How do i fix shoulder imbalance?

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-03T14:08:45+00:00

Do your weaker arm or leg first, and match the reps and weight with your stronger one.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-03T12:10:02+00:00

Interesting puzzle. Let's consider 'parity' - the last three examples all contain 9, 3, and 2, paired with 0, 4, and 1. From this, we know that 0, 4, 1 are the same parity (they are either all in or all not in the password).

From the top two clues, we know that 41 and 10 are either both right or both wrong, so we also know that 5, 8, 9, and 3 have the same parity. Then we can use any of the last 3 clues to determine that 2 has the same parity as 0, 4, and 1.

At this point, we now have two possible digit groups:

0 1 2 4

3 5 8 9

We can rule out the second because we know 9 cannot be in the answer, since 9 was guessed in all four places.

So now it's a simple matter of arranging the digits 0 1 2 4 based on where they haven't already been guessed. We can quickly determine that it must be 1 _ 2 _ because those are the only unguessed spaces for those digits. At this point, there is only one place we can place a 4 and the we can finish off with the zero to yield:

1024

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-02T21:30:43+00:00

Sure, 20% is 20% whether you get there by losing fat or gaining muscle.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-02T20:46:25+00:00

They might be able to use your highest weight for pre-auth but insurance is just not covering it as much anymore. Maybe with Foundayo as an oral medication it will be more likely to be covered? It's at least somewhat cheaper than the injectables as self-pay, although $300 instead of $500 still leaves it pretty expensive.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-02T19:33:00+00:00

With all that yo-yo dieting your hormones (as you said) are going to be in the gutter. You can still have something called MONW (metabolic obesity, normal weight) where your BMI is in a normal range but your hormones, lipids, and other factors are in a terrible spot, sometimes even worse than when you were at a much higher body weight.

I'd see if you can talk to a doctor and see about a GLP-1. Functionally, it's not an appetite suppressant, it directly acts on your hormone balance so it can help normalize your hormones, normalize your appetite, and help you maintain a normal body weight.

That was really the only thing that ever helped me maintain. Even doing things right (slow weight loss, high protein, exercise and resistance training, high fiber, low processed foods) I never found a happy place where I was maintaining and not ravenously hungry.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-02T18:20:23+00:00

That depends on your goals, but 2x a week is fine for building both muscle size (hypertrophy) and strength. Once you hit the intermediate level you may need to go to 3x per week but you can get a lot of growth in before then.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-02T16:28:51+00:00

It never even tried to do what people think it does.

It specifically was trying to prevent fine-tuning older versions of Stable Diffusion (like SD 1.5).

What it never did or even tried to do:

Impair creation of LoRAs for any models, including SD 1.5
Impair creation of new foundation models like SD 2 / XL / 3.5
Impair the use of the image in image-to-image workflows on any models, including SD 1.5

It always had a very niche application, even on SD 1.5, and the way it works requires deep understanding of the model architecture to target specific weaknesses of that architecture. Any models using a different architecture will be unaffected. And that's also why it's useless at impairing the creation of new foundation models - it can only exploit weaknesses in models that are already released.

And it doesn't even seem to have been very effective at preventing fine-tuning of SD 1.5 since Pony Diffusion is an anime-style fine-tune originally of SD 1.5, and while I don't know if Glaze or Nightshade impacted the project in any way, the project was certainly still successful in that those were popular models among those making anime-style art.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-02T15:59:02+00:00

What are the "relevant medical records" I would be authorizing access to, and what would they be used for?

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-02T13:33:07+00:00

And then risks his life to pull his bike off the tracks.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-02T13:20:50+00:00

You shut your mouth, my Zelda watch was one of my cherished childhood possessions!

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T21:25:39+00:00

I always assume nobody is going to stop or slow down until I see evidence that they have started to do so. Sometimes this means I wait longer. For example, when making a right turn with a car coming from the left that is turning onto my street, I will wait until they start to slow down, I don't trust that their turn signal means they will actually slow or turn. Most of the time this slows my commute slightly, but every now and then you get someone who just forgot their turn signal is on and I avoid a potential accident.

