TheBananaKing @ TheBananaKing @lemmy.world

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The very general advice I've been given is to coddle joints, tendons and ligaments like pampered princesses, and to treat muscles like dirt.

Of course, an actual tear or something you let the damn thing heal - but if you've just overdone it a bit, you're better off better pushing through and using it normally.

Most of the pain from day-after-workout soreness is from swelling - the muscle bundles get a little frayed and leak fluid into the sheath, and it's the pressure buildup that causes the pain. If you walk on it anyway (or equivalent), you gradually squeeze the fluid out, and it becomes much less complainy (until you rest for a few hours and it fills back up again).

At least, that's what I've been told, and what I've noticed in my own experience. This is not medical advice.

I've always stood with Palestine.

I'm genX, so South African apartheid was constantly on the news through my childhood. It doesn't take much to see that Israel is just as shitty.

They are excellent - but yeah, I'm looking for cocoa powder in the dough vs chocolate applied afterwards :)

Will he do better about continuing to fund and supply the genocide?

It's groupchat for social media apps.

If you've got just one app you use, and the admins go all Elon on the place, you either put up with it or you're out in the cold.

If you have a hundred different apps - you don't have that problem, but it's a fragmented mess you can't possibly keep track of.

But the fediverse gives you the best of both worlds. It's hundreds of apps, but they each pull in the feed of all the others - and if the admins of any one app turn out to be evil clowns, the other apps can quietly snip them out of the feed, just like making a new groupchat with everyone but Karen in it.

It's slowly coalescing into a handful of major cliques defined by the kinds of people they don't want to talk to.

Well, there's the niche for human artists in the future: drawing things the AIs refuse to generate.

as if you couldn't tell by the screed above...

I've seen countless americans claiming that it's perfectly justified to drive over people if they get in the way of your car, so this is pretty on-brand.

Polar bears. It would be hilarious.

Overuse of the things looks trashy or spammy.

Think of some eyesore of a boomer facebook post with 97 different fonts and colours and styles.

Think of emojipasta and cummies

And then you get people who follow up all their nouns with little pictures of the object in question, and just why.

What do you want for dinner? I was thinking of ordering a pizza [picture of pizza]

It's potentially vague without the little picture, and utterly redundant with it. It never helps.

Sure, the occasional :) or something in shortform text can be appropriate for the register, but it's very context sensitive - and the tone conveyed by most of the graphic emoji just makes me want to punch people. Again, they look like those horrible facebook avatar things, or assets from shitty freemium mobile games.

I liked the stick post :(

Australia here and you get like 3 years fixed if you're lucky.

Here, enter into this lifetime contract; after three years the terms change to whatever the hell I say they are, and you say sir yes sir or I destroy you.

who the hell is Satya Nadella, and why do we care?

• Reduce atmospheric CO2 to pre-industrial levels
• Give me the ability to see/hear remote locations at will.
• Give me Jessica Jones style mind-control, but without needing to be physically present.

'scuse me while I go unfuck some shit.

Ah, see, my family, now...

They'd refuse to let you play a word, on the grounds that you could surely get a better one, here give me your letters a minute.

Or they wouldn't let you play a word because it didn't 'open up the board', whatever the fuck that means.

I rapidly learned to not play with them.

Just think of it as full-sensory tinnitus :)

"but hey, the rich people are doing fabulously" is pretty fucking cold comfort for the people that they're unable to help. Read the goddamn room.

Or you know maybe we could raise the bar just a teeny little bit above 'at least he isn't as bad as trump'.

Yeah, neither is a shit sandwich and a rubdown with a cheese grater, but that doesn't mean you have to want it.

High stock prices don't get people food, housing or healthcare.

It's great news if you own a hedge fund, but completely fucking worthless if you can't feed your kids.

Any time someone talks about "the economy", you can freely substitute "rich people's yacht money".