maporita

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

You can't control how or even if you will arrive at old age but you can swing the odds dramatically in your favor by the choices you make when you are younger. Eat healthily, avoid hard drugs and tobacco, drink alcohol only in moderation and get plenty of excercise that consists of four categories: resistance (aerobic), VO2 max (anaerobic), strength and stability.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I can't answer your question but it's particularly annoying for me because I travel a lot for work. Sending me an SMS message when I'm in the middle of Africa isn't going to work. (In fact I found a way to make it work by enabling wifi calling with my US cell provider.. but I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to verify my identity)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Gmail's UI is awful unless you are coming from the Outlook webmail client .. then it's freaking amazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also to add to this, science is self-correcting and, unlike religion, allows and even requires questioning in order to function. Newtons' laws of motion revolutionized classical mechanics and held firm for more than 200 years. But there were some things the laws could not explain. Eventually Einstein formulated corrections to Newtowns laws that took relativity into account. So Newtons' laws didn't disappear.. they continue to be useful at non-relativistic velocities. But when we need to deal with hyper-fast objects we need to take relativity into account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quantum entanglement, black holes, dark energy .. all way more interesting than ghosts. We know these things exist and hope that science may one day be able to unravel them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm primarily a runner but I've been combining swimming for the last 10 years or so and it's been great. Swimming is fantastic cross training for runners. It lets you maintain cardio fitness while you give your "running" muscles a break. It teaches good breathing techniques. It works other muscle groups like upper body and core muscles which are important for stability. And most of all, for me, my partner loves to swim so it's something we can do together.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.".

Yeah sure, tell me another one