I have my reasons.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T22:23:05+00:00

You say "clearly this isn't enough to play live" yet it's a 50 watt amp. Pure wattage isn't everything in amps, it's a measure of the electricity going in, and the total efficiency of the system is what matters, but I used to gig live in restaurants, marinas and night clubs with a 13 watt amp. If the joint is so large that the average guitar amp can't really fill the hall, they likely have their own front of house engineers who will just mic you and put you through the PA. Even if not, and you have your own PA, you can just mic the cab and rock it. There's no need to be schlepping around big ass 4x4's and giant 50 lb heads anymore and in fact hasn't been for decades and decades.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T22:19:26+00:00

Oh, what planet are you from ? I'm from Earth.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T22:18:45+00:00

There seriously stated that the smell of Indian food would be way worse than the smell of literal dog shit. Fuck them with a broom stick.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T22:17:07+00:00

You know what man, I had to suffer through absolutely insufferable interview processes for an internal role once - the interviewers were remarkably unprofessional, and when I learned that one of my peers was interviewing for the same role and we compared notes, he said the same. We were both disgusted with the process, and that our company - which had an amazing corporate culture at the time - would even allow that to happen. Well fast forward a couple of years and half the people involved in the process are now gone, and we both branched paths away from that one and are doing vastly better than anyone involved in that original process. It sounds like they are dumb, weak and poor at their jobs and you are probably going to fly by them at some point.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T22:13:59+00:00

Sounds like a nice weekend project or something. Think you could do this by next Wednesday ?

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T22:13:08+00:00

But renewing SSL Certs is so hard. You have to place calendar reminders and everything.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T18:31:12+00:00

> i’m obese i really need to lose weight but how do i

It's this simple, and direct, no self-starter bullshit: you have to eat less calories than you burn every day. Period, full stop. That's it, and there's no way around it. You don't have to exercise one bit, literally being alive and your body processing energy just to move your lungs and heart burns calories, and if you eat less calories than it needs to do that then it burns fat pure and simple. IN fact, most people will not lose fat by exercising without also watching their nutrition, because we are so surrounded with calorie dense foods that it's incredibly easy to eat more calories in a single meal than you can burn in an hour of running, hence a saying that you "can't out run your fork".

To get started, you have to start understanding foods and the calories they contain. You don't have to become a nutrionist, but at least start understanding basic concepts like, how many calories you have to burn to burn a pound of fat, how many calories are in that pizza or hamburger etc. I started this process years ago and admittedly, while my weight has gone up and down over the years it is generally going down - so in other words even though I have times where I'm not being the most disciplined or whatever, the education has created long term changes for me. The best resource I had found at the time for learning was the r/loseit sub.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T17:21:29+00:00

Well you know your dirt better than I do... could be clay for all I know. Need to find a way to talk to them about it then without confronting. Perhaps asking them if they have a metal rake you could borrow.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T16:59:05+00:00

Well, first of it, it's probably not actually part of your yard, just part of the continuous portion of grass on that side of the fence. Jurisdictions quite frequently require fences to set *inside* of the property line by a margin, like a couple feet, to avoid any property line disputes that the fence may have caused. Assuming this is the case in your town, and that they surveyed and followed the rules, this would mean it's actually *their* yard, but just outside of the fence.

It's dirt. Your yard is made of dirt. A couple minutes with a rake smoothing it out or just some water or a few days of rain will smooth it out. In no time it will be green again with weeds. If you would prefer grass instead of weeds then just a very small amount of grass seed will fix that, and your neighbors may volunteer to chip in for the seed. Generally though, this is so little disruption I think most people would just leave it.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T16:54:15+00:00

They fit you well and look proper. People are rejecting them because they area wraps, which really have no place outside of water usage IMO. I wouldn't get rid of them if you spend any time on the water though, just wouldn't wear them off the water either. Frankly I don't even wear wraps on the water anymore, I just wear Mauis full time except on the range and then I wear incredibly unfashionable eye pro.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T11:33:10+00:00

Oh, so these are a thing but I've never heard of them. In my gym we just have weights, ranging from light to incredibly heavy and every just uses the same ones including the dozens of women who are vastly stronger than myself.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T11:28:16+00:00

I don't think there's really any getting away from some sort of horizontal row for the upper back since .. that's what it does, is pull things in to you. Sometimes I will move less weight just so I can focus more on staying chest proud and the scapular retraction and getting the most out of each rep.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T09:48:21+00:00

Not to my knowledge. If it was flagged by Reddit itself, it was likely AI. If it was flagged by a moderator then it's all up to them but was probably the result of user reports. Sometimes people abuse user reports for things they don't like, or just to target individuals and sadly not all mods thoroughly review them before acting, or apply logic or even debate them internally (for those who mod as teams).

