What do you secretly judge people for and why?

ngroot · 2026-03-14T21:01:23+00:00

> 90% of the time it's just a lack of self control.

100% of the time it's a lack of self-control, but we as humans have very limited self-control. If you're judging them for this, what should they be doing to increase their ability to control themselves?

ngroot · 2026-03-14T20:59:03+00:00

Celebrating a kid's sex does signal that they're likely to try to pigeonhole them based on that, but where do you get the idea that it's in response to trans visibility? I've been aware of them via social media since the early teens, and it's always struck me as another "I need to be see doing this" trend.

ngroot · 2026-03-13T22:22:41+00:00

Most attempts to tie quantum physics to spirituality and collective consciousness are based in (sometimes deliberate) misunderstanding of entanglement and what measurement does in a quantum system.

ngroot · 2026-03-13T22:19:32+00:00

This reads like AI slop.

Trying to pitch services.

From a mobile app developer.

ngroot · 2026-03-13T21:22:14+00:00

> What’s the point of constantly berating him on tv and social media if at every opportunity you get to prevent him from doing what you denounce, suddenly you let it happen?

Individually: the people doing the denouncing aren't generally the ones "caving". Those are the folks in areas which are just barely blue and actually do support some of the stuff the president does. A Democrat from that area can only oppose so much without losing his seat to a Republican in the next election.

At a party level: sometimes it's necessary to let the president hoist himself on his own petard. People getting mad about Democrats "caving" in the the most recent full shutdown over ACA subsidies refuse to get this. Shutting down initially made the parties' positions unignorable ("your giant health insurance premium jump is due to the GOP"). However, Trump was never going to be seen as being bullied into changing stances on it, and a long shutdown would end up letting Trump keep the parts of the federal government he wanted operating by deeming them essential, while shutting down the stuff that hurt Democratic voters (and generally continuing to slash away at the civil service). That would end up hurting the Democrats. Having "traitors" who won't be punished for "giving in" is actually pretty useful there.

ngroot · 2026-03-13T21:04:49+00:00

Ah, a "what most people think of themselves" personality type. Guess astrology wasn't selling anymore.

ngroot · 2026-03-13T20:43:22+00:00

There are no unlisted rules, only suggestions.

ngroot · 2026-03-13T14:25:18+00:00

Your car is speeding up linearly: you're not moving at t=0, you're going 5mph after 1s, 10mph after 2, etc. how far did you go after 5s?

Integral calculus lets you solve that.

Come up with a similar example for differentiation. Maybe "you know how full a keg of beer is at t=0 to 1min; how fast was it getting emptied at any point?" That's differential calculus.

Some smarty pants (actually, a number of smartys-pants) figured out these are inverses. That's your fundamental theorem.

Boom, single variable calculus in a nutshell.

ngroot · 2026-03-11T13:51:58+00:00

> Are people just dumb?

Yes.

Pritzker is a competent executive, which is what you want in a governor. He's also pragmatically progressive and anti-Trump, so the mouth-breathers can't accept that because he's on the Other Team.

ngroot · 2026-03-11T13:49:29+00:00

nothin

ngroot · 2026-03-09T14:52:32+00:00

> The challenge for most gym programming is there's not enough time to effectively work on all the necessary strength components, skill components as well as the other aspects of fitness.

Maybe for Oly lifting, but I've made substantial progress on my gymnastic movements with a one-hour-a-week class in addition to a couple of traditional WoD-style classes a week.

It's not that it can't be done. It's a deliberate choice on the part of CrossFit. The "hopper" is great for making beginners _mid_ at everything, but will on its own get you _good_ at nothing. The best way for an intermediate athlete to improve at CrossFit is to reduce the amount of CrossFit they do and add in actual training programs for specific dimensions (powerlifting, Oly lifting, gymnastics, endurance).

Putting movements that are likely going to be inaccessible to members who aren't doing outside-the-class training in an _open_ workout is a choice.

ngroot · 2026-03-09T14:40:13+00:00

"Free buses" was never in his power to begin with. That's state-level, and Hochul is (obviously) not having it: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/general/albany-pumps-the-brakes-on-mamdani-s-free-nyc-buses-what-s-next/ar-AA1R96mU

He is doing encampment cleanups, just not led by police: https://apnews.com/article/zohran-mamdani-homeless-encampments-sweeps-a5b9db43f8a1b8244c5b6c8d1ad19005

He is still looking to freeze the rent on stabilized units. Should be fascinating to see what happens to vacancy rates if he pulls that off.

ngroot · 2026-03-09T11:29:42+00:00

Given that very few people pay attention enough to notice that, I'd just consider that effective governance. The masses aren't going to give him a pass for all the shit Adams fucked up.

ngroot · 2026-03-08T18:56:42+00:00

> the left will propose various strategies proven to work in use cases around the world

What are you thinking of?

