Mine‘s getting so accustomed to cold showers that I a) absolutely do not mind cold water for swimming etc. anymore and b) could not enjoy warm or hot showers anymore. They just weren’t nice at all.
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wtf 😅 eww?
You sound like some kind of Anime villain
What’s actually happening is they’re breathing my spores, and they love it
What is your final goal when you have successfully bred enough spore-bearing drones out of us, huh?
Holy shit bro that could be a sign of diabetes. See a doctor
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Oh. Lol. Weird…
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A. I got to drive a train when I was 9 (a family friend charted a Chicago Elevated train for his graduation party and as the youngest person on the train one of the operators said “hey you wanna drive the train” and so I got to drive the train for a bit
B. I went back to college a few years ago and managed to complete a 2 year degree with a 3.71 GPA while attending college full time, working 20+ hours per week at times as the sole breadwinner while my wife was pregnant with our second child and I had to commute about an hour each way to school and work. I literally started my second semester the day after we returned home from the hospital after his birth. Unlike driving a train I don’t intend to recreate that experience ever again…
My sister had to take a final exam at college right after having a baby, my mom held the baby outside for her while she did.
I went to university after having my first set of kids while they were little but wasn’t working much. Tried to go to grad school while working full time and parenting and it wrecked my life so completely I didn’t think there was any amount of future income that would have made it worth doing. Even now, I can’t imagine it.
Yeah it was a pretty rough period of time and I absolutely felt the “work hard, play hard” pendulum swing where as hard as you work you have to relax equally hard, but I tripled my pre-college income in just 2 years (which isn’t hard when I was only making $12/hr) so in the long run it worked out but I wouldn’t recommend such a grind to others if they can help it
I’ve starred in 1 local govt commercial, have my mustached face in an airport infomercial (around the 40-50s mark) and have some 3-5 seconds of screentime as an extra in 2 different brazilian movies.
Also a prog rock/metal fan, and I don’t enjoy most of Tool’s work. There’s a few good songs but I like Maynard’s work as Puscifer soooo much more. Drunk with Power, Dozo, and Momma Sed are fantastic.
You are missing out. I’m not really a Tool fan, they are fantastic live. Seen them 4 times, each show was amazingly different. They are very talented musicians.
But you are absolutely missing out by not giving Lateralus at least a once over. It’s a musical masterpiece. IMO it’s their magnum opus and one of the great musical creations of our generation.
That is a mistake you know?
As compulsion, I watch YT tutorials at breakneck speed: 2.5x-3x.
YouTube tutorials can be pretty low information density. Sentences have important pointers every 5 seconds or more (“The thing is, like, if you’re trying to do this, or this, do X first” – predictable/less functional words), and the first third of a YouTube video is often useless. Of course, denser videos get slowed to normal and have clips replayed.
Internally, this stems from nervousness of wasting time (oops), and it hurts my head if I do it too long ( but looks cool beforehand B) )
Wait, since when does the speed increase go up to 3x?
enhancer for youtube extension in firefox for me.
No extension needed. Use a bookmarklet or the browser console; it’s a oneliner anyway.
/* Bookmarklets should be one line. */ javascript: document .querySelector('video') .playbackRate = prompt("Speed") || 3No need for webdev skills either. COVID kids used bookmarklets all the time to screw with their Chromebooks.
You can get browser extensions to have more control over video speed
I also usually watch videos at around 1.3 to 1.6 times speed depending on the type of video
How much information do you actually retain?
Not OP, but most of it.
Tutorials I might need to go a bit slower, remembering broad strokes isn’t enough, and detailed steps in order is probably too much, but that would be true at 1x speed as well.
For videos generally I watch almost everything at 2x or higher. Headphones help, it would be much harder if there were any competing audio stimulus. If I’m forced to go at 1x I retain almost nothing.
I can lick my elbow.
No way
I can lick your elbow.
Are you a giraffe? FOUND THE GIRAFFE, GUYS!
I can basically just choose not to throw up, unless liquor is involved in which case it depends how much I’ve drank.
That I run three home servers with over 25 services for work, home security, and website projects. No one cares about it but I really enjoy doing it :)
Ohh, that’s nice. Have put a lot of effort into security?
Cause I once proposed selfhosting just one, two services for work and everyone freaked the shit out that running security yourself will fuck you up in the long run if it’s supposed to be used commercially
I once made a Naruto remix that got played at anime expo back in 2003/2004.
That I can go three days without pooping if I’m out backpacking.
Three days ia nothing. Being a shy kid on two weeks summer camp there was a challenge to poop just once in the middle… I almost made it. My friend succeeded though.
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Cool Story Bro! Have you thought about maybe writing up a post about this here on Lemmy?
That’s about it. I call it “Camp Constipation Mode”.
…mizu?
I’m pretty good at… just about everything. With some rare exceptions, just about every new thing I try, I pick up really quickly, and am pretty good at it. Ice skating, volleyball, stand-up comedy, acting, dancing, singing, gymnastics, hockey, rugby, capoeira, woodworking, drawing, painting, sculpture, chemist, surgery, gardening, swimming/diving… Just a whole bunch of random stuff that I’ve had the opportunity to try and… yeah, I’m pretty good at 'em.
I’ve often thought about being the subject of some sort of “Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe” style show except they challenge me with new tasks/activities to see if they can find something I legitimately suck at.
That’s called being a Dilettante. Jack of all trades, master of none.
No offence intended, but that’s hardly uncommon enough to be show-worthy.
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One of my old coworkers is like this and it literally sounded like I was peeing next to a horse when at the urinal next to him.
I once ate 6 pizzas in one sitting.
Legend
Were they like those tiny pizzas from that Nathan For You episode?
That I got into the main reading room in the library of Congress… most only go through the tourist area.
Someone went to the basement for a library card
Yes i did. Thanks to my mom for noticing the information to tell me about the reader card. Otherwise I would not have had that experience. I did the normal tourist area but then got that experience
Very cool experience :) glad you got to go in! Now go watch national treasure
Own it on disc and just watched it the other week.
YOU TWO KISS OR SOMETHING!
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What are anniversaries and Christmases like? I struggle to find meaningful gifts and having to buy so many extra would wreck me.
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