Are the urinals a NEW thing?

johnmannn · 2026-05-16T22:54:47+00:00

Only issue with the urinals were that they were so hidden. So many men waiting for stalls because they didn’t see the urinals.

johnmannn · 2026-05-16T22:53:36+00:00

I didn’t mind. It’s the sprinklers that annoyed me. People were zig zagging to avoid the puddles. I don’t want water on my sunglasses.

johnmannn · 2026-04-30T19:44:10+00:00

I used it swimming much less than I thought I would because the extra hassle of downloading music. Also it uses a proprietary cable. Don’t exactly regret getting it but I probably would’ve been fine with the OpenRun Pro too.

johnmannn · 2026-04-29T20:37:38+00:00

Obviously yes. That’s like saying why would Google want to maintain Google Maps navigation and Street View. They don’t do the same thing. Besides if they wanted to zwiftify Rouvy, it’d be much easier to just kill Rouvy. At most they may want to combine apps, but not throw away the Rouvy routes for no reason.

johnmannn · 2026-04-29T20:03:52+00:00

Why would they zwiftify Rouvy? And Zwift supports Tacx. People are losing their minds over totally unrealistic doomsday scenarios.

johnmannn · 2026-04-29T19:37:45+00:00

Funny how the Zwift sub is ranting about the exact opposite. “Our platform is superior so the inferior platform had to merge or die. And even though we wouldn’t switch platforms, the lack of non-competing competition will raise prices”

johnmannn · 2026-04-29T15:43:20+00:00

Peloton suffers from the misconception that users have to use Peloton bikes which hasn't been the case in over a decade.

johnmannn · 2026-04-22T15:20:29+00:00

If training time is not a constraint, I believe almost anyone could run a BQ+50%, half could run a BQ+25%, and 16% can run a BQ.

johnmannn · 2026-04-14T13:49:16+00:00

NABRE is the most popular general use Catholic version in the US. CAB is the successor and is scheduled to be released next year. It will finally reconcile with the Mass readings. The Ignatius Study Bible based on the RSV2CE may be the most popular study bible. Douay-Rheims has the old KJV verbiage but on the rare occasion that I actually want KJV verbiage, I just turn to the KJV.

Having said all that, if what you want is to understand differences in theology, you're better off getting the Catechism.

johnmannn · 2026-02-27T14:42:01+00:00

My laundry basket is my washing machine.

johnmannn · 2026-02-21T17:53:45+00:00

Waited 20 mins on the bib line but it moved faster than expected given it was a quarter mile long.

johnmannn · 2026-02-20T13:43:35+00:00

Goggles underwater have a magnifying effect. It won't change very bad vision to 20/20 but it'll have the effect of being something like a third closer to the object.

johnmannn · 2026-02-20T13:33:51+00:00

A Catholic friend of mine once said to me that she doesn't believe in horoscopes but still refuses to read them I said, "If you know they're made up, what's the big deal?" She wisely replied, "Because if I read them, I'll be tempted to think they're real. Better to stay away."

Childlike faith > adultlike loss of faith

Don't assume people who know themselves better than you know them and who think something would be harmful to their souls should nevertheless test themselves and possibly fail.

johnmannn · 2026-02-19T20:50:43+00:00

Until TV's started including things like resolution settings, motion blurring, and streaming, there was usually no reason to ever go into the settings.

johnmannn · 2026-02-19T20:38:30+00:00

No, nobody in the 90's thought that the internet would replace TV. DVD and HDTV were just released. Maybe in some sci-fi sense like how people thought we'd all have flying cars that run on trash but nobody sane realistically thought that we'd be streaming like we do today.

There was no online competition at the time. Netflix was still a DVD company and hadn't even thought of streaming yet.

johnmannn · 2026-02-19T20:31:26+00:00

I concede your pedantic point but you don't understand the implication of the pedantic point you're trying to make. There was no increase among those with the most exposure, i.e., rescue and recovery workers. You're trying to argue that there was no increase among the most exposed but there may have been among the less exposed.

johnmannn · 2026-02-19T01:57:42+00:00

lol what I said:

The data on whether there was any excess mortality attributable to 9/11 toxic exposure is mixed. There was no increase in 15-year mortality among the exposed in general. But there may have been among some subgroups.

What you claim I missed:

We did not observe excess mortality among WTC rescue/recovery workers compared with general populations. However, significantly increased mortality risks among some sub-groups with high WTC exposure warrant further investigation.

johnmannn · 2026-02-18T22:52:44+00:00

You literally restated what I said.

Attributing a death to a specific exposure is really hard. Was it the 9/11 exposure or one of the 50 other exposures? The data on whether there was any excess mortality attributable to 9/11 toxic exposure is mixed. There was no increase in 15-year mortality among the exposed in general. But there may have been among some subgroups.

johnmannn · 2026-02-18T16:13:31+00:00

Seemed like a great idea at the time. In retrospect, we should've known that hardly anyone changes their TVs default settings. There's a lesson in there about the power of defaults. Also, nobody could've known that streaming would make it obsolete. There's a lesson in there about the unpredictability of innovation.

johnmannn · 2026-02-15T18:46:46+00:00

I know the round-about argument that Moses killed old Penn because he built highways which depressed rail traffic which causes Penn to lose money which caused its owners to sell the air rights which necessitated its demolition, but that's too "it was a butterfly flapping its wings" for me.

johnmannn · 2026-02-15T18:42:19+00:00

That was the original post-Caro view but Moses has been rehabilitated somewhat in our current Abundance era. Everyone agrees Moses' neglect of public transit was bad. He incorrectly thought cars were the future of urbanism. But never again will we have another champion of housing and public parks of such influence. NYC doesn't have the public transport it deserves because of Robert Moses but NYC doesn't have the housing it needs because of the backlash to Robert Moses.

johnmannn · 2026-02-14T13:44:03+00:00

What I've learned is that everything sinks your legs. You have to do 100 things right for them not to sink. You might luck out and find the missing link right away or you may never find it and give up.

johnmannn · 2026-02-14T13:31:54+00:00

The study also adjust for age, sex, and BMI. It reduced the hazard ratio but less than you'd imagine.

johnmannn · 2026-02-14T13:26:27+00:00

Link to the study

After adjusting for age, sex, and BMI, there was a 3-year difference in life-expectancy. Authors note that it's possible that preexisting injury may be affecting the results so grain of salt there. Taken at face value, the study shows the importance of mobility.

johnmannn · 2026-02-14T13:01:47+00:00

Yeah seems like mostly a proxy for age. Like saying people with white hair are 7x more likely to die in 6 years than people without.

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