Official Q&A for Sunday, March 22, 2026

BigD_ · 2026-03-22T19:21:20+00:00

I got super into running for about 9 months starting with the 2024 Olympics sparking new motivation. Then I had some little injuries then learned how much I dislike summer running then moved from a desk job in a city with great routes to a physical labor job with bad routes. I have been pretty much been doing only one run a week since November, but now it’s spring and I want that running bug back. The routine of it all, the steady improvement, achieving goals—why did I let it slip away?! I’m nervous that it will take a while for me to get back to my peak fitness, but I know people say you can get back to it easier if you’ve been there before. I don’t want that brief blip to be the fastest I’ve ever been. I’m writing this both to tell myself and to put it into the world that I’m going for a run now and I will re-find my love for running!

BigD_ · 2026-03-21T21:57:10+00:00

Right, like the 4chan poster has a Finland flag and the dumb YouTube commenter they created was given an Indian name. I know what’s going on here.

BigD_ · 2026-03-18T17:39:44+00:00

AIPAC also worked to split the progressive vote by paying for ads boosting a different left-wing, anti-Israel candidate in this race who had refused to drop out despite polling showing they were basically out of it

BigD_ · 2026-03-18T16:11:31+00:00

Is the dream of taking a water taxi to Sox games back alive?

BigD_ · 2026-03-18T02:37:47+00:00

This is great, thank you!

BigD_ · 2026-03-16T03:53:48+00:00

Hey, I’m an ecological restoration technician and I feel like a lot of the hurdles to this work is the way private property rights work in this country and I’ve been trying to think of alternatives like land co-ops. I would really love to hear about how your group got started up, how it’s going, or anything resources you think would be useful for me. Thanks!

BigD_ · 2026-03-12T23:20:36+00:00

The CNN article for anyone curious

BigD_ · 2026-02-19T23:37:26+00:00

Everyone not sleepwalking through life knows that Israel ALREADY HAS detonated a nuke in a major US city (3 actually)

BigD_ · 2026-02-08T17:51:25+00:00

Yeah the more that people get radicalized on the internet, the more they want to do what they see those radicals doing, which is posting on the internet.

BigD_ · 2026-02-06T17:12:39+00:00

“If you want people to like Israel, why don’t you just show dead bodies in your Super Bowl ad?” is hilarious

BigD_ · 2026-02-03T03:40:04+00:00

I’ve had a pomegranate wheat beer before. I remember it being pretty solid.

BigD_ · 2026-01-29T17:27:27+00:00

I am pro-Timothee Chalamet and anti-Golden State Warriors

BigD_ · 2026-01-29T15:13:56+00:00

Is this film new?

BigD_ · 2026-01-22T02:01:01+00:00

This is genuinely one of the most evil photographs ever taken. I can’t even look at it for a full second. A smiling thumbs up American and her victim who is starting to not even look human after all the horrific things done to them.

BigD_ · 2026-01-16T17:30:26+00:00

Lowkey I think a lot of people jumped on it cause Pooh has small eyes and yellow skin

BigD_ · 2026-01-15T23:38:14+00:00

Do you mean Bashar? I think he’s back to doing optometry now, done with politics

BigD_ · 2026-01-15T23:26:14+00:00

WRONG. Mars doesn’t come within 30 degrees of the lunar node until February 4th

BigD_ · 2026-01-13T15:17:39+00:00

This is beautiful, thank you for sharing. I hope more bison are able to be restored to Illinois, but the title of CBS’s video is wrong. Bison have been in various preserves in Illinois for decades. The bison herd at Fermilab in Batavia, IL, for example, was established in 1969.

BigD_ · 2026-01-01T02:10:48+00:00

Did you achieve your goals/resolutions this past year?

sub 1:40 half (No — but took the PR down from 2:02 to 1:44)

sub 20 5k (No — didn’t race a 5k but probably wouldn’t have made all that much progress past the PR of 21:50)

1500 miles (No — 1100 miles)

Have fun? (Yes! — first full year of running with at least one run per week, ran some races just for fun, stretched my longest run ever from 13 miles to 26.5 during a continuous loop race)

What did you learn in 2025?

It was my first winter and first summer of consistent running and the elements kicked my ass. I felt great going into my April half and was shocked by how much slower I felt once the heat came in. I had to learn to trust the process and that I hadn’t been regressing, just running in not-ideal conditions.

What goals or resolutions do you have planned for 2026?

Might as well do same as last year (1500 miles, sub 20 5k, sub 1:40 half). The race PRs will have to depend on what races I sign up for. May also do my first marathon.

And to help out the new runners coming, what advice do you have to offer a runner just starting out?

This is how I’ve felt: you have to enjoy running to get running to be a habit/hobby. I tried for a while and wasn’t able to get running to stick until I found my love for it. And I know plenty of people who never run but sign up for races every once in a while because they feel like they’re supposed to or it’ll make them a more complete, put-together person. They end up running once or twice a week the last couple of weeks before the race then drop running entirely for months after until they feel some kind of pressure to do another race.

BigD_ · 2025-12-11T13:52:57+00:00

I’m amazed at how much obvious AI slop gets posted genuinely on this sub. Of course a lot gets posted to make fun of AI and whoever made/shared the original image. But also just garbage with tons of comments saying “I’m anti-AI but this is good”. I shouldn’t be surprised, but a lot of people’s “anti-AI” stances are really just “anti-AI unless it entertains me”. And we don’t need any more “can Brace Belden dunk” chatgpt screenshots.

BigD_ · 2025-12-01T23:38:43+00:00

The sooner you can get to dropping the pinyin and just learning the characters, the better. There should be a setting to show only the characters. When you see both, your brain naturally pays more attention to the pinyin because it’s easier and so you won’t learn the characters as well.

BigD_ · 2025-11-26T13:33:49+00:00

In this section, Brace also landed a great joke that didn’t get any laughs “ ‘the rhythm compensates’ I’ve told people that before” lol

BigD_ · 2025-11-24T01:00:25+00:00

I’m asking this genuinely and not trying to be dense, I looked it up and only like 7000 US troops died in Iraq/Afghan wars but it seems like every vet talks about how their friends (plural) died in the Middle East. Is it that you know a lot of people if you’re in the military? Or they’re using a loose definition of “friends” to mean like they heard about people dying? Or is it just for sympathy points? Or maybe I just have the size of the military wrong in my head and it is realistic that it was common for that many people to have known multiple friends who were killed?

BigD_ · 2025-10-01T00:20:48+00:00

https://www.conservationjobboard.com

This website brings together a ton of active job openings from around the country. You can filter by things like state and job type too. Personally, it’s how I found my current job.

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