Vanth

I don’t block super quickly unless they’re obvious spam, bot, or troll with bad intentions. I am very quick to apply user tags my Lemmy client supports so that I can flag them for future reference. I use yellow to mean they’re sus, consider their intent and recent history before engaging. I use red to mean “do not engage” just sit back and watch other people fall into the trap. I use Green for interesting people to pay attention to when they post or comment, like the dude/ette we have on Lemmy who is actively working on the Roku client for Jellyfin.

I have a handful of stations from places I used to live but can no longer reach the FM signals so I listen to their online streams. They have human DJs, which is kinda like having an algorithm but no AI.

Stop pushing yourself to where you feel like you’re dying. If you’re new to this much exercise, you’re having to build up both muscles/tendons and breath.

Tendons and connective tissue take longer to condition than muscles. Don’t push to injury.

Aerobic capacity grows by working out in aerobic range. If you push past that to when you’re gasping for breath, you aren’t improving your aerobic capacity as efficiently as you could.

Nerd rabbit hole, you want Zone 2 training and you can find a bajillion YouTube videos on it. The less-nerd version is run until you start losing your breath, slow down or even walk until you catch it again, run until you lose it, rinse and repeat.

Couch to 5k programs are fine. I think if you’re trying to do this for longer-term goals than a 5k in ten weeks, then look for zone 2 training instead of couch to 5k. Zone 2 training will be slower advancement but result in a more robust base.

Sometimes I ignore the question and just move on in conversation. Most people don’t even notice because they’re asking out of habit, not to actually ask you how you’re doing.

About a month ago, I went to a donation-driven community theater improv/Edgar Allen Poe thing.

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I did tier 1, 2, and eventually some 3 support back in the day for a software company. I liked how they handled it.

Customer called in, reached a live person doing intake. The intake person noted their question and callback number, helping to scope the problem if needed, and entered a ticket into the queue. The intake person gave the caller an expected wait time for a support tech to call back, pointed them to online written help documentation, and ended the call. Then push the ticket to tier 1, 2, 3, or “urgent, need to call NOW” queues. Depending on tier and call volume and time of day, they’d get a callback from a tech anywhere from immediately to the next morning.

Support techs like myself were coached to help over the phone, but also to point out the written materials and encourage their use. I would commonly say, “sure, that’s a problem we can fix, go ahead and go to screen x, click on button y, etc. By the way, you’re not the only one who had had this question, we even have an entry on this in our support documentation. Let me show you where you it’s at so you can get to the fix even faster than a phone call next time”.

Having the intake person take numbers, then techs call back later saved customers from having to wait on hold for lengths of time. We had very few cases of irate customers stuck waiting.

My shittiest experiences are the companies that don’t do any intake and make all tiers of calls wait on hold in the same queue. Luck of the draw if the tech you end up with is a tier 1 still in training pants or a tier 3 pissed to be walking a customer thru updating their password for the millionth tim.

Backpacking this weekend, first weekend of legit spring weather. Someone else is planning food, I’m planning the booze, a third is picking location.

I only get dishwasher safe coffee tumblers and I wash them daily. I have enough respiratory goo without adding mold to the mix.

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I try not to enrich creators who are bad. Like Polanski and Weinstein and Whedon and Besson and Rowling and Gaiman. I might watch/read old stuff, but I’ll avoid spending any money on it.

Then there’s people who aren’t rapists and abusers and virulently homophobic but are still not great. I’m thinking YT creators who pull dumb and mean pranks, or just revel in the more negative aspects of human nature. I don’t watch them, but mostly because I don’t enjoy that sort of content. It makes me depressed and sad. Since I don’t like that sort of content anyway, it’s hardly an effort. Same with MAGA bro podcaster types; I don’t enjoy that garbage so “boycotting” it really just means going about my life per usual.

I love data, but I stopped to think about what I would actually do with the data Whoop provides. I wouldn’t use Whoops workout recommendations, I wouldn’t alter my training plans much off their derived metrics. I decided a far simpler watch with heart rate monitor and zone would be plenty. A monthly subscription and the amount of data shared with them were also strong disincentives. I don’t need yet another company tracking me and selling my details off to who knows who.

reported on by several news outlets, which is prediction markets are accurate for predicting events.

Is this a function of your algorithm and mine? I’m skeptical and all my news sources align with that, I get little if any content pushing for polymarket et al in a positive manner.

I just wish I could find an RSS feed of it.

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This dude’s giving “chud” at best. I can think of worse names.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64810156

Netanyahu’s son ‘highly vulnerable target’ while living in Miami as he dodges IDF reserve

Sources needed. Smells like misinformation.

Kongbap says nah, it’s all you need to survive.

Blue collar and skilled aren’t mutually exclusive terms.

It’s skilled or unskilled (takes advanced training or not)

And blue collar or white collar (manual labor or office/desk work)

E.g., a welder is both skilled and blue collar

It was before Trump ran the first time, but my folks were precursor to MAGA. I was not. I didn’t like having to sit and listen to their hateful opinions of people not like them. So once I had an education and job that made me fully financially independent, I left.