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  • My bad for not checking more into the metrics when I got it, but my Apple Watch alerted me my cardio fitness was “Low” with a notification warning; it never notified me when I was at the higher level of “Below Average” because that’s where I started when I got it, but I wish it did.

    Anyways, I treat my body like a copilot asleep at the yoke while the pilot (that was an amalgamation of my parents and gym class and walking places out of having no choice) left quite a while ago.

    Started getting my cardio fitness up with UGH boring treadmill walk-jogs and UGH boring breathing exercises. Sure I’m seeing slight improvements after two weeks, but YAWN-O-SAURUS.





  • The headline doesn’t invite room for nuance, and there’s a higher concentration of pirates here.

    And— again, not to excuse it— most streaming services already do these types of promos, even Apple TV (meant to be the prestige one).

    I don’t think they’ll slide into putting them in the middle of shows, but I do think they’ll charge more for ad-free than they’d have ever made from the user on ad-supported, and they’ll make the ads so annoying on ad tiers to pull users into ad-free tiers.

    Prime is the worst one afaic: ads in the middle, ads on both ends, and ads on the pause screen, and clicking Enter shops for whatever the ad is about about. Not to mention the ads in the program itself (Prime boxes, Amazon trucks, etc.).

    I was at my parent’s house and they watch that 9-1-1 Ryan Murphy show; oh my fucking god, I thought the Subway sandwich ad in the Hawaii-5-O was embarrassing: this program plugged three things in less than a minute.




  • Doug@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Thanks, doc
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    13 days ago

    mirtazapine undid like a year of weight loss progress in under two months and then some; put me back up to the most I’ve ever weighed. I’m off it now and in a better place, but now I gotta get back to it. and the anal fissure doesn’t help ‘cause now I can’t bike anymore until that shit goes away, which has been taking forever to get fully treated.

    now it’s boring, accessible treadmills for me and calorie counting all over again. 7 pounds down, 30 more to go.

    I wish I didn’t hate exercise so much.


  • Instead of a swear jar, have a When He Dies jar; every time you read a headline that is fucking goddamn infuriating why the fuck isn’t anyone doing anything about this meddlesome fucking priest Jesus fucking Christ and so many goddamn enablers I FUCKING HATE ALL OF T—… anyways, whenever you feel that after reading a headline, put $20 in a high yield savings account, and when he’s fucking gone, you’ll have two cent’s worth because OF THE GODDAMN INFLATION FUCK THIS MISERABLE PIECE OF SHIT.







  • My checklist, please ignore:

    • __ (Freebie) Make a shitpost.
    • __ Make a post about something other than technology or politics or a shitpost.
    • __ Make a post showcasing a thing or topic you find interesting.
    • __ Make a post to a community with fewer than 100 subscribers.
    • ✅ Make a post to a community in a small instance.
    • ✅ Make a post featuring a human-made piece of art.
    • ✅ Make an on-topic comment to a post in a small community.
    • __ Make a comment or post sharing news about a location relevant to you.
    • __ Make a high-quality long form text post or comment.
    • ✅ Post or comment a link from another part of the Fediverse.


  • Doug@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Forever relics
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    I used to have a box of one-off tools I didn’t know what they went to, but devoting a day to the use of a label maker, determining which adapter went with which thing, and writing up a file of what’s in what box, was one of my greatest feats. I haven’t had to dig through a box for something in years.

    My minimalist self loves it. Now I have more room for more useless shit.