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2025-04-15 15:21:45

#4151

uziq: Member; +522|3841

yeah and all sorts of public alerts too. they're used really widely, almost to the point of spam. police investigations, missing persons, earthquakes, wild fires, tsunami alerts, etc.

the really serious ones totally hijack your phone and turn it into a maximum-volume alarm, with a voice you've never heard before shouting at you. not even like a siri machine text-to-speak voice or anything. the best way i can describe it is like the alert voices you hear in plane cockpits when its stalling or something. had no idea my phone could even do that. those are genuinely scary. closest thing i've felt to that back-of-neck hair-raising, deep instinctual fear. i imagine it's like when those people on hawaii got a message saying they were about to get nuked

i got kind of used to tuning out the regular text alerts when i first moved to korea during peak covid. their contact tracing system was so state-of-the-art that they'd be able to message everyone in a city district as soon as a new cluster was reported, down to the very block of the affected street. you'd check your phone in the morning and have like 7 text alerts filling up your home/lock screen. neat but concerning in the wrong political context/use-case.

i would post examples of the crazy korean contact tracing but its all in hangul alphabet without any courtesy translation (lol).

Last edited by uziq (2025-04-15 15:29:50)

2025-05-07 11:05:53

#4152

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,745|7126|Cinncinatti

Race weekend went well enough. Besides a 30min rain delay Friday the rest was cool and cloudy.

Paced myself and achieved my goal of under 3:30 cumulative (1mile, 10k, 5k, half marathon) and under 2:00 for the half marathon. I could/should have gone faster but didn't. I felt fine at the end unlike my friends who did the full and couldn't walk.

Last edited by RTHKI (2025-05-07 11:06:17)

2025-05-07 11:41:29

#4153

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +657|4109

Congratulations. You have unlocked the 'Run a Marathon" Millennial achievement

2025-05-07 11:48:18

#4154

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,745|7126|Cinncinatti

still not a marathon though.

2025-05-08 02:11:31

#4155

uziq: Member; +522|3841

SuperJail Warden wrote:
Congratulations. You have unlocked the 'Run a Marathon" Millennial achievement

it’s a fine thing to do in your encroaching 30s, fatty.

2025-05-08 02:58:27

#4156

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,820|6495|eXtreme to the maX

I have worked out that the round trip to the coffee machine is 100m.
So thats 1km/day or a marathon every eight weeks.

https://www.domusinc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/charlie-sheen-winning-resized-600-262x300.png

Fuck Israel

2025-05-08 03:35:55

#4157

uziq: Member; +522|3841

i've arranged for my new apartment to be next to a large park with both indoor and outdoor pools.

i do like to walk a lot every day, there's so much to look at and disappear into, but for 4 months of summer anything over 10 minutes (i.e. to the nearest train station) becomes a bit of a nightmare. you end up needing to shower or make a change of clothes before you even make it out to whatever social engagement you left the house for in the first place. jogging or cycling from july-september sounds suicidal.

a 5 minute walk to the local pool should work wonders.

2025-05-08 03:43:37

#4158

Adams_BJ: Russian warship, go fuck yourself; +2,055|7012|Little Bentcock

How much do you sweat big guy

2025-05-08 03:50:51

#4159

uziq: Member; +522|3841

japan is much more humid than australia.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4575730 … 210510088/

plus i'm from the UK. i am life-long acclimatised to mild weather. a 25 degree summer day is 'hot' in the UK, and that's without having any humidity to countenance. in japan, it's 35+ degrees for months on end. plus a couple degrees extra for the 80%+ humidity. which then hangs around until midnight. i'd never sweated outdoors after midnight before until i moved to east asia.

leaning heavily into local fashion helps somewhat. have to basically swap out half the wardrobe for whatever space-age uniqlo materials they're wearing. go long and baggy. abandon shorts and flip-flops, etc. but it doesn't help that much.

oh yeah, and most east asians just don't sweat. period. like, genetically. their BO doesn't smell and they barely sweat. that ups the ante a bit. call it performance anxiety. imagine being on public transport surrounded by 100s of people who are immaculately dressed in business-wear without a drop of sweat on their well-coiffured heads. and you're there losing all the electrolytes in your body in a sodden shirt. that's a bit what it's like being 'fresh off the boat' in asia. they all know the white man smells and perspires freely. as is his wont! liberty!!!!

and i'm not really a bad example of it. i'm in good shape and don't struggle with cardio or exercise. but i'll take a swim over a jog in those conditions any day of the week.

Last edited by uziq (2025-05-08 04:06:20)

2025-05-08 05:06:48

#4160

Adams_BJ: Russian warship, go fuck yourself; +2,055|7012|Little Bentcock

that'll do it for sure, the perfect combo for you

2025-05-08 05:47:50

#4161

uziq: Member; +522|3841

pocari sweat and cooling facewipes are an absolute godsend. good job there's a convenience store every 150 m.