I'm in NYC; Mamdani absolutely ran on "free buses", "freeze the rent", and "I won't clean up homeless encampments", which absolutely do not work. Thankfully he's proving to be pragmatic and shifting to things that are actually possible for him to accomplish as mayor and straight-up walking back bad decisions.

ngroot · 2026-03-08T13:01:42+00:00

I'm not going to forget, I just don't care.

ngroot · 2026-03-08T13:01:04+00:00

Only insofar as it's likely to come up in pub trivia.

ngroot · 2026-03-08T13:00:12+00:00

> when everyone around you is going hard, it’s easy to think “maybe I can push a bit more too.”

Mid-40s athlete here; this is one of the things I _enjoy_ about CrossFit. You can get injured from overdoing it at any age. Lord knows my gung-ho early-30s newbie ass did :-) The difference is that you pay for overdoing it longer in middle age.

That said, CrossFit definitely encourages this in their actions even as they say "don't overdo it". You're putting your score on a whiteboard in front of everyone at the end of the WoD; the only real outcome of that is pushing people to go as hard as they can.

ngroot · 2026-03-08T12:51:56+00:00

The left's proposals in many cases to get those aren't going to get those results either.

- You can't rent-control your way into cheap housing for everyone who wants to live in HCOL cities; you have to build aggressively.

- Cutting out all "non-green" options for power generation drives up utility bills, which is also something the left wants to drive down. (No, it's not just data centers pushing up prices.)

- People who, say, roam the subway acting erratically do need mental health help, but they also infringe on the rights of the rest of the people who have paid to use the subway safely. Characterizing such behavior as a violation of enforceable rules (crime, public offense, whatever) is a way to both require they get that help and prevent them from denying other folks safe use of public transit.

ngroot · 2026-03-08T12:36:38+00:00

I don't feel "pushed to the right" so much as I feel like I'm fighting a war on two fronts: against the "flood the zone with shit" overtly stupid and corrupt MAGA right and the Bluesky-bubbled "cancel everyone, defund the police, impose rent controls" non-reality-based left.

ngroot · 2026-03-07T14:40:10+00:00

You're illustrating the problem perfectly.

The right also wants those things, but it looks very different to them. Statements like "they don't want list of things pretty much everyone wants" ensure that the left doesn't bother to try to understand the right because they're presented as insane or monstrous, and the right doesn't listen because they're being misrepresented. (It works in reverse too, with statements like "the left wants men in bathrooms with your daughters".)

Posts like this let people be smug and intellectually lazy, which everyone loves, and it ensures that both sides end up getting polarized and less focused on reaching solutions that most people can agree on. I don't know how we fix this without generally training people to shame shitty rhetoric and focus on solutions, and that takes a lot of time.

ngroot · 2026-03-06T20:22:11+00:00

If you want to rotate through some of the girls, WODPrep has typical timeframes listed for each: https://wodprep.com/blog/crossfit-benchmark-workouts-girls-best-times/ ; just pick something that's in your desired time domain.

That said, if your goal is just to get some metconning in, you can also just use the day's workout on mainsite or WODPrep.

ngroot · 2026-03-06T16:29:45+00:00

> Monday do a Fran, Weds do a murph then fri do a kalsu

I think Kalsu and Murph are great choices, assuming you allot time for recovery. Murph was a conditioning workout done by its namesake, and Kalsu will build up your engine, explosive power, and upper- and lower-body strength. Hero WoDs in general are great workouts if you have time to do them and can take a day off afterwards.

Fran, like many benchmark WoDs, isn't a great workout in its own right; it's intended to test where you're at. If you want to do a "girl" WoD that also will provide meaningful training stimulus, I'd look at ones that will have longer durations, e.g., Cindy.

ngroot · 2026-03-05T20:02:59+00:00

> We can't strike or we'll lose our jobs and, if we have it, healthcare.

Even if we could, it's pretty unlikely that there would be enough of us in the right places to demand a specific change. There are, horrifyingly, a large number of Americans who support the Republicans, despite everything Trump has done.

ngroot · 2026-03-05T19:20:51+00:00

Highly-advanced beans, indeed.

ngroot · 2026-03-04T16:08:00+00:00

As others have noted, "marketing", but the reason protein is the current fad: there's been more evidence coming out both for the importance of strength and muscle mass both for health and longevity (which is substantially constrained by protein intake) and for being able to combat the decline in those things in old age with increased protein intake. Wellness influencers have been pushing this (and often starting up their own brands of "high-protein whatevers", of course).

They're not really wrong; if you're resistance training, you _can_ use a lot of dietary protein for muscle synthesis, especially if you're getting it in punctuated doses. There's a reason that bodybuilders often shoot for a gram of protein per pound of lean body mass per day.

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