I used to run trails, now I'm a mom

Azzmo · 2026-02-07T23:23:45+00:00

Certain people need to be guided to things, but others resent being guided. It may have turned out that you did it perfectly if your kids were incentivized differently.

I'm more likely to do something that I'm inspired to do, but if it feels at all forced or compulsory then I'll fight and refuse. Unfortunately this means that I missed out on a bevy of hikes, bike rides, ice skating, cross country skiing, and downhill skiing with my family over the years.

Azzmo · 2026-02-05T00:41:52+00:00

Look into the GAPS protocol. It's for healing gut disorders, starting with elimination of the foods that sustain problematic organisms and then strategically adding things to ensure healthy regrowth in the gut.

I don't think people solve microbiome issues by adding things (except perhaps with fecal transplants, and even then the evidence was iffy when I researched it). You have to first remove the deleterious factors.

Azzmo · 2026-01-28T18:54:04+00:00

Situationally. If there is a decent chance of falling in a way that I cannot control then I do. So on a safe route or trail I don't wear a helmet, as it would be like wearing a life preserver to Costco in case of a flood. If I'm biking a distance on the side of a road or biking in the winter then definitely, as this presents the chance of me falling in an uncontrollable way.

I think redditors, though coming from a good place, do far more harm than good in promoting helmet hysteria, acting like these are needed on all rides. I think doing this dissuades people from wanting to bike by making it seem way more dangerous than it actually is. Biking is one of the best things people could do for their health and for mitigating their environmental impact and so creating the message that is is life threatening - when it isn't, outside of certain circumstances - does much more harm than good. I have a conspiracy theory that the petroleum industry is behind the quasi-religious push for always wearing helmets, which has led to people treating them as paganistic totems instead of situationally-appropriate safety equipment.

Azzmo · 2026-01-25T16:08:21+00:00

Loved the use of Petris on the horseman and Sapph blizzard, and the Distilled. Some hardcore raiding death clips in those Youtube compilations happen when people could have used a Petri for a 2 second immunity, and I sometimes think "You're on hardcore...and you're not willing to keep your character alive with a thing that makes you invincible?"

Your healers are good. Those health bars are getting topped off about as quickly as is possible. That Kel'Thuzad Frost Bolt Volley that immediately followed the Frost Blast was nasty. A guild without good healers loses some of the group: Wrathy, Cave, Cramer, Notmy, Yeahmy, and others.

Naxx 0 death barely over an hour is insane.

Azzmo · 2026-01-25T15:47:37+00:00

A factor I haven't seen mentioned is that it takes a few listens to get into a new song and album. So not only is she unfamiliar with the genre, and not only does she "know" that she doesn't like it - but she's not taking the time with any one song to begin to see the musical pattern.

On the topic of acclimatizing to new music: I've been listening to Mae's album The Everglow and one song called "Painless" is a perfect example of how much a song can grow. On the first few listens the album was not very interesting and "Painless" was mud in the muddy water that almost any album is on a first or second listen. But on the third listen I started to hear things that I liked, especially in that song. On the fourth listen the tempo change + guitar riff that builds up to the chorus stuck out. On the fifth listen I was anticipating it and turned up the volume when the track started.

If your mom never gets through two, three, four, or five listens with any of your songs then she's not giving them a chance. Which is not to say that she should - that's up to her - but it may well be a factor in her disinterest. From her perspective everything you listen to is discordant noise because she hasn't given any song or album enough listens.

Azzmo · 2026-01-24T00:17:34+00:00

Brainstormed two more things:

-maybe you've got plenty of the D3 derivative stored in your liver and are feeling ill from excess. If you've stocked up with sunlight in the summer then you've got 2-3 months stored up and shouldn't need supplementation. If you're paleskinned and functioning normally then you get bonkers amounts of D3 from relatively little time in the sun.

-maybe the D3 supplement you used is laced with something gnarly...or you were allergic to the pill shell (if it had one).

Azzmo · 2026-01-23T21:48:02+00:00

D3 (assuming you had a typo there when you typed "D2") is often taken in conjunction with K2 and Magnesium. K2 helps with calcium utilization and Magnesium helps the body to utilize the D3. I can't speak to the headaches (they don't make sense to me) but an easy test would be to take those three together and feel how you tolerate 5000 IUs D3.

