• 0 Posts
  • 32 Comments
Joined 5 months ago
cake
Cake day: February 20th, 2025

help-circle
  • I feel like this comment exaggerates how far the human eye can perceive into the universe. Anything you can see with your eyeball is only as far as a few hundred light years, which means it would be extremely unlikely that any star you can see is significantly different in location “now” than when the light emitted.

    Also it would be extremely unlikely for any star you can see with your eyes to have died between the time light is emitted and when you experience it.

    That’s a different story for things you can see through a telescope, or through a camera, but just looking up… Those points of light are pretty close and extremely bright stars.

    You do point out the light from the stars dim due to inverse square law, but don’t forget they also red-shift due to the expansion of the universe. The cosmic microwave background radiation didn’t start as microwaves, it started as red visible light that slowly red shifted into the infrared, then into microwave.










  • That’s a lot of questions, but I’ll try.

    What do you do at a gym? Use dedicated equipment to lift weights and build strength, work with a coach to help set workouts, and workout with other people who have the same goals.

    A gym membership can be a way to meet other people and build community. If you see the same 5 people regularly due to similar gym schedules, you might build some friendships.

    Primarily a gym can become a place where you are expected to exercise, so you’re more likely to do it. If you have a treadmill and some dumbbells in your bedroom, your brain might not give you the motivation needed to use the equipment. You might hop on for 5 minutes, but then get distracted and stop using it. But if you traveled 20 minutes to a dedicated exercise location, then you’re much less likely to stop and leave right away.

    So what do you do? Well, depends on what your goals are. Did you want to get healthier? Some cardio where you get your heart rate up improves your cardiovascular health. Lifting weights, can help build muscle and bone health, which would make it much less likely to be injured, and much more likely to recover from an injury quicker.

    If you can motivate yourself to workout at home, and if you can find a good routine that meets your goals, you can certainly do that all at home, even without much equipment at all. The problem is, are you actually doing what you need to do, or are you just moving around and wasting time with little actual effect? A coach that knows what their doing would be able to help you actually use your time.











  • Depends on the location.

    There exists “one party consent” recording laws that mean that as long as anyone involved in the conversation consents to being recorded, the entire conversation can be recorded. But it also requires that you are only talking to someone else in the same one party consent area.

    For example, if you lived in Virginia, you could record a conversation with someone else that lives in Virginia without informing them. But if you called someone in Illinois you’d have to tell them, even if the call and recording started in Virginia.

    Most recording apps probably prefer to not have to keep track of all the legalities and just prefer to notify everyone, so they don’t get sued.