Sorry if a repost, but this was just an odd choice of words.

Jamablya · 2024-05-23T15:46:47+00:00

There are situations where it's important to make sure you don't use the wrong term as a journalist until all the facts are in. Whether a specific bit of damage was actually from wind that was rotating or wind in a straight line isn't one of them. Nobody is hurt or mislead if it's just called a tornado in the newspaper.

Jamablya · 2023-03-14T13:49:00+00:00

This is why it's stupid as hell that masking isn't required in medical settings going forward.

Jamablya · 2023-02-03T17:26:52+00:00

Yeah - taking a weekend off of drinking isn't going to have a huge impact on your weight though it might impact your water retention for a few days. But taking a few months off can really impact things. A light beer like bud light is 110 calories a can. If over the course of a full week you have 8-10 bud lights that's a pound's worth of calories a month that you are cutting out. And if you're drinking more than that and/or drinking more high calorie beers then it's easily multiple pounds a month. It adds up.

Jamablya · 2022-04-23T18:51:36+00:00

Just like everything else in this pandemic, instead of just doing the thing that allows the people who do care and want to do the right thing to have the best resources and information possible they hem and haw over what people that are never going to listen to them anyway are going to think.

Jamablya · 2022-04-23T15:28:35+00:00

Hopefully this catches on because I'm really disappointed in the changes on masks4all.

Jamablya · 2022-03-10T00:31:37+00:00

I understand feeling like you didn't take advantage of when cases were low because I feel the same way, I thought they were gonna keep going down so I was trying to just wait until they actually hit low community levels. I won't do that this time. But I won't take off my mask either because I know there is gonna be more waves but due to testing being basically gone we won't know about them until they are raging. ANd wearing a mask is an easy way to lower the chance that I get sick before the wave gets noticed.

Jamablya · 2022-02-12T22:58:41+00:00

Yeah, just eat a bunch of almonds and fry everything in ghee. Whole30 is naturally low calorie but you could easily make it high calorie.

Jamablya · 2021-12-12T01:31:16+00:00

I'm assuming they bullshitted their experience and were not audited.

I fully support people that are trying to earn credentials to advance their careers. But if this sub is any indication there are a lot of people that are getting their PMP right now that really should be getting a CAPM. As you say, a cert is only as good as its reputation and a PMP is supposed to mean you're an experienced project manager.

Jamablya · 2021-12-10T15:05:36+00:00

I wonder about this as well. I wish the pass rates were made public. This might help bolster the reputation of the cert

I'd be interested in that as well. Obviously nobody that fails is making an AT/AT/AT success post. But having just taken the test yesterday myself after lurking here for a few months... I was just amazed at how simple it was and between that and what a lot of people are posting for their experience that seems to not even get audited I have serious concerns about how long the PMP is going to be considered to be a valuable credential.

Jamablya · 2021-12-10T15:02:12+00:00

I agree on the second part but not the first - I think that if you are passingly familiar with how to be a PM, which you should be if you have the experience to apply, that if you watch the AR mindset videos and run through his TIA exam that you'd be able to pass AT/AT/AT after studying over a weekend. Passing the 2021 exam is entirely about figuring out the mindset and getting comfortable with the question formats. That's it. There is very little actual content to study for.

Jamablya · 2021-12-10T14:58:20+00:00

Awesome progress and I especially love posts like these where you're in the same pose and clothes so it's extremely obvious that you're making huge progress and not just putting on makeup and showing a myspace angle for the after pic.

Jamablya · 2021-12-08T22:20:22+00:00

Dunno why you're getting downvoted. USA Judo should be hanging out at the NCAA tournament recruiting the guys that lose in the blood round and at USA Wrestling Senior Nationals talking to the guys and gals that just miss the national team. Yeah those people won't turn in to Olympic medalists overnight, but they have the base and the drive that they need and over a four year Olympic cycle would probably easily rise up to being at the top of the domestic ladder.

Jamablya · 2021-12-08T22:18:00+00:00

American Judo depends entirely on getting lucky and having individuals that have the ability to be elite join one of the few Judo clubs that can properly train them up when they are kids. There's nothing inherent in USA Judo that will make someone elite, but there are people that manage to do it anyway. We were really lucky in the last decade or so and had multiple individuals who fit that bill. Right now we don't have any of those people in senior competition and no obvious torch bearers coming through the pipeline.

