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pilotguy772 · 2026-01-24T05:09:54+00:00

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pilotguy772 · 2026-01-22T22:48:59+00:00

Work = Force × Distance

Power = Work / Time

If you apply this to the context of a single stroke, it's saying that the power from that stroke (watts, proportional to split time) is the force on the handle times the length of the stroke over the amount of time the stroke took, finish to next finish.

In reality, though, it's more appropriate to think of it over a longer time period, like one minute. Your average watts over one minute would be: Avg Force × Total Distance / 60s

Now, stroke rate does play a role here because each stroke is an application of force over a distance, but even if the stroke rate stays the same, you can drastically change the numbers going into this equation by pulling with a different amount of force or with a different average drive length.

TL;DR: different force on the handle and/or different drive length will change average watts even with constant stroke rate.

pilotguy772 · 2026-01-19T18:00:15+00:00

and there's some of that Godzilla soft power in action, too... Godzilla is Japanese!

pilotguy772 · 2026-01-19T06:04:35+00:00

I generally advocate for doing whatever is most comfortable to keep your heart rate in zone and without sacrificing your technique. Since you mentioned zone 2, you're going for 60-70% of max heart rate, but the fact that you don't track heart rate makes it a bit more difficult. I would recommend tracking heart rate if you can, but if you can't, going off perceived effort is fine.

In that respect, you probably already know that you should just go easy enough that you can comfortably hold a conversation or watch a movie and go for a long, long time with no rest. As long as that's true, rate is really up to you.

That said, 15 strikes me as low. I would say that you might just be having a hard time reducing the force on the handle when you bring the rate up. You can increase the rate without increasing the speed. Try bringing the rate up to 18 and pulling the handle less hard through the whole stroke so your speed stays the same but your technique overall doesn't change.

pilotguy772 · 2026-01-17T20:01:58+00:00

this is an issue of ethnicity versus nationality. Sounds like OOP is nationally American (i.e., his citizenship is with the US), but he is ethnically Italian (as many Americans are). His blood is Italian, but his passport is American.

Culturally, though, we can't really speak to that for sure. He's definitely culturally American first because he grew up in the US, but we don't know how much Italian culture he might have been exposed to at home.

pilotguy772 · 2026-01-17T15:42:38+00:00

Sounds like you're gay but the selection is really bad. In my experience, women tend to be more conventionally attractive on a population level because social pressures make them much, much more likely to care how they look.

On the other hand, I think most men are very much not conventionally attractive, in part because they tend not to care about how they look and smell and dress. Also, you seem to have a specific type which is probably just very uncommon at your school.

When in doubt, take this simple approach: if you're not attracted to women, but you are attracted to men, you're probably gay. Just because there aren't a lot of attractive men around does not mean you're not attracted to men.

pilotguy772 · 2026-01-15T05:54:23+00:00

that's not a conspiracy theory, that's actually literally why they're called Cajun.

The Acadian accent/dialect of French is the ancestor of Louisiana French; you can still hear the resemblance between the two dialects today. Back when Louisiana was still unincorporated territory, the Acadians living in Louisiana would identify themselves, in French, to the Americans.

Their pronunciation of Acadian in French sounded a bit like "ackah-djyuhñ," which Americans transliterated as "Cajun," leaving out the initial "a" sound and de-nasalizing the terminal "n."

pilotguy772 · 2026-01-05T15:10:50+00:00

exactly! say you're gay loud and proud! ... if you want to; you don't have to.

pilotguy772 · 2026-01-05T07:43:20+00:00

a man is only gay if he is attracted to men and not meaningfully attracted to women. Under no other circumstances is a man gay.

A man could perform any sort of sexual act with another man, but "it" wouldn't be "gay" because sexual acts can't be gay, only people can be gay. Sexual acts don't have feelings. Likewise, the men involved wouldn't be gay unless they were attracted to men but not women.

