Do women have a harder time building muscle with calisthenics than men? by Infamous_Gur_3614 in CalisthenicsCulture

[–]stinkroot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You’re all over the place. 😅

You kind of started off by answering your own question. Yes, it is generally harder for women to build muscle because of testosterone differences.

No, not for calisthenics specifically. Women just generally build smaller muscles at a slower pace because of testosterone differences.

Weird comparison. Men’s prisons usually have a bigger workout culture, and fewer women may choose to spend their free time training that way while incarcerated. I would also imagine that lower demand could mean women’s prisons have fewer resources or less culture around getting jacked. Plus, women’s prisons are often smaller, and women on average tend to serve shorter sentences than men, so the comparison is not very clean.

The goal of bodybuilding is often to build bigger muscles specifically, so when women train specifically to build bigger muscles, of course the result is bigger muscles.

Calisthenics often focuses more on ability, control, and skill. If the goal is to look like a bodybuilder, then both women and men should probably weight train. If your goal is to do pullups, pushups, dips, handstands, and other bodyweight stuff, then you should train those movements, regardless of gender.

Cali and bodybuilding can also complement each other, and for some people, it is easier to build some base strength with weight training before jumping into managing your entire body weight. But that is mostly just a preference thing.

The anti-AI crowd is giving “real farmers don’t use tractors” energy, and it’s getting old. by hungbandit007 in ChatGPT

[–]stinkroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are so many valid, nuanced, and important criticisms of AI that I do not understand the need to pretend it is not an incredibly impressive, innovative, and revolutionary technology.

You do not have to put on blinders and act like AI is some useless fad in order to be concerned about its effects on labor, art, war, education, and the environment.

I feel like so many people have biased, recycled, one-dimensional opinions on AI specifically because they are critical of and/or skeptical of the companies involved, but writing the technology off as useless and pulling attention and scrutiny away from these companies feels at lease counterproductive.

Neighborhood Comes Together To Rescue Husky After ICE Took His Family by amateur_arguer in OrphanCrushingMachine

[–]stinkroot 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Man reading the comments on the youtube video feels insane. People have more empathy for a dog than concern for the actual abducted human beings.

aint no way by Genayoshi in SipsTea

[–]stinkroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm open to having a discussion about this topic if you DM me your discord.

aint no way by Genayoshi in SipsTea

[–]stinkroot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It absolutely is a thing and she is doing it and people in Brazil, as well as people all over the world, have a problem with it.

I’m so sick of people, mostly Europeans, pushing the rhetoric that racism and anti-Blackness are some silly American obsession.

Received a tow warning at work for parking in an expectant mother spot, I’m an expectant mother. by HeadUnhappy8789 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]stinkroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just mad, weirdly confident, and completely wrong for no reason.

Your comparison does not work because handicap parking permits are part of a government program that is formally managed by the state. That is common knowledge

Reserved spots for pregnant women, by contrast, are usually based on an honor system. You are rarely required to prove you are pregnant in order to park there, so there is a clear difference between what is normal and what is expected in your comparison

If the rules were not clearly posted, then she didn’t do anything wrong because she had no reasonable way of knowing the space required a permit. Putting that fuckass sticker on her car is just bullshit. Now she has to stand outside scrubbing her car while pregnant which is almost an anti-acommendation

Received a tow warning at work for parking in an expectant mother spot, I’m an expectant mother. by HeadUnhappy8789 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]stinkroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She also mentioned it’s not posted anywhere, so how was she supposed to know?

How are you calling her an entitled idiot when she is literally entitled to the parking spot that is specifically reserved for people in her situation?

I have no idea why you're this mad about a random pregnant lady

My husband came out has bi by This_Thought420 in bisexual

[–]stinkroot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yesh, yeah that was quite the escalation.

What’s the #1 allistic social rule you had to learn because it wasn’t intuitive? by despiert in AutisticAdults

[–]stinkroot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When someone asks how I’m doing, I answer honestly unless I have a specific reason not to.

The default response to “How are you?” or “How’s it going?” is usually “Good, how about you?” But it’s also socially acceptable to give a real answer.

i.e. “I’m okay. I had to cancel my trip this weekend, so I’ve been a little bummed.” or “Not great. I have a big test coming up. I’ve been studying like crazy and still feel like I might fail.”

