I hate everyone involved in this conversation, and the whole affair has made me largely unhappy with the world

I think probably the “purest” form of egg I eat is hard/soft boiled. In this case, I feel like there isn’t much of a smell, and it is fairly neutral. The taste of the whites is fairly neutral. Hardboiled yoke I’m not a huge fan of, but will eat out of habit. Soft boiled yoke is deliscious, and is the best form of egg.

Beyond that, eggs are great because they don’t have all that much flavor themselves, but are very versitile in their ability to carry other flavors in various forms. Eg, cheese, spices, and chili peppers in a breakfast burrito; salt, pepper, and butter on an over easy egg, with some toast dipped in the yoke; etc.

Its kind of like chicken. Chicken on its own doesnt taste that great. It tastes great when it is spiced and cooked well.

If you have a problem that seems unsolveable, the best way to think of a solution is to go sit somewhere quiet and try to meditate. Just set a timer for 20 minutes, 30 minutes… maybe an hour. Then just focus your attention on your breath and don’t do anything. By the time is up, you will have at least one, and sometimes 4 or 5, potential solutions to your problem, and often a much more positive attitude.

Also, don’t fix dry squeaky things with wd40. It lubricates at first, but it was never designed as a long term lubricant, and the grease will pick up debris in not very long, making the problem worse. Instead, use a silicon-based dry lubrication spray.

I’ve never used any of those conversions you listed in imperial units, so your point is irrelevant… which is my point. Americans learn metric in school, and American scientists and engineers almost universally work in metric, where conversion between units is regular and useful.

But it I am going for a hike, I will estimate distance in miles, if I am making a soup, I will measure my broth in cups, and if I am trying to lose weight, I will measure my weight in pounds. These uses continue because there is no reason not to continue using them - they work for their intended purpose, in their intended context.

It doesn’t matter if I tell you a distance in meters or kilometers, you only have to remember what that means in feet so you can convert it to whatever imperial distance you want. Just multiply/divide by 1000 afterwards by moving the decimal point. If 53 meters is 863 yards, 53 kilometers is 863000 yards.

However, it does matter what unit you choose to communicate with me. I know that 1 inch is about 25.4mm/2.5cm, but if I’m unlucky and you decide to say it in feet, I’m going to need to Google the conversion.

There is no dickishness involved on either side in your example, as both people are expressing the measure (presumably) in whatever units they know best. This is no different than two people who speak different languages working together to communicate. No one is being a dick, it is just two people who know two different things, working together towards a common goal of mutual understanding.

What is dickish is telling someone that they should communicate in a different way for your benefit. If, for example, someone started commenting in this thread in spanish or german, I wouldn’t get pissed off about it. I wouldn’t tell them to learn English, or tell them they are stupid for not knowing English, or tell them that their language is dumb and tout the obvious benefits of English due to its lack of confusing conjugations. I would just either translate their comment if I was interested in what they are saying, or shrug and move on without caring.

I will switch to metric for all my daily needs as soon as I find a cubic yard of honey I need to know the weight of

It is easy to learn how to convert between metric units. But that’s not what people mean when they talk about “learning metric”. They mean having an intuitive sense for how much, say, 100 meters or 100 milliliters is. Again, the emphasis on how easy it is to remember the conversion between meters and kilometers is extraneous.

Same reason the metric people keep telling me to change. Because if I did, it would be better for them. Difference is, I don’t drone on and on about how superior my forms of measurement are

It’s a better system for me, because I already know it.

Because the ability to easily convert between meters and kilometers is the only intrinsic benefit that metric has over any other form of measurement.

Some say imperial has some other benefits, like being easy to do math in your head with… but I’m skeptical that this benefit is worth much either - if it even exists at all.

The real benefit to metric is that it is standard across the world. So what the “convert to metric crowd” really wants to say is “it is inconvenient for me to have to keep converting from your units to mine - change your units for my benefit!” But that would feel rather dickish, so they make up a story about how changing your units is really for your benefit.

Which is fair enough. But now I’m annoyed that they keep complaining about it.

I’m confused, and I am wondering if we are using terms differently.