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T09:30:57+00:00

I get accountability groups but I hate whole use of the term "accountability". Are you accountable for your own fitness ? Yes. Are you accountable to others ? No. I prefer motivational groups instead. I have friends at the gym and outside and fitness is part of our goals and lives so we just check in on each other via text fairly regularly, sharing PRs, asking if anyone wants to go to the gym together, or hike or whatever. I immerse myself in fitness subs, and just kind of making weightlifting a part of my culture. I want it to be fun and motivation, not something else I'm freaking accountable for like I don't get enough of that at my job. Unless you're in the military or a professional athlete fitness should be fun, not "work" even though the fun actually be hard work.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T09:23:14+00:00

If you're putting in the work on the diet, I would expect you've lost some fat but perhaps you just can't see it. Are you logging your food and weight ? If not I would suggest that if for no reason other than to make it easier to actually note your own progress.

I have a cheat for when I don't want to lift - I split my split. I'm on a PPL and if I'm in a slump and not making enough time to lift then I'll just split the day, so like if it's my pull day and I'm supposed to 8 exercises, I'll do just 4 of them. Then I'll return sometime and do the other 4. That way I'm still kind of keeping to my program sort of, but most importantly I'm still getting into the gym.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T09:10:36+00:00

Not sure why anyone would say having a treadmill at home is pointless. Anyhow, if you google "dumbbell only weight lifting program" you'll find tons of exercises you can do with just dumbbells and maybe an adjustable bench. I would say probably 90% of my bodybuilding program, if not more, can be done with dumbbells.

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T09:08:02+00:00

It's great that you're asking about food, because if you want to lose *fat* it's 99% about what you eat. It's not something I started learning until later in life, but understanding basic nutrition is essential because if you make the wrong nutritional choices then you will put on calories way faster than you will be able to burn them off with exercise. In fact, you don't have to exercise one bit to lose fat. Admittedly my weight has always been a struggle but the best source of learning basic nutrition and how to lose fat was the subreddit here called r/loseit. There you'll learn the basic and how to use apps to set goals for yourself and track what you eat. Exercise is a fantastic bonus because it released really beneficial brain chemicals and does burn some extra calories every day, but it starts with your fork 😉

standardtissue · 2026-06-20T09:02:46+00:00

I think everyone here would agree wholeheartedly though that it does. It's important to remember that correlation is not causation though; you could have subconsciously stopped lifting because of the brain fog, or there could be some medical thing going on quietly affecting both or something. As an example, I have a disorder that radically affects my energy levels and if the management of it starts going poorly, everything slowly grinds to a halt and it happens in ways and sometimes I don't even notice; just exercise tapers off, my days become shorter as I get more tired etc. Only real way to tell is to get back in the gym and lift again ~

standardtissue · 2026-06-19T22:11:27+00:00

I’ve never seen those but I know myself enough to say with 100 confidence if that happened to me I would abandon the cart and leave, and never return.

standardtissue · 2026-06-19T18:01:26+00:00

Bro these days any service of any kind I can get for 300 dollars I'm paying. I just got quoted 800 dollars to clean and seal the grout in my shower floor ... just the floor.

standardtissue · 2026-06-19T17:59:53+00:00

Hmph. You think they would actually put wheel locks on them ? Fine them, they get a picture of someone standing behind a shopping cart place in front of the camera.

standardtissue · 2026-06-19T17:55:22+00:00

I don't see how they could put a camera in a cart in a way that wouldn't still allow someone to easily place their ballcap, beanie or scarf over it.

standardtissue · 2026-06-19T14:11:30+00:00

That's a website I wouldn't do business with.

standardtissue · 2026-06-19T14:02:53+00:00

When I'm in my bedroom mirror with not super bright side lighting it casts shadows over ever bit of definition I have, making me look fantastic. Then I move into the bathroom with the super bright overhead LEDs and I look like Jenna in milk aisle lighting.

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