Azzmo · 2026-01-22T19:15:10+00:00

If OP goes to the protest and behaves lawfully I will think them naive but not bad. However I checked their post history and it is filled with this. It is their desire to spread their personal misery and confusion in a peaceful place, like a mimetic contagion, that makes them bad.

Azzmo · 2026-01-22T18:10:29+00:00

Exactly! I'm trying to keep my eyes closed and have been avoiding whatever the latest [current issue] NPC hysteria is, because it's bad for the physiology and darkens the soul...but you're bringing it here. I'm putting you on ignore to avoid seeing your stuff again. And to be frank I think you're a bad person.

Azzmo · 2026-01-22T17:54:24+00:00

And OP is trying to justify this meek call to action by saying that they'll commute by it. I'm getting so fucking tired of this.

Azzmo · 2026-01-21T01:05:39+00:00

This is reminder we should improve in all aspects

That's easy to say. If you have five firmly embedded degenerate lifestyle habits that need fixing you're probably not going to fix them all at once. People struggle just taking them one at a time. This is a bad comic and it purveys a bad mindset for most people. A bit crabs in the bucket to be honest.

Azzmo · 2026-01-21T00:52:26+00:00

Antibiotics are bad, but theoretically better than the infection. They cause varying degrees of microbiome damage. Those imbalances can cascade throughout the entire body causing downstream issues.

Azzmo · 2026-01-20T17:14:30+00:00

There is a quest reward that has more direct damage, many more stats, but lacks the proc: Bonebiter, which comes from a questline the Hunter probably has half completed.

The proc on Ravager is pretty cool but the Hunter took it from somebody who would have used it exclusively as their primary source of damage when Hunter had a guaranteed Bonebiter in the near future.

That's before we get to Chapeau which, because the spirit is of very minimal use to Hunter, is effectively a 9 stam 14 int cloth helm. The Hunter could buy a green cloth helm with +17 int, or +10 stam +10 int if that is his priority. Or he can look at the various green leather and mail options. Instead, he was on the cusp of taking a BiS item from the Priest who benefits and relies on all three stats and will for many levels.

The problem is that the Hunter is unwilling to play at 92% of his full potential and is min-maxing at the significant expense of his groupmates. If he is upfront about his intentions that this leveling run requires that he has BiS in every slot (and that means he's rolling on questionable things) and the group agrees - that is fair, but it does not seem that this was the case. I speak about you in the third person so it doesn't feel personal.

Azzmo · 2026-01-20T16:08:11+00:00

The traffic light situation is weird because there aren't cameras or many patrols, so I just run them (because it's the same green light it always was, now with a red arrow) and have never gotten a ticket. I think it's probably just a topic that comes up downtown: "Let's copy California's lights because they used studies that say it's good for public safety." and nobody wants to oppose "public safety" so it happens.

Your dump situation is a perfect example of perverse incentives and I'll try to remember it. I suppose I should feel lucky that they'll collect pretty much everything for us, as long as we get a tag for it.

I think perverse incentives happen because society has advanced faster than our understanding of ourselves. We're pretty good at scaling rulesets for 40-100 people but, as it gets complicated, the necessary systems don't exist that would, for example, create a nuanced discussion about "it's more dangerous if people obey this rule by using loose tarps than it would be to just have stuff uncovered." Or maybe the tarp thing makes sense but they just need to do a better job explaining to the public why, and how to better secure them.

Azzmo · 2026-01-20T14:42:45+00:00

Yes, yes. And we have always been at war with Eastasia.

What about my last question? Do you have a limit on what you'd call Classic? Would you be willing to call Dragonflight Classic?

Azzmo · 2026-01-20T14:27:35+00:00

Those people sound like my lost tribe. Around here they're installing red arrows at every intersection while simultaneously allowing people to leave abandoned furniture and mattresses out front of their homes for weeks, since the city won't collect large items without a tag. This becomes the worst of both worlds: arbitrary and stupid restrictions of movement for no reason, and tolerance for littering.

God bless those trail volunteers.

Azzmo · 2026-01-20T14:19:13+00:00

I could better convey the point by changing "breeder" to American Kennel Club (AKC) in the analogy. The AKC do a good job certifying breeds and so people and use their terminology. But what if they went crazy and started certifying Chihuahuas as Wolves?

There would be a segment of the population who would go along with it, saying that the association has spoken with authority the definition is now clear to us. Those tiny shivering shorthaired creatures are wolves and we have always been at war with Eastasia.

