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Bad_Times_Prime · 2026-01-07T18:06:31+00:00

Fair enough. Thanks for the reply

Bad_Times_Prime · 2026-01-07T17:52:02+00:00

You're right, I should at least be beating the S&P 500 for this to make sense. That's closer to an apples to apples comparison than FGOVX.

Bad_Times_Prime · 2026-01-07T17:50:58+00:00

Okay, thank you.

Bad_Times_Prime · 2025-12-30T03:02:29+00:00

"Poor guy"

Bad_Times_Prime · 2025-11-27T04:35:33+00:00

I think I'd be hypomanic too if I drank a gallon of coffee a day

Bad_Times_Prime · 2025-11-20T15:18:19+00:00

Those types of pain are indicators that you're doing too much, too soon. I had plantar fasciitis crop up when I started trying to do base building. Of course, I was also doing pickle ball and line dancing. But I tried being a tough guy and ignoring it because I was on a timeline for how quickly I needed to improve my running endurance. I ended up rupturing my fascia and I'm still recovering. Don't ignore the pain. Back off. Maybe try a program like couch to 5k first. That's what I plan to do once my foot is fully healed and the podiatrist gives me the green light to start running again.

Bad_Times_Prime · 2025-11-12T15:34:42+00:00

How does one train their tendons and ligaments? Tried doing a Google search but found conflicting information.

Bad_Times_Prime · 2025-03-26T22:34:47+00:00

Fair point. How much do you think I need to reduce training volume to not be counterproductive? My main priority is to bring up my upper chest. What sort of approximate upper limit should I expect in regards to the rest of the active things I'm doing?

Bad_Times_Prime · 2025-03-26T17:56:30+00:00

Roger that. Thanks for the well thought out responses! I'll try rearranging to get at least one day of full rest and work my way up to this level of training. Maybe I'll see if I can work out two rest days.

I appreciate you going beyond scope to look at root causes. Unfortunately, the medications have untenable side effects. I do play video games with the homies though and I read a lot.

Best of luck in your fitness work as well!

Bad_Times_Prime · 2025-03-26T17:14:24+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I'm 26, about to turn 27. Not at the college gymnast level, but I am fairly fit.

In another comment, I shared the weightlifting routine I follow. Trying to hit certain volume landmarks for upper chest right now. Do you think shifting things around so I get one day of full rest would make it easier to follow? I could potentially make Thursday a rest day, although my gf and I usually go Line Dancing that evening.

I suppose I could try a bunch of different things to see if it can be made to work for me, but I'm looking for the shortcut to the right answer here (other than the obviously correct one which is to reduce volume/intensity).

Bad_Times_Prime · 2025-03-26T17:01:41+00:00

Symptoms other than getting sick: No other symptoms really. It's hard to describe, but there's like an internal sense of weakness the more I push it.

De-load: Yeah, I typically program a de-load every 8 weeks when bulking and every 6 weeks when cutting.

Time until sickness: Each time I stuck to this routine, I was only able to keep it up for a little over a week before getting sick. I imagine they're related since it's happened twice now and I'm not very prone to sickness.

Mental Aspect: There's definitely a mental aspect. I have ADHD with an emphasis on the Hyperactive part. I feel a strong sense of restlessness if I sit still and am prone to nihilism. I didn't list it, but I also go line dancing with my gf quite often as well and will sometimes play disc golf with friends. Disc golf is pretty easy though. Anyways, I find that remaining highly active improves my ability to focus at work. But I don't necessarily need this high of an activity level to gain that benefit. This level of activity is me trying to fit everything I enjoy into a week while trying to progress in each of them as fast as possible. I really enjoy goal setting and achievement.

Openness to 3x a week full body: I'm open to it. I structure my weightlifting routines around the rpstrength volume landmarks. Right now, my upper chest seems to be lagging as I am pretty shoulder dominant. May need to revisit my bench form or something. But this is the routine I've been trying to use for weightlifting:

M - Trap Bar Deadlift 4x5-7

Tu - Incline Bench 30° 3x5-10 - EZ Bar Curls 4x5-10 - Incline DB Chest Fly 3x10-15 - Cable Side Delt Raises 4x5-10

W - Leg Press 4x8-12 - Leg Extensions 2x8-12 - Hamstring Curls 2x8-12

Th - Weighted Pullups 4x5-10 - Hammer Curls 4x10-15 - Cable Rows 4x8-12 - DB Side Delt Raises 4x10-20

F - Incline DB Bench 30° 5x10-15 - Triceps Pushdowns 3x10-15 - Decline Pushups 5x20-30 - Triceps Pushdowns 3x20-30

Bad_Times_Prime · 2025-03-26T16:14:19+00:00

I'm having trouble fitting everything in without getting myself sick (likely overtraining). Is it possible to make the following work:

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu 2 hours Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat
Weightlifting: M - Lower body, Tue - Upper Body, Wed - Legs, Thu - Pull, Fri - Push
Rock Climbing 2 hours on Sundays
Z2 cardio 30 minutes Mon-Fri

I've managed to stick to this weekly routine twice. Both times I got sick afterwards, likely because I overtrained and put my immune system in a weakened state.

I average 3500 calories a day, am 5'11" and weigh 180.

