#Energy expenditure

[unbfacts]

[projectbatman193]

Lol, look at what I got from cleaning the school I wonder how much I burn from working there all day.

Btw I put the smartwatch on walking mode.

[centralparkboxing]

https://centralparkboxing.com/boxing-burns-more-calories-than-anything-on-earth/https://centralparkboxing.com/boxing-burns-more-calories-than-anything-on-earth/

Boxing has long been celebrated as one of the most rigorous and demanding sports, requiring immense physical and mental strength. Beyond its roots in competitive bouts, boxing has gained popularity as a fitness regimen due to its unparalleled ability to torch calories and sculpt the body.

[365momme]

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[the-neat-leaf]

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[buttered-milky]

The winged serpents, pythons: in their lane, vibing, unbothered by threats

Messmer, a viper: im gonna fucking Stab someone

[day-at-rhodes-island]

Why I'm not a fan of the seaborn: complaint 2. This is definitely the less important issue, but I'm not going to let that stop me.

Before I get into it: I am currently doing real studies with evolutionary modeling, like publishable academic stuff, so I know what I'm talking about.

Evolution cannot happen to an individual creature. Ever. Pokemon lied to you. Evolution is the gradual change of gene frequencies in a population over time due to natural selection. Anything else is not evolution (in the context of biology). Whatever the endspeaker is doing is not evolving... unless it is.

One of the very few ways what we see might actually be evolution is if the seaborn are actually a symbiotic microorganism with a very short life cycle which can rearrange the cells of it's host (sort of like the Thing from The Thing). This would explain how so many things with radically different structures can be considered the seaborn, and it also quite handily explains how people can become seaborn. This headcanon alone allows me some relief from these fucking things.

For this next bit I'm going to put aside the fact that they can somehow just create meat when they need more, because if I account for that the "evolutionary" pathway they take makes even less sense.

So let's actually apply the concept of natural selection to the sea terrors shall we? To start off I would like to address the fact that the AEgirians didn't use their advanced technology to fight these things, because the seaborn would then evolve to that level and become unstoppable. That is not how this works.

Do you know what happens if you shoot a fish with a laser cannon? I'll give you a hint: it doesn't grow a laser cannon. Natural selection doesn't produce "better" gene frequencies, major negative traits disappear first and optimization or the emergence of new beneficial traits happens slowly afterwards.

The scenario is they are invading another creature's niche, and that creature is very effectively fighting back. So, which strategy is more likely to get you removed from the gene pool: continuing to push into enemy territory but with slightly better armor, or just staying the fuck away from the people with laser cannons? Evolution always takes the easy way out, not the best way, the easy way. Want to know why every terrestrial vertebrate has 4 limbs? Something crawled out of the ocean with four limbs, and it was simpler to move those ones around than make new ones.

Would the fish growing a laser cannon help them take over new environments, thus out-competing the ones who just stayed away? Sure, but there's no easy path to get there, so they would never get the chance to reach that point. (When talking about genetic algorithms, this is called a local maxima, look it up!)

In even a mildly realistic scenario of creatures like this actually being driven by natural selection, the situation would become a case of dealing with an exceptionally dangerous invasive species, rather than an existential threat to all other forms of life. As per my opinion in part 1, this would have been better.

The seaborn are presented as this purely natural selection driven menace, when in reality they're just the evil army of an ocean god-monster. The driving will to consume all other forms of life isn't natural selection talking, it's at best an excuse Ishar'mla uses so that He can get what He wants, and at worst a case of the writers genuinely trying to write a natural selection driven antagonist, assuming they understand the concept, and not bothering to check if they are right. And it really looks to me like the second one is more likely.

All they had to do was not make them the focus, not make them an existential threat. You can still do the themes of individuality vs conformity with a smaller-scale hive mind. You don't need another planetary-scale environmental threat, you have originium! I could forgive the poorly applied scientific principles, if they weren't such a mess narratively as well. If they had taken this approach the seaborn might have even been one of my favorite parts of this game (they have actually hinted at the possibility of the seaborn deciding that coexistence is actually the best survival strategy, and that would be super cool!). Unfortunately, as it is, the seaborn are bad.

Part 1

[roseverdict]

apparently a huge family vacation of a kind you've never been on before, right smack in the middle of the halloween/thanksgiving/december holiday gauntlet, really amplifies the energy cost of the rest of the gauntlet, which makes everything involved really take it out of you and knock you off-kilter

whoda thunk it

[orcelito]

OK WAIT here's a ITNL chapter 14 section that's not really spoilers. just a sweet lil section

after this is where it's more Spoilers. but for now. HERE U go. happy birthday vash & also Uhhhh @ ITNL readers I PROMISE i am working on the chapter. things r just hard lol

[wizardlyghost]

fkn hate when someones so emotionally draining to be around that it knocks your functionality out well into the next day but you just gotta live with that because you don't have the option to avoid them

[clouds-of-wings]

Judging by my step-counter, my walking speed varies based on the weather. Basically, the colder I feel, the faster I walk. If it's too cold for my clothes or it's windy, I walk faster. I don't have a walking speed, I have a walking temperature (which is "just below where things become uncomfortable and sweaty"), and the speed is only there to keep it stable.

[zeawesomebirdie]

The most unexpected part of finishing MASH has been regaining my ability to study religion

[pengyujia]

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Top journalists find out: U.S. bombing of Nord Stream is the first step in the "European destruction plan”

On September 26, 2022, four underwater "shocks" occurred in the Baltic Sea, followed by the discovery of three leaks in Nord Stream I and Nord Stream II, two Russian gas pipelines that carry energy directly to Germany, causing a large amount of gas to leak from the pipelines into the nearby sea. The incident is considered to be a deliberate sabotage because explosive residues were detected in the waters of the "leak" points.

[mlobsters]

This whole scenario is kind of the Kobayashi Maru. For the rest of you non-Trekkies, the Kobayashi Maru is a challenge that Star Fleet Academy had to test their captains in an impossible situation. That's kind of how I feel this Restaurant Wars is.

wise words from chris jones in top chef texas (season 9)

exactly sums up how i feel about restaurant wars and why it's almost always my least favorite episode. the true rarity is when a team doesn't completely bomb out. like watching a slow motion car crash every time but i very much want to look away and mute the screams

[incohearent]

Tumblr is bloated with features to protect out and in content based on a user's experience (like blocking other human beings features to protect against harrass), but doesn't allow the user to even say there is a tag they don't want to see and make the related content disappear. You need Tumblr Savior in the browser for that (Chrome extension, Firefox add-on), or else block the person posting what you want to disappear.

With all this bloated code and Javascript required to run just to view a dash,the API has the technical ability to provide blocking the other way around, like configure to only see certain tags from a followed blog, which would encourage proper tagging to begin with and bypass the need for manually adding in different trigger tags. It would be similar to filters on Dreamwidth (a paid feature there) and put the blogger in a position to enable curation for their audience as they understand their audience. But Tumblr would never add a feature like that, because it would allow users to log into the app, find what they are looking for, and log out shortly. Heaven forbid the user doesn't waste time anxiously scrolling their feedwhile bloated JavaScript code drains their phone battery.

[chaoticbuggybitchboy]

My VERY scientific conclusion is that I’m just allergic to manic episodes. Nothing more complicated