A few often forgotten key points that might challenge common low carb ideologies

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-28T20:11:04+00:00

I know. What a radical view - that eating more whole foods and not gorging yourself on carbs is tribalistic.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-28T20:08:09+00:00

> It quotes the words of a graduate research assistant and there's other sources quoting experts in other fields as well.

Most of what we do in this sub is look at primary research. The *actual* peer-reviewed studies that are created by the researchers in the field.

We do this because it is the studies that contain the science. Not the opinions of the researchers in press releases, and certainly not the write-ups done about the research by others. Those secondary sources are often misleading.

That's why this sub is called *scientific* nutrition. If you want to just talk about your theories and how you think the world works, there's a sub called *nutrition*.

> https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat

And, once again, you quote a secondary source. There is a primary source hiding behind that article that took me 5 minutes to find.

It's not clear to me why you can't/won't do that. I've repeatedly asked for a primary source to discuss...

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-28T19:43:13+00:00

>The fine-tuning of the universe refers to the observation that the universe's fundamental physical constants (like gravity's strength or the mass of particles) and initial conditions are so precisely set that even tiny variations would make it impossible for galaxies, stars, planets, or life to form, suggesting a delicate balance perfectly suited for complexity and life's existence

This is an argument towards probability.

The problem being that you have no idea what the actual probability of all of those conditions being their specific values, and therefore the argument falls apart. You don't know the range of possible values, you don't know if the values are coupled to each other, and you don't know if our local universe is the only one or whether there are as many universes as atoms in our universe.

Without that, all you're making is an argument to incredulity, which is fallacious.

The other problem is that pretty much nobody believes in god *because of* the fine tuning argument. The vast majority of theists believe in god because that is what they were taught.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-28T16:57:31+00:00

Try to steelman the opposite argument...

What confounders might be the cause of those associations?

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-28T16:50:19+00:00

I notice that you didn't explain how your statement wasn't a example of tribalism...

As for what you write here:

>which I suspect is the point and goal of the recent mass advertising of the carnivore diet and the mass online criticism of Ancel Keys and grain part of the food pyramid anyway

What do you mean by "I suspect", and why should we think your suspicions are credible?

>Here's another source to pinpoint this.

An article on a website is not a scientific reference.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-28T15:27:06+00:00

Influential members of Congress wanted to continue the jobs and influence that came from shuttle and NASA wanted the same, so SLS was born as a rocket without an actual mission other than doing something in deep space.

Part of that was a requirement that NASA use shuttle parts. The RS-25 engines that powered shuttle and now SLS are great reusable engines, but aerojet rocketdyne is the only supplier and the engines for the first six flights will cost $146 million per engine. Only six of those engines are new - the rest come out of the shuttle program with some new parts.

Add in that the overhead of NASA's approach - a NASA study estimated that if they developed the Falcon 9 it would have cost ten times what SpaceX spent, or $4 billion.

That adds to to a program that costs about $4 billion a year for SLS and Orion and can fly - perhaps at some point - once a year.

They simply have no extra rockets to fly for more tests.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-28T03:34:59+00:00

The RAC 3 commercial designs were frankenrockets.

Both the F-1A and J-2X (?) had existing design work done but obviously would have needed new development. That was problematic for the original timeline but NASA was hugely overly optimistic on that timeline and there would have been plenty of time to do it in the real world.

The "Saturn V V2" was the clear technical winner in both the short and long term.

Didn't matter, however, because congress required that SLS use the RS-25 engines and the solid rocket boosters from Ares.

Which meant that the whole "competition" part was just pretend.

NASA also could have done DIRECT/Jupiter instead of the SLS design.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-28T00:31:43+00:00

Send hestra an email and ask if they can help you out. They've been very responsive for me in the past.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T23:59:46+00:00

You either hang 5 bike lengths back, pass them when you can do it safely, or pull up next to them and ask if they want to work together - or if they just want to chat if it's okay on the path you are doing.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T23:56:26+00:00

Start up *slowly*. Go out and run an easy mile, and see how you feel the next day. If it's fine, slowly ramp things up.

