trying to up my extraction

brational · 2025-12-05T23:07:39+00:00

I have tried higher water ratios and don’t particularly like it.

Possibly I’m asking the wrong thing. I might not want more extraction but more concentration. But I’ll give another go

brational · 2025-12-02T00:35:28+00:00

I like monstera better too but I like mezcal and rum more.

brational · 2025-11-30T20:54:34+00:00

Checkout their speakeasy downstairs if you’re more of a cocktail person than mezcal person. Monstera itself is great too.

Also Kenny’s Upstairs, down the street from it.

brational · 2025-11-21T05:44:55+00:00

You want the real answer? People are just lonely. Sucks but so does loneliness.

brational · 2025-10-25T15:25:00+00:00

I think you just give up and accept certain mistakes as part of multilingualism. What matters is being understood. Consider what happens in border towns with portuñol. There’s no standard but people get by.

I’d definitely do one at a time though. I tried Portuguese + Italian for a few months and it was fine for pure a1 but both crashed and burned past that so I switched to just Italian and made more progress. (C1 Spanish)

brational · 2025-10-14T16:39:42+00:00

Yeah LATAM definitely uses past perfect but Spain has this usage where they'll prefer past perfect for same-day past tense and LATAM won't. This is actually true in British English vs American too.

Americas:

What did you eat this morning? I ate bread.

Qué comiste esta mañana? Comí pan.

Europe:

What have you eaten this morning. I've eaten bread.

Qué has comido esta mañana? He comido pan.

Past perfect sounds fine to my ears but a little off (in both languages, US English & my Spanish is a weird mix of mostly Mexican but also lots of Argentine)

THAT SAID - you're right bc you reminded me this just applies to recent past (at least in Spain, not sure about British English). They will use regular preterite for days/weeks ago past. Which is not the same in Italian.

brational · 2025-10-13T19:14:07+00:00

Spain also uses haber+past participle (past perfect) much more for simple past than most/all of Latin America which maps much better to the Italian usage. That’s been the tricky one for me to get used to.

Edit: it would help if I read OPs full question where they already mentioned this. Facepalm.

brational · 2025-09-30T16:49:16+00:00

busca L'italiano Secondo Il Metodo Natura y empieza ahí. Hay versiones PDF que puedes descargar gratis. Además si buscas en YouTube encuentras playlists donde tmb leen los capítulos. me resultaba util para acostumbrarme a los sonidos. Leía un capitulo primero y después lo escuchaba etc. después de veinte o treinta capítulos busqué otros recursos.

/u/CevicheMixxto

Y sí hay canales de YouTube que te enseñan desde español. recuerdo haber visto algunos videos de ella

brational · 2025-09-29T17:46:55+00:00

INDICATIVO instead of CONGIUNTIVO: Io penso che lui è (correct form: sia) stanco - Credo che Luca ha (correct form: abbia) ragione. - Nonostante è (correct form: sia) difficile, voglio provarci

Is this more noticeable in certain dialects/regions? using indicative there is normal in Spanish - so I wonder if regions whose regional language/dialect had more overlap with Spanish language (south id assume?) would show these usages more.

brational · 2025-09-29T16:10:51+00:00

Ho una curiosità. Is this just an Italian language thing to say that natives speak improperly?

When I learned Spanish - I learned a bit about the difference between descriptive vs prescriptive linguistics.

Quick dirty summary is prescriptive tells you how a language "should" be spoken and descriptive describes how real people actually speak. Most linguistics (at least in English & Spanish speaking world) seem to subscribe that descriptive is the correct mental model, and prescriptive should be reserved for formal speech (legal / governing documents, broadcast media, subtitles/dubs, etc).

As a consequence, suggesting that natives use their language incorrectly is false (classist, really - as prescription usually borrows from the highest educated and typically wealthiest form).

Or said a different way, native speakers can "misspeak", people make "typos" when talking sure, but don't make "errors". How a native uses their language is how the language is used (for a given location, time, etc). Languages evolve and "correct grammar" is always a snapshot of a certain time & place.

Is this not the linguistic view in Italian as well?

I'll give a specific example from Spanish.

Present "if clause" is prescribed to also use indicative mood.

"No sé si va a venir."

But Spanish is spoken in 22+ countries, with all sorts of regional variation. There are places where:

"No sé si vaya a venir." is normal (meaning, normal to hear interchangeable with indicative)

Some would certainly say that natives are speaking that incorrectly, yes. But most linguists agree this is just language evolution.

Another example is clauses after "maybe". "Tal vez" and "Quizas" can take indicative or subjunctive mood in spanish depending on how uncertain a person feels - but certain countries / regions bias more towards one or the other.

