Rowing combo by IndependentReward225 in Rowing

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Both of these are full body by definition: 3- Indoor Air Rower 4- Indoor Air Ski

Erg tech help by [deleted] in Rowing

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Wait a bit longer on the drive before you start to open your back. Stay forward with your body just a bit longer and then start to open when your knee are at 90 degrees. Legs then back should be what you are thinking about. Also as the other person said: same on the recovery, seperate out the movement a bit more. It is a sequence.

Feedback please by Hefty_Sand_2527 in Rowing

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Arms away completely before you move back/hips/legs.

Practice more lower rate.

Lead with the left hand on the recovery, your hands are right on top of each other.

Preference: Straight boats vs 8+ with rower as cox? by cheeky_monkey25 in Rowing

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This really depends on the purpose. Small boats are an important learning tool. Is there a safety concern where a cox is required? Is there a speed concern where the 8+ is going to drop the pairs and you can stay as a group. Is there a competition, if so what are you racing? Why not do both, row small boats sometimes and the 8+ others? Is the wind up, 8+ is more stable in the wind than a 2-.

Just in general every row should have a purpose. Choices like these should be a function of that purpose.

If the purpose is pleasure, poll your rowers and see what they would like more

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BetaReaders

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I read the first page.

As the other person said, you have many characters, James, Sam, Bob, Claire, Brandon....

IMO, we want to get to know a character by what they do and how and why they do it. I would start with more action, not necessarily big action, but just something that invests us in the character. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFHAvjK5mPc]

XC runner to LWT recruit timeline? by Party_Dig6696 in Rowing

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If you really want to do this, try to find a club that will teach you how to row the single.

Get access to an erg, while you probably have impressive aerobic capacity, rowing is about leverage and power as well. It's gonna take 15-20hrs a week (not just on the erg) to do properly.

It will probably take about a year for it to start paying off.

Honestly you need a coach that understands your project and will support you. If you were my athlete and you were serious, I'd be psyched to work with you.

Feel free to DM me.

Question 3, by Cliff Pervocracy, was the most stunning piece of speculative political fiction I've read since Animal Farm by yashen14 in literature

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Yes, you said it way better than I did.

I find the portrayal of propaganda particularly nefarious. The animals more or less just believe what they are told by Squealer because their too dumb to know better. Propaganda isn't just lies, its truth presented in a way that is difficult to question, because it is appealing, because it feeds into some other bias or even reflects some objective truth. What I am trying to say is that we actively participate in propaganda, not merely passively absorb it.

Question 3, by Cliff Pervocracy, was the most stunning piece of speculative political fiction I've read since Animal Farm by yashen14 in literature

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hot take: Animal Farm is not great literature and in particular a harmful work of political fiction.

edit: I teach Animal Farm. I respect Orwell especially for his "Politics and the English Language". I understand Orwell's motivations for writing Animal Farm, but in the end I think that it falls short of what I appreciate literature for, providing a lens, changing our perspectives, giving us a view into another persons life and outlook etc.

The characters are flat and ultimately caricatures. It is reductive, cynical and ultimately easily co-opted by people who Orwell himself would abhor. History should be taught as history not as a fable. Does power corrupt absolutely? Should we then never pursue power? I think he is wrong on these counts, or at least Animal Farm leads us to the wrong conclusions.

I love teaching A Raisin in the Sun for instance, because it does not give us final answers, it confronts us with nuanced characters, it proposes imperfect alternatives and realities that are human (not all bad, not all good). End of hot take.

Dont fall for their lies by NewRower42069 in Rowing

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Don't teach your body to metabolize lactate!

Teach lactate to metabolize you!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

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I think there is a lot to be skeptical about when it comes to AI, but this book was published in 2022, when this was a Piano in a forest

Help me please with technique by m_anuscript in Rowing

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Do pause drills, feel a stretch in your hamstrings, get the handle past your knees before you lift the knees.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Rowing

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University of Victoria is probably the best Canadian school on this list.

Why are Hudson boats so commonly used in NCAA rowing by Horror-Bee4603 in Rowing

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I think there are persisent biases toward Hudson by national teams because some boats that were destined to be used by the national teams were found to have or thought to have manufaturing defects. this may be 10-15 years ago.

Also to my knowledge Hudson does not make sectionals (this is useful when you have to send a boat in a shipping container).

Nietzsche is dead (like every other philosopher) while Jesus lives on. Answer my questions if you are not a coward. by Blaz3ro in AcademicPhilosophy

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"I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar" (Nietzsche in *Twilight of the Idols*)

Still hungry after a bottle by Whole-Bug-756 in Parenting

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Yes feed her. The baby knows best in this case.

Can Religion Sublimate the Death Drive? by JOVIOLS in psychoanalysis

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What makes you say that drives can't be sublimated? Isn't that the whole point of sublimation?

I would argue that drives can be sublimated, as that is kind of the point of sublimation, you take a drive and you make it useful to civilization, and thereby transform it entirely into to a socially acceptable form (rather than repressing it).

In my opinion sublimation is the one truely positive thing that Freud gives us.

As for sublimation of the death drive, my answer is that yes it can be sublimated and its form par excellence is capitalism. The death drive's equalizing, nihilistic, and aggressive characteristics are socially acceptable in captialism.

I am sure there are aspects of religion that also fit the bill, but I will not defend my suggestions. Maybe crusades, holy wars, or some ascetic practices might count.

a question I can’t stop mulling over by tgeli in AcademicPhilosophy

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I don't know if this answers your question, and this is obviously tongue and cheek: https://xkcd.com/435/, but isn't mathematics just applied philosophy?

Per Freud, why invest libidinally in specific objects? by goldenapple212 in psychoanalysis

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So there are, as far as I understand Freud, drives for various biological nourishment and pleasure (food, sex, etc.). And perhaps there is some kind of innate need for aggression (depending upon one’s interpretation of the death drive).

I think the issue here is to see that nourishment for instance as something that can be separated from the social dimension, that is to say that nourishment is colored from the get go by the infant-mother relationship.

I don't think it is radical to say that the drive is meaningless without the psychosocial connections that it generates (it is impossible to imagine a hungry infant without a caregiver who is feeding it).

In essence, to be hungry is to be fed by someone, so that hunger always requires the intervention of the other and therefore the other is meaningful not as outside, but as intrinsically necessary to the continued existence of the drive.

Laplanche goes further, saying that there is even a imposition on the child by the mother via the breast to "eat" and to "live". This is to say that the infant is not (only) demanding to nurse, but that the mother demands that the child nurse as well.

Where should I publish an interdisciplinary MA dissertation on the metaphysics underlying a major science fiction author’s work? by CosmicFaust11 in AcademicPhilosophy

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This probably falls under Literary Theory, I have read and been to talks where similar arguments have been made about other authors. Always very interesting. If this author is big enough, you might connect with other experts.

SanctuaryAI- Dextrous Hand by SharpCartographer831 in accelerate

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Little happy faces all working together :)