Stop pushing yourself to where you feel like you’re dying. If you’re new to this much exercise, you’re having to build up both muscles/tendons and breath.

Tendons and connective tissue take longer to condition than muscles. Don’t push to injury.

Aerobic capacity grows by working out in aerobic range. If you push past that to when you’re gasping for breath, you aren’t improving your aerobic capacity as efficiently as you could.

Nerd rabbit hole, you want Zone 2 training and you can find a bajillion YouTube videos on it. The less-nerd version is run until you start losing your breath, slow down or even walk until you catch it again, run until you lose it, rinse and repeat.

Couch to 5k programs are fine. I think if you’re trying to do this for longer-term goals than a 5k in ten weeks, then look for zone 2 training instead of couch to 5k. Zone 2 training will be slower advancement but result in a more robust base.

Sometimes I ignore the question and just move on in conversation. Most people don’t even notice because they’re asking out of habit, not to actually ask you how you’re doing.

About a month ago, I went to a donation-driven community theater improv/Edgar Allen Poe thing.

My diocese had one of those too. He ran the Newman/student center at the university. The bishop knew about him and “applied restrictions” to him, but it wasn’t until he died that they publicly investigated him.

It was about ten years after he died that the investigation report came out. They concluded “there was a homosexual culture” at the Newman Center to blame.

During this investigation, no direct information was learned that Msgr. Kalin was homosexual or was a practicing homosexual; however, there was sufficient testimonial and anecdotical [sic] information learned during the investigation to confirm Msgr. Kalin did seek out and prefer the company of men. Much of this exacerbated later in his life due to ongoing medication and treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

That girls wearing shirts that showed any sort of curvature were leading boys to hell. RIP girls with anything larger than a B cup.

And then there was a transfer student I became friends with. Didn’t have the words for them at the time but probably non-binary. They used a chest binder and got in trouble for that. Damned for having boobs, damned for trying to minimize them; damned for just existing.

Is that your actual AI prompt? “Your anatomy when you twerk”? That would be delightful.

You think FIFA and the selection of the US as host isn’t political?

Wut?

I’m for the people who will be posting dank memes shitting on the US government.

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At my university (US), one of my calculus professors with a 150+ student lecture hall would repeatedly open his lecture with a slide showing his church and an invitation for students to join him there on Sunday. Absolutely inappropriate to proselytize a captive audience under his power to pass/fail them. There has to be some accountability for universities to stop this, but not to harass a person wearing a cross necklace or a koppel or a hijab. Shame this is legislated at such a high level instead of people just being professional and not a*holes.

Yes, it’s recognized in the US. Not always quickly and accurately, I’ve known several people who lived with it for years before a doctor finally figured it out.

(Pure personal anecdotal, not data-backed) I suspect a generation of doctors were trained only to look for a red rash in the shape of a bullseye target on the patient’s skin and not to run blood tests until a bullseye is seen. People with Lyme don’t always get the bullseye rash or sometimes it’s in an area not easy to detect it (on scalp, covered in hair). Hopefully there continues to be better awareness and diagnostics.

It’s not super common where I live (middle of the US). I’ve been bitten by ticks many times but never contracted Lyme. My state advises saving the tick for 30 days after it bites you. If you have any symptoms, your doctor’s office can arrange to have it tested. If it tests positive, you get tested and then treated if needed and also the an official report goes to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), which is a national-level public health agency.

Unfortunately, the CDC is under the Department of Health and Human Services, which is now run by RFK Jr. I wouldn’t be surprised if that moron were to advise tanning one’s butthole as treatment for Lyme.

Yes, my industry is revising their standard to say something about needing processes to control the use of “AI”. Literally a sentence long. So I pointed out that as written it would apply to spell check and face ID to unlock my phone and Google search engine and so on. “Oh, that’s not what we mean, we mean like ChatGPT”. They need to write that before they publish an absolute shit requirement for the industry to wrestle with.

Humans don’t fit neatly into a male bucket and a female bucket. I’m not interested in discyssing this with anyone unless they’re referring to studies from scientists and medical professionals who actually have some knowledge behind their statements.

I was super good at recording the local music radio station to a cassette tape to minimize the DJs chatter. My brother would pay me to catch songs for him. Too bad he had awful taste.

There will be games in Canada and Mexico too, consider going to those instead. The cup is in July, so due to height of summer I would be looking at Canada, personally.

I’m seeing friends cancel vacation plans and work colleagues cancel work trips to the US and I don’t blame them. If I didn’t already live here, I wouldn’t be looking to travel to the US without really good reason, and a sport tournament would not be enough for me.

People getting CEO jobs aren’t hanging with working class bros. They either never were working class or they shed those connections on their way along the corporate ladder.

Forget the fingers, look at that wrist with the bracelet cutting off circulation.

AI or are her fingers fucked up IRL?

JFC, what a psycho.

Kudos to PM Takaichi for keeping composure. Her eyes bugged out a bit but mine would have popped straight out of my head.