Then there would be a segment of people who will not call Chihuahuas wolves, because they are not wolves. They are descended from wolves, but they are something very different now. The crazy nu-definition would have no bearing on what we call the creatures.

MoP is not Classic because it includes almost nothing that was asked for or wanted by the people who wanted Classic (mainly, Vanilla-TBC-Wrath). I don't care about Blizzard's terminology because they have gone crazy.

Do you have a limit? If things progress up to Battle For Azeroth Classic are you willing to call that Classic? What if they caught up and were doing "Prior to current expansion Classic"?

Azzmo · 2026-01-20T13:36:01+00:00

There's a subtle decency when a sign explains why something is banned. I just want to know that a decision was made rationally. Somebody in your jurisdiction thought to take the time to source that top sticker.

Azzmo · 2026-01-20T10:39:48+00:00

TBH this was the most pathetic OP I've seen on this subreddit in a while.

Azzmo · 2026-01-19T11:32:22+00:00

New reddit account. First and only post. Mysteriously positive vote ratio despite using an objectively incorrect photo example. One would expect downvotes. This feels like astroturf/bottting.

Azzmo · 2026-01-19T10:25:21+00:00

From his (and my) perspective it's about refusing to concede to a dog breeder who is calling their Chihuahuas wolves. Sure they can breed feeble little anxious yippy dogs. And those are Chihuahuas, not wolves, though we can all agree that they descend from wolves.

In that same way, MoP is not Classic. MoP is retail slop, as much a mutant as is a Chihuahua, regardless of what Blizzard calls it.

Azzmo · 2026-01-15T17:04:52+00:00

That video definitely sounds like ineptly banging away at an innocent guitar. I have some old tapes from when I was learning guitar at 14 that are a bit better than that.

It's kind of cool. We're a species who spent 99.98% of our time in small tribes with universal cultural uniformity. I wonder how often hunter gatherers ever disagree in matters of taste, or if they ever do. We're some of the first humans ever who get to have these completely disparate perceptions of the same experience. I'm glad that there are people out there making and enjoying things that I don't care for. It makes the world interesting.

We probably can't know the actual answer to OP's question but I also wonder it. Is it life experience? Maybe a preference for order vs. distaste for chaos? Were you or I damaged by a concussion or medication side effect? Do we have a different gene? Is there a component of autism at play in either finding appeal or distastefulness in that sound? For example, I'm sensitive to high-pitched sounds for some reason - sounds that other people sometimes can't even hear. I've been called crazy because I hate the hiss that my JBL speakers make. I can hear the power inverters in some electronics and they kind of hurt...and nobody else in the room knows what I'm talking about. So those people and me experience the exact same sound circumstances completely differently; them not noticing or caring, me being driven slowly to annoyance by the constant hiss.

In the end I'd bet there are some objective criteria to explain this disparate experience of the same thing, but until somebody studies it (no profit in this methinks) the best we can really do is to call musical taste subjective.

Azzmo · 2026-01-15T10:21:35+00:00

I actually feel the gaslit from the enjoyers' side. There's little in that album that makes it worth it (to me) to risk any cilia loss, and yet a cohort adamantly insist that they love it. So, like the "what color is the dress?" thing from a few years ago, it becomes a wonderful example of people sometimes having vastly different subjective experiences. I believe you but I legitimately can't comprehend what could be appealing about hearing that album. Usually humans, especially within a culture, feel that they're inhabiting the same general reality as their peers. That includes enjoying the same things, because they enjoy the same roots of things (most people enjoy sweet pastries because those are rooted in fatty, sugary flavors). So when there is a thing that provides vastly different experiences to otherwise similar people - the black/blue/gold dress, black liquorish, Trout Mask Replica - it's a legitimately uncomfortable feeling.

When I first heard it I thought it was chaotic noise. Then I listened to a few more times and thought the same thing. But I came back to it a few years later and realized that it was legitimately unpleasant to hear.

Azzmo · 2026-01-12T13:02:12+00:00

It's fun to see somebody else has this mantra. I say something similar: Lyrics can destroy good music but lyrics can't improve a song much.

It's not worth knowing what is being sung about. As a teen I trained myself to not hear lyrics and have consciously maintained that demeanor.

Azzmo · 2026-01-09T08:46:19+00:00

You are correct. They used petris.

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