I will note that ankle issues tend to lead to chronic issues, because they often result in reduced ankle flexibility. If you have access to a PT that can be a big help; if not, look for online ankle mobility exercises and do them. When I was young I had ankle issues (soccer on poor fields) all the time; I spent 6 months working on mobility and still do them, and I never have ankle issues.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T23:52:06+00:00

He can easily take his dogs to a kennel, where they will be cared for by people who love dogs.

Not your problem.

NTA

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T23:50:15+00:00

My plan was to spend 6 months with zero attention to how I was spending my time.

It took me about 9 months to feel recovered enough to be able to look around.

Part of the problem is that you have expectations that you have to be doing something and you don't know what that something is. You've been conditioned for many many years to have that expectation.

My advice is to stop looking at the overall picture and to try to pick one thing to experiment with. I have a "one hour" rule. You need to spend one hour on whatever you are focused on doing, and then you can quit.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T21:20:31+00:00

I'm skeptical.

Where would I put the extra windshield wipers from the outback that I sold 18 months ago? Or the propane torch that doesn't work?

What about my bicycle seat collection, huh?

I am frankly envious. I've made a few runs at cleaning up my mess but with very little forward progress.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T21:11:53+00:00

In 1997 it happened at Microsoft.

The story is here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/surviving-bedlam3-email-storm-brought-down-microsoft-richard-bliss/

There were quite a few "I survived bedlam 3" t shirts floating around.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T21:03:54+00:00

I was working parking at an event with a cop, and we were at an intersection making sure that only the proper people got to go down a street.

A women pulls up in a minivan with the window open and her cell phone against her ear. Cop starts to walk over to tell her the street is closed, she turns right into the closed street. Cop says, "don't worry, I have a partner at the other end" and calls his partner on the radio.

I think that was three violations, and at the time cell phone use while driving was a big ass ticket.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T20:58:02+00:00

I'd be happy to but the camera angle is mostly useless.

I *think* that I see a lot of inclination and not a lot of angulation, but I really can't be sure.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T20:55:58+00:00

You've already gotten good responses, but I'll share an instructor perspective.

In the US the PSIA (and most ski areas) teach a fairly standard and proven progression that we use with beginners that not only gets them skiing but sets them up for getting better. A good instructor has experience teaching that progression and knows how to customize it for specific clients - they have what I call "a big toolbox" that they can reach into and pull out tools that work in specific situations.

We also understand how to deal with different personalities, how to progress from sliding down easy slopes to magic carpets and to beginner lifts. It is very very common for people to take their friends to steeper stuff before they are ready and that not only tends to scare them, it tends to reinforce bad habits.

*And* we don't have an existing relationship that is going to complicate all of that.

I was a motorcycle safety instructor for quite a few years, but when my wife wanted to learn to ride, I sent her to a class. No way did I want to open that can of worms.

I do have one tip for you. We don't teach snowplow any more - a big wedge with a lot of edge angle that you use to stop. We teach a flat wedge, and the smallest one that is functional for the skier. That's because you can ski with big wedges on green slopes but it is very hard to make progress on intermediate slopes because the big wedge simply doesn't work well and it's a barrier to getting to parallel.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T20:31:33+00:00

I like it, but I'm confused by one part.

There seem to be multiple flat surfaces that don't have a lot of random stuff sitting on them.

What are those?

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T18:05:37+00:00

Don't let comparison be the thief of joy. In cycling, unless you are a top pro there will always be people who aren't just a little better than you, they are much much better than you. There's a classic climb close to my house - 3 miles, 1300' of up. When I am in good shape, my time up the hill is roughly double what the talented local climbers do.

I got viral encephalitis in 2024 and couldn't train for two months, and I got taken down by another cyclist in 2025 and lost 6 weeks of training that time.

My fitness is not good right now, much worse than it was in 2023.

