I enjoyed it a lot, but it’s not perfect because either the combo of writing or acting from the main crew is pretty bland. All the other side characters are fucking phenomenal though. I don’t get it.
I want to read the books to see if it’s the same.
Everything is on the table with this crooked admin…
Eargasm premium earplugs. For concerts and loud practice sessions or just popping in running loud tools, they are a must and generally preserve fidelity well. Hearing loss and tinnitus are real bummers. Trust me.
Good to know, thanks! My default is just using Kobalt out of cost and convenience. In my opinion best bang for buck. For premium tools I’ll consider Bosch (apparently another great reputation as a company) and now Makita.
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You’ll bounce back in no time! It’s very helpful to know you’ve achieved it before, and how to get there. Part of what’s hard about something like running is you don’t know what to expect if you’ve never been at that level before. Of course age will play a factor which you need to be realistic about, but that’s still a fairly marginal factor over a decade.
I have a very long list of heuristics for this, as I’m a nerd with this topic, and also tend to be the de-facto expert in my wider family for sleep help. I need to clean up the raw notes before I could list them.
But I’m going to give you an inconvenient truth: Good rest begins 48-hours before.
Most of the major factors in sleep originate from your body’s 48-hour cycle, which includes digestive tract, your sleep and wake the day before, your exercise on both days, sun exposure, your 48-hour hydration consistency (yes hydration correction takes this long or more), what you ate yesterday, and what you ate within 4-6 hours before bedtime.
If you’re trying to fix sleep while already in bed with insomnia, then you already did something wrong and cannot really correct course in a healthy way. Whether it’s alcohol or benadryl —These sleep aids to force you through the night will have you pay a price later. Your REM will be worse. Your deep sleep will be worse. You will be more irritable the next day and peter out faster. You’ll compensate with more caffeine or something stronger, your cortisol levels will be higher and you’ll be more prone to snack cravings and quick dopamine hits, and those things will lead to a downward-spiral for your next night of sleep.
But hey, Life happens. People have crying babies, etc. Disruption to the best routines is bound to happen. Tricks near or especially at bedtime can only increase your sleep inertia so much. Most have been listed, but if you just need a nudge, then (1) Turn off the phone and read a book, or at least read articles and stay away from videos. Turn on night mode and dim completely. (2) Keep room as cold as possible. (3) Get a white-noise generator or fan. (4) Practice deep breathing techniques to preoccupy your mind and move your ANS from sympathetic to a parasympathetic state. (5) Don’t be afraid to let your mind wander. Make up a story in your head. Find your happy place in your thoughts so you set yourself up for a “win-win” while just lying there. (6) Magnesium Glycinate tends to be a safe sleep aid that actually improves REM, but take with meal otherwise it can have laxative properties to the sensitive. Just some stuff off the top of my head.
Easily falling asleep but waking up in the middle of the night with insomnia “tired but wired” is a different albeit related beast…
And if you don’t like this, try cyclical or resonant breathing techniques. They’re proven to be equally if not more effective. Cyclical is more for panic-attacks and high anxiety during the day though, as I understand.
Seconded 100%.
It holds us back so much. Definitionally archaic and exploitable.
With it, organized divinity and faith-based religions, and in the void a universal rallying around humanism.
I could be wrong but I think Entropy means this is a net loss in nutrients and calories, based on the waste it took to produce the egg. The building-blocks needed to make it were already there and if my body needed it it would’ve taken them directly so I probably wouldn’t…? Unless I was starving, which presumably egg production would also decrease to begin with.
But this reminds me of something.
We have bacteria in our colons that produce bio-available B12 but this is downstream of the absorption point. I remember reading theories that we originally obtained this B12 from unsanitary food and water sources (river, pond water, fecal-matter on foods in wild, etc.) Surprisingly a significant chunk of those who eat meat are also deficient of B12 in the modern age.
I’m still an amateur overall but I went with a tried and true Weller 70W soldering station. Probably overkill for most but I needed every advantage I could get, repairing my amp. Dialing in your temperature removes one big variable from your equation. Already used to repair household appliances as well.
Multi-meter
Good soldering iron
Oscillating multi-tool (power tool)
Infrared heat camera (great for assessing energy loss, engine, electrical diagnosis).
Sounds pretty damn good to me.
I’ll tell you after tonight. Last year’s Halloween was more subdued than previous 2 years under Biden. Lots of candy left on shelves, not as many lights in our area. I don’t expect as many trick-or-treaters but we’ll see. Of course this isn’t the only recession indicator.
As for where I’m from originally and which has voted Trump loyally every election cycle, they are just increasingly going down the shitter. Rust, bible belt, etc. The pain a lot of these people feel is genuine – they’re just too “poorly educated” to know who’s screwing them over the most.
Great introspective question causing me to reflect, but an answer I’ll respectfully reserve for myself.
I feel this in my soul, friend. Plus it was my first experience of a true open-world and RPG game. I’ll never forget the feeling I had when first booting the game up and hearing that main menu music.
That reminded me of Halo CE’s vibe, too, which had a lasting impact on me.
Morrowind for sure.
Huge fan of Jon but you know what this is spot-on.
Just a prank bro kind of quality to it. It’s serious when it’s expedient; it’s a joke when the truth falls flat.
Of course that’s part of how comedy can broach uncomfortable things that can’t be said anywhere and I think at heart he has good intentions.
The formatting of comments sections means a lot to me. I genuinely prefer the layout of reddit comments on old.reddit (not the new garbage though). I’d just straight-up create a copy-cat of that. Not only in terms of formatting hierarchy, font, etc., light mode for me is too bright and dark is too dark.