains. And if you are getting the same amount of sleep total each day anyway… why not just wake up later and get your workout in in the afternoon? If you are really that crunched for time and stressed out, the optimal solution is more likely to simply reduce the number of workouts per week. More recovery time means both less overtraining, and a better training stimulus with each workout since you are more rested going into it.

Get pork shoulder from the grocery store. Usually sold in, like, 10lb hunks for $2 per lb. Super cheap. Get a can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce from the mexican section. Put the whole hunk in the slow cooker and dump the peppers and sauce over it. Put it on low before you leave for work. At dinner time, pull the pork apart with 2 forks to shred it. You have taco meat for at least a week for one person.