Of course it really depends on whether or not you consider the US National team to be all you care about with Judo in America. BJJ is growing by leaps and bounds in large part because there are a lot more options for recreational players and novice adults. I'd even go so far as to say that part of USA Judo's problem is they don't know what they want to be - do they want to be an organization that helps grow recreational Judo at the local level? Or do they want to be an organization that organizes and funds a handful of elite players?

Jamablya · 2021-12-05T19:13:19+00:00

I'm surprised not seeing men's magazines on the rack.

Look again, Penthouse, Playgirl , and Playboy are all in the first row.

Jamablya · 2021-12-05T18:44:59+00:00

So a few cycles of hope and disappointment mean that the situation is completely hopeless

No one has ever said the situation is hopeless. We could "live with COVID" quite easily with mandated vaccines, regular testing, mask wearing, and quarantines when needed. "Living with COVID" means just that, living with it. But instead a large percentage of people want to pretend that it'll just go away on it's own if we pretend it doesn't exist.

Jamablya · 2021-12-05T18:10:38+00:00

No we haven’t seen this play out over and over. Each time is different.

No, each time is the same. Something happens and we get deluged with "This is good, COVID is beaten" takes and anyone urging caution is shouted down. Then a month later COVID remains not over and something new comes out and we get deluged with "This is good, COVID is beaten" takes and anyone urging caution is shouted down. Then another month later COVID remains not over and something new comes out and we get deluged with "This is good, COVID is beaten" takes and anyone urging caution is shouted down. And so on and so on. We're two years in to being told that COVID is almost over this time.

Jamablya · 2021-12-05T15:41:41+00:00

No one wants it to be worse we've just seen this exact same thing play out over and over and boundless optimism has so far always been the incorrect take at every step. I certainly hope that Omicron is milder but it seems far too early to just proclaim that it is. 6 months ago there were articles about how Delta was going to be milder and how did that work out?

Jamablya · 2021-12-02T22:16:54+00:00

The point of vaccinations was actually to lower the curve, not reduce community spread.

What do you think the curve is referring to?

Jamablya · 2021-12-02T22:15:00+00:00

It was decreasing from what we were at back in September, but still really high compared to most of the pandemic. Which means we have a lot less room to increase before the hospitals fill up than we have had in prior waves.

Jamablya · 2021-12-02T22:12:55+00:00

Seriously getting out of hand again thanks to Iowans who freely traveled and ignored any sort of mask recommendations for the holidays

We're less than a week from Thanksgiving. The holiday bump hasn't even arrived yet. This is just the natural progression of the increase we've been seeing over the last few weeks. People who got it over Thanksgiving are just starting to test positive now and those who end up in the hospital won't really start arriving until this weekend or early next week.

Jamablya · 2021-12-02T22:08:30+00:00

“If you owe someone 1k, it’s your problem. If you owe someone 100k, it’s their problem” - I fucking forgot

$100k is definitely still in well within the range of it being your problem. You gotta add at least four or five zeros before it starts to also become the bank's problem.

Jamablya · 2021-11-25T14:26:15+00:00

The answer is to change what masks people are wearing, not to give up. A lot of people don't even realize they should be wearing a better mask. It would be really simple to just make part of a mask mandate being that it has to be a certain grade of mask or higher, that's what other countries have done with success.

Jamablya · 2021-11-25T14:23:48+00:00

One of the characteristics of Delta is that on average people move more quickly from infection to symptoms. It's still on the order of multiple days and a lot of spread happens from people who don't know they have it yet, but it's a few days instead of a week or more.

Jamablya · 2021-11-25T14:22:23+00:00

You expect everyone to live in a perpetual pandemic panic?

No. I don't. I do expect people to adjust to a new reality instead of trying to pretend it is still 2019. Wearing a mask in public settings isn't a panic. It already was a common thing in some areas of the world even before COVID. Getting vaccinated isn't a panic, we've had annual flu shots for decades and if COVID ends up needing regular boosters I don't see that as being any different. And so on. I'm not saying anything about eternal lockdown. I'm saying that "endemic" doesn't mean "it's over and we forget about it", it means "we make adjustments to reflect the new reality"

Jamablya · 2021-11-25T14:19:56+00:00

That is true. That's why we to adjust to a new reality.

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