I understand why people always say things like this. It’s the not having a choice that ruins eternity. Fortunately it seems that such a fate is physically impossible in this reality. Even if you were made of the most durable possible material, you would still fundamentally be composed of baryonic matter, which means if you fell into a star, collided with a celestial object at relativistic speed, or fell into a black hole, you would surely die. There is always a way out for an enterprising immortal, and afterwards sweet nothing.

Fire is a natural and necessary part of many ecosystemsm. It keeps parasitic insect populations down, stuff like ticks and chiggers, and some plant species rely on fire to prepare the soil for seeds and even is required for some plants to release their seeds. In dry ecosystems like the western USA it also consumes old dead plant material, reducing the fuel available for future fires and reducing fire severity overall. Many foresters and fire fighters advocate for increasing prescribed burns, essentially forest fires that we light on purpose in cooler and wetter times of the year to consume the fuel without risking a catastrophic fire that is difficult to control. I just think that’s neat.

It’s the trusted platform module which I know almost nothing about but I’m sure is fucking stupid. My monster of a desktop from 2018 also can’t run win11, and the only reason is my cpu is missing the tpm that it requires.

For some history, the original DOTA was a custom map in Warcraft 3. It pretty much defined the moba genre. From there lots of clones were created, and eventually some were made into full games. League of Legends is one of those, and became the most popular. So yes, they’re all just Warcraft 3 with only the hero parts.

Holy false equivalence Batman. You don’t need reddit to live…

Business majors are ruining the world one quarter at a time.

At that point why bother? Just make it a random N byte integer.

Why is this coming back… I keep seeing this on here, are people trying the bring this back? Why?

The ones I do are mostly heavy isometrics. I do weighted dead hangs for the inside forearms and isometric reverse grip barbell curls for the outside forearms. For the curls I’ll hold at about 90 degrees. For both I shoot for more than 20 second holds with as much weight as I can. The specific exercises aren’t as important as doing something that creates a lot of tension on the tendons you want to work, sustaining the tension, and being safe. The last thing you want is to exacerbate the problem.

Hey I see you. I had some serious tennis elbow a few years ago that basically prevented me from using my dominant hand for a few weeks. I couldn’t even lift a cup of water with it. I went to PT and they gave me some exercises and stretches to do. The stretches maybe helped but the exercises were trivially easy and did nothing for me. It feels like it got better just by leaving it alone more than anything. It’s acted up every once in a while since then, mostly when I get cocky and do something stupid. Recently I decided to find out how to actually fix it, and I found out that the exercises they gave me were actually ineffective, according to the medical literature. In order to improve tendon health and heal chronic tendon injuries, you need to do resistance training. The best method to improve tendon strength and health is to do like 2 or 3 low rep sets, with as much weight as you can handle, every week. It takes high tension to grow tendons, with low tension doing basically nothing. You also want to do the exercises with slow deliberate motion to avoid sudden high loading of the tendons. I’ve been doing that for my tennis elbow for the past couple months and it has helped a lot. It was scary at first to load my elbow with a lot of weight, but I slowly worked up to it and was careful every time and haven’t had a flareup since, despite doing more lifting than I have in my life. My suggestion is to find an exercise that works the problem tendons, and slowly increase the resistance over some weeks, to as much weight as you can lift. Always be slow and deliberate. It shouldn’t cause you pain at any point, and if it does back off to where it doesn’t.

Tldr; research says to improve tendon strength do high weight low rep exercises with slow deliberate motion. Growing tendons takes longer than muscles so take your time. Should help your pain. Is working forme.y

That’s not actually correct. Some of our cells have high turnover, but many of our cells surprisingly don’t. The obvious example is nerve cells, which stop replicating at some point in our development and we have the same set for the rest of our lives (probably with caveats as always). A more surprising example is skeletal muscle cells, which except for specific circumstances, don’t divide. We pretty much have the same number of muscle cells our whole lives, they just grow and shrink in response to training or lack thereof, again with caveats. Another example is fat cells. Most people also don’t get new fat cells, but some people can make new fat cells, so it’s even complicated for that one example. So to tie things up, you don’t actually replace all of your cells every 7 years, and in fact the cells that are some of the most important to your survival generally never get replaced.

Not to mention the ridiculous markup on everything. The last few times I’ve looked on there the prices for generic chinese garbage was higher than name brand stuff directly from the manufacturers website. These days I’ll stop literally anywhere besides amazon.

That’s ok accessory fruit club is pretty cool. I always preferred drupe club though.