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  • RBWells@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldWaiting..
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    23 hours ago

    At my work we jokingly dismiss each other, someone will stand up and say to someone else “hey, John, you can go home now” as though they are the boss, and then that person will say to someone else “hey, Jane, you can go home” and so on. Until we are all dismissed for the day.


  • Husband does this, I like going somewhere to work out because it’s more fun, though. I do lift his weights, and go to yoga classes with other people, that works. He says it was expensive to get all that stuff but it was so long ago it’s paid off.

    I mostly just want to gently suggest that part of what people are getting from “the gym” is socialization, not just exercise. Which might be something you’d pay to avoid, I don’t know, but group exercise is a different experience from just lifting at home, and I enjoy it much more.



  • My kids’ elementary biology teacher had a zoo in his classroom, all these snakes and lizards and spiders, all sorts of animals, so in the Christmas break he had to farm them out. We got the tarantula once, and once a boa.

    Also twice raised abandoned baby squirrels we saw kids walking around with. Like my ex just said “dude, you know how to take care of that?” And the kid shook their head no. Yes, twice. One was Earl, one was Pearl. They were sweet, and very sharp.

    One of my kids’ swim coaches had a friend with a pet crow, too. A sailor with a pet crow; in fact a creepy sailor with a pet crow

    I am sure you can guess what state I live in.




  • Green leafy vegetables are no slouch either. I remember we had a chart with nutrition per calorie and collard greens were way up there. Eggs have much protein per calorie. I agree with foggenboody though, sarcopenia is mostly from inactivity, and particularly from not doing strength training. Your body will find the nutrition in whatever you eat if you lift first.





  • It depends. Eggs are part of cakes and pancakes, and a very quick to cook healthy thing to eat. Family of 4 now, we go through between 8 eggs on a light week and 32 eggs on a week I make a lot of egg stuff, or if someone is bulking, like today I made shakshuka for supper and a cake, that’s eight eggs in one meal.

    I think they are a commodity and historically a cheap source of animal protein, that’s why they are talked about.



  • I feel like most kids get this in high school, 3/4 of mine did anyway. Most people I know spent at least some time working in retail and/or restaurant.

    And yes I agree that a lack of empathy and excess of greed is THE problem facing us.

    What bothers me more is hospitality work is satisfying as fuck - I love making people comfortable and happy, that commitment to excellence - it’s just so hard to make a good living at it.



  • Mandatory paid service with military as an OPTION, maybe. I’d like kids to get work right out of high school, have a year before college or whatever to make some money and do something different.

    Literally always the military? No way. And certainly nothing that doesn’t come with a paycheck. It just sucks now that the only way to get scholarships for college is right out of high school, something needs to interrupt that.



  • I sometimes wonder if it’s nature trying to breed us to average height. Like, I’m tall, my ex was around my height and our kids (girls) are around our height, only one taller than me though.

    My mom was kinda short and my dad very tall, so their kids were tall but none of us as tall as my dad.

    So, like, if you are already medium to tallish, no need to find a tall partner, but if you are short and want medium to tallish kids, you will need a tall partner to do that. And if you are quite tall, maybe you don’t want your kids to be even taller, right? At some point that can be problematic. So then you are attracted to shorter partners.


  • I used to fast 36 hours a week, but I am sure the 4 day migraines are the longest (can’t even drink water without puking). Unless it was that one time we all got the flu, 10 days, but we did drink stuff with calories to stay alive.

    So:

    From poverty or ED never more than a day. Plenty of skipped meals and undereating but no long stretches with nothing.

    Voluntarily fasting, only a couple of days

    From sickness 4 days or 10 days, depending on how you define not eating.


  • I’m kinda tall for a woman, and swear to God the only women I’ve ever felt attracted to at all were taller than me. With guys I don’t really care, around my height is good, have dated guys shorter than me, but guys my height do outweigh me and are much stronger than I am. I consider myself very heterosexual but do sometimes wonder if it is as simple as liking “bigger/stronger than me” and don’t live in a world with a lot of women taller than me? Probably just straight, not hung up and generally only respond at all to men, all women can see when another woman is attractive but I really don’t know.