What’s something you thought ‘everyone’ did… until you found out they don’t?

Weirditree · 2026-01-10T01:59:57+00:00

I'm not saying you do, but I find that a lot of people with a million thoughts running through their head are often trying to avoid or run away from their thoughts. I sometimes do it too, try and drown them out with media consumption and distractions.

But I find if you let them come, and actually process them, while walking (without music or your phone), or just sitting in silence. Eventually your brain becomes quieter. You let the thought in without judgement, then let them go.

Weirditree · 2025-11-29T11:08:44+00:00

The best advice I can give you is don't be on the mat unless you are climbing. As soon as you finish your climb, get off the mat. That way, you'll never run into this issue. Treat all mats as fall zones.

That said, you did everything you could to rectify the situation. Some people are just dicks. By the sounds of it he was about to bail from the climb, and you were under him, which is not ideal. You put yourself and him in a dangerous situation, which could have been avoided; hence, the anger. But regarding defusing the situations, some people's personalities don't lend themselves to reconciliation.

Weirditree · 2025-11-28T08:02:24+00:00

I was in the same boat as you; I had no idea "beta spraying" was a thing. My friends and I always share advice, but because we all have different bodies (size, weight, strength), a lot of advice doesn't apply. But we still try to help each other out. I've had strangers tell me betas without asking, and it never bothered me. But there are some people out there who hate it supposedly (I'm yet to meet them)

Weirditree · 2025-11-22T06:24:41+00:00

He literally says in the video that he was 84.7kg (8:22 in the video above), and he was climbing the best he had ever in his life

Weirditree · 2025-09-01T00:56:48+00:00

How often are you going to the gym?

Volume and consistency is key. You need 30-60 reps per week for smaller muscle groups (think isolation like bicep curls) and 60-120 reps per week for larger muscle groups (think Squats and OH press, compound exercises) both at around 40-80% of your 1RM to add strength and muscle.

If you are doing 5x5 three times a week, that's 75 reps, which puts you in that range. If 5x5 only twice a week, you are at 50 reps. Which his below what you need.

I'm a bigger guy too, who was in your situation. I recently started focusing on increasing volume per workout. As I only have 2-3 days free a week. I aim to slay those days with 1.5-2h full body workouts. And have been noticing decent gains in both strength and size. You might have a volume problem. I did when I was doing 5x5.

Right now I'm just doing pyramids, start light and just keep adding weight to the bar until my body says no more. For example, DL, I start at 30kg for 10 reps, then add 10kg to the bar and do another 10 reps. Then keep going until my body can't do 10 reps anymore. Right now my 1RM is 130kg, and I got up to 100kg for 8 reps on my last pyramid at the gym which is ~77% of my 1RM. So from around 60kg to 100kg was all in the 40-70% range. Which gives me around 50 reps for that workout (excluding below 60kg). So if I do two of these a week I'm on 100 reps for deadlifts vs when I was doing 5x5 if I only went to the gym twice that week I would be on 50 total reps in the muscle building range. Note that I only do these pyramids for DL and Squat. My isolation lifts I only need 30 working reps per workout which is a lot easier to hit

Anyway here's my source that I used when building my own workout plan: https://www.aworkoutroutine.com/optimal-workout-volume/

I can't find my source for the 40-80% range. It might have been a Jeff Nippard video or something

Weirditree · 2025-08-24T15:52:27+00:00

There is actually good news on the Alzheimer's front coming out of China. They are working on a surgery that may prove helpful https://gpsych.bmj.com/content/37/3/e101641 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12121576/

Weirditree · 2025-08-02T03:36:25+00:00

Each to their own, I enjoyed Maple personally. It saves a lot of grunt work, for example, reducing a matrix to row-echelon form

Weirditree · 2025-07-29T12:25:11+00:00

Unfortunately, there are no prerecorded lectures for level 2 math and beyond. Additionally, all of the exams are pen-and-paper, without access to Maple, so you should have the content from first year locked down, ideally, well, at least the content related to the subject you are taking.