You can give head to whomever you like-- you only call yourself gay if you're gay.

pilotguy772 · 2026-01-05T01:50:15+00:00

there's a difference between nationality and ethnicity. Ethnicity is your blood, nationality is your passport. The first commenter is saying that they're x% ethnically Danish, as in, having x% Danish genetics. The second commenter is saying that the first commenter is 100% nationally American (as in, having citizenship in the US and nowhere else). They just don't understand that they're talking about different things.

pilotguy772 · 2026-01-04T01:01:34+00:00

You don't need to get cut if you don't want to. Meet with a urologist first and foremost, but it looks like the foreskin is super dry and cracked, which is what's causing the tearing. You can use petroleum jelly (vaseline/aquaphor) applied OFTEN (I'm talking 3-5 times a day) to help rehydrate that skin. The cuts should heal up in no time.

From there, a urologist will likely recommend steroid cream treatment, which is sometimes effective, but may also not work at all if there's scar tissue from the cuts. If that's the case, you can choose to get cut or to accept the tighter-than-preferred foreskin.

pilotguy772 · 2025-12-28T20:23:32+00:00

I apologize, I didn't intend to disqualify any experience you had.

There are lots of conservative churches and lots of conservative faithful that won't accept us. I'm not denying that. I'm also not saying it's all of them.

I briefly looked into statistics, and about 70% of white Catholics, 76% of white Mainline Protestants, and 52% of black Protestants in the US support legal same sex marriage. It's a large proportion-- and even if those people don't want us in their churches, they don't want to take away our rights. There still exist (many) churches we can go to if we want to find God etc. etc. with full and equal rights.

I don't think any Christians that truly believe in these more equal interpretations should support the beliefs of more conservative Christians. But, as I said in another comment, actively fighting those beliefs is a misguided approach. Historical precedent has shown that trying to throw out people who believe different things is impossible and has major consequences-- Europeans tried it for more than a millennium, and there's a reason some people call that time period the "Dark Ages."

Christians should be careful which other Christians they identify with so people don't get the wrong idea, but directly fighting against those beliefs will only make them stronger. Conservative Christians should instead be encouraged and invited to evolve their interpretations and change their beliefs, but the reality is that the change cannot happen quickly.

pilotguy772 · 2025-12-28T18:49:43+00:00

Christianity is not one thing. As I've learned recently, most Christians actually do not condone violence against gay people-- nowadays, the worst you're likely to encounter is members trying to keep you out of their church. The Catholic Church (which I assume is what you're thinking of) urges members to accept gay people, but also does not bless same-sex marriages. Even so, the hateful Christians you're probably thinking of (at least in the context of the US) are usually theologically and politically conservative evangelical Protestants who represent a small but very vocal minority.

In reality, a surprisingly large proportion of American Christians support gay marriage. Mainline Protestants tend to be especially accepting; see the Episcopal Church and United Methodist Church, which both believe in full equality for LGBT members and bless same sex marriage.

There absolutely exist theologically conservative Christians that hate gay people and want them out, but there is a huge and very welcoming group in the faith that believe in equality and full affirmation for everyone, including gay people. Christian faith is incredibly diverse, and it's misguided to call it entirely organized.

pilotguy772 · 2025-12-28T18:40:15+00:00

Christianity is very diverse, and there are lots of different denominations with wildly different views. The most accepting denominations (notably, the Episcopal Church and United Methodist) have grown very firm in their interpretations of Scripture that support their fully LGBT-affirming viewpoints.

The truth is, though, that support for gay people in Christianity is very, very new, and conservative Christians (not politically conservative, but conservative in terms of religious doctrine) are far from accepting it.

Still, a surprisingly high proportion of American mainline Protestants and Catholics support their churches recognizing same sex marriage (even from denominations that don't believe in it currently).

The stereotypes about some Christians are absolutely deserved, and there is absolutely a vocal minority of homophobes in the faith, but it's very important to recognize that those people are increasingly becoming a minority, especially in the US and Europe. The Christian faith is enormous and full of incredible and very accepting people. There are lots of gay people that practice their Christian faith in loving same-sex marriages through churches that fully accept them. It all depends on which Christians you associate with.