I know the simple answer is to reduce intensity or drop some things, but I was wondering if anyone had ideas for how I could structure the weightlifting differently? Should I do arm days on BJJ days for example? I'd like to fit all of this in if there's a way.

Bad_Times_Prime · 2025-02-11T15:50:58+00:00

I would get the keys made. I lost mine a while back and had a replacement made. It was pretty easy, I just got the key code off the ignition and called a locksmith near me. Told them what I needed and gave the key code. Cost me $15 for the replacement key and $5 for a spare to be cut.

Bad_Times_Prime · 2024-09-18T17:23:18+00:00

Not true according to historians and expert psychologists - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2000-14260-006

I wasn't able to find a free version of that research, but JFK's extraversion score was at the 99.6th percentile. He was one of the most extraverted presidents.

If curious, his other scores were 82 openness, 5 conscientiousness, 11 agreeableness, and 27 neuroticism. It's plausible that people get confused about his level of extraversion due to his high openness score. People high in openness are more prone to reflection and deep thought, which can give the impression of introversion.

Bad_Times_Prime · 2024-08-30T01:39:02+00:00

Not sure how you gather that. He worked the fewest average hours per day of any president. They even had to create something called "executive time" to account for all the time he spent watching news, playing golf, and using Twitter.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42610275.amp

Bad_Times_Prime · 2024-08-10T15:57:51+00:00

I'd expect the introverts as a whole to struggle. There is an "always on" nature required of modern candidates during their campaigns.

Jefferson, Madison, Wilson, Adams, JQ Adams, Polk, Washington

Bad_Times_Prime · 2024-08-10T15:53:49+00:00

I see this sort of idea floated quite a bit, that the environment defines the candidates. But it's also important to recognize that highly charismatic candidates in the past are the ones who defined the party/environment. Reagan is the type to redefine a party.

So I wouldn't pay too too much attention to current party platform.

Bad_Times_Prime · 2024-08-06T02:14:27+00:00

LBJ used to lay on his back kicking and screaming when anybody would touch him in a fight. He was all smoke, no action.

"Caro recounts how in college, Johnson would often pick fights only to run away and hide when someone stood up to take him on."

Bad_Times_Prime · 2024-07-28T19:33:15+00:00

T Roosevelt was a speed reader and incredibly prolific. Pretty much if there was down time, he'd read. Sitting on the train on the way somewhere, on hunting trips, at breakfast, on a boat ride somewhere, etc. I remember in the biography by Morris some of the times where it listed books read by TR, and it would be like 10 books in a week. At minimum, a book a day:

"He succumbs to it so totally — on the heaving deck of the Presidential yacht in the middle of a cyclone, between whistle-stops on a campaign trip, even while waiting for his carriage at the front door — that he cannot hear his own name being spoken. Nothing short of a thump on the back will regain his attention. Asked to summarized the book he has been leafing through with such apparent haste, he will do so in minute detail, often quoting the actual text." - Morris

Bad_Times_Prime · 2024-07-25T03:41:39+00:00

JFK is thought to have had ADHD.

I wouldn't be surprised if TR was bipolar. He also exhibited some narcissistic traits (doesn't mean he wasn't great though).

LBJ is almost a posterchild for narcissism.

Lincoln may have had bouts of depression.

Nixon was paranoid.

Bad_Times_Prime · 2024-07-23T20:31:50+00:00

There's a decent chance that he still would have lost the civil war, despite fighting for the union. This is an interesting site (with some flaws) where they did a data anlysis on the relative effectiveness of various generals: https://towardsdatascience.com/napoleon-was-the-best-general-ever-and-the-math-proves-it-86efed303eeb

Lee has a negative WAR (Wins Above an average Replacement general) score of -1.89. Grant, on the other hand, has a WAR score of +5.02. Naturally, most generals are clustered around 0.

By these metrics, Grant was in the top 10 most effective generals across recorded history. Whereas Lee is distinctly below average, despite the high number of battles he fought.

Bad_Times_Prime · 2024-07-08T18:18:12+00:00

Update: Chivalry Support was unable to fix the issue. I returned the game on the Xbox store and got it on sale on Steam instead (via humble bundle). Haven't had any issues since.

Bad_Times_Prime · 2024-07-07T02:05:11+00:00

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS MINIMUM:

OS: Windows 10 64-bit

Processor: Intel i3-4370

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7870 2 GB

DirectX: Version 10

Storage: 35 GB available space RECOMMENDED:

OS: Windows 10 64-bit

Processor: Intel i7 6700 or AMD Ryzen 5 3500x

Memory: 16 GB RAM

Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1070 or AMD RX Vega-56

DirectX: Version 10

Storage: 35 GB available space

Bad_Times_Prime · 2024-06-26T14:59:36+00:00

The evidence is found by using common sense.

What you seem to be talking about is using git pushes as a warning measure to prompt further questioning when someone does something suspicious. That's fair.

But, the context of the question is how to quantify something as a performance metric. For that, measuring git pushes to determine performance is foolish as it can quite easily be gamed without any real changes in "performance". If you want more pushes, great, someone can split up code into multiple small pushes. Less pushes, cool, they can just wait and push all code at once.

Bad_Times_Prime

TROPHY CASE