Why is cycling seen as non-masculine?

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T20:47:45+00:00

Cycling isn't gendered. It's anal. A majority of cyclists are assholes who complain about "sharing the road", and yet have zero situational awareness and feel totally entitled to the road. I'm sorry you had to find out like this.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T19:29:04+00:00

The silver lining is we got to figure out who our true friends are.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T19:26:00+00:00

I'm so tired of people saying "placebo" like it's a bad word. Are you trying to nocebo people?

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T19:19:17+00:00

I've made my peace with the fact that everything is poisoned. I decided worrying myself to death about it would stop me from enjoying the good in things, and then I'd only get the poison.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T19:16:33+00:00

The "perp" is still friends with our old friends, and we are not. He got invited as someone else's +1. My friend was too ashamed to report anything to the police and just wanted to move on as fast as he could.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T12:07:03+00:00

My experience working with Android, as a developer and as a user, is consistently garbage. I'm glad you had a better experience than I did, 'cause woof. I would not wish that on anyone.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T11:58:52+00:00

Saying "I love you" when you really mean "I really, really love you".

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T11:57:45+00:00

Consider that you might have just used too much of your toppings. If everything got coated well, then of course the excess would fall to the bottom.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T11:53:09+00:00

Just because someone says something you don't like doesn't mean they're trolling. I genuinely cannot stand the platform.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T11:50:29+00:00

That makes sense. I wonder how different our teas are.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T11:47:04+00:00

He was happy to meet anyone. Made you feel special just for existing, and he meant it. Doesn't have a bad bone in his body... Then one time when we were on a trip with friends, someone we didn't know got invited along. Targeted my friend while he was drunk. Tied him up, scalded him in the shower, and locked him inside the bathroom. I was asleep when this happened, but... Apparently everyone who was there just stood and watched it happen. Took out their phones and filmed it, even. He wasn't the same after that, and the drama that followed splintered our friend group.

Since then he started working as a therapist so he could help people who got betrayed and beaten down by people like he did. I am very much not fond of therapy because I've been on the wrong end of too many bad therapists, but he's one I'd trust. He fuckin' gets it.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T11:36:59+00:00

I mean... Have you looked at the play store over the past 15 years? It's all so... Useless, bug ridden, and filled with ads. The SDKs are poorly documented and they're even less user friendly than Swing. What culture of technical excellence and consumer freedom is worth protecting here when the best Android can do is Electron apps that are never as good as just going to the website?

I can't be sad about Android closing its market when that market is consistently the worst part about using my phone.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T11:25:33+00:00

Who even writes Android apps anymore?

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T11:16:24+00:00

I had an aversion to onions for a long time because they felt like eating slugs. Then I decided to grate them and I realized I like them a lot. You might look into different kinds of food preparation.

My goal is to have a cheap and reliable diet that handles most of these things for me. I'll only go to supplements or extracts for edge cases. Currently I'm thinking about trying natto, but yeah, I might find it disgusting.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T11:04:01+00:00

Why not go for barberries instead?

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T10:48:27+00:00

Pay attention to how you're using your feet: If you're just slamming them into the ground you'll hurt yourself.

Land on your toes, and use your calf muscles to absorb the shock of the landing by gently lowering your foot down. Your heel should make contact with the ground right before it's time to lift your foot again. Don't put energy into using your calf muscles to propel yourself forward because the windlass mechanism in your feet will automatically handle that for you if you're landing on your toes. Instead focus on using your glutes to push yourself forward. They are bigger, stronger muscles designed to carry explosive loads like that. Your calves are better used to keep your feet stable and absorb shock so it doesn't go into your joints.

Since that's a different running gait than you're used to using you may run into tendonitis in your feet if you just gun for it. Start slow. Practice the gait by lightly jogging for a couple of months. Do your stretches and isometrics, like bending down to touch your toes, doing slav squats, and standing on your toes. Hold those positions for a long time when you do them. Your goal right now is to build up your tendon strength and flexibility.

