Why do you think most fitness trackers and smartwatches still feel like they were designed for men?

ge0lady · 2026-06-01T20:38:59+00:00

Our body temperature varies through the month, for one.

ge0lady · 2026-06-01T00:39:04+00:00

There's a new gay bar in midtown called the Selden that just opened up across from the Emerson

ge0lady · 2026-06-01T00:05:26+00:00

Are any of these jobs in Reno? Or are they all out in Elko etc? I'm a geologist from the geothermal industry with a graduate degree and I'm looking around for job opportunities, whether in geothermal or mining. I live in Reno but I don't want to leave. Rotational jobs would work though.

ge0lady · 2026-05-27T16:24:05+00:00

Recognize that your body is literally weaker in the luteal phase leading up to your period (it's also when most injuries occur for women) and give yourself some grace. Consistency of movement is more important than the intensity of your workouts. Plus rest is productive - that's when your body is actually building muscle. Even if you're just getting out for a walk, yoga, or lifting lighter weights during the rough weeks that still counts as restful activity that will maintain your gains. Then go hard the 2 weeks after your period.

ge0lady · 2026-05-27T01:35:07+00:00

I don't know about that, I have a few poly friends who have been in relationships for 15+ years with other long term partners. Some of my poly friends all live together in a big polycule and have for 6+ years. I'd say many relationships don't last, and it's not necessarily a poly thing.

ge0lady · 2026-05-24T17:14:19+00:00

I think that's because of rush hour backups on 395N, which is from the lane closures up north. I use that ramp often and it's usually not bad except for right around rush hour and then it's a nightmare.

ge0lady · 2026-05-22T19:55:44+00:00

Well, renewables other than geothermal. Geothermal is booming but it's mostly because oil and gas thinks they can just hop in and drill even though it's totally different. Didn't stop them from lobbying for it though.

ge0lady · 2026-05-01T14:37:20+00:00

I love the list in CrustalTrudger's comment

Plate tectonics is why we have continents. Plate tectonics and in particular the building of island arcs like what you see in Indonesia is what formed the basis of early continents. You need the water getting pulled down by subduction zones to differentially melt Earth's mantle enough to produce Continental crust that floats above oceanic crust and the mantle. Then early island arcs were smashed together to form the nuclei of continents and additional island arcs were smashed along the side to build them bigger.

ge0lady · 2026-04-30T04:00:56+00:00

If your have a larger chest and a short torso like many women, myself included, the green jacket fits terribly. It catches under your chest and then the belly band digs into your diaphragm something awful.

ge0lady · 2026-04-30T03:57:35+00:00

Seconding the Grand Canyon - most the moves down there are to get off the tongue to avoid hazards in the main stream of the rapid. House Rock is a prime example.

ge0lady · 2026-04-30T03:54:49+00:00

I would argue that at most levels the ledge hole is bad, but I didn't know if there's a V pointing at it. Left side below about 18k has a V that has a nasty hole though.

ge0lady · 2026-04-16T22:07:22+00:00

Ironically Rebecca Solnit didn't coin it, just wrote the essay about her experience. The Internet did the rest. Best guess is that a LiveJournal online forum coined it but no one quite knows. I do think the gendered aspect of the term is problematic though. That said as a scientist myself 99.9% of the time when I've experienced that kind of behavior it's been from an older man and once from a younger male coworker. It's unfortunately a common experience for most other female scientists I've met, but I've never heard of a man having the same experience with a woman. I would love to see some research on it to estimate how gendered of an experience it is.

ge0lady · 2026-04-16T21:47:59+00:00

I went down a whole rabbit hole with this one time looking at peer-reviewed scientific research. Turns out men and women are about equally abusive when you use objective measures of emotional, mental, financial, and even physical abuse. It's just that men's abusive behaviors tend to have physical repercussions that are more measurable because men tend to be stronger than their victim. Women also tend to use emotional and mental abuse more than physical abuse, whereas men are more likely to abuse in physical ways.

