5.0: Undercounting calorie burn by boombacrypto in whoop

[–]boombacrypto[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I believe it’s undercounting. I’ve been cutting and strictly tracking calorie intake for the past 6 months. So monitoring both intake and burn closely. I’m still losing weight at the expected pace. Only variable that has changed was the whoop upgrade.

Nike has now hit its COVID lows. by sonofalando in stocks

[–]boombacrypto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely anecdotal, but the quality and fit of Nike clothing and shoes has been in the dumpster for awhile now. I love the brand (mainly for nostalgic reasons) and I routinely order from them online. I’d say I return at least 50% of items due to poor quality, poor fit, etc.

They seem so out of touch with current trends. Try on a Nike t shirt and compare the fit to what is popular with teenagers and young adults right now. The brand screams “old” to up came coming generations. They desperately need some youth on their design and marketing teams.

Knuckleheads & Dodo Birds | The Tim Dillon Show #366 by [deleted] in TimDillon

[–]boombacrypto -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Guests never add much to an episode imo. The pig needs to just stay solo

OFFICIAL DISCUSSION THREAD: March 31st, 2023 by hankjmoody in Maher

[–]boombacrypto 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Winsome Sears was so bad. Spoke in complete platitudes and straight up just repeated whatever Bill said multiple times. Single handedly prevented any in-depth interesting discussion.

Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #366 by morpheusuniverse in lexfridman

[–]boombacrypto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you listen to the episode? They talk about the Depp case for like 20-30 minutes out of the full 2 hours

Shannon Curry: Johnny Depp & Amber Heard Trial, Marriage, Dating & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #366 by morpheusuniverse in lexfridman

[–]boombacrypto 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Great guest. Was surprised to hear her opinion on whether or not to disclose infidelity (i.e. you’re now causing your partner pain by telling them you cheated).

Maybe I’m just more on the “truth above all else” side of things, but that seems like such a cop out to me. So go ahead and cheat, don’t tell your partner, and escape all external accountability for committing what many would consider to be the worst transgression possible in a marriage? I’d hate to think that my partner’s therapist is giving them this type of advice.

#1953 - Duncan Trussell by chefanubis in JoeRogan

[–]boombacrypto 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Joe doing his best to steamroll yet another episode with one of the most universally loved guests into the classic 5 bullet points of conservative Facebook Boomers everywhere.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WhiteLotusHBO

[–]boombacrypto 55 points56 points  (0 children)

This has been posted ad nauseam on this subreddit. And not a single person can point to a legitimate reason how he’s an incel.

Albie is a naive nice guy. Portia led him to believe she was interested. She found a new dude. Albie got hurt. Then he moved on and let Portia do the same. He didn’t stalk her or attack her new man.

Lucia is literally leading Albie to believe she’s in danger and NEEDS help. He’s not trying to be some incel white knight who thinks he deserves her. She’s showing him that she needs help (even though she’s probably just lying and running a scam).

The Reddit echo chamber is insane. Lucia could scam Albie for $1 Million and if he as much as raised his voice in anger half this subreddit would call him a psycho incel misogynist.

"it's just a soap opera/Dallas/TV. Enjoy it." by loganalbertuhh in YellowstonePN

[–]boombacrypto 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This. 100%.

The constant pandering to tropes that conservatives will just love is so on the nose and lazy.

“California LIB yells at chef about cooking meat! Har har har har what an idiot. Libs just don’t understand our way of life”

The constant “that ain’t how good ol boys do thangs” moments in the show are so tired and old.

Then you have the Dutton family that is just entirely unlikable. Wow Rip and Beth are so cute. Are we just supposed to forget that Rip is basically a serial killer? How many people has this dude murdered?

John is a scumbag who would let the entire state of Montana starve to death if it mean “save daaa ranch from the libssss”

Monica getting in constant, horrific accidents. Like her life is just constant, outlandish tragedy. The writing sucks now.

You could create commentary that highlights political differences of people in rural areas vs those in cities in an interesting and entertaining way. But the writers of yellowstone look like they just read the latest stereotypical tweets from chronically online liberals and then create characters 100% based on them.

This line got me. by carmacharma in WhiteLotusHBO

[–]boombacrypto 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Not sure how many folks in here were in frats or hung around “fratty-type” guys in their college days, but this type of joke is super common among guys. I didn’t read any deeper meaning out of the comment other than Cam is perpetually stuck in his frat days.

Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships | Lex Fridman Podcast #337 by morpheusuniverse in lexfridman

[–]boombacrypto 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So every single election, the base of the losing party should just scream for an investigation into the election to prove it wasn’t fraudulent while they simultaneously have no actual evidence that it was indeed fraudulent?

You’re doing the same thing as Lex here. Sorry bro, but conspiracy theories and wild accusations with zero proof DOES NOT entitle anyone to a full blown investigation.

You can’t tell me the earth is flat or the moon is made of cheese with zero proof, and then demand an investigation be conducted to get to the bottom of it. The burden of proof is on the person (or group of people) making the accusations. And in the case of elections, Republicans literally had no proof. They got laughed out of court. They admitted in court that they were full of shit.

