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Cake day: April 12th, 2024
  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoCool Guides@lemmy.ca•A cool guide for bikini seasonEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t really care about downvotes, but those of you doing so… you might want to actually look into the research behind it. I picked a couple of random links for it because there’s literally nothing special about any of it, along with an NIH article about brown fat recruitment. The science is solid. It’s not a magic bullet; it’s not a replacement for healthy eating or real exercise; it does work for raw calorie burning and for making your body system more efficient at staying warm through calorie burning long term. That’s what our bodies are made to do. It’s a great calorie balancing supplement with very little actual effort.

    Shivering is a great easy way to burn calories, and increase the rate you burn calories later through beige fat recruitment.

    This should NOT be used to replace healthy eating or proper exercise, but shivering burns gobs of calories to produce heat, and the brown fat (located mostly in your back around neck and shoulders, used just for producing heat from fat) recruits surrounding white fat and transforms it into beige fat (basically converts normal fat into leaky heat-generating fat) to increase the heat generation, and thus calorie burn, of subsequent shivers.

    Here’s some links about it, if you are interested. It may not be actionable in the summer, but if you have a basement floor you can lay on, a tub of cold water, or access to a walk in freezer, you can get a healthy shiver going any time.

    https://www.medicaldaily.com/shivering-more-effective-exercise-15-minutes-shivering-may-burn-more-fat-1-hour-working-out-268555

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8341719/

    https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/shiver-yourself-thin-can-being-cold-help-you-lose-weight

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•When did you (literally or figuratively) dodge a bullet?
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    2 months ago

    They don’t come around anymore, but I used to say that I was disfellowshipped/excommunicated, whichever was fitting for whatever religion they were selling. If they ask why, which they basically never do, just say “I’d really rather not talk about it, if you don’t mind…”

    They don’t actually want to waste time talking to people who were kicked out of the church for “bad behavior”, and in many cases aren’t even allowed to, so they blacklist your address.

    No soliciting signs typically do the job, too, though.

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoNews@lemmy.world•In Major Order, Appeals Court Blocks Student Loan Forgiveness And Lower Payments For 8 Million Borrowers
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    2 months ago

    Ngl, the more this happens the more servicers are confused about what they should be collecting and from whom, and that’s actually a win for the borrowers (not as much of a win as this shit going through but still).

    For example, due to the slew of challenges, I’m still on $0 repayment through October and don’t even have to certify income for that. And who knows if they will actually move forward with resuming charges for it; this is the second time it’s been delayed for me.

    I hope the system does get thrown into complete chaos if it doesn’t all get forgiven or at least restructured. That would be better than people having to pay for worthless and/or overpriced degrees, and not being able to do shit with their lives.

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Absolutely deranged
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    2 months ago

    I’ve had it with shoddy c ports on various devices, including a phone (thankfully had wireless charging also). The connection pin thingy breaks off pretty easily, and causes the same issue you described for several weeks/months ahead of the actual breakoff, where it has to be in exactly the right position (and wiggling it to hit the right position obviously exacerbates the problem).

    I’ve actually bought some magnetic chargers for the more fragile electronics, so I never have to put strain on the port…

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoMemes@sopuli.xyz•We're coming for you
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    2 months ago

    Iirc part of the reason for sterile releases is to shift the populations. So for example they release them for malaria-carrying sub-populations but leave intact clean populations to fill in the niche.

    There’s also some experimentation with releasing fully fertile specimens that have a specific gut bacteria which makes them unable to carry some of the diseases impacting humans, and is passed down to the young.

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoFitness@lemmy.world•Where to buy women's business clothes
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    2 months ago

    Idk how actionable this would be for you, it probably depends what specific articles of clothing and in what style you are expected to wear, but are you able to buy any stretch fabric sort of shirts?

    I personally can’t wear “normal” non-stretch clothing because it’s far too restrictive for my own comfort (autist), and find that permanent press fabrics do a great job of being more forgiving, largely because of the stretch portion of the fabric blend that prevents wrinkles. There’s a surprising amount of women’s clothing that meets my stretch requirement, and still looks professional. But I do most of my shopping at thrift stores because my needs are super specific, so I can’t give you any brands or anything, I’m sorry.

    That might be another community to ask, though - autistic folks often have specific clothing restrictions, for the sake of existing without that distraction, that might help you find something appropriate for your needs. :)

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•gaudy and not my vibe
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    2 months ago

    I tracked down the house I lived in until I was 5-6. I have lots of pictures of it in its glory and I remember it fondly.

    It was an old 1800s school building that my parents converted into a house. Very cool building, lots of old-school charm (hehe).

    Finding it was a huge mistake. The present owners don’t even live in it, they built a house just to the side of it and use the old structure as support for solar panels, and probably storage for the junk sprawling over the property. Which… I’m down with solar but it’s so sad to see something with so much history, charm, and character… absolutely ruined in under 30 years.

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoCool Guides@lemmy.ca•A cool guide Men’s dress codes - DecodedEnglish
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    3 months ago

    You are more than welcome to do so, but I don’t really make posts in communities I don’t have an investment in. Or many at all really.

    I can send you the URLs for the original pics and all, if you like :) it turns out those I linked are super low quality and a simple screenshot would have higher res.

    But I probably don’t belong there; I have no skin in this other than finding men in manskirts psychologically attractive. And even that’s a bit of a stretch as an asexual ;)

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Progress happens with every deathEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I mean… No offense or anything but I really don’t care if I mis-spell a brand name. It’s super unimportant in the grand scheme of things. It’s… all just stupid marketing anyway, and if they cared, they would have used a smarter spelling.

    What I am concerned about is calling oneself stupid and a nazi (of any sort at this point) while actually being neither. Even as a hyperbolic thing, it’s something I greatly dislike.

    Please be kinder to yourself. It’s ok to be pedantic, but just say that instead :)

    I also have things that make me unreasonably annoyed. It’s ok to have those things :)