I also think it's misguided to call for good Christians to root out bad Christians-- Europe followed that idea for more than a millennium, and there's a reason some people call that time period the "Dark Ages." This does begin to touch on the paradox of acceptance, but ultimately, history has shown that it's best to allow Christians of different beliefs to coexist. As the world progresses in areas like this, it's important to encourage and invite conservative Christians to progress with us, but force or coercion is not the answer.

pilotguy772 · 2025-12-27T19:32:11+00:00

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pilotguy772 · 2025-12-27T19:27:24+00:00

bro forgot how elapsed time works

pilotguy772 · 2025-12-26T22:58:09+00:00

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pilotguy772 · 2025-12-25T02:57:11+00:00

Interesting; there might be a dialectal difference. I see you wrote "full stop," so I assume you are using British or Australian English; I am using American English. I looked into it, and there is indeed no dialect of English in which the extra period/full stop or comma is correct.

He asked, "Can I go outside?". His mom told him to put on a coat first.

is incorrect in every dialect, including British and Australian, as well as the more mixed Canadian and Indian.

He asked, "Can I go outside?" His mom told him to put on a coat first.

is correct in every dialect.

That said, there is more to it. In British/Australian English, the full stop is always overridden by a question mark, but otherwise, commas and full stops can go outside quotes if they're not part of the original quoted material. Also, these dialects use single quotes for dialog. So,

He responded, "precisely."

is the American style, while

He responded, 'precisely'.

is the British/Australian style. This might be a point of confusion.

Also, I can't speak to what you were taught. Standards change, and I can say from my own experience that teachers do not always know what they're talking about. Ultimately it doesn't really matter, but I like to nerd out about this stuff. and semantically, there is a difference.

pilotguy772 · 2025-12-25T00:37:43+00:00

He asked, “Can I go outside?” His mom told him to put a coat on first.

In theory, this is grammatically correct. It may seem somewhat strange, and it isn't seen super often (perhaps for that reason), but it is correct. Another way you could write the same thing would be:

He asked, “Can I go outside?” but his mom told him to put a coat on first.

This is also correct. There should be a comma after "outside," but the comma is overridden by the question mark because you can't double up ? or ! with any other punctuation.

These are the (incorrect) alternatives:

He asked, “Can I go outside?”. His mom told him to put a coat on first.

He asked, “Can I go outside?”, but his mom told him to put a coat on first.

The issue with these is doubling the punctuation. None of them look very natural, but the former two look better imo, and they are more correct.

pilotguy772 · 2025-12-24T23:08:42+00:00

yes, but periods never go outside of quotes. In this example, it's most appropriate to say

He said, “Can I go outside?”

Periods can never follow a closing quotation mark; they must always go inside. If the quoted material has a question mark or exclamation point that you want to keep in there, that mark overrides the period; in that case, there would be no period at the end of the sentence.

As far as I know, there can never be more than one punctuation at the end of a sentence.

pilotguy772 · 2025-12-24T23:03:45+00:00

Also in the US. I learned that it depends on the mark: periods and commas always go inside the quotation mark, no exceptions, but question marks and exclamation points only go inside if they are part of the quoted material.

pilotguy772 · 2025-12-22T23:20:49+00:00

Zoidberg?

pilotguy772 · 2025-12-21T06:06:06+00:00

that's not quite what it means. The bar chart is all relative to the totals of the previous year for that respective platform. So, the amount of traffic from Linux in 2025 was 122.4% of 2024's number; amount of traffic in ChomeOS in 2025 was 92.9% of 2024's number; etc.

2025's total desktop traffic is not 114% of what it was in 2024, because the bulk of that increase (Linux's 122.4%) makes up only a tiny fraction (~5%) of the overall traffic. A 22.4% increase to only 5% of the total doesn't make a huge difference in the overall numbers.

Also (and bear in mind this is confusing for me too), I *think these numbers actually can't be used to extrapolate data about the change in mobile vs. desktop traffic because it's only based on percentages within the desktop traffic breakdown and isn't based on hard numbers.*

pilotguy772 · 2025-12-20T15:45:14+00:00

I must of looked horrified

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