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wild_turkey

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  1. This administration is so fucking dumb. They don’t even pretend to be intelligent. Just full Idiocracy at every opportunity.
  2. Ok, sorry for the long post but I mostly answered my own questions. Runna has a section where I can update current weekly mileage and my current long runs, which then re-creates my entire training plan in a way that suits me. It wasn’t part of the initial setup, not sure why, but it looks good now.
  3. Maybe we don’t want it. You’re all rich enough already, just cash out, pop the bubble, trigger a recession/depression, and let the rest of us move on.
  4. So I’m at a bit of a crossroads and could use some help. As posted somewhere upthread, I had a bad ankle sprain Feb 1, still ran the Cowtown full marathon Feb 23, but then had lingering ankle issues until about June. That’s over and my ankle has thankfully felt good the last few months, allowing me to get fully back into things. I feel healthier and I’m running better and faster than I ever can remember so I’m very happy about that, but I have an itch to scratch. I decided to run the Houston Marathon on Jan 11 and set my own training plan, loosely based on the Hal Higdon intermediate plans I’ve used in the past. I’m doing 25-26 miles per week, LR last week was 15 miles at a 7:58 pace with no aches, negative splits, and feeling like I easily had gas in the tank without overdoing things. Minor but critically important detail is that I didn’t register for Houston because I wanted to be sure I was okay, but now I went to register and it’s completely full. Well shit, but I mainly wanted it due to its reputation for being easy, and there are plenty of other marathons out there. So I’m thinking Cowtown again on March 1. It’s my hometown race and I know the course, so it’s an easy switch to make. It’s 7 weeks later so that’s a blessing I guess, but my plan was targeting Jan 11 and now I don’t know what to do with myself. Do I ease up a bit and give myself a month of 11-15 mile LRs before starting to ramp up again? Then I thought, maybe I should get the help of an online service. Running has always been a personal zen activity that I like doing independently, and my schedule is erratic, so enlisting a live coach is a no-go right now. Maybe I never want a live coach because it feels intrusive to an activity I view as solely mine. But perhaps an app or virtual coach could be useful? I’ve used the Runkeeper app for 10+ years and like that it’s simple and has no social media involvement. I checked out their premium training features and they will build a plan but it’s just a default plan that doesn’t allow much customization. Basically a different version of Hal Higdon, which is not super useful. Then I found Runna. The app looks sleek and seems to have good features, so I signed up, put in my data, and let it create a plan. Problem is, their plan shows that I have 17 weeks to train and basically starts me from scratch with a LR of 5 miles this week. There doesn’t seem to be any way to input my current mileage and have them start me off a little stronger. This feels like a massive step backwards and a waste of my current progress. I sent them a support message to see if they can adjust my plan at all. Waiting to hear back. Where do I go from here? TLDR: 1. Already halfway through marathon training block with good progress 2. Switched races and now have 7 extra weeks 3. How do I adjust plan in a way that hopefully uses those 7 weeks to improve performance without overtraining and risking injury? 4. Is there an app or service that could make a training plan based off my specific situation, or should I continue to go at it alone?
  5. Zuma Ibiza so YMMV but that was a fantastic meal.
  6. CA prop 50 passing in a landslide is a very nice fuck you to Abbott and Trump. Great job guys. As someone who donated to that effort, and as an American who hates fascism, I feel like I won something last night, even though I didn’t cast a vote in CA.
  7. As a political enemy of Abbott, would he consider paying me to leave? I’m open to negotiations.
  8. Doesn’t a normal dinner at Zuma cost around that?
  9. I voted no on most of the props, but it sucks that the props are listed with very little supporting info to help uninformed voters. If you walk in there without doing your homework, it’s hard to know what you are being asked to vote on. I guess that’s probably the point, but still irritating.
  10. Why did the shutdown cost Republicans elections if the shutdown is the Democrats’ fault? Oh, maybe some people are finally seeing through your bullshit lies.
  11. Go Dodgers! What a series. Late to the thread but watched every minute. Lifelong Dodgers fan. Congrats to the team and to Sbbruin (you deserve it!). Will post more tomorrow.
  12. I need a cardiologist
  13. Hijack was perhaps the worst thing Apple TV has ever put out. It’s not forgettable due to how bad it was.
  14. I think in the eyes of people like Altman, Musk, Thiel, etc, we are all in the morons category. Perhaps there currently exists a line between physician and scribe, lawyer and intern, engineer and technician, professor and tutor, skilled and unskilled workers. There is also the hope and potential for someone in the lower category to ascend to the higher category if they are motivated to do so. Eventually, as humans, we will all collectively fall into the unskilled morons category. We require a salary and benefits. We require personal time, time with our families, vacations, and sleep. We get sick. We might complain if we are treated poorly. We might leave for a better opportunity. It’s fucking madness that so many people are embracing the AI revolution as if it will be something that might have negative consequences for other people. We are all the other people.
  15. One of my many reasons for opposing AI is the concern that it will eliminate an extremely high percentage of human jobs, at a scale significantly higher than any other technology in history. This is a very simple and obvious example of that. Quick internet search shows there are roughly 100,000 medical scribes working in the U.S. They are mostly replaceable, and I would assume in 5 years, that number is significantly lower as EHR platforms roll out their AI packages. We use scribes in our practice and I love working with them. They do far more than enter data into the chart. They are an extension of me that can perform elements of the exam, retrieve instruments, administer meds, take patients to get tests, translate Spanish, etc. Most of all, I just like working with them. They are my friends at work and they are warm towards our patients, providing friendly faces, extending empathy and kindness. You can replace many of their tasks with AI, but you cannot replace their humanity. It’s that loss of humanity that bothers me the most, extended across the entire American and global economy. Even if my interaction with a barista is brief and uneventful, I still want to say hi and smile at another human from across the counter.
  16. I love the show but this was my least favorite season because the bad guys were a bit generic and MI5 was over the top incompetent. Whelan is a beating, and I get that he’s supposed to be a lackluster character, but his scenes felt like network television slop. The previews for next season look great. Have they already filmed the entire season?
  17. Why do you fuckers eat Mexican and BBQ in Europe? You have all of this amazing food to choose from and you blow a meal on a shittier version of something we already excel at in Texas. I’m genuinely confused.
  18. There’s that, and also, regardless of what you thought about Bush Sr or Clinton or W or Obama, we lived in the greatest and most prosperous country in the history of the world, and under the notion of returning it to greatness, we elected a madman who destroyed it.
  19. It’s too bad his current ideas can’t travel back in time and starve himself to death. That probably violates the grandfather paradox.
  20. I’m a lifelong Dodgers fan but it won’t bother me.
  21. This email went out from Jim Davis this afternoon: Sorry if formatting is weird, pasting from my phone. It doesn’t mention the compact, which could be a sign they are planning to ignore it and hope it fizzles out and a formal decision is never required. Unfortunately, that may be the best case scenario for UT at this point, given the players involved. I am concerned that he mentions “The University of Texas at Austin will serve as a model for restoring public trust in higher education.“ The public already trusted higher education until people deliberately tried to destroy that trust with lies. UT Austin should not even feel the need to acknowledge public distrust and give these ridiculous ideas any credibility. To do so is to suggest the university has gone astray and will now fix the role it played in causing this fictitious problem. Mostly, I remain worried that this is the way of breaking news softly, before later revealing that we agreed to a modified compact, which would still be 100% bullshit.
  22. If you had told me 2 years ago that we would be preseason #1 with a Heisman favorite QB and that by October we would be a struggling 5-2 and hoping our QB gets benched…. and that the state of Texas football would be very low on my list of concerns, I would also think that is insane.
  23. As I was participating in my local protest, it occurred to me how surreal it was for me to be involved in a political protest, and how bad things must be for that entire scenario to unfold. If you had told me 2 years ago that I would choose to do that on a fall Saturday, I would’ve thought it was insane. Then it occurred to me, what level of insanity will transpire over the next 1-2 years, and what currently unfathomable situation will we all find ourselves in by 2027? It’s a scary thought experiment.
  24. Pete on the left is twice divorced, cheated on his first wife multiple times by his own admission, cheated on his second wife as evidenced by the child he has with his now third wife, has been formally accused of sexual assault with at least one woman and agreed to a financial settlement to silence her, and is an alcoholic who was frequently drunk at work. In his current role, notable accomplishments include accidentally texting military plans to journalists with no security clearance. Pete on the right is…gay. And to make him look bad, there is a very poorly photoshopped image of him breast feeding. This is junior high bullshit. The entire Trump family is morally bankrupt. Imagine one of Obama’s kids making that post. The country would melt down, but now it’s just another day in America.
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