Also worth knowing is your weight in kilos. This helps to keep me from wanting to convert my lifts back to lbs. Like with your snatch example, 35kg feels so small and light! But compared to a bodyweight of, say, 60kg, it’s actually pretty good!

I - unfortunately - waded into a local Nextdoor group discussion about the “dangerous 5G towers” that were going up around the neighborhood. I asked someone to link me to their research that showed they were harmful and I literally got a link to a website talking about chemtrails. Can’t make that shit up. I actually…

I want to chime in as a data point that Comcast/xfinity/xFi/whatever doesn’t always suck.

Lol, I’m glad I’m not the only one who makes this connection when someone on the internet tells me they “did their own research”:

You could read my response that way I guess. What I really meant was I was I spent the weekend camping and saw this “6% of deaths” meme posted all over social media (sure, screw me for scrolling Instagram while camping). I meant to come back to my home office on Monday and do some long-form reading about what the real…

You’re asking me why you, a young person, should be worried about a disease that mostly kills older people? Do I have to explain empathy to you? Do I have to explain that people over 55 are still people who don’t deserve to die? I guess if you hate your parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and all of the teachers you…

I’m not put off by anyone’s opinion. I’m put off by their misinterpretation of a fact.

Thanks for this Beth. I’ve had to endure a weekend of armchair-epidemiologists on social media passing this around and I was looking forward to finding out how this was being misinterpreted (almost everyone sharing it was basically using the “let young, healthy people do whatever they want, this isn’t a deadly…

If only there was some way to accurately match demand with the anticipated supply

I’m not even a gun person and I know that’s not an AK-47, it’s some variant of an AR-15. Know thy enemy!

Thanks for the PurpleAir link! My wife and I are in Colorado and looking for somewhere to visit in the mountains this weekend that isn’t choked with smoke. Very useful.

I work with a guy who won’t shut up about having gone to USC, and none of us are from California so we’re all like, “yeah...and??”

Ah, but I’m boring and eat cold, pre-bagged “dry” popcorn from the grocery store. No butter or heavy seasoning to avoid.

They just sit there swatting away the bees constantly going, “Isn’t it so nice out here?!”

The other night I watched a wasp work on a piece of salmon on my 3 yo daughter’s plate for a few minutes. It flew away with a literal chunk of it, it was so big I could see the pink under its body when it was like 10 ft away.

My in-laws are obsessed with eating outdoors, but they absolutely refuse to deal with their yellow jacket infestation. Their dining table on the deck is right in between the path these things take from the outside world to their home in the siding of the house.

I’ve started using this for gummy candy. It helps me eat them slower, and I probably stop sooner than I would because I give them a little more time to settle in my stomach.

I tried to find an article written during that time frame to try and capture the feelings of the moment and why the USPS was subject to these changes. The only thing I could really find is that Bush wanted to use those excess payments for health benefits to pay down the federal defecit?

Tangential question: with everyone abuzz about mail-in voting and USPS and blah blah blah...

The USPS’s fiscal woes have been a long time coming and were largely out of their control. From the USA Today article: