Today...

[RpgGamer]

I'm not sure, but I feel like only fluctuating a pound or two per week IS maintaining. Hell, that might come down to how recently you've pooped.

[Estonian dude]

It's not uncommon for me to fluctuate a few pounds a day. I eat a lot and I poop a lot. And I drink water and piss out a lot.

 

But yeah, maintaining weight ain't rocket science. I have been around 87-89 kilos since December and I do not count anything. Nor really exercise or whatnot.

[Veiva]

I weigh myself once a day (in the morning, after my shower, before I eat) and use a rolling mean of the last week. Daily fluctuations are accounted for. It has been a steady decline, week after week.

 

Thanks for the advice, I'll just keep doing what I'm doing, adjusting as necessary.

[Matt258]

Yesterday: I went to the Bank @10:15 am to get $217 to let one of my friends borrow (ex-gf), then went to meet her at a park, I got there @ 11:15. I just cleaned off my car & looked at SC. Went outside & sat at a bench, she got there @ 12:10. We walked around for a little bit. Her ex called her & they talked for a little bit. She said that her ex is seeing someone & is taking them to a movie. She watched the preview & I listened to it. It sounds pretty Good & called Gifted. We looked @ how much it would be to rent a canoe or paddle board for an hour.  We went to the bank but when we got there she said she forgot her ID & card in her car so we had to drive back to her car to get it. Then back to her bank then back to her car. She said she is off on Friday since her shift got cancelled but I work @ 12. We left @ like 1:45. Got home & played RS. My bro came over last night & we watched a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode. Today: Got up @ 8:10 am. Played Rs for a little bit (Happy Hour just ended). Going to work @ 2 til 11 pm

[Bonez899]

I woke up yesterday, even got dressed and left my house.

[RpgGamer]

You have an odd relationship with your ex girlfriend.

[Estonian dude]

It's pretty much Walpurg night. All of Eastern European students come to Tartu to celebrate it.

It's an old German tradition and it has pretty much died out everywhere else, but it is gaining popularity in here. Of course, there aren't many that student-centric towns left anywhere here either, which helps the cause here. But yeah, we are expecting buses and planes of Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles and Germans to party here. Gonna be a great party.

 

And I'm at a funeral at the same time. Kind of a moodkiller, isn't it?

[RpgGamer]

I played ultimate frisbee tonight which is easily the most physically demanding thing I've done in at least a year. God I'm out of shape

[Randox]

Finally got around to trying to run two graphics cards (independently). Tried it first with my old 6770, but it turns out that Windows 10 can't run two different GPU drivers at once, and the RX 480 and HD 6770 don't use the same drivers. But the RX 480 and HD 7950 do. Not sure if, performance wise, this will actually help anything. Could be a total disaster. I just want to see if it changes the pitch of the coil whine on my PSU to something I can't hear (maybe, but it's also made some of the fans louder). There is also the 'because I can' factor.

 

Anyway, it seems to work without tanking my normal performance, though I'm not sure I'll stick with this or not. On the upside, if I ever need (or own) 12 monitors I'm all set  :thumbsup:

[Noxx]

Speaking of weight, i've been the same weight since the age of 16. Around 60kg, no matter what i do. I lived off junkfood for an entire two months and it did nothing to my weight.Really weird. I'm sure theres some problem with my diet, but i mean i'm still healthy so i see no point in fixing it.

[RpgGamer]

I was that way for a long time as well. I spent nearly a decade at 120lbs, but here I am only 2 short years afterward at 150. On the bright side, 150 is a much "healthier" weight for my height, even if I'm not nearly as physically in shape as I used to be

[Randox]

I think that day comes for just about everyone. It's a sad day.

[muggiwhplar]

I deactivated my reddit account today. I feel like that website is sorta, for a lack of a better term, anti-intellectual >_>

 

The site's design heavily encourages and enforces echo chambers. If you want to have a discussion about anything, you have to go to a subreddit specifically designed to counter the inherent echo chamber nature of the website. AFAIK, NeutralPolitics and AskHistorians are the only two subs which really encourage discussions... but even then, those subs are less about discussing opinions and more about getting to the bottom of the matter via facts and sources.

 

Then there's ChangeMyView, but every time I check out the posts there, it's an OP with some distorted view of a controversial issue, and then the top post changes their view via logical fallacies which aren't enforced or moderated, and then the top post gets a little banner that says "OP changed their view!" >_> Then you can do a search for someone making the same argument as the top post, and that post will have a top post identical to the previous OP, with a banner saying "OP changed their view!" I guess this bothers me because you really have to read and digest both the OP and the delta'd responses and then use a lot of critical thinking to examine whether or not the thread is bullshit or not... which seems kind of contradictory to the whole nature of that sub. It's kinda scary to think that if you don't actually turn on your brain, and critically examine the content of those discussions, you might end up just seeing some thread that touches on an idea you're curious about, see that "OP changed their view!" and then think "Oh ok so OP's original thought is wrong" without actually reading the OP's original argument, the delta'd argument, and then comparing the two.