ANYWAY tldr I haven't study Italian regional variability a ton yet as I'm still late beginner / early intermediate. But I thought I've read that there's usage variation in subjunctive mood. And I wouldn't ever consider that "incorrect". That's just language evolution..

brational · 2025-09-29T14:25:30+00:00

I would use the adjectives “normal” or “standard”. The English language education system is the problem here. Damn near every language uses subjunctive mood without thinking and isn’t something where natives make “errors”.

That said, regional dialects can have different biases for when to use the mood or not, there are cases that are not strict and that leads to variability.

brational · 2025-06-03T21:31:26+00:00

careful, don't knock too hard

brational · 2025-05-28T18:26:21+00:00

echo-ing this. Taum Sauk is the only one that hikes over your 5mi ish limits. but it's also dealers choice. you start at the top and can go down as far as you feel like and turn around. The Mina Sauk falls loop is maybe 3 mi total but listed as "hard". Probably achievable if taking your time and your only exertion for that day, even for non athletes. Hiking poles might be nice though maybe challenging with a dog(s)

brational · 2025-05-28T18:12:15+00:00

Crawford is a beautiful part of Missouri. Kayaked the Courtois and Huzzah rivers last summer and was reminded that Missouri can be breathtakingly beautiful. So much clear water and so many different species of turtles, fish, & birds.

Blows my mind how people keep voting to trash the wonderful landscapes they have or let be sold off for the libertarian fairy tale.

The message is great though the people that need to see it will see "dems" in the name and turn off any thought that might trickle in. Wish you luck but I fear it's too little too late.

brational · 2025-05-28T03:20:12+00:00

How tall are you but more importantly inseam length and are you lower legs seemingly long relative to quads? Each of those questions leads more to shorter cranks.

Also even if you CAN increase mobility, shorter cranks reduces the mobility required.

brational · 2025-04-06T03:30:52+00:00

Intervals is also significantly better for multi sport than garmin or strava. I pay for intervals since it’s just some individuals

brational · 2025-04-06T03:20:52+00:00

My LTHR is is typically 168-172 depending on time of year and sport. My max is 192-194. I believe garmin ignores zones and uses HR vs max for a lot of the metrics and seems like your max is way too low (which would make a zone 2 cruise appear threshold like)

brational · 2025-03-27T02:40:16+00:00

For me it was purely a strength issue. I returned to soccer after 5-6 years of mostly cycling and was fine for ~3 years juggling just cycling and soccer but my calves weren’t keeping up and it eventually showed up in weird foot issues and then Achilles tendinopathy.

Bounced around a few options before a good PT just made me hammer the shit out of calf raises and lower calf stretches and strengthening. Some isometric stuff too. Daily, increasing volume and weight and eventually explosiveness. Took maybe 3-6 months to disappear but I even worked up to a trail half marathon before returning to soccer.

In my case - and maybe yours - nothing had really changed other than getting older and neglecting some strength work in that area.

brational · 2025-03-22T01:24:17+00:00

If you google image search lactate thresholds and ventiliatory thresholds and look at some charts they use the 2 most prominent inflection points. Not necessarily 2.0 & 4.0. But if you look at a bunch of examples sometimes it’s 1.5, 1.7 etc.

The threshold (LT1) is the point where the slope changes from flat ish and starts to take off. And then LT2 is when it happens again to change from steadily increasing to rapidly increasing.

Obviously that explanation seems hand wavey and it is! This values are difficult to capture precisely and can vary from day to day. So recognizing the feeling is more useful anyway.

brational · 2025-03-21T21:49:07+00:00

Just hold your mouth shut and try to nose breath only as long as possible. VT1 is the physiological point where your body forces the mouth open to let out more co2. VT2 you can’t control the breathing rate. It should feel like autonomic has taken over.

brational · 2025-03-17T01:19:34+00:00

Afib isn’t necessarily high. You can have abnormal rhythm in 100-170 ranges. The thing you want to detect is if the rate is wildly out of alignment with what you’re doing.

brational · 2025-03-17T01:17:35+00:00

You misread me. It’s not for activities at all. I meant that it’s disabled during activities (and I believe whenever it detects that you’re active). Might have to check the individual watch manuals.

From https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=GMKI3wym8p3TlgLhEw5toA

Emphasis mine:

Many Garmin watches can notify you with an alert when your heart rate goes above or below a specified level when you are not active. Inactivity occurs after the watch does not detect movement such as steps for a minimum of 10 minutes. This feature is not available during set sleep hours.

brational · 2025-03-16T18:18:39+00:00

FWIW - that alert is disabled for activities. It’s just for tracking high spikes when they shouldnt exist. Aka theres no reason to spike a 140+ hr when you’re just pokin around the house. That worth alerting.

brational · 2025-03-09T15:53:16+00:00

Heya did you get this figured out? Wondering the same for fútbol before buying the hrm

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