To me, a set is a group of continuous repetitions. For example, if I do 20 bicep curls in a row, I did one set of 20 curls. But if I do 2 curls, then walk away and drink some water, and then come back and do another 2 curls, and repeat this 10 times, then I have done 10 sets of 2 reps of curls.

So when you say the following, I am honestly quite bewildered at what you might mean -

for me, sets of specific bodyweight exercises (like legs one day, shoulders/back another, and so on) is just more time efficient. It gives enough resistance to get sore, and gets me exhausted, all in one setting, instead of running separately

I think the nomenclature I am familiar with would be a “split” - a way of structuring your workout routine so you do, say legs one day and arms another. Or pushing motions one day and pulling motions another. Which is great - lots of people do various kinds of splits and enjoy them and see the results they want from them.

Also, if what you are doing works for you, I think that’s great and you should keep doing it. But I also want to gently push back on a few of your statements for anyone else who may be reading and interested.

One thing you say is that it gets you sore. But I think it is worth noting that soreness itself doesn’t really indicate anything beneficial. You can hit your quad with a hammer and you will be sore in the morning. Soreness can be useful as a rule of thumb, since it typically indicates that you tried hard, which is a good proxy for stimulating muscle growth. But consistently being sore doesn’t, on its own, guarentee hypertrophy - and if pursued excessively, can actually work against potential gains, as soreness can inhibit one’s ability to perform optimally in their next workout. Instead, if you are pursuing strength or hypertrophy goals, the appropriate metric is progression in lifts over time. If you bench 135 for 5 reps today, and then in a month you bench 145 for 5 reps, or you bench 135 for 10 reps, or even if you just feel like benching 135 for 5 is easier, then we have an excellent indication that muscle growth is going to be stimulated.

In the same vein, you talk about being exhausted. And if you like feeling exhausted after your workouts because it helps you sleep better or it elevates your mood, by all means continue. But exhaustion doesn’t necessarily correlate with improved strength, hypertrophy, or fitness. After all, I can exhaust you by telling you to walk across the Sahara desert. But if your goal is to win the 100m sprint, that isn’t going to help much. Some of the best training programs I’ve run into are actually quite short, and are designed to leave the trainee with plenty of energy in the tank after their workout so they can come back as fresh as possible for the next workout.

Finally, I take issue with saying that running causes shin splints, or that lifting weights is dangerous. All physical activity carries the risk of injury, of course, but the biggest reason people develop overuse injuries is simply going too hard, too fast, and overdoing it. Or using poor form in their chosen activity. Or simply bad luck in the genetic lottery and dealing with the accumulated damage on the body over the course of a human lifetime. There is nothing special about calisthenics that make them some sort of injury-proof exercise - plenty of people note that push ups hurt their shoulders, pull ups hurt their elbows, or pistols hurt their knees. That doesn’t mean that push ups, pull ups, or pistols are bad exercises - it just means that if you try them and they hurt, you might need to make some adjustments, or else try a different exercise to reach your goal. Similarly, sure, some people get shin splints running, or hurt their backs deadlifting. But running and deadlifting are not bad or especially dangerous either - just some people may need to adjust their routines, or their form, or choose some different kind of exercise if they can’t resolve the issue they are facing. The human body is a wonderful thing, and in my view we should be encouraging people to use it in any way they can, in every way they might want to try - and if there is a problem for some person in particular, then we can deal with it when it comes up, rather than warning them off something before they’ve even tried it.

The above poster may have a good idea… but I don’t think they have a lot of good knowledge of making body comp changes.

I know what reps, sets, supersets, circuits, and training sessions are. I’ve never heard of a “group” of movements, other than maybe as an informal term, which is how the above poster seems to be using it.

Their enthusiasm for calisthenics is admirable. But they aren’t any better or worse for you than any other form of exercise - whatever exercise doesn’t hurt, and that you enjoy doing, is good exercise.

Also should I still pair this with the running? How much could I reduce my running if I started doing these? I’m currently doing an hour.

