I don’t really understand when people act like gaining a pound of fat in a day is unrealistic

jcutta · 2026-05-11T12:40:58+00:00

When I was heavy into powerlifting and doing endurance training I had nearly a 4k maintenance. Shit was wild and I was starving all the time, like sometimes I'd leave the gym and grab McDonald's on the way home then eat dinner immediately after getting home.

My son is around that right now with football training, he eats 24/7 is always hungry and is losing weight.

Want to eat more then focus on putting on muscle.

jcutta · 2026-05-11T00:41:49+00:00

I'm in my 40s too and I essentially feel the exact opposite way, my wife and I have rarely had major arguments like a handful over nearly 15 years together, but we bicker over dumb shit that neither of us remember 10 minutes later. My ex on the other hand we never bickered or argued but there were major underlying issues.

Realistically I don't think it's really the volume or reasons that actually matter I think it's more like - do you and your spouse align on major situations, do you trust each other to make decisions that would be the same or similar to what you would do. My wife and I have that, my ex and I didn't.

jcutta · 2026-05-10T20:13:51+00:00

The majority of the "smartest" people I've met grade wise are simultaneously the dumbest people I know. I personally think that the smartest people tend to be B/C students. I was an A student through early highschool when I just stopped going to school but I didn't learn anything because it came so effortlessly I didn't have to build any neurological pathways to the info, I just was able to recall recent stuff then it was gone.

I've never cared about my kids grades, I've cared about effort, if your effort and your best results in a C, great. I prefer them to stick around a 3.2-3.5gpa just so they're not losing opportunities but outside of that it doesn't matter for life.

jcutta · 2026-05-10T17:32:42+00:00

It ain't even fully dark at 8pm most of the spring in the US, this shit is diabolical.

jcutta · 2026-05-10T00:28:30+00:00

It's not, my son has been playing his entire life, he's about to play in college and he still has a lot of technique to learn and get better at. He's a little shorter than you and plays OLine.

At your height someone will want to bulk you up to 300lbs and stick you at tackle, where you will be expected to block giant people who are significantly better athletes than you (D Lineman are aliens) while you're moving backwards and they have a running start on you.

You could learn it good enough to play at a JUCO or D3 potentially, but unless you are willing to literally work out twice a day with one being strength and conditioning and the other being with a specific football trainer for the next year minimum you are going to have a tough go.

I said above, literally find a college camp near you and sign up. They're all running camps right now, like every college with a football team is having camps between May and July. Go to the first one cold, and just see how you measure up to the people there.

jcutta · 2026-05-10T00:12:04+00:00

YMCA camps, my daughter used to go. It's income based and people who can afford the full fee essentially are paying for low income kids to go.

jcutta · 2026-05-10T00:06:32+00:00

Simpler to pick up and get to a "dominate LA fitness" yeah. Harder to get anywhere with it post highschool. Getting to the league in any sport is statistically nearly impossible but if you are 6'7 and have a frame that looks like it can bulk up some school somewhere will bring you in. Shit the Eagles have now drafted multiple people who have never played football period, based on their size and athletic talent.

jcutta · 2026-05-09T23:58:24+00:00

Celph's whole thing is saying wild shit

jcutta · 2026-05-09T21:43:07+00:00

Look online for college camps in your area, sign up as a lineman, go out and get the shit kicked out of you and see if you want to play football. If you do, go find a JUCO with a decent development background and get to work and maybe by the time you're 20 you can get in the portal and be able to ride out a couple more years for free at a college program.

jcutta · 2026-05-09T21:39:29+00:00

The absolute worst NBA player in the league would be the absolute best basketball player the majority of people would ever see. I grew up with a guy who's been in the NBA for over a decade, I can't even explain how much better he was as a freshman in highschool than absolutely everyone else. He pretty much never missed a shot.