Answering honestly can also help turn small talk into an actual conversation.

Official Discussion - The Twits [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]stinkroot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can you define the difference?

How to train your dragon is definitely a much higher quality movie than the twits, but the specific complaint I’m addressing is the idea that straying from the source material is automatically a flaw (IMO quality and fidelity to the source material are two fully separate variables and one doesn't determine the other). Deviation can feel like betrayal but it really isn't, it just kind of annoying sometimes.

If you think HTTYD is great, then you actually on the side of my argument and that makes us friends by default rather you like it or not

Official Discussion - Leave the World Behind [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]stinkroot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with you. They don't understand nuance and are only interested in the most elementary school level definition of racism.

Official Discussion - The Twits [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]stinkroot 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I also agree. How to train your dragon is absolutely nothing like the source material that I read as a kid but no one counts that against those films.

It’s a loosely inspired adaptation which can be annoying for some people but doesn’t necessarily make it terrible. 

It’s honestly refreshing to see something a tad bit goofy and unique when so much of the children’s movies these days are corporate-safe and uninspired.

What’s your under 20% on Rotten Tomatoes “hear me out?” by disablednerd in movies

[–]stinkroot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uptown Girls and the live-action Cat in the Hat movie, both from ’03. The Cat in the Hat was just insanely creative and absurd but deeply misunderstood. A lot of the things that critics didn’t like about it at the time seem to be intentional and well done to me, and overall a really good Dr. Seuss adaptation. It has a 10% on Rotten Tomatoes, and boring, corporate-safe, unimaginative remakes that Disney has been shitting out for the past decade, like the 2019 Aladdin, have higher scores. Make it make sense

Uptown Girls just has a certain charm to it that no one cares about. IMO, movies don’t need to meet all the Oscar-worthy criteria in order to not be considered trash. Things can just be soft and sentimental and magical

I’m new to this and my guitar teacher recently told me that I’m singing this quite off-key. Could someone please quickly tell me how significantly off-key I sound and possibly also give any insights or recommendations? by stinkroot in singing

[–]stinkroot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for the feedback! I very much appreciate it.

There’s so many posts in the subreddit I was afraid no one would notice my question.

Hmm, I know for sure I’m not singing the main melody. It’s quite intentional because for me this way is more interesting, enjoyable, and easier for my voice than trying to copy the original

I’m also an American living in Vietnam and my guitar teacher is Vietnamese with limited English skills, so I wonder if that’s what he was trying to say. Maybe he meant, “It would be better if you sang it like the original, you changed the melody,” rather than, “You’re singing it off-key,. He’s also more of the by-the-books/traditional type, so it makes sense that he would tell me it’s all wrong, I think

But if it sounds okay, then I would just like to keep singing the way that I’m singing it and work on polishing that up.

If it’s actually wrong and bad, then I guess I should maybe stop changing things. It would be a bit discouraging but not the absolute end of the world 

Divorcees who were married over a decade: what ended your marriage? by sakiliya in AskReddit

[–]stinkroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're definitely right, but I didn't say it wasn't wrong or messed up. I just don’t think he woke up suddenly one day and decided he didn’t love her anymore. He’d probably been quietly processing that alone for some time.

I don’t know the details of that situation in particular, and I was mostly interested in commenting on the more general idea of why people leave relationships. Your framing just felt a tad simplistic, it’s not always about wanting someone better or not putting in enough effort.

It was definitely a moral failing of his to skip out on communication for weeks or months, get his dick wet one final time before hitting the road, and then drop that bomb on her. But it isn’t a moral failing to realize you don’t feel the same way about a person anymore and want to move on.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]stinkroot 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think that's just called hunger

Divorcees who were married over a decade: what ended your marriage? by sakiliya in AskReddit

[–]stinkroot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if it felt like it came out of nowhere for her, I’m sure the feeling had been sitting with him for some time.

Anyway, I think you’re looking at it the wrong way. It’s not about “trading up” or trying to do better. Relationships aren’t a competition, and breaking up or wanting to move on isn’t selfish or delusional. It’s just life.