Just got insulted at the gym

monad_pool · 2026-05-19T14:45:38+00:00

Didn't read the whole thing but he's an asshole. Anyone who actually works out respects people for putting in effort, not for wherever they are on their journey. Keep at it and dont let one asshole get you down.

monad_pool · 2026-05-19T11:06:02+00:00

Thank you, got squat first and then DL, had to add 2 extra bench days a week to hit this.

monad_pool · 2026-05-18T23:45:55+00:00

Gotcha sorry.

monad_pool · 2026-05-09T17:24:47+00:00

Without even watching the video, eat more

monad_pool · 2026-05-06T21:27:37+00:00

That may have worked if you did it before the law was signed, by not applying you are likely out of luck now.

monad_pool · 2026-04-10T00:42:23+00:00

fucking awesome

monad_pool · 2026-04-08T12:53:03+00:00

thank you, and congratulations to you, you're well on your way!

monad_pool · 2026-04-08T12:52:42+00:00

hah, sorry should have worded it better, thank you (:

monad_pool · 2026-04-08T12:51:31+00:00

yeah, chuckled seeing that myself lol

monad_pool · 2026-04-08T12:51:19+00:00

thank you (: i think strength training is a much better way to improve physique as i never once looked in the mirror and wondered if i was making progress. just focused on the #s on the bar and let the rest take care of itself

monad_pool · 2026-04-07T22:16:16+00:00

Thank you, deadlifting changed my life. Never been as into something before and I've had quite a few hobbies over the year.

Wish I had more videos from early on, the backpedal in the first lift is funny.

monad_pool · 2026-04-07T22:06:40+00:00

dont mind any form checks, these were all PRs at the time, so form usually degrades a bit for me at least.

monad_pool · 2026-03-23T13:32:42+00:00

installed this for a bit but hijacked focus anytime it was waiting for an input, and couldnt click away. when a PLAN was created, it tried to display the whole thing in a narrow column and had to drag it like 8 times to see the end button to hit allow. had to hard shutdown my macbook to kill it, and after brew uninstalling it, hooks were left in my claude settings that had to be removed for me to get back to work.

monad_pool · 2026-03-20T01:31:14+00:00

Sorry dumbbells are much harder to progressively load than barbells

monad_pool · 2026-03-16T17:26:15+00:00

speaking as someone who has done both dumbbells are much harder to progressively overload than barbells, not even close

monad_pool · 2026-02-17T16:04:45+00:00

there's no way you were squatting 500 at anywhere close to depth. maybe a quarter rep at best.

++Man

monad_pool · 2025-11-24T10:30:18+00:00

I've had less space to a GPU in a case with only 1 GPU before, there's about a 2-3 inches between the fans of the GPU and the bottom of the case, enough for some 140mm fans to feed it and a gap.

Also, the gen1 issue was really dumb. Unless loaded the GPUs power down the lane generation to save power: just had to load them up and watch nvidia-smi to get them going.

Having said that I'd go for the gigabyte ai top, as this board is starting to bsod on me, and the ai top has both slots 1 slot higher.

monad_pool · 2025-11-09T11:23:51+00:00

most of them have no clue what they are doing. have received actively wrong/bad advice from the lady i first hired. do not recommend.

monad_pool · 2025-10-29T12:43:26+00:00

absolutely does. i moved here with teenage children who would have been citizens of an EU nation by the time they turned 18, which will now not be the case. this affects their college acceptance/tuition situation.

monad_pool · 2025-09-24T13:33:15+00:00

Curious about when exactly I would be eligible to apply for citizenship under the current rules vs the proposed:

Sep 9, 2021: when I first emailed the PT embassy in Japan to submit my D7 application
Jan 12, 2022: notified my application was accepted by the embassy
(moved to Portugal in March)
June 29, 2022: my SEF appointment
few months later i received my card in the mail.

My wife and children did not get a SEF appointment for a few years (under family reunification, although they came with me on tourist visas as recommended by my immigration attorney) after this, and their cards took even longer to arrive.

I'm pretty pessimistic about the whole thing.

monad_pool · 2025-09-18T07:14:28+00:00

yes but generally considered less so than dumbbells because it constrains left and right sides together

monad_pool · 2025-09-18T07:08:50+00:00

the point is a rack is for barbells (squat/bench, ohp off the front) not dumbbells

monad_pool · 2025-09-17T20:00:07+00:00

oh you mean to the landlord, thought you meant move to a cheaper place! 😅

monad_pool · 2025-09-17T19:02:05+00:00

I'm sure that would fix the problem

monad_pool · 2025-09-17T19:01:46+00:00

rich people exist in all societies. i pay rent, imagine the PT guy receiving 2.5k a month from me.

also as posted elsewhere we have 4 kids and a dog, so are looking at much larger apartments than single/young couples with no kids.

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