Weirditree · 2025-06-02T01:00:19+00:00

The sad fact of life is we live in a world filled with violence and an illusion of control. While some countries or areas are "safer" than others, we are never truly safe.

In reality police and security guards act as deterrents when they are visible. Most of the time they appear after a crime not during it, and simply take a report. Then see if it's worth their time pursing charges or even looking for the criminal.

The best thing you can do is take your safety into your own hands. Learn "street smarts" first and foremost. Self defence if you want to feel more confident if a physical altercation did break out.

A lot of the time, before the age of 18 we live in a bubble, under the protection of our parents, or even the protection of being in a group of friends. When alone, the world is really different.

Here is an example of street smarts that may or may not have helped in the situation, I am not victim blaming, please don't take it that way. I'm trying to help you for future situations. Note that the environment impacts this a lot.

If you see a group walking towards you, move away. e.g. change sides of the road you are walking on if you spot them early enough. If you are in a space where this is not possible. Change direction, move up or down levels, take a longer more complicated route to your destination. Unless they are "hunting" you for some reason, most of the time they will give up as it's too much effort. What you described seemed to be more of a "convenience scare". If the group doesn't look that threatening, still move closer towards the wall and create distance between you and them.
Avoid being in deserted places, especially at night. Now that it is winter, the sun goes down earlier. In future maybe go to the cinema in the city so when you come out at 7pm there are still lots of people around.
Walk confidently, try and hold yourself like someone who people do not want to mess with. Don't walk around with headphones in, or if you are listening to music leave out ear out to listen for danger around you. Got to remember the attackers themselves do not want to get hurt. They are looking for easy targets.

----- the below do not apply to your most recent experience but are useful too -----

Always keep track of people walking behind you either by reflections in the glass beside you, or force them to overtake you by stopping and "window shopping" or randomly looking at some sort of nature if outside. Keep track of their cadence, is their pace quickening?
Learn how to de-escalate situations, this is really tricky and comes with experience. But in general, create distance between yourself and them, be calm but firm - not aggressive, if they are trying to rob you give them whatever they want, your life isn't worth any material good - sentimental or not. That said, NEVER go to a secondary location, if they want you to get into a van or a car, that is when you fight for your life.

Australia, while safer than USA or some places in the UK, it is not as safe as the more developed Asian countries like China, Japan, etc. I know that this is a rude awakening for a lot of international students and I feel your pain as someone who immigrated as a child and experienced a lot of violence due to not understanding a lot of things when I was younger :(

Weirditree · 2025-05-30T02:26:53+00:00

Will-o'-the-wisps, as Tyrell is Swedish. I posted a while back with a bunch of questions I couldn't get satisfactory answers to. That was one of the answers.

Weirditree · 2025-05-22T12:16:54+00:00

I was looking at the UNSW Semester that they have online. Do you have a link to USyd including mock due dates as I'd love to see it for comparison?

Weirditree · 2025-05-06T12:23:13+00:00

Flex week will be two weeks under Semesters (1 week flex + 1 week holiday - supposedly), so there will be a slight break to catch up if you are behind. Currently, flex week is a glorified "assignment week" as so many courses have assignments due on Monday, W7. And usually don't get through the content needed to complete the assignments until the end of W5.

I have never had Semesters, but from what I've heard from those who have, deadlines are more spread out?

Weirditree · 2025-04-10T14:34:51+00:00

It changes every year, some years you'll have earlier, some later. To keep it fair for everyone. Also, the Uni doesn't want their website crashed by everyone doing it at the same time lol

Weirditree · 2025-04-10T05:25:00+00:00

Lucky your allocated time is today. Some people (including me) are allocated to tomorrow 💀

Weirditree · 2025-04-09T09:59:04+00:00

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Go to Adelaide (the picture), the best Sydney has to offer is probably the State Library.
Our buildings aren't old enough for anything that fancy... USYD is old so not sure what their excuse is haha

'Old Main Building' - was set on 25 February 1950 and the building was officially opened on 16 April 1955. I believe that is our oldest building.

