You know all was lost when a “real woman” became defined as someone who could not successfully cross a parking lot without experiencing cardiac arrest, while the definition of a “real man” for that “real woman” was still a six-pack-bearing millionaire more than six feet tall.
That tells you who is controlling the cultural conversation right there.
This is related to the story itself and some of the comments, but when I was working for an org that acquired a lot of other companies as part of its normal business, I once walked into an acquisition that tracked all of its transactions on two million separate Excel spreadsheets. Yes, you read that right: 2,000,000 spreadsheets.
All manual — no accounting system and no automation of any kind. Also, their backups were basically non-existent.
That was a fun one to convert to some form of reliability and modernity.
It’s just bizarre to me when people claim they can’t do anything to change their fitness and health situation. Especially in the US, many if not most health problems are self-inflicted: a combination of no exercise and a poor diet.
I don’t even look like the same person I did five years ago. I’m nearly three times as strong as I was since then, too. I’m not some superhero. I have bad genes and I am lazy (though stubborn). If I can do what I did, so many more people could. Or if not exactly what I did, at least not be a diabetes-ridden lard pile claiming that they have no choice but to be that way.
Not everything is a matter of personal responsibility. But a lot is. Even if you are currently some pebble just bouncing down the river of your life, you don’t have to stay that way. Be less pebble and more dam.
What It Looks Like To Leave Our Solar System At The Speed Of Light.
No. This is wrong. From a photon’s perspective*, it arrives at its destination instantly; it’s a massless boson meaning that it does not experience time. (The more technical explanation is that photons have no rest frame, so travel along null geodesics through spacetime.)
Instead, this is portraying what we as observers experience as we observe a photon leaving the solar system. A very, very different thing.
*This, though, is really meaningless. There is no such thing as a photon’s perspective due to its very nature.
Her speed on the treadmill reminds me of the Bionic Woman.
Most consumer treadmills are limited to 12mph because that’s all the vast majority of people can handle. She did 23mph for a bit.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
