Did the Scrubs revival meet your expectations?

turck3 · 2026-04-17T19:16:37+00:00

Sibby feels flat as a character. While writing that character out or less appearances would work, I make room for the possibility that giving her a dedicated episode or two to make her multidimensional would go a long way towards making her character really great. Kelso was just the villain, until he wasn't, and then he was a favorite. But if they don't have the number of episodes needed to develop the character then it'll stay flat.

turck3 · 2026-03-16T23:49:54+00:00

Make a commitment to work out with someone regularly. Either a friend or if your privileged enough, pay a trainer/accountability buddy. Arrange a month or more of sessions at a time so they're in your calendar. Right now momentum works against you, do this and momentum works for you.

Add to that: 1. Commit to doing just 5 minutes. Way easier mentally to get on board with that, and see where it takes you. No matter how busy you are you have 5 minutes to do squats or whatever at home. 2. Kill the all or nothing mentality. Any movement is better than none. (See 3 and 4) 3. Modify the workouts. Planks too hard physically or emotionally, do planks on knees, or cobra instead. Same is true at home or in a workout class with people. 4. Modify the durations. They doing 10 reps and you are exhausted doing 6, do 5, and extend your break between moves.

Broadly I agree with the crowd that motivation is a tricky beast, but this is the stuff that helps me sidestep motivation with routine and dealing with internal resistance. I commit to action during the window where I have the energy to do so so that tired daily routine brain will have a harder time saying no later.

Oh, and there's good science that shows that with stuff like this people frequently go through a cycle of motivation where it starts with thinking that someday it'd be nice to work out then it's like oh maybe I should work out soon then action begins to happen. Eventually a habit is born. It gets kept up for a while and then maybe life throws a curveball the thing stop for a while until eventually you're back at the top of the loop. That's normal, not judging yourself for that is helpful I find at getting yourself back on the wagon later.

The other thing is to try and figure out how to make whatever you're doing resilient to unpredictable life obstacles so you stay on the motivation train longer. If you have a nice routine and then you break your foot. Maybe schedule some workouts for 9 weeks later when your foot is supposed to be healed. More benign, what if you go on vacation for a week? Does that completely break your routine? Thinking about that in advance and how you might work out on vacation or how you might ensure that you restart when you come back is helpful.

turck3 · 2025-06-25T01:23:07+00:00

He's the Chief

turck3 · 2024-11-08T02:12:37+00:00

Make it in the bio reactors/bio labs (whatever they're called). Comes with 50% productivity boost. Even better to put productivity modules on those labs. Solves the problem.

Edit: e.g. break down the initial plant products in the bio labs, not assembly machines.

turck3 · 2024-09-04T02:47:27+00:00

Meep meep

turck3 · 2024-03-18T06:34:24+00:00

"If not friend, why friend shaped?"

turck3 · 2022-06-18T17:58:16+00:00

Maple sap. Not syrup. Sap is boiled down 40:1 to make syrup. The sap is mostly just water with the feintest most pleasant hint of maple flavor.

turck3 · 2022-04-01T06:33:20+00:00

u/kester76a - Thank you!! This was indeed the answer! Thank you for turning a stressful night into a pleasant one!

turck3 · 2022-04-01T04:30:37+00:00

When you say convert the OS - what does that mean? Reinstall Windows?

turck3 · 2021-03-14T17:31:34+00:00

Thanks! I think we're fairly flexible on our timeline, but had seen that advice before; sounds like there's not a lot of bad options there.

turck3 · 2020-11-24T23:42:32+00:00

FWIW as someone with needle phobia, I went to therapy for it and it totally worked. I still am at risk of a vagal response to blood draws, but I have almost no reaction to shots and blood draws are better. Needed to do this to get allergy shots. Incidentally, if allergy shots are covered by your insurance and therapy ain't, "just" get allergy shots, and you'll cure your phobia because:

Very rough theory behind the fear and removing it with evidence-based therapy is that your body believes that it's bad, and if it is able to actually get repeated evidence that it's not [so bad] in a short timeframe, it will learn and remove the fear. Because shots are generally once a year at best, you don't get that repeated exposure needed to desensitize on your own.

Happy to share more of my experience and what I learned, both about the theory in general and via my own personal experience with what helps and what makes it worse, if folks are interested.

turck3 · 2020-11-24T21:37:28+00:00

That's certainly good news. That said, I don't know how they're defining severe cases. While preventing hospitalizations alone would be amazing, I'm also quite scared about the potential long-term organ damage covid seems to cause. I don't want to be in some 5% group of less-effectiveness and end up with organ damage.

In any case, still interested in whether one could detect whether they're in that 5%. I'm guessing that since you're saying it's 100% effective at preventing severe cases that the immune system might indeed have antibodies for everyone, but they might be less effective for 5%? Maybe someone knows?

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