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Yes that game is STUNNING and absolutely pulled me in
Try it as the insane vampire, it’s great.
I don't remember thar it was possible to select House / class. Was it? It is 23 years go so ...
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I have been doing this for about 2 years now. Got a few glass mason jars that I fill up with items like rice and nuts from the bulk bin at the grocery store. Peanut butter and jelly both come in glass jars. I get just about everything else from a local farm share where the items are not packaged in anything. It’s nice not dealing with plastic with my food. I used to throw so much of it away. Now most of my food waste…
My understanding is glass causes higher levels of carbon emotions b/c it is heavier to transport [0]. If you are re-using the jars, then that would have a lower impact, but if you're buying jarred butter and jelly, you're making the problem worse. [0] - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230427-glass-or-plastic...
Glass is basically infinitely usable, aside from breaking it, and does not pollute the things that go in it or if it's tossed in a landfill. It's also the most easily recycled material with high yields (basically 100%).
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Powerlifting can be very dangerous. You can really, permanently, mess up your body, specifically your back and neck. What steps do you take to mitigate that risk?
This is a complicated question. First of all, your statement is absolutely accurate. The weights involved can cause injury and can possibly be dangerous or even fatal when not handled correctly. On the other hand, exactly what is meant by "injury" can vary widely, so we have to be precise in our language. Acute, serious injuries typically come about due to poor form, carelessness, failure to use safety mechanisms, or…
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#524Brining the meat rabbits I just slaughtered. Should have some great roast rabbit on Thursday. Easiest meat animal to raise, delicious.
What are the major costs associated with raising rabbits besides land?
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#525Context: Father of two girls, Husband, Dev for 20 years.
- Breathing: fuel yourself with fresh energy out of thin air. The Wim Hof Method (WHM) really just changed my entire life. I found finally a method to stabilise my bio-rythm aka constant up-and-downs.
- Cold Showers: In combination with WHM it's one of my biggest physical improvements. I was always the guy who complains a cold climate. Now it just doesn't matter anymore, I don't get sick as easy and my body feels great!
- mindfulness: value the moment, keep it clean from other topics that doesn'tfit in right now. Matches perfectly with breathing/yoga exercises.
- build up my second career as life- and social counselor to help others getting their life sorted: https://gedankenfrei.at
Just hit me if you want to talk, I love people and social interaction!
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#526Parenting. I’m spending a lot of time thinking about how to prepare my kid to grow up around the internet, smartphones, and AI. Our technology often takes an indifferent or even cynical view of children, and I can’t understand why there aren’t better tools available (e.g. smartphone designs) that put their developmental needs ahead of the need to exploit them for immediate profit.
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#527This post caught my attention because recently I met a woman I really admire. She dropped out of her computer engineering class, took a vow of celibacy and poverty and became a missionary with a Catholic sect. The reason I admire her isn't that. What caught my attention about her is that she has a sense of purpose. She has a purpose in life and has devoted her life to it. I used to have one. My goal was to make the l…
Why is it fallen apart?
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#528Running. I got the bug about 12 weeks ago. I had never ran longer than 1.5 miles continuously 12 weeks ago. Now I’m planning my next Sundays long run. 12.5ish miles. Im a heavy guy. My heaviest was 270, but I’m down to 220 now. I hated running my entire life. But I finally figured out how to run pain free and now it’s the thing I look forward to everyday. It’s also tremendously rewarding to see such rapid improvement…
Do please divulge, I'm at my heaviest, but have started jogging backwards to try to limit the damage as I get used to it again. What're your tips?
Barefoot running (or extremely minimalist shoes) helped me. Build it up slowly! Your muscles will likely be degraded from a lifetime of low mobility footwear.
Consider: how could humanity have survived millennia walking and running around before Nike and orthotics?
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#529Listening an choral music and conducting choir that sing sacred music during a liturgy as well. Mainly orthodox, byzantine, latin. Old, classical and modern.
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#530I push capability based security relentlessly, because I see its absence as the root cause of a bunch of waste, and the cause of the loss of the war on general purpose computing. The world could be so much better if we could trust our computers.
I'm scratching an itch, hoping to get a chip made to implement the biggest waste of transistors ever, per George Gilder's call. (A cartesian grid of LUTs, clocked as to avoid race conditions, a Turing complete system) It might be a way to make a cheap PetaFlop computer.