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1experienceon Learning to Suffer

Definitely changes from sport type, referring to bodybuilding/calisthenics I have always felt some kind of difference, the former is much more like the joints and tendons are involved, while the latter is mostly the muscles (DOMS).

Either way, there's no need to skip training for a year and then hit the gym in one go (too much, too soon)

1experienceon Learning to Suffer

The author doesn't seem to me to be talking about healthy discomfort but suffering, that middle ground between discomfort and injury is what in a multitude of sports will get you hip replacements and herniated discs when you reach your 50s.

1experienceon Learning to Suffer

Not listening to your body when it is talking to you is a guaranteed way to get injured even in a permanent way, your body is not against you, if it is sending you a message there is a reason.

When it comes to exercise avoid the three Ts. Too much, Too soon, Too fast.

1experienceon Tether Mints Record 2B USDT in One Week

The New York Attorney General proved in court they had at least 95% in cash deposit backing.

Can you provide a source for this claim?

1experienceon Tether Mints Record 2B USDT in One Week

They are the equivalent of an unregulated bank in the 1900s before deposit insurance, they will stay afloat as long as they keep up appearances and don't make stupid mistakes.

However the moment they create a catalytic event, the entire house of cards falls down. The equivalent of a bank run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE5klz0yUT0

1experienceon I believe US could see rolling series of “Ireland events” over next 2 months

Just imagine if they had used all the propaganda to promote exercise and healthy eating to the population while handing out free bottles of vitamin d3 instead of the opposite (stay inside, don't sunbathe, don't exercise, eat poorly due to depression and economic hardship)

1) this is Sweden 2020 death rate compared to other Scandinavian countries (no lockdown, no masks) https://preview.redd.it/jujfoejeqwa61.png?width=1024&auto=we...

2) these are some of the effects caused by lockdowns worldwide https://outline.com/JKgfuv

1experienceon China's Covid-19 ‘success’ is a mirage that continues to deceive the West

ICUs are by default expected to operate at a near-full occupancy rate, the average occupancy rate in the Western world is about 75%-80% and it's not unusual for them to be overrun during a bad flu season (especially in places like northern Italy, which has one of the worst air pollution problems in all of Europe and has undergone drastic cuts in health care spending in recent years).

[1]2018 https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

[2]2015 https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

1experienceon ‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)

When an user becomes aware of the algorithm and purposely avoids clicking on videos that interest him slightly because it can radically change his suggestions for days or weeks, it is a sign imho that the algorithm is not well designed.

1experienceon Why Tesla stock is vastly overpriced

I wonder what would be the valuation of 2011 apple today, back then it was trading at 10 p/e ratio, I bet it would be at least 100 today.

we are in a completely different financial environment.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/pe-rati...

1experienceon Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles

This year I found the most effective method, I have tried everything but wasn't enough: sunshine, flux, sleep hygiene, diet, exercise. Basically the method is as soon as you wake up you start working out, the longer and harder you work out the earlier you will get up the next day.

1experienceon Biomarker of Alzheimer's found to be regulated by sleep cycles

I agree, I'm a night owl myself, but I don't think it's natural or healthy. In hunter-gatherer societies the last one to go to sleep was at midnight (youngsters) and by 8 am everyone was awake.

1experienceon The Joys of Being a Stoic

All emotions are theoretically beneficial to oneself (survive and reproduce), otherwise they would not have evolved and would not have persisted during evolution.

1experienceon The Joys of Being a Stoic

I have realized that stoic philosophy gives me a peaceful/powerful feeling in the immediate while giving me little help in my critical situations.

Marco Aurelio's meditations came from his life, each of his thoughts was connected to an often painful mistake/experience and was meant for his future self.

It isn't easy to transfer this behavioral wisdom from one person to another just through writing.

Abstract thinkings without a strong connection to your own reality (experiences) often don't produce a strong enough effect to apply them in your own difficult situations.

In the dialogue, Socrates recounts the story of the god Theuth, or Ammon, who offers the king Thamus the gift of letters: This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

(Phaedrus, Plato)