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Cake day: February 14th, 2025

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  • Don’t overthink the “calories burned in cardio”. Once you subtract your resting metabolic rate you’re going to come up with a number that’s probably disappointing. The additional fatigue may cut down on your non-exercise energy output as well.

    You don’t need to do cardio to lose weight. Do cardio to make your life better and live longer.

    All these numbers are estimates. There are ways to calculate your actual total daily energy expenditure using spreadsheets, inputting your caloric intake and weight on a daily basis. Personally, I find it a lot easier to use MacroFactor. No relationship, but it is really a great app. It starts with an estimate and with daily tracking will give you weekly updates to adjust caloric intake to meet your goals.

    If you haven’t trained before, and given your weight which isn’t terribly high, you don’t really need to adjust calories significantly to gain muscle 100-200 calories is reasonable, at first at least. But you need to adjust the macronutrient composition to ensure that you’re getting enough protein.

    You don’t need to do cardio to lose weight.

    Spend 30 min a day doing some straight compound lifts (strong lifts 5x5 is a simple starting point) and 30 min doing some low impact cardio. Really, that could be walking at first. Optimally, you want to separate your cardio from lifting, but that’s a bit more towards the top of the pyramid of priorities than the base. Similarly, isolation exercises (like a bicep curl) is less of a priority than compound movements like a pull-up (or a lat pull-down).






  • Humans build with wood - furniture, houses.

    Big, old trees have “no value” in capitalism, because they can’t be processed in industrial mills into furniture or house material.

    Solution is to cut them down, turn them into paper, and use the land to grow new trees (“See how environmentally friendly we are?”) which can be used for industrial purposes.

    It happens wherever there’s old trees and no protection and it makes me so sad. They’ll never grow back. There’s too much pollution, even if we gave them the time.




  • I honestly don’t think you can go wrong as long as you avoid the battery and robot models (I’m just suspicious of their longevity). I have the blizzard cx1. I’m happy with it; it doesn’t feel as robust as the Mieles from the early 00s that other family members have but I trust/hope that their engineers didn’t overdo the optimization. The hose has a tendency to get twisted and developed a bit of a kink where it goes into the unit.

    There is another model that’s smaller, which I would prefer given the choice, because my house is tiny and doesn’t even have closet space for a vacuum.

    As far as I know, the Allergy or Pet etc. models are the same, just have some different accessories.

    Be aware of bag cost, if you go that route. They capture more dust but I’d go through one every 2 days here.


  • My problem was probably similar to yours. I just don’t get hungry. In university, I would have some oatmeal for breakfast and cruise through until about 10pm and get some fast food, too often.

    My solution was to start working out. I saw my colleagues were all carrying fat bellies and I didn’t want to end up that way. But I also knew that if I wanted to work out, I needed to fuel my body. So every day I just plan my diet like building with Lego, filling out the macros and calories and eat it whether I want to or not. For some people, that’s not a good approach from a mental health perspective, but it works for me.

    Start a workout plan (strong lifts 5x5 is a simple starting point without much fluff) and get an app (I strongly suggest MacroFactor - it’s excellent) that tells you how much to eat, and follow it. I went from 58kg to 77kg in a year, and after dieting the somewhat excessive fluffy parts back off I landed at 70kg and looking pretty shredded. The reason i say MacroFactor is because it starts off with an estimate of your caloric needs and based on your dietary intake (non-judgemental - if you miss it, you miss it) and your daily weight, it calculates your caloric and macronutrient needs. It’s based on good scientific research.

    As a vegetarian, you probably don’t need to worry nearly as much about getting fibre and vegetables, but it can be harder just because animal products are nutritionally dense. Picture 600 calories of broccoli. Now picture a hamburger. It’s an unfair comparison, but the point is the calorie density is way higher. If you can do eggs and whey it can help. Renaissance Periodization (another good app) has a recent YouTube video about protein sources that’s really good.



  • 2 is almost as bad as the all or nothing approach. I argue that while Apple is not trustworthy, they are not incentivized to collect every piece of information about you that they can. Conversely, android is an operating system created by an advertising company specifically to ensure an ongoing corner on their market. Asking the average person to use a DeGoogled OS is akin to telling them to switch to OpenBSD on their desktop.






  • It’s not the traceability of the phone. It’s the contents of the phone.

    The contents of our phones is deeply personal and some courts have ruled that makes them part of the fourth amendment protections, but it’s not made it to the Supreme Court (afaik, ianal) and border patrol doesn’t care as this case makes evident.

    The benefit of a burner phone is that you don’t knock out your primary phone in order to remove “incriminating” evidence like that time your friend texted you that Donald Trump is an orange bellend.