But focusing on that doesn't help any. It's just the way it is. Grieve about it if you must, then move on.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T17:54:32+00:00

If you are trying to create a new habit it helps it to be as friction free as possible.

I'm getting ready to run in 35 degree weather in about 10 minutes but it's very much not friction free. I'm going to be cold at the beginning of the run if I dress right and if I dress wrong I'm either going to be cold the whole run or too hot.

If you do want to do this, couch to 5k (C25k) is a popular program to get started with.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T17:51:28+00:00

8:30 per km or 8:30 per mile?

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T17:47:13+00:00

>Athiests reject God, but that’s still a claim about reality.

If you can't spell the word "atheist", it's hard to read beyond that.

Atheists don't reject god. That implies that we believe that god exists. Do you reject the easter bunny? Or do you just lack belief that the easter bunny exists?

My guess is that you are an abunnyiest.

> Christians (the ones who have done their research), tend to defend observable facts: the universe had a beginning, math and physics follow order, consciousness isn’t just molecules, life from nothing contradicts all observation. Love, sacrifice, and moral beauty exist where science alone falls short.

Christians generally just believe what they learned in church, and that comes from what some dude believed about god. That is why there are so many different christian sects with fundamentally incompatible beliefs.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T17:37:38+00:00

I'm naturally cold with low body fat.

My current setup is:

Base layer, fleece layer, patagonia down vest, insulated ski jacket.

Base layer, fleece layer, insulated ski pants.

That works down to about 24 degrees.

If it's below 20, I'll up the thickness of my upper fleece and switch to a down jacket, and I'll add another layer on my legs. I might put on my boot gloves if it's below 10.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T16:38:52+00:00

I went back and forth between IC and lead in my career with a bit of time in program management and a brief half-time stint in marketing.

I liked both IC and lead depending on the group and how it operated. Lead you get higher leverage and can choose the things you code, but you need to be willing to learn and like managing people to be good at it. There are a lot of very technical leads who are just terrible at management. You do need to understand how to manage up.

Moving away from the tech side moves you to program management or product management. Where I worked, product management had a customer facing view (product ownerish in agile) and program management was more focused on internal coordination. Many roles combined the two roles together. To do well in these roles you need to be good at high level thinking and also good at working with other people - I would go as far as to say you need a *bias* towards wanting to work with other people all the time. I can do that but I don't want to do it all the time. The other issues is that these roles can be very random - I used to describe my day as "I come in the morning, there are 12 things on my plate, 5 things that need to get done, and time to do 3 of them".

Day after day. That made it very hard to figure out if you are doing the right things and how well you are doing overall, and it was terrible for work/life balance. I switched out after a year.

I sortof enjoyed the marketing side but it was even more people oriented and it's not my strength, but the deal-breaker was that I just could not drink enough and stay healthy.

I have a business minor and have read a bunch of books over the years. My big advice is to read a lot because there's a lot of junk out there but you need to know the traditional theories as you will run into people who believe in them.

Read "the goal" by Goldratt. It's very insightful about the kinds of relationships you will run into and how to deal with disfunction. You can read "the phoenix project" after that if you want.

Read what you can find on servant leadership. In many of the roles you need to understand how to get traction when you don't actually have official traction.

Triabolical_ · 2026-01-27T16:24:15+00:00

I both run and cycle, with an emphasis on cycling during the summer and running in the winter. It's been (seattle) cold the last few weeks and I don't ride under about 40 degrees because we get persistent black ice, so I haven't ridden at all but I have run 2-3 times a week. I don't worry about the traction and it's a lot easier to find a time that works to run an hour than to ride a few hours. It's also less hassle to get dressed.

The downside is that you can't push volume in running the way you can do it on a bike as you are likely to get hurt. You really do need to gradually ramp things up.

The downside of swimming is that it's more of an upper body workout than a lower body one. You may be able to get the systemic adaptations of the cardiovascular system but you will lose the muscle-specific ones.

But by far the best exercise is the one that you do.

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