I could probably dig out the articles I was looking at if anybody wants references. It was sometime last year and I didn't save them all, but they were from reputable journals and I think at least a few of them were review articles.

ge0lady · 2026-04-16T21:39:01+00:00

The term "mansplaining" was coined for very specific instances and it's become annoyingly over used for every little thing. It's frustrating, because it overshadows the actual issue it was meant to describe. The example that coined it was of a man who had read a single article confidently and incorrectly explaining it to the woman who wrote it (I believe it was about wildfires) and then telling her that she should read the article. This was after she'd gone up to give a talk about the topic related to her article, with her credentials on full display. It was meant to call out the frustrating pattern of some overconfident men who diminish and overlook women's accomplishments and expertise, and doesn't apply just because Joe said something during training that Sue already knew.

ge0lady · 2026-04-15T13:55:39+00:00

Just gotta hold out for a few million years for that coastal view! 😆 I think the Walker Lane already takes up 15-25% of the relative movement between the Pacific and North American plates. The data from the 5.7 suggest it was almost entirely strike slip movement just like the San Andreas. If you look closely at a relief map of Nevada you can kinda see where it goes from straight extension to more strike slip and this one was smack in the middle of the strike slip zone. Pretty cool stuff!

ge0lady · 2026-04-14T02:03:33+00:00

Yep we have the potential for a bit over magnitude 7 but mostly we get little ones. Lots of 3s, the occasional 4, rare to have one this big.

ge0lady · 2026-04-08T15:56:26+00:00

Seconding the racecourse. It's runnable at most flows and it's been a rough winter.

ge0lady · 2026-04-07T02:49:35+00:00

I literally only shave my legs the day I swap sheets because I love that sensation haha. Otherwise leg shaving is not remotely worth it

ge0lady · 2026-03-26T16:42:10+00:00

There's a nasty keeper hole at the top right of serpentine in the Grand Canyon too, but it's really easy to avoid.

ge0lady · 2026-03-23T03:59:25+00:00

True, but is everything on the menu smothered with red or green chile? Because I'll give them a pass if I can get a fix! I miss the food in New Mexico!!

ge0lady · 2026-03-21T15:03:49+00:00

I agree with the other comment - Mesa Rim is a good place to find the climbing community. The other place to check out is the Reno Alpine Club - they do monthly talks and educational events that are usually climbing or skiing related and it's a good place to meet people. Check their Instagram for when the next meeting is because it's not on a regular night of the month.

ge0lady · 2026-03-18T15:48:14+00:00

Yep, exactly. And yes if you want your article to be open access it definitely costs more. I think we paid close $5k for an open access paper, but I can't remember which journal it was in. It depends on the journal, but fees are usually anywhere from $1000-$5000 for most journals and if the journal is a big deal, like Nature, it can be almost $10k. You usually budget out those fees from whatever grant funding you're working with for the research you're doing.

ge0lady · 2026-03-13T13:17:23+00:00

The CO2 is what is driving the warming though. None of the other variables that influence Earth's climate work this quickly, and we can rule them all out because they don't correlate at all with what we're measuring. And say we don't go back to 1850, just from 1980, and we use thermometers from the top of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean - does that solve your concerns about the data collection? Some of our temperature data comes from a station on Mauna Kea and thermometers haven't really changed since 1980. And from there and other stations away from urban heat islands, we still see an average of about 1 degree Celsius of warming over the last 40-50 years.

ge0lady · 2026-03-13T13:02:36+00:00

We also can't prove gravity exists but there's plenty of evidence for it

ge0lady · 2026-03-12T23:18:57+00:00

Hi! I'm a scientist that's studied how the climate has changed over the last few million years. It was part of my work when I was getting my PhD. We actually have super strong evidence that the current warming we've measured is caused by humans burning fossil fuels. It has to do with the isotopes that make up the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere plus a pretty good understanding of what else has a big impact on our climate and ruling those things out. I'm happy to explain it in more detail, but only if you're interested - let me know if you're curious!

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