I couldn’t shower with my eyes open for weeks because of Fire in the Sky, I was afraid I was gonna see an outline of the aliens behind the shower curtain.

Let us all know the next time you upgrade so we know it’s coming then :P

It was 4 years between the original SE and the 12 mini, they released the 13 mini right away but I think that might have been because battery issues with the 12. Maybe the ghost of Steve Jobs begins to haunt Cupertino after a few years of Apple not releasing a smaller phone

I assume they will roll another one out in a few years, I think everyone who buys a small phone hangs on to it for a long time. Before I bought a 13 mini my previous phone was the original SE (also small) so obviously I’m not upgrading every year.

This gets dangerous once you make semi decent money though. Like why would I take public transit that takes an hour to get there for $2.50, when I could just take a cab that costs $25 and only takes 30min to get there.

Like, sure…if making $50+/h one can justify it. But one could also instead save $23.50 for the piggy bank by taking the bus. And the 30min extra is not time one would have been at work getting paid anyway (unless your taking the bus/taxi to work I guess and actually gain 30min of pay).

That’s when you start calculating your hourly wage once all your livings costs have been deducted. Once you amortize your housing costs, car, food, retirement, student loans, and whatever other bad decisions that you’re still paying for every month and figure out your hourly wage AFTER all that it’s a lot easier to keep a level head.

Doing this when you make $12/hr is much too depressing though.

I’m very comfortable doing CPR

Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg

I mean, I really do appreciate my 3.625% 30 year mortgage but I agree with you.

I wonder how many other crashes he predicted besides those two. It’s kinda like Michael Burry, that dude seems to predicting a collapse every week. My plan of “just keep buying and don’t worry much about it” seems to be working, and if it crashes 64% then cool, stuff will be on sale when I’m buying.

RRS feeds for youtube?

My kid watches some specific things we’ve deemed okay on youtube but there’s constant “you may also like” creep that he ends up finding, and it’s always garbage, this might be the way to finally limit the content to the specific stuff we’ve agreed to.

Maybe your drug dealer will just take the card as payment if you have a good relationship with them.

My state gives me 10% back as tax refund for contributing up to $5000 a year to my kids 529.

I recently tried Andy Galpin’s “Sugarcane” interval workout as was described on Huberman’s podcast…

https://fastlifehacks.com/sugarcane-protocol/

I did it on a rower, the first 2 minutes I did 630 meters, then the second interval was 2:20, then I did manage to beat the second interval distance in the third interval but just barely.

It was more fun than regular interval training.

What are you doing for reps and sets?

I’m not running a specific program that was designed by anyone, but over time I’ve just slowly been adding stuff that I do on a regular basis, I currently don’t have any real goals other than to stay in shape, gradually put more weight on the bar and stave off death. I also work a rotating schedule that doesn’t align with a regular week so most programs don’t match up. I usually do some kind of kettlebell stuff about twice a week (swings, get ups, presses) sometimes as interval work sometimes untimed. On those days I also do pull ups and/or push ups. I also run around 2-4 miles once or twice a week and I do squats and deadlifts with a barbell once a week. Sometimes I’ll throw a wildcard in there once in a while, and that will be a long (about an hour) row on the concept2 or farmers carrys with my kettlebells or some kinda circuit workout that includes jumping rope and other stuff. My only particular focus is increasing my squat and deadlift and obviously that’s going slow because I only do it once a week, but I’m not in any rush.

I have to vary intensity and volume depending on my recovery status. I’m at the point where I can be honest with myself about how much I can tolerate on a specific day and that can vary greatly based on my work schedule.

Most of my kettlebell stuff is based around Pavel’s Simple and Sinister and I mostly do sets of fives on barbell as suggested by Rippetoe. But I’m not actually following either program.

sometimes I wish I had a fan bike/airdyne because I don’t want to put in the coordinated effort for the rowing, and a lot of my exercise is pull heavy so having something low-impact without pulling would be nice, but for the most part I enjoy it immensely. Being able to pace very precisely based on stroke rate and heart rate and speed or wattage is nice to keep me from overdoing it.

I run and I have a concept2 rower. Most of the time when I’m doing that stuff it’s low intensity steady state. I guess I try to get at least 1.5 hours a week of LISS in some variety. I also occasional ride a bike or go on a walks or other things. My job can be vaguely active as well. In terms of interval higher intensity stuff I do that less often but I will try to do interval stuff with kettlebells once a week usually. I’m not focusing my training on anything in particularly currently just working on increasing my squat and deadlift slowly.

When I started back squatting my initial goal was bodyweight (225-ish) now I’m up to 265 for 3 sets of 5 and 225 is a warm up.