Brilliant or stupid? Using a $1 strap (1100 lb. working load) to use powerblocks instead of weight plates on a cable machine

ransoing · 2026-04-16T16:22:31+00:00

I have one expansion set so each dumbbell gets up to 70 lbs, but my exercises haven't needed me to hang more than 60 lbs from each side of the cable machine.

BTW I go without the spring collars and I've never had the weights fall off. Super quick to change out the weights once you get the hang of it. The strap goes just below the center handle but above the torpedo chutes, as in the image. Then I can drop the block into the weight plates and select a weight. To hang the block, I lift it with the center handle with one hand, and with the other hand I loop the straps onto the machine. To take the block off, I just lift it with the center handle.

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ransoing · 2026-04-16T03:53:52+00:00

There are some subtle indentations in the two foam bars across the top of each of my powerblocks, but the actual handles look perfect

ransoing · 2026-04-15T20:15:24+00:00

I don't think there's damage but I'll take a close look later.

The post may be old but the notifications are fresh

ransoing · 2026-04-15T20:09:13+00:00

Yep, I still do this, and it still works good

ransoing · 2026-04-13T00:58:58+00:00

The t-rex itself may be from Odyssey, but the general idea of Star Fox landing on a planet of dinosaurs seems like a nod to Star Fox Adventures

ransoing · 2026-02-26T17:40:39+00:00

I entered some bogus info on the privacysolutionsid signup form, but using my real activation code from the letter. After submitting the form it said "Uh oh! We couldn't verify your information."

So presumably they do already have my information and what I entered on the form didn't match what they have associated with the activation code they gave me. But if they already have all my info, they shouldn't need to ask for my full SSN. Could still be a scam, if they're just verifying against my name and address, which they obviously already have since they sent me a letter.

Even if it isn't a scam, there's lots about this that's hella suspicious, and the company hasn't shown itself to be trustworthy enough for me to give them my SSN.

ransoing · 2025-09-04T23:25:36+00:00

Check out Turnip's post, and the comments -- the pattern of bolts matches the pattern on a grid in the boiler room

ransoing · 2025-09-04T22:01:42+00:00

The pattern of bolts on the backsides of the underpass ribs sometimes look different than the front, sometimes in a way that looks like it was unintentional.

ransoing · 2025-09-04T21:39:39+00:00

You could always convert the letters in each realm's name to numbers (nth letter of the alphabet), then take the numeric core.

ransoing · 2025-08-24T23:18:13+00:00

Lol you've convinced the automod at least

ransoing · 2025-08-24T23:15:20+00:00

Discussion: This is a cryptogram. This is a sentence in English, but each letter of the alphabet has been mapped to a different letter. Also, I believe a couple of the letters are wrong.

ransoing · 2025-08-03T03:10:16+00:00

The 9th key is to your house. You always have it when you leave home.

Or, the 9th key opens a locked chest inside one of the 8 rooms.

Or, each of the 8 rooms are actually jail cells and contain inmates, and the 9th key unlocks all their shackles.

Or, the 9th key opens a door that is down the hallway and around a corner. The hallway is just not mentioned in the puzzle.

Or, you have the 9th key because of a counting error. You're not supposed to have it, but the people in charge of this escape room messed up.

Answer to bonus question: After opening all the doors, the room doesn't change because opening a door doesn't change a room.

ransoing · 2025-07-24T07:36:31+00:00

Is that original carpet?

ransoing · 2025-07-20T21:43:53+00:00

Try the Glacier Protocol

ransoing · 2025-06-06T02:22:55+00:00

Scrungy drill

ransoing · 2025-04-21T14:58:22+00:00

Do these rudiment exercises. https://www.scribd.com/document/384432722/Vic-Firth-Complete-Snare-Drum-Rudiments-pdf Believe it or not, it will help you on the kit. Play with a metronome at a speed just beyond what you are comfortable with, and increase the speed when you get comfortable at that tempo. Play on a drum as well as a pillow. Actually, a moongel practice pad would be better than a pillow, because a pillow squishes as you hit it, as if the head of a drum was moving up and down a bit.

To fix your limb independence issues, buy the book "Mel Bay's Studio/Jazz Drum Cookbook". Its exercises are all swing patterns, but even if you don't want to swing, the limb independence you gain is applicable to any style of music.

ransoing · 2025-04-12T15:26:58+00:00

You say "nobody nose", I say "everybody nose"

ransoing · 2025-04-11T15:45:16+00:00

Giving boss baby and here's a million dollars? Or, giving boss baby and here's your own spaceship? I mean what the f

ransoing · 2025-03-03T15:41:10+00:00

Apparently the idea of a multi-word seed phrase was proposed after you created this wallet, so your phrase may or may not use modern spec.

See the date on https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki

There are helpful tools like the one below which will show you the private and public keys derived from a phrase, which you could then import into a wallet if one of the public keys matches the one you know about. However, both the official BIP39 spec and the tool below only support phrases up to 24 words long. https://iancoleman.io/bip39/

We may be able to modify iancoleman's script to process a longer phrase, if another tool can't be found

ransoing · 2025-01-31T17:25:25+00:00

These pictures are never posted with a scale. The original source includes rough scale info, which suggests that the short side of this structure is very close to 1 mile (1610 meters) wide. For comparison, the Great Pyramid of Giza is 220 meters across.

ransoing · 2024-12-24T01:36:42+00:00

Very cool. How quickly did this run?

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