You can 100% pair calisthenics with running, and it can be a wonderful combo for general fitness. However, I doubt it would really work to achieve your stated goal, which I assume is to burn a certain number of calories in a particular time frame without sweating. Problem being - to burn calories, you need to exercise. To burn calories faster, you need extra intensity - you need your muscles to work harder, faster. The chemical process that allows your muscles to contract creates heat as a byproduct, and when you work your muscles hard and fast, heat builds up. And when heat builds up and you aren’t in a cool environment, your body sheds that heat by sweating. If you want to sweat less, you either need to move to a cooler (or breezier) environment or else exercise for longer at a lower intensity. The type of exercise you do doesn’t matter.

The solution to your problem is (1) wear technical fabrics, or less clothing in general, (2) crank the AC as much as possible, (3) blast as many fans as possible at your body, but most importantly (4) just get used to being sweaty, it’s normal.

AC does not require sweat to cool you down. It reduces the air temperature. If you exercise in a sufficiently cold room, which was cooled with AC, you would not sweat. You would also be extremely cold.

I feel like those were the days where you could have true friendships in society, not “having friends to send memes”.

Um, excuse me? You need to get out of your internet bubble. Tons of people still have friends in real life - most of them, actually. If you don’t, and you wish you did, then you have an unusual problem and you should start working on solving it asap

I would be pissed, because

(1) This move would create millions of civilian casualties in the DC area. Most of whom didn’t even vote for Trump.

(2) Regardless of who gained power afterwards, this would almost certainly create further nuclear exchanges, making massive losses of life on both sides.

This would be an unbelievably dumb move.

my pal tells me he’s reserved the gym slot at 17:00, so I reserve that time too and i just want to reply “me too” to let him know it worked for me.

I would reply with a screenshot of my reservation

I heard they’ve stopped all fear mongering in China

Honestly, even more fascinating. …why???

The vast majority of the platforms you listed, I’d never heard of.

Facebook groups and events used to be good. But with the decreasing popularity of facebook, they are becoming less useful for people organizing. If you are trying to find a group, they can still be useful, though, as many groups from years past are still active - in real life, if not in the fb group itself. If you are trying to start a local meetup group, I would say that having a facebook group and posting your events there is a low-effort way to advertise. However, if the group gets popular, moderating it might become a nightmare.

Meetup also used to be good. But too many of their groups now are thinly veiled scientology fronts, and the 50+ crowd is overrepresented a lot of the time. Because of this, it tends to be diffucult to get new groups off the ground.

Partiful is a party planner. It is designed for groups of friends and informal social networks to pass invites around. I don’t think regularly scheduled events would work very well on the platform, and it would feel… idk, unprofessional? If a more organized meetup used it.

Eventbrite is for organizing paid events, like if a bar is hosting a concert or you are having spaghetti dinner fundraiser. If you tried to host meetup events on this platform, I would assume it was a one-off event, and that I would need to pay admission, and that there would be an official leader and organized activities.

I would recommend having a fb group and a meetup page. They are really your best options for organizing and finding new members. The others, I wouldnt bother with. However, I think there are some other options you should consider.

First, an oldschool website. Just spin up wordpress and make a static webpage. Say who you are (Springfield Ultimate Meetup), what you are about (fun ultimate frisbee pickup games in Springfield), when and where you meet (City Park Tuesdays at 6 pm), and a few photos and some contact info.

Second, Whatsapp. You can create a whatsapp group chat for your meetup, and then you get a number of good management tools, like the ability to break off into other more niche group chats, and the ability to ban people. This can be good for community chatter, and also for announcements/reminders about events.

IG/Tiktok. Its pretty common for groups to have their own social media pages where they occasionally post pictures or videos of whatever they did most recently. Especially if your activity is photogenic, like sports or art, this can be a good option for getting the word out.

Finally, physical media. Go make some flyers and hang them up around town. Lots of community spaces, like community centers, gyms, bars, coffee shops, or small businesses will have a cork board where whoever can hang up their flyers. You can also just show up to other events and hand out flyers - for example, if there is a taco truck rally in Springfield city park on Monday, you can hand out flyers for your ultimate frisbee meetup Tuesday.

Nah, there is probably also a strong genetic component.