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yoosernamesarehard t1_iuk11sm wrote
Reply to comment by humble_oppossum in LPT: If you don't want kids ringing your doorbell on Halloween and don't wanna turn all of the lights out, put an empty bowl out with a sign that says "Take one". That way they will think somebody stole all of the candy. by MyScrotesASaggin
Great way to get vandalized with eggs or TP or spray paint because of entitlement. So no, standing up for yourself leads to nothing good in this situation.
yoosernamesarehard t1_iujf596 wrote
Reply to LPT: Olympic Barbells are rated at exactly 20kg plus or minus a few ounces. The Olympic clips are what add the necessary weight to reach exactly 45lbs so if you're looking to set a personal best, make sure the clips are on to record the correct amount of weight. by [deleted]
Clips should be used for two circumstances: A brand new weightlifter and a power lifter whose bar bends from the amount of weight they’re lifting which causes the plates to slide down and off.
Any other situation, they do more harm than good. They contribute to muscle imbalances because normally the weights would slide off on the weaker side. Once you notice this happening, you readjust accordingly. With clips on, you have no idea which side is lifting more and you start forming crazy imbalances. I’ve never seen someone drop weight plates from it being not clipped, but I’ve definitely seen people almost get hurt doing several exercises because they couldn’t shift the weight off the bar. Anecdotal, but it’s been 10 years of lifting through high school gyms, city gyms, and 3 different gyms at a very large state college. That’s quite a sample size I’d say.
If you don’t believe me, go take a bar and clip the weights to it. Let’s choose barbell lunges for the example. Then consciously allow the bar to dip on one side of your shoulders. See how you’re still able to perform the lift without the weights falling off? Wow! Must be doing the exercise correctly then. Except you aren’t.
yoosernamesarehard t1_iuior8q wrote
Reply to comment by InsuranceToTheRescue in TIL African elephants can exchange information by emitting low-frequency sounds that travel dozens of miles under the ground on the savanna. The sound waves come from the animals' huge vocal cords, and distant elephants “hear” the signals with their highly sensitive feet. by iboughtarock
Because weirdly sperm couldn’t have evolved to survive higher body temps -.-
yoosernamesarehard t1_iuhx20h wrote
Reply to comment by themistergraves in LPT: Pointing a regular fan at drying clothes indoors massively speeds up process in wet season by Intertubes_Unclogger
Nah that doesn’t check out. People from really poor countries who line-dry their clothes know not to leave clothes out in the rain. How does anyone think wet clothes will dry by becoming more wet? My grandparents were literally dirt poor in that they lived in shacks that had dirt floors. So no dryers because they weren’t even invented and even if they were, no way in hell could they afford them. But they knew not to keep their clothes out in the rain.
yoosernamesarehard t1_iuhsehz wrote
Reply to LPT: Pointing a regular fan at drying clothes indoors massively speeds up process in wet season by Intertubes_Unclogger
Is this really a life pro tip? Like people really don’t know this?
yoosernamesarehard t1_itzph0o wrote
Reply to comment by theta0123 in Ancient microbes may have survived below Mars' surface - CNN by GullyShotta
Hopefully you never drive a car or are ever in a car ;)
yoosernamesarehard t1_itzp76a wrote
Reply to comment by kajxqeirscl in Every language travels at the speed of sound, except sign language that travels at the speed of light by _somename_
You’d never hear the sound even if they were “relatively” close to each other, like right next to each other. Sound works by vibrating molecules, primarily air since it’s everywhere. Sound also travels through solid objects which is why you can hear vibrations of objects. So it works by vibrating molecules. In space, there are no cohesive molecules. The sun is a sustained nuclear reaction and if we were able to hear it, we would be deafened by it. But we don’t hear it because there’s nothing for the sound waves to vibrate through. With space between earth and the moon, any sound that originates from one celestial body to another ceases to exist once it enters into space because there is nothing there for sound to travel to.
yoosernamesarehard t1_iuk6gbo wrote
Reply to comment by humble_oppossum in LPT: If you don't want kids ringing your doorbell on Halloween and don't wanna turn all of the lights out, put an empty bowl out with a sign that says "Take one". That way they will think somebody stole all of the candy. by MyScrotesASaggin
Just because it hasn’t happened to you or you’ve never heard of it happening, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen. I grew up in typical midwestern suburbs, generally nice areas with no crime. This would happen though to people who put signs out like that.