 

Then of course if you want to discuss anything beyond the scope of those subs, your options are to either find a sub that shares your beliefs and constantly reinforces them while knocking down distorted straw man representations of the opposing views, essentially burying your head in the sand... or go to an opposing belief's sub and get ridiculed/silenced/downvoted over there.

 

Finally, I feel like I've sorta outgrown that site. I think it's mostly aimed at college-aged people and younger, and I've been out of college for half a decade now so I'm always picturing someone way younger than me writing the posts I read.

 

 

Anyways, I basically just asked myself, "If I could go back in time to when I start visiting Reddit, would I have done things differently?" The answer is yes, so cya later Reddit! :P

[obfuscator]

CanadaPolitics is pretty good too. Obviously Canada specific, but I've learned a ton from people on all sides of the political spectrum. But most of reddit in general is an echo chamber.

[Dax]

When my mates and I first found Reddit, I remember they blasted me for using it to solely to look at pictures. I very rarely if ever delve into the comments for Muggi's reasons. I have no idea what the defaults are these days, but I've left pretty well all of them and tracked down smaller subs that are less garbage. If I do find myself in the big ones, like AskReddit and the like, I hide child comments. It makes it bearable, and hides most of the dumb inside jokes I've heard a million times.

[RpgGamer]

I too Reddit for the memes. The comments are awful and while the average user may be 20-35 it seems the average poster is usually 10-16.

 

As for deactivating the account, I'm not sure I understand why it's necessary. I've been on Reddit for well over 8 years now, likely 10. I've had probably a dozen accounts because for the life of me I never remember my passwords to the accounts that I choose never to attach to an email. At this point I don't even remember the names because I wanted them totally separated from the rest of my internet identity.

 

Hope you enjoyed the ramble.

 

EDIT:

Omg thanks kind stranger for popping my gold cherry. rip inbox

[Estonian dude]

Saw the best live performance that I have ever seen on Sunday evening. Winny Puhh, contender for the weirdest band of the world title performed at our fraternity house. Absolutely full house, packed, more than a thousand people came. One epic thing is that the band is about as old as I am, and they perform only a handful of concerts each year. Each member of the band has another, more paying job, so the band is just for fun and thus they give 110% on every performance. They also like to research a bit about the event and where they are and they have full unique costumes for every concert. This time, the main singer (dude) wore a red dress without anything beneath it and he also showed his bare butt once. The bass player ripped his shirt apart at the end and threw it at the public.

For opening song they invited all the girls from the first row on the stage to dance. And had a 15 minute complete dance party. It was epic, to say the least. After that, the real metal began.

 

I do not know a single other band that has 2 drummers. And where both are used a LOT. At the end of the concert, the 2 drummers did like a 20-25 minute drum solo after the rest of the band had left the stage.

 

All alcohol was drunk up at the house, we had to drive around town to get some additional alcohol.

 

 

 

In other news, got my first ride around town on a full motorcycle. A2 license compliant Honda CB500 was the wheels, 2016 model. Pretty cool, except I am a bit of a monkey on it, the bike is too small for me. Also, it behaves somewhat unpredictably at lower RPM's.

[RpgGamer]

I was skeptical but after watching them on YouTube they're [bleep]ing nuts

[Randox]

It certainly limits my reddit activities. That said, boards like TechSupport or BuildAPC tend to be good neutral ground away from the usual 'sides' (TechSupport has no inherent sides, and BuildAPC is a rare place where AMD and Nvidia fans aren't flinging shit at each other). Other than that, I mostly go there for game discussions when steam is being too childish.

[darkace21]

I now know the pain of having a toenail violently removed.

 

0/10 would not recommend.

[Hedgehog]

You gotta be pretty picky about the communities you get involved in on Reddit. For example /r/breadit is pretty cool but /r/pizza is complete cancer. /r/cocktails vs /r/alcohol is another one. /r/beekeeping is a great community

[darkace21]

I mostly use reddit for porn tbh.

[Boris5000]

I mostly use reddit for porn tbh.

r/wet is the place to be.

[RpgGamer]

Communal porn Reddits are honestly the best thing about the internet. Chip in like $5 and you get practically limitless content (and trust me the quality is worth the small price tag)

[Bonez899]

Communal porn Reddits are honestly the best thing about the internet. Chip in like $5 and you get practically limitless content (and trust me the quality is worth the small price tag)

My, wet, friend was intrigued by this idea and requested I respond with this meme.

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