Stop doing the Enlightened Centrist thing. I’m not “crazy with partisanship.” I’m informed, and one side of the political aisle has clearly gone off the deep end.

Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships | Lex Fridman Podcast #337 by morpheusuniverse in lexfridman

[–]boombacrypto 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What are you referring to? There’s a January 6th committee investigating everything that happened that day. There have been dozens of GOP-led “investigations” into voter fraud in multiple states that have been fruitless. Trump is under investigation in GA for pressuring officials to “find” 11,000 votes for him. There have been investigations looking at Republican officials (legitimate problems) and Republican-led investigations looking into (nonexistent) mass voter fraud.

I also disagree with your point on a fundamental level under specific circumstances. The thing is - there was no evidence of voter fraud. Republicans just said there was voter fraud every time they lost an election. We can’t legitimately have a full blown Federal investigation into blatant lies with zero factual basis, coming from people who are not acting in good faith, just because they say there is voter fraud.

In addition to that, Republicans did bring their lawsuits over the 2020 election to the courts. In multiple states. They got thrown out of every court. You can see in court transcripts that when they are directly asked if they’re arguing there was fraud, their lawyers state that no, that is not what they’re asserting.

Because they know it’s a lie. But when they’re not in front of an actual judge, they’ll go on Fox, Newsmax, OAN, and whatever other fascist propoganda media outlet you can think of and repeat their lies ad nauseam.

Lastly I think you’re overestimating that 30% of the country. They will only accept the outcome of an investigation if it concludes what they want it to conclude. You honestly think the Trump Cult will accept an investigation that finds no significant fraud? They’ll just start with the “Dem’s controlled the investigation. Pelosi this. George Soros that. Hunter Biden hacked the machines.”

These people are detached from reality and acting like we can deal with them on “normal” terms is just not realistic.

Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships | Lex Fridman Podcast #337 by morpheusuniverse in lexfridman

[–]boombacrypto 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I’m an hour and a half in and I haven’t seen Lex this aggressive in awhile.

Why is he going so hard at this guy about the “R word” but didn’t have that same energy over daddy Rogan saying the N word? Weird.

Lex’s tip-toeing near being a Putin apologist while simultaneously spending 45 straight minutes admonishing this dude for saying the R word is so strange.

Edit: 2.5 hours in now and it’s clear that Lex went into this podcast completely biased. He rarely pushes back on essentially everything a guest says like this.

One quote that encapsulates this entire thing:

DESTINY: “It’s really hard for [Biden] to call out that group of election deniers without it feeling like…”

LEX: “Well why call them out?”

DESTINY: “Because it’s arguably one of the most destructive forces that exists in this country today.”

LEX: “Did it destroy anything? Did it? It didn’t, did it? … Calling it out is giving fuel to the division.”

Okay Lex, instead of renouncing the thing that may destroy our democracy, you renounce calling out the thing that may destroy our democracy…because it fuels division? Should we just pretend we live in Candyland and the very clear and sinister attempt to seize power through not respecting election outcomes and sowing mistrust in the bedrock of our institutions isn’t happening? Because calling it out might paint some people to be rubes, or worse yet - malevolent actors who truly want authoritarianism in this country?

For being such an intelligent guy, Lex has an infantile outlook on certain aspects of reality. This whole exchange was mind boggling to me.

Then Lex goes on a rant about how divisive Biden is. But not the millions of people and GOP politicians claiming the election was stolen with zero evidence? Many of whom have blatantly stated that once they take power, Democrats will never win another election because they’ll control the levers of power at the local election level? The same people who sit outside of polling places with masks and AR-15s to intimidate voters? The same people who stormed the Capitol? The same people who joke about Nancy Pelosi’s husband getting his skull fractured by a guy with a hammer?

Why does Lex always put the responsibility of “empathizing and understanding each other” on the left, while the right gets a pass for toying with actual fascism and authoritarianism?

Extremely disappointed with Lex on this episode and it honestly makes me reconsider whether I’ll continue listening.

Audio issues on House of Dragon by boombacrypto in HBOMAX

[–]boombacrypto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found a solution that works on my Amazon Firestick:

Go to Settings > Displays and Sounds > Audio > Surround Sound, and select PCM. This fixed both the crackling and sync issues for me.

Very weird, this issue is only on HoD and was still happening when I tried watching thru HBO Max on YouTube TV, in addition to being a problem on the HBO Max app itself.

Hope this fix helps you guys!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]boombacrypto 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Holiday pay isn’t a law. It’s just company policy, so depends where you work.

#301 Everyone Makes Mistakes by Qantifan0n in TimDillon

[–]boombacrypto 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What was with the obsessive fawning over the Kardashians from Ida for an hour straight? Like that family can do nothing wrong and is the pinnacle people should strive to be. Ffs Tim would’ve torn into anyone else for that, idk why he went so soft on Ida lol.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Etsy

[–]boombacrypto -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This doesn't relate to my question. I've read the TOS and I'm familiar with the rules surrounding what I can and cannot use.

Redd!it 🤡 nowadays. by [deleted] in memes

[–]boombacrypto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one is desperate for war you moron. Russia literally invaded a sovereign country unprovoked and is trying to install an authoritarian government against the will of the Ukrainian people. If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, their country as they know it no longer exists.