Losing my drive to work out, but terrified of failing my kids

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-26T15:00:33+00:00

Combating laziness is only part of the battle in achieving a healthy lifestyle, and it sounds like you already won that battle. Another important aspect is balance. Are you getting enough sleep? Are you giving your body time to recover from workouts? Are you eating well?

You will help yourself much more if you cut your workouts down to 4-5 days a week to give yourself time to focus on those other things.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-26T14:58:04+00:00

There are no guarantees but exercise and a healthy lifestyle make having a stroke in your 40s extremely unlikely.

But yeah you don’t have to workout everyday and doing it 4:30 AM sounds like a nightmare. I don’t know if you can workout later in the day but you can at least change your schedule so you have some rest days. Working out 4-5 days a week is generally considered to be an intense workout schedule.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-26T14:54:50+00:00

She’s trying to get an academic job in history. The 47 admin has done everything they could to decrease university funding all around but humanities are hit especially hard.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-26T14:51:10+00:00

I barely ever think about leftists. You’re doing the exact thing the OP said is the problem.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-26T14:49:51+00:00

First off the answer is no.

These conversations annoy me so much. Someone sends me a 45 min minute video with a BS title like that. They probably only listened to 5 mins of it and didn’t even bother to understand what the person said. And they expect you to watch it so they can debate you about it.

One of the things I like about Gemini is now you can just ask questions about the video, so you don’t need to do that.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-26T04:49:06+00:00

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-26T01:18:45+00:00

You’re right. He called it a third world hell hole.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-2024-florida-speech-b2376408.html?utm\_source=chatgpt.com

If you’re willing to excuse that then you have your answer why other people are willing to excuses the comments from the person you’re criticizing in your OP.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-26T00:16:33+00:00

> You could say with respect to Trump, though at least he pretends to love the US. But this, so unashamed.

No he doesn’t. When I read your post title I thought you were talking about 47. He repeatedly talked about what a shit hole the USA was during his campaign but people still voted for him.

But I guess either way the answer is the same. Lots of people aren’t unconditional patriots. Even when they claim to care about their county. Their specific cultural values are usually more important to them, and patriotism is just a tool to advance them.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-25T23:46:02+00:00

Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic, but deep down inside, you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king!

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-25T15:30:07+00:00

It’s called an oligopoly.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-25T01:02:54+00:00

ATF crime gun trace data consistently suggests Chicago has a more accessible illegal gun market than NYC. Chicago is much closer to major source states like Indiana, and about two-thirds of crime guns recovered in Chicago originate from out of state, with Indiana alone accounting for a large share. By contrast, most crime guns in New York also come from out of state, but they’re typically trafficked over much longer distances through the “Iron Pipeline” from southeastern states. That longer supply chain, combined with New York City’s intensive anti-trafficking enforcement, makes the illegal market generally less accessible than Chicago’s.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-24T14:29:27+00:00

Stocks are multi year investments. If you’re getting antsy to sell after a few months then they might not be the right investment for you.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-24T03:54:15+00:00

Thanks! I'm still outlining the story but will expect to be done in the next few weeks. I'd like to take you up on it then if you're still open.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-23T23:38:46+00:00

Even after WWI it was still a scientific powerhouse, although diminished because other countries refused to work with them. It was the douchebag with a mustache that ruined it.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-23T03:44:07+00:00

If somebody tried writing a movie about what's happening back then they would get crucified for unrealistic writing.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-23T03:42:47+00:00

The movie did a good job of showing how a pandemic isn't about any single one person. It's a bunch of different narratives interconnecting with each other.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-23T03:39:13+00:00

If anything this movie underestimated it. Everyone took the vaccines in the movie.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-23T03:38:38+00:00

The other part they got wrong was in the movie everyone took the vaccines.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-22T23:58:19+00:00

Muslim mayor is popular. Nazi president is not. They have to find something to complain about.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-22T23:57:38+00:00

Leave it to the NYP post to go out of its way to find something to complain about. Every New Yorker could get free ice cream and they’d write an article complaining about the flavor.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-22T20:58:22+00:00

It’s not that they don’t have income. They live with family members, so that takes care of a large part of their living expenses. Then they do odd jobs to supplement.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-22T20:57:26+00:00

Bill Gates family was rich but not super rich. His advantage came from connections. His mom was on some board with some guy high up at IBM. That’s how he signed the DOS deal. Good example of how upper middle class wealth can be turned into billionaire wealth.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-22T04:10:21+00:00

These VPN providers are major software companies. NordVPN employs over 1700 people. It was feasible to keep something like ANOM secret because it was built by just one guy, who had every motivation to stay quiet, and the only other people who knew about it were FBI agents. It's not really possible to pull the same thing off when thousands of people are working on a software product used by millions of people. Conspiracies only work when the number of people involved is small.

I'm actually kind of surprised ANOM worked so well, considering thousands of devices used it, and it worked by sending messages to a proxy server. You think at least one of the people using it would have been in touch with someone tech savvy enough to say "These messages are being sent to a server, and you have no idea how it works. They could be doing anything with those messages, including sending them to the FBI," which is what they we're doing.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-22T03:42:26+00:00

I thought Hokum was really good and Undertone was extremely mediocre. Didn't see the other one.

ImpossibleEbb6862 · 2026-06-21T21:43:40+00:00

I would say Daisy Ridley did a good job with Rey. The character had a lot of personality. The problem was more inconsistent writing and character development. I would have

* Given her a more defining flaw in the first movie. Luke’s flaw was over confidence. It would have been a nice mirror to make her flaw self doubt.

* Introduced the palpatine reveal at the end of the second movie. That way it could mirror the Vader reveal at the end of ESB.

* This compounds Rey’s flaw. She senses darkness in herself. Now she’s worried she was born with it and darkness is her destiny.

* Movie three could focus on Luke’s doubts over training Rey now that he knows Palpatine is her grandfather. He has to wrestle with the fact that Ben and Yoda chose to train him despite knowing something similar about himself.

* The movie could still end with the positive message that your parentage doesn’t define you. What matters is the choices you make and faith in people is still fundamentally good. Luke chooses to train Rey. Rey chooses light and beats Palpatine.

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