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Rivalarrival@lemmy.todaytoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Systemic problems cannot be solved at individual levelEnglish49·15 hours ago
Rivalarrival@lemmy.todaytoAnnouncements@lemmy.today•Cert issues has been fixed nowEnglish1·16 hours agoYou da man! Working great now!
Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that 158 families, the 0.01%, make up 50% of US Presidential Campaign Spending. English8·17 hours agoFuck that. First come, first serve. Get it if and while you can.
Don’t worry about speed. Speed is a practically worthless metric, especially when you’re starting out.
Your focus should be on developing a sustainable cadence: the frequency of your pedal strokes, and the pressure you exert on the pedals. It’s a balancing act. For a given output, the faster you pedal, the less pressure you need to put on the pedals. Speed up or slow down from your ideal cadence, and you just wear yourself out without improving your speed.
I looked to maintain about 65-75 strokes per minute, and not pushing so hard that my thighs would start to burn. Some people prefer slower and harder; some prefer faster and lighter.
The purpose of shifting is to maintain consistent stroke rate and pedal pressure. Speed is incidental: if your cadence is good, whatever speed you get will also be good.
Circadian rhythms aren’t based solely on the sun. They are also based on social and physical activity. Things they don’t get when sitting indoors for the entirety of their daylight hours.
Lack of sleep is primarily because they are not physically tired come bed time. They aren’t physically tired becauae they haven’t engaged in any physical activity all day. They’ve been obligated to sit indoors during daylight hours, and they don’t have daylight for outdoor evening activities.
Instead, they get to sit indoors, under artificial lighting and watching bright screens, both of which screw up their sleep schedules.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.todaytoAnnouncements@lemmy.today•Cert issues has been fixed nowEnglish3·2 days agoLife finds a way to kick us in the balls sometimes.
BOHICA. :p
old.lemmy.today (and all the other alternative interfaces listed in the sidebar) are still having issues. They all seem to be pointing to the default interface instead of their respective alternatives. They’re also throwing cert errors, probably because the cert is now for “lemmy.today” instead of “*.lemmy.today”
Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Reddit CEO pledges site will remain “written by humans and voted on by humans”English24·4 days agoPretty sure all the humans left Reddit like two years ago.
DST is in use 3/4 of the year. It is “normal” time, where everyone recognizes that 4am is entirely too fucking early for a sunrise, so we push that back to 5AM.
“Standard” time is the abnormal abomination that we currently switch to for about 3 months in winter.
Seasonal depression in kids and teens is primarily due to the lack of outdoor activities in winter, which is caused by an abnormally early sunset driving them indoors immediately after school.
Locking the clocks on normal, “summer” time solves the problems with the time change. The “kids walking to school in the dark” problem is mitigated by the fact that they already spend the darkest three weeks of the year on winter vacation; we can extend that one more week by stealing three days from each end of the summer vacation. The remaining two or three weeks of early morning darkness do not justify stealing months of evening daylight from the rest of us.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayto politics @lemmy.world•Supreme Court Blesses Human Trafficking With No Explanation In Stunning Abandonment Of Rule Of LawEnglish1·4 days agoSome instances disable downvotes. Certainly not all, but some. I’m not 100% sure if that means they dont count down votes in their communities, or if they dont allow their users to downvote anywhere, but I suspect the latter.
(Buffalonian bison) (Buffalonian bison intimidate)] intimidate (Buffalonian bison).
[(Albany cattle) (Utica bison bully)] intimidate (Syracuse oxen)
[The] Albany cattle (that Utica bison bully) intimidate Syracuse oxen.
In this sentence, “cattle” are the subject, and “oxen” are the object. The verb is “intimidate”. Everything else is some form of adjective modifying “cattle” or “oxen”
We can go further:
[The] Albany Cattle (that Utica Bison bully) intimidate [the] Syracuse oxen (that Poughkeepsie yak deceive).
Cattle are still the subject; Oxen are still the object.
The cattle (which are bullied by the bison) intimidate the oxen (which are deceived by the yak)
Moving on:
[The] Albany cattle (that Utica bison [that Buffalo buffalo buffalo] bully) intimidate [the] Syracuse oxen [that Poughkeepsie yak deceive].
The cattle are still intimidating the oxen. Which cattle? The cattle that are bullied by bison. Which bison? The bison that are buffaloed by buffalo.
Which oxen? The oxen that are deceived by the yak.
The buffalo buffalo the bison; the bison bully the cattle; the cattle intimidate the oxen. Which oxen? The oxen which are deceived by the yak.
Snake! A snake! Oh, it’s a snake!
Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists SayEnglish13·4 days agoThe reality is that “tactical” and “strategic” are functionally meaningless adjectives when applied to weapons or systems.
Theoretically, “tactical” refers to how a military unit engages another military unit. It is how a commander wins a battle against an enemy unit.
“Strategic” refers to how a nation engages another nation. It is how a government wins a war.
The term “tactical nuke” referred to something that a lower level commander could have been authorized to use under his own judgment. If Soviet tanks were rolling across Europe during the cold war, commanders may have been granted the discretion to use small nuclear weapons to halt their advance.
Since the the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction was established, there has been no such thing as a “tactical” nuke. Any wartime use of a nuclear weapon of any kind demands an escalation to total annihilation. I used the term “tactical” ironically, to refer to a pre-“MAD” doctrine that can no longer exist.
In declaring that conventional bombs cannot penetrate this fixed bunker, it seems that someone is pushing for unconventional warfare. The reality is that this bunker is not impenetrable. It shares the same weakness as any bunker: getting into and out of it. Bomb the entrances to the bunker, and it will take months or years to tunnel back in. Whatever they are doing inside it, they won’t be doing until they manage to dig it up again.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists SayEnglish21·5 days agoCoreium.
We drop an overloading nuclear reactor on top of the complex, and let the radioactive core China-Syndrome itself straight through, rendering the entire area uninhabitable for thousands of years.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists SayEnglish691·5 days agoSounds to me like someone is trying to justify actually using a tactical, atomic bunker buster.
Does it do scan to FTP? For my Brother MFC device, I spun up a write-only FTP server to drop scanned documents into a network share. That made them immediately accessible to any machine on my network.
Shit just worked.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayto Canada@lemmy.ca•Sexual orientation question to appear on census for first time in 2026English4·5 days agoCishet male here, but as far as this census is concerned, flaming rainbows fly out of my ass.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayto politics @lemmy.world•128 Democrats join House Republicans to block AOC, Al Green bid to impeach TrumpEnglish1·5 days agoUnless the next major fashion craze is the “Kevlar Turtleneck”, I dont think it particularly matters what they do.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•They are so dumb they want to piss everyone off for a lousy 15 minutesEnglish24·5 days agoI think its time to kwit.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayto science@lemmy.world•Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottlesEnglish1·5 days agoThe reason for paint is because the cheap, mild steel they use for bottle caps will begin to rust in minutes - literally minutes - if it is not protected from the oxygen in the air. The paint is necessary to keep the caps from oxidizing and leaving rust marks on everything they touch.
The color and logo on the caps are simply for marketing purposes.