Well according to a couple random sources he’s actually around 235 in this photo.

At 6’3, that would imply that he has an elevated risk of high blood pressure. Sometimes people who are engaged in consistent vigorous exercise can maintain normal blood pressure at that weight, but it’s fairly likely he’s abusing steroids for the role, which are strongly correlated with high blood pressure.

So most likely not great

Thank you for stimulating the economy!

Reading around a bit now, I guess officially he denies steroid use during season 1 and says he only began using before season 2 after the season 1 push “wrecked his body” and he got some scary bloodwork relating to suppressed testosterone levels

So if we take that at face value, it seems like he was having health issues at one point which steroids then fixed lol.

Random side note, but I went looking around his socials to see if he was shilling anything and he appears to have a freaky ai generated image of him one arm deadlifting 3 plates while chilling on a wooden deck and talking on the phone. Featured prominently on his personal website

Edit: I found it so unsettling that I looked it up. It’s from a men’s health photoshoot. Article is “Jack Reacher Goes Big”. It also has a video of him bicep curling it (let the introductory video play). Not AI, just badly made prop weights. He cropped the image and is using it to promote himself without context on his personal website which is why it looks so out of place

Fun fact, most of the weight you lose is exhaled through your lungs :3

can almost any track be basically looped in this way?

So, if you were to drop any audio recording into an editor, you’ll see what’s called a waveform. The waveform is very simply a graph of how your speaker cones actually move. Time on the X axis, amplitude on the Y (in the positive direction the speaker is moving towards you from its resting place in the middle, and in the negative it is moving away you) (put another way, the waveform is the groove that would be cut into a record. The movement of the needle up and down as it follows that groove is then amplified and mimicked on the speakers)

In order for a loop to be “perfect”, you need to create a continuous waveform. You can technically attempt to draw one with harsh breaks, but your speakers are made of physical material that cannot teleport or otherwise experience instantaneous changes in acceleration.

So, in attempting to follow such a messy signal, your speakers will try to move to the right position as fast as possible, creating an unpleasant popping sound.

So in essence, you need to find a moment near the end of a track that is identical to a moment near the beginning. Otherwise the sudden change will create an audible “seam” in the loop that may disturb listeners

Older game sound tracks have the distinct advantage of being synthesized or using samples. They are also often intentionally designed to be looped, since they loop while you are playing. So there are many, many points to choose from where the waveforms are the same.

For other music, the more “organic” it is the harder the task will be. One great place to try is moments of complete silence, if even for a fraction of a second, since the speaker will be at rest in both places. Another strategy is to try the opposite, and disguise the “seam” under a loud noise where it won’t be detectible. There are lots of other ways to create “imperfect” loops like that, by editing the adjoining ends with any method you can think of until it sounds good

Common misconception :3 the spleen actually exhales the spleen juice

Thank you for making me more appealing to sponsors!

The “I’m not even sure if he was there” line was crazy lol

Video games

Had a huge crash around the Atari era due to an overwhelming amount of shovelware being published. Games were also extremely expensive then

Nintendo famously reversed this crisis with the introduction of the NES and their “Nintendo seal of quality”. Consumers were able to access a curated collection of quality games, and it really turned things around and basically launched the modern gaming industry

I also don’t have sex with this guy’s wife

Wow a whole year of being cuddled and fed spaghetti??

Three main reasons

Firstly, it does make you sweat more, which reduces your weight (temporarily). It’s common for people in sports that require a weigh-in to do this and also partially dehydrate themselves before they are weighed to make their weight class.

Secondly, it’s done by people trying to lose weight in general who have heard about the first group and incorrectly believe inducing sweat this way will speed up their weight loss. The exact opposite is true: by intentionally overheating yourself, you actually reduce the effectiveness of your workout, making your fitness goals harder to achieve in the long run. There are tons of myths like this that seem intuitive but hold a lot of people back.

Thirdly, people are just self-conscious sometimes and cover up their body

lol. They can’t hear the difference even with the most expensive equipment. The resultant signal from decompressing a FLAC phase cancels with the original signal if you invert it. Meaning they are indeed 100% identical. Lossless, dare I say.

Literally all it does as a file format is merge data that is identical in the left and right channel, so as not to store that information twice. You can see this for yourself by trying to compress tracks that have totally different/identical L and R channels, and seeing how much they compress if at all

I actually saw that happen in real time, did we confirm it was an admin action?

All the pixels came in at the same time

Text in the top left of the image behind the speaker

Thank you for creating non-fiction!

I don’t buy it, personally. There were plenty of older folks in my college program who thrived in their studies. Plenty of older folks at work who adapt to new training just fine.

Personally I feel more focussed and capable of picking up new skills now than I ever did in my twenties. I just can’t believe your capacity for learning necessarily decreases with age.

Yeah I’m aware that we observe a correlation. You know what I think actually happens? You remember back in school, teachers would always complain about the “summer vacation effect”? Kids would come back to school after break and it would be a huge slog getting them habituated back into productive learning. Year after year, affecting children at every age. The effect is noticeable after they disengage for only a couple of months.

Now what happens if you go years or even decades without really challenging your adaptability? How hard would it be to get back into things, then? And because this effect required the passage of time to take hold, would most people not just assume it’s an inevitable part of getting older? What if it isn’t, and nearly everyone has the capacity to claw their way back?

That’s my view. Ultimately it’s up to each of us how we want to handle our own journey of aging. I would recommend against believing your “ship has already sailed” at thirty years old, considering the success people find when they refuse to accept that.

My apologies for making such a rant, and with such emotion haha. Your short comment didn’t really justify it, and this isn’t really directed at you. Just some stuff that’s been on my mind a lot as it is a very common sentiment.

But to close out my train of thought, I would also add that most people consider sarcopenia to be inevitable as they get older. However, we now know that the effects are completely reversed in virtually everyone who engages with strength training into their old age, enabling them to walk around in their eighties with the same strength as an average 30 year old. But in order to receive these proven benefits, you need to believe that it is possible for you personally, and you need to try.

Yeah, I love it and actually prefer it to my old reddit experience for general browsing.

What isn’t quite there yet is the ability to like, sit down all day and scroll and post in a community dedicated to my current hyperfixation of the week. Be it guitar maintenance, some indie game, or whatever.

But reddit also didn’t have that when I started using it. Excited to hang here and watch the garden grow

This is actually a huge pet peeve of mine. Just because there are an infinite number of possibilities doesn’t mean anything is possible

Let’s investigate the list of natural numbers. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. It stretches on for infinity, but nowhere in this infinite set will you find the number 2.5. Or negative 1. Or countless other examples.

Next let’s consider a warehouse with an infinite number of CDs, each burned with a copy of the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack. Each of these discs are different. They have slight differences in the label, diameter, and flatness, due to manufacturing tolerances. They have different random bits that get flipped sometimes due to solar particle collision and quantum variation, which may eventually make different discs unreadable. They decay over the centuries at different rates, due to temperature and sun exposure differences in the warehouse (climate control for an infinite space is very expensive).

Each of these discs are, materially speaking, completely different from one another. But, from the perspective of our limited human perception, they are for the time being completely interchangeable. Whichever one you select, you will listen to and have the same experience.

This is by far the most likely scenario if we indeed live in a multiverse. An infinite number of earths, with an infinite number of you, lives filled with all the same mistakes and triumphs, all reading this comment together right now.

Edit: spelling

Plus, shouldn’t he want that information to be front and center anyway if he actually thinks it’s a good thing?