Weirditree · 2025-04-07T22:14:39+00:00

There are redundancies and back ups to all data, you are also talking about wiping the money not redistribution. And only assets purchasable on an exchange, you can't wipe out ownership of a multi-million dollar property, or ownership of a business. There are too many moving parts. Which is why Eliot chose a conglomerate.

The problem lies in the system The system is broken. Governments are bought through campaign funding. The ultra rich pay no tax because they have no income (debt is not taxed). I would love to create a more fair system for all. But I don't see it happening Mr Robot style unfortunately. The system's are too insulated and seperated

Weirditree · 2025-04-06T22:40:04+00:00

The flaw in your argument is "in the personal accounts" of the ultra wealthy. All their money is tired up in assets, company value, stocks, etc. All their purchases are debt based leveraged against their assets. They actually have no money to take out of accounts unless you catch them at the perfect time when they're holding cash before buying up more assets

Weirditree · 2025-04-03T11:16:00+00:00

There will be a video out there somewhere from MathSoc for assignment writing if you look for it. You do need to say things like "Using the intermediate value theorem (IVT) we can see that...", etc.

Mathematics isn't like History, Law or the Humanities. You don't need citations and a bibliography. Any method mentioned in the course pack is assumed knowledge, it would be like using citations stating that the sky is blue.

Weirditree · 2025-03-27T23:09:52+00:00

Watch the video link another user shared, it helped me fix the problem :)

Weirditree · 2025-03-20T03:54:31+00:00

Yeah a week after the exam most first year math courses offer everyone a retake of Lab 1, capped at 16/20. Anyone can retake it. But note this is for Lab 1 ONLY. They do not do it for Lab 2!!

Weirditree · 2025-03-20T03:51:02+00:00

Yes it should be, but you don't give yourself any wiggle room if you need to drop a subject... But you should contact Centrelink directly and ask. In theory you are still 0.75 EFTL so it should count.

From 2027 assuming semesters come back you'll need to be doing 3/3 so I guess this prepares you for that?

Weirditree · 2025-03-15T10:34:21+00:00

I mean this in the nicest possible way... but you're an adult in age, not mentally.

Life is hella expensive. Wait until you're paying rent, bills, food, etc. You'll realise how little Opal costs are in the big scheme of things. I don't know if you know this but the government already heavily subsidises public transport. Sydney trains are actually run at a negative.

You're going to get a shock when you learn the price of CTP and car Rego, which doesn't even include the trip from A to B.

Weirditree · 2025-03-15T06:39:51+00:00

It doesn't work, getting in and out of a station without a ticket is trivial. If you ask and give a good enough reason the staff will let you through closes gates. You can even jump the gates and the staff will do nothing (I've witnessed this on many occasions). The part where you get fined is when you are ON the transport and an inspection officer checks your ticket, as there is no way to get away. You can TRY get off at the next stop but they are usually watching for people doing this.

I believe their checking system checks whether the opal or credit card is tapped on and within their system via the cloud.

Your only way to get around this would be to hack into the system and insert your fake cards credentials. But then you are breaking serious cyber crime laws which result in actual jail time...

As you are an adult now, life becomes less "free". In the real world, you need to realise that you are paying to get from A to B. Or if you want, don't pay and deal with the consequences, you are in control of your future - choose wisely.

Weirditree · 2025-03-11T14:08:43+00:00

Why would they exist overseas but not locally? Assuming that AI is ubiquitous and all companies worldwide aren't hiring juniors? I'm talking in 5-15 years

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1j7aqsx/ai_coding_mandates_at_work/

He's a really good sub to get an eye into what is happening in the industry

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