jiminy_cricks

jiminy_cricks t1_jcmbgn5 wrote

Depends on the kind of social life, the meet your friends at the bar after you get out of work, or the hang out with them before you go to work kind.

3-11 is really tough on the social life but leaves time to get 8 hours of sleep and do things during the day before work, line Dr appointments or whatever. This also keeps a relatively normal sleep schedule, 12 or 1 to 8 or 9 am.

11-7 makes it easier to hang out with people before work but is hell on your sleep schedule and forces you to risk sacrificing sleep for daytime appointments or activities. Not everyone can adjust to getting good sleep during the day.

On a side note I did 7pm - 7am for a little over a year and it took just as long if not longer to fully readjust to a day shift schedule. My sleep was screwed for ages.

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jiminy_cricks t1_j641umu wrote

Granted this was in highschool where bullying is generally different than with adults but there was a bully who loved to throw food at our lunch table because he thought it was funny. Telling him to stop did nothing so we just ignored him, it didn't stop but it didn't get worse, just a few French fries or the occasional chicken nugget. Well one day my friend had enough, threw something back, told the bully to fuck off and quit acting like a child. The bully then proceeded to beat the shit out of him before getting pulled away.

Sure my friend could've just come out swinging and then got expelled with no repercussions to the bully otherwise. Maybe my friend could've really come at him hard and really put the fear into him, but if you put someone in the hospital you're getting charged and ruining your life for nothing. Maybe my friend strikes first and settles it for the day but with this billy you can bet he would've just jumped my friend in the parking lot later. The only way to avoid a fight was to just ignore him.

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jiminy_cricks t1_j2akr81 wrote

Reply to LPT: Play Tennis by Kule7

I'm not knocking tennis, it can be a great form of exercise. But the real pro tip here is just exercise, or five the activity that gives you this kind of passion towards exercise.

To play tennis you need to be able to purchase equipment, and based on your suggestions lessons which are another expense, you need access to a court, and another person every time you want to play. That's a lot of factors that many can't meet, let alone constantly. Then of course there's the physical capabilities necessary to play. Tennis puts a lot of stress on joints, wrists, elbows, and knees.

I know this comes across as a really negative response, it is I suppose, but not meant to be in an aggressive tone. I appreciate the enthusiasm towards tennis, that's the biggest takeaway people need from this. Finding that enthusiasm towards an activity that creates a love of exercise for themselves.

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jiminy_cricks t1_j1wbizo wrote

"is it lucrative enough". Isn't that the question of the ages. It could be if done correctly. Thinking about housing, if a company develops the perfect housing for Mars, modular, lightweight, cheap, recyclable, they don't need to wait until the full project is complete to make money. Maybe they just developed the perfect window, patent it and get selling. Now they are making money to find the rest of the development. Obviously it's not that simple and getting the ball rolling on this mindset is the real issue. But every small innovation along the way could be applied and sold domestically.

We've lost our collective purpose along the way, it's all me me me, our country vs yours. Keep your individually but we're one species on one planet. Let's act like it and do great things.

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jiminy_cricks t1_j1w3lsg wrote

I think about this a lot. I love The Expanse (highly recommend) and it got me thinking about colonizing our solar system years ago. We'll never get to that level but if we get a lofty goal of something like colonizing Mars, like truly colonizing it (which may also never be truly realized) we would progress so much as a society. But think about it, if that's the goal we're going to need significant advance in most areas of life that could all be applied here on earth.

We're going to need an atmosphere or means to provide oxygen. Advances here could help us clean up our atmosphere and mitigate global warming.

We'll need lightweight but durable housing that could be used to provide affordable housing to everyone.

Means of transportation and construction will have to be battery powered until means of refining fuel is created on Mars. Guess who uses batteries on earth, everyone.

Agriculture and water systems will have to be completely redesigned. We could use a more economical means of providing food for people on earth.

The list goes on. But here we are selfish and small minded, focusing on putting out fires instead of true growth.

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jiminy_cricks t1_j1w1tc4 wrote

My understanding and two cents.Because there isn't enough interest in space anymore. Sure we have a few companies who want to use space for profit, day trips, hotels, etc.. no one cares about exploring our solar system with anything but probes, except Elon. Now if someone discovered a huge lithium or other valuable mineral deposit that could make a significant impact here on earth then perhaps the mindset would change. But humans do something that grand just for the sake of doing it? Good luck getting that kind of cooperation.

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