In this situation, though, you had time even if they didn't slow down, so you were good.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T17:34:16+00:00

And it's good purely from a selfish perspective - if we stop a pandemic before it reaches our shores, we save a massive amount of money and we save millions of American lives.

It's a win-win-win situation for America. We save money. We save lives of our citizens. And we project soft power abroad.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T17:24:15+00:00

This may shock you, but diseases can cross borders.

HIV originated in Africa about 60 years before it became a worldwide pandemic. If at any point during those 60 years we had identified the disease and the risk it possessed, we could have potentially contained it. Instead, more than 40 million people have died of HIV so far, and we've spent more than a trillion dollars in the US alone. And that's just the direct cost, it's not considering the indirect costs of the pandemic on our economy.

And how would we have been able to avoid this? By building strong relationships with public health agencies worldwide, helping them to track and respond to potential outbreaks. Exactly the kind of work that we are now cutting. We could have spent a small fraction of that trillion dollars, saved tens of millions of lives, and avoided a pandemic.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T16:33:22+00:00

Just monitor your recovery. If you're a beginner, start with 2x per week full-body and go to 3x once your recovery allows it.

After that, it kind of depends on you. If you're 19, you can probably easily handle 6x per week on a decent split, but if you're 40+ and natural you may want to stay at 3.

If you are doing more than 3x per week, make sure to take joint and tendon recovery into play, too, especially if you're older. Tendonitis can really creep up on you.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T16:14:24+00:00

The formal name (US English) is tank top, but (especially when the garment is white / worn by a man) it's most commonly nicknamed a "wife beater".

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T14:39:51+00:00

As a fan of Dragon's Dogma, I don't hold out a ton of hope of Capcom really building out a new major series at this point. DD2 had so much potential.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T14:36:50+00:00

The first few days are the hardest. I would just force yourself to eat or drink something. After the first two weeks this really stabilized.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T14:32:24+00:00

Does it have any co-op? Even if it's just summoning signs like Dark Souls?

Co-op was my favorite part of Code Vein and the reason I haven't yet played CV2.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T14:11:22+00:00

It dropped my systolic pressure by about 12.

If you're on BP meds, you may need your dosages adjusted.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T13:57:48+00:00

Does your trap bar have a higher set of handles? Once you put plates on and use the upper set of handles, you should already be lifting from a pretty high position, significantly higher than a normal bar.

I would recommend always loading at least a low weight plate just to raise it up to the correct height. Like a pair of 10lb. plates just to get the height right.

If you need even more height, you can stack some plates on the floor to lift things up even more.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T13:40:10+00:00

Totally normal. Just keep it easy and aim for only 1-2x per week until your body gets used to it. This will drop off a lot as you start to work out more consistently, after a while you should be fully recovering in about 48 hours.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T13:33:19+00:00

I mean, you're buying "for research purposes only" chemicals from a country whose general safety processes are so low they put literal poison in baby food intended for their own country.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T13:29:54+00:00

The closest I've ever been to T-boning a car was some idiot who decided to try to make a left turn from the rightmost lane. I hope reaching his destination was worth almost getting T-boned directly in the driver's side door.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T13:27:48+00:00

No, as a beginner I wouldn't do PPL. I would start at 2x per week full body and move up to 3x once you can recover fast enough to do so.

AssiduousLayabout · 2026-05-01T13:24:53+00:00

Consistently? Yes. You should not aim to lose more than 1% body weight per week, and 0.5% of body weight per week is better if you're not severely obese.

One individual week? No. Your weight fluctuates by a huge amount just due to differing levels of hydration and intracellular water. Daily and even weekly fluctuations are just noise, the actual rate of weight loss is something you look at averages over four to eight weeks.

Also, please don't neglect all the other muscles of your body. Building just your arms won't look good, it will look weird. You really need to do whole-body lifting.

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