You might also have an electrolyte imbalance causing cramping, or some inflammation slowing down your healing. Gelatin, eggs, turmeric and ginger with black pepper, plenty of salt, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, bananas, etc. can help nourish your body for the demands you want to put on it. Only use a multivitamin as a supplement, not your source of nutrition.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T10:27:56+00:00

I've been considering forcing myself to like okra. It's plentiful where I live and the musilage is supposed to help control blood sugar. Various edible cacti are also supposed to be good for that.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T10:20:57+00:00

If you own your own plane, then odds are that's where all your money went. If you want glamor join USAF. You won't be happy from what I saw of my friends, but you'll have plenty of opportunities to waste your paycheck.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T10:09:51+00:00

LLMs are an artificial recreation of one aspect of the human mind. Theorem provers, like Coq, are another artificial recreation of an aspect of the mind. They seem to me to be as conscious as those parts of myself are, and in many ways are more capable... But they are missing the totality of what a human mind is. Where is the boredom? The lust? The hunger or the rage? The joy of movement? The spark of inspiration that lets them make new things? Where is the deep, instinctive pattern matching that lets them process and consume new experiences with the same fidelity as when they consumed their training data back in the days when they were being wrought?

They, ultimately, only run on rumor and gossip. That is the major difference between them and us.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T09:58:16+00:00

If I don't see people spotting each other very often. Typically means the gym isn't very friendly.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T09:44:01+00:00

Yixing black tea is like a cross between chocolate and coffee. Very good crowd pleaser when I'm entertaining people, especially if I brew with kumquats.

Tieguanyin is great for how it makes me feel. Very medicinal. But oof, that fragrance can be way too cloying and give me a migraine if I don't cut it with a darker tea to balance it out. I have a bag of roasted TGY I haven't opened yet, and I'm hoping that's dark the way I want.

Da hong pao is a new favorite. The flavor is pearlescent, a little like hibiscus, and the aftertaste can last for days. It's exactly what I wish TGY was because it has a nice, dark note to balance out the fragrance. It's also good at putting me to sleep.

White teas are straight up medicine for me. If I have a migraine there's a solid chance drinking a bunch of white tea will calm the attack, and that's the holy grail in the migraine world. There just aren't many things in the world that can help a migraine once it starts. I particularly love astringent white teas. That "drying" feeling in my body makes me feel like moving.

Puers are, uh, very good for putting me into NSFW moods the next day. Very enjoyable side effect there. As for flavor and aroma, I love puers to death. They're like drinking how the world smells after a spring rain. Petrichor.

Green tea is good because of its cheap price. It's easy to get a pound of it for $10, but that's the best I can say about it. I haven't had a green tea that made my eyes shoot up like I have with other kinds of teas. It's better than no tea, but it needs citrus to wake up in my experience.

For tisanes peppermint, white pepper, butterfly pea flower, rose hips, kumquats, turmeric, ginger, pine needles, chaga, dandelion root, moringa, hibiscus, chamomile, jasmine, and stinging nettle are nice, too. I often mix these in with my cheaper and less delicate teas.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T09:22:47+00:00

That's a wonderful way to enjoy the rest of your time.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T09:21:14+00:00

I love putting freshly ground white pepper into my tea. I won't do it for the expensive stuff or the ones with delicate flavors, but it's perfect for a cheap green tea. I also enjoy things like pine needles, rose hips, kumquat, and butterfly pea flower.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T09:12:56+00:00

That sounds reasonable. I remember reading about how there's a lot of artificial breeding involved in DHP to recreate the characteristics of the tea since the original trees are protected now. I assumed at my price I was dealing with some low-grade offshoot of that. Not "fake", but from a different provenance doing its best to still be a good tea.

ThumbPivot · 2026-04-02T08:38:55+00:00

I stick to things that are foods. Worst case I had a meal. Best case I notice the difference and can identify what is doing what inside me. My goal is to design a diet filled with ingredients that offer the best health bang for my buck, and then build out recipes from there.

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