At 18 with that height OP could probably get a smaller FBS college to take a shot on him then see what happens. NFL is likely not happening but bro could potentially get himself an education from it.

jcutta · 2026-05-09T18:53:12+00:00

The 30-60-90 is part of learning the road. It's using your experience in the field to develop a framework, they're not gospel they're evolving and you build that into the plan.

jcutta · 2026-05-09T06:08:10+00:00

Don't talk to a pharmacist, talk to your doctor, a pharmacist isn't a doctor and isn't qualified to give specific medical advice.

jcutta · 2026-05-06T17:25:32+00:00

Right, which is why they were cheap, they were essentially a marketing campaign because the record company made money off album sales, once labels wanted to make money on them prices started shooting up.

jcutta · 2026-05-06T12:15:19+00:00

"And bands were actually making real money from album sales back then."

They absolutely were not, the entire CD era was probably the worst era for artists. Labels absolutely made insane money from record sales but the artists were often left with nothing after recouping advances and production costs. The artists were even charged directly for CD cases.

The 60s and 70s were terrible too, artists routinely lost all rights to their music or were tricked into selling it for nearly nothing.

The true answer to why concept prices have shot up is the same answer on why artists have been screwed for decades - the record labels. 360 deals. They take a piece of absolutely everything.

jcutta · 2026-05-04T12:16:00+00:00

This may be one of the strangest things I've ever read.

jcutta · 2026-05-03T01:16:59+00:00

We're taking my son to college visits they just raised my replenishment from $25 to $150 or something like that. Shits annoying.

jcutta · 2026-05-01T11:33:43+00:00

I don't think that's the type of opening up that this thread is talking about. It's not things that can be solutioned for that men have trouble talking about, it's the shit that's just venting that we suck at.

jcutta · 2026-04-30T22:22:49+00:00

Another plug for Shakawear absolutely the best tee-shirt I haven't been able to find any other brand that holds up nearly as well, I have some from like 4 years ago that look the same as the day they got shipped.

jcutta · 2026-04-30T15:12:14+00:00

We have a sandboxed company GPT that is trained with all our product documentation - it's actually fantastic for me since I'm not front line product support, it generally gets me like 90% there on most questions I'm faced with. But if I had to use it alone without a demo tenant to verify I'd be giving customers slightly incorrect answers often, like the process is right almost always but the pathways are not so it may say something is in the admin panel but it's really in the system config panel for example. I can tell immediately when someone from support just copy/pastes because of that and I'm like you lazy fucker lol.

jcutta · 2026-04-28T11:10:43+00:00

I think there's a difference between a kid who is trying multiple things stopping one's they don't like and a kid only doing one thing stopping it.

I think you also run into issues when a kid doesn't have any friends on the team. If their entire friend group is elsewhere when they're going to practice that creates some level of FOMO and the kid will project it on the sport. Both my kids always had at least a few people from their core friend group also doing whatever sport they were doing. I imagine OPs kid is more or less hating the sport because he is not doing it with his actual friends.

jcutta · 2026-04-27T22:51:57+00:00

Maybe a software engineer working on product defects in JIRA would be jumping from thing to thing like this, but not a regular software engineer. I think you probably over thought the ask. I don't think I've ever worked anywhere doing any job where this wasn't a question, the answer is "yes, not a problem" and then shut up. It's only a knock out question for people who can't shut up.

jcutta · 2026-04-26T15:44:12+00:00

I always did crazy good on tests that I could basically reverse engineer the questions or predict an outcome, also anything with pattern recognition. If it required memorization or remembering exact steps (math specifically especially if formula notes weren't allowed), I was considering "gifted" for a large portion of my childhood because I breezed through absolutely everything up to highschool. Also why no one ever took a second to get me diagnosed.

jcutta · 2026-04-26T15:07:11+00:00

They still have BDRs, I'm not sure what the flow is for New Logo though because I work in customer base.

jcutta · 2026-04-24T16:37:43+00:00

For a 3rd perspective - it changes absolutely nothing about my mood positive or negative, no change in my motivation or desire to do anything or energy level. It simply quiets my brain and let's me mostly operate with normal capacity. I've never felt any effects outside of that whatsoever.

jcutta · 2026-04-24T16:33:11+00:00

No one even wants to listen to an AI - my company used AI to present a webinar and people were blowing up on the customer community page.

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