2025-05-08 06:24:02

#4162

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +657|4109

uziq wrote:
SuperJail Warden wrote:
Congratulations. You have unlocked the 'Run a Marathon" Millennial achievement
it’s a fine thing to do in your encroaching 30s, fatty.

I am 5'9 and 150 pounds.

I am not converting that to your arguably better measurement system.

2025-05-08 06:43:11

#4163

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,745|7126|Cinncinatti

10.7 stone

2025-05-08 07:12:55

#4164

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,820|6495|eXtreme to the maX

uziq wrote:
japan is much more humid than australia.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4575730 … 210510088/

plus i'm from the UK. i am life-long acclimatised to mild weather. a 25 degree summer day is 'hot' in the UK, and that's without having any humidity to countenance. in japan, it's 35+ degrees for months on end. plus a couple degrees extra for the 80%+ humidity. which then hangs around until midnight. i'd never sweated outdoors after midnight before until i moved to east asia.

leaning heavily into local fashion helps somewhat. have to basically swap out half the wardrobe for whatever space-age uniqlo materials they're wearing. go long and baggy. abandon shorts and flip-flops, etc. but it doesn't help that much.

oh yeah, and most east asians just don't sweat. period. like, genetically. their BO doesn't smell and they barely sweat. that ups the ante a bit. call it performance anxiety. imagine being on public transport surrounded by 100s of people who are immaculately dressed in business-wear without a drop of sweat on their well-coiffured heads. and you're there losing all the electrolytes in your body in a sodden shirt. that's a bit what it's like being 'fresh off the boat' in asia. they all know the white man smells and perspires freely. as is his wont! liberty!!!!

and i'm not really a bad example of it. i'm in good shape and don't struggle with cardio or exercise. but i'll take a swim over a jog in those conditions any day of the week.

Well thank god you have coal powered AC

Fuck Israel

2025-05-08 07:34:48

#4165

uziq: Member; +522|3841

i have a single 50m2 room. it's north-facing (i.e. out of the direct sun), and has 3 balcony spaces. it requires 1 AC unit to cool. believe it or not, japan has developed forms of architecture and housing over many long centuries that naturally ventilate and cool their homes. many japanese family homes don't even have AC. contrast that with the 'springville, ohio template but in the outback' approach adopted in, er, your country.

now do the household energy use for your household.

probably 4-5x as high, judging by space/floor plan alone. wouldn't surprise me if you literally have 3-4 AC units.

isn't a ~quarter of your electricity still from coal or fossil fuels?

wow, do the math.

australian suburbs are notable for their reliance on AC during increasingly hostile summers.

https://embed-ssl.wistia.com/deliveries/d1bf792e504191120098d8a3eab85303501c4fc2.jpg?image_crop_resized=1920x1080

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/342afd1ad6887438b73c0eab204f3ed4?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=610&cropW=1084&xPos=232&yPos=0&width=862&height=485

genius!

but yes, it is nice to be within 5 minutes walk of all my amenities, now you mention it. how far do you have to drive to get some roll for the dunny, m8?

Last edited by uziq (2025-05-08 07:45:50)

2025-05-08 13:16:53

#4166

uziq: Member; +522|3841

american pope feels wrong, somehow. like some sort of imposter. a pope from chicago? simply not credible.

also, the vatican kept a wood stove burning for two whole days? think of the emissions!

2025-05-08 15:18:48

#4167

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,068|7161|PNW

that reminds me, i need to stock up on some popcorn to munch on while listening to american armchair catholics tear themselves apart in their confusion.

atypical american. dual citizenship, lived abroad a lot, no qualms about speaking non-english language. not too much lived experience in common with the plumber from brooklyn who has a punisher decal on their work van.

2025-05-08 15:47:45

#4168

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +657|4109

Woke Pope

2025-05-08 16:03:48

#4169

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,068|7161|PNW

ice detaining dei hire leo xiv and smuggling him off to el salvador will be the shot heard round the world for ww3 proper.

2025-05-08 16:27:00

#4170

SuperJail Warden: Gone Forever; +657|4109

We must free the Holy Land of Washington D.C. Join me brothers.

2025-05-09 20:41:33

#4171

Adams_BJ: Russian warship, go fuck yourself; +2,055|7012|Little Bentcock

uziq wrote:
i have a single 50m2 room. it's north-facing (i.e. out of the direct sun), and has 3 balcony spaces. it requires 1 AC unit to cool. believe it or not, japan has developed forms of architecture and housing over many long centuries that naturally ventilate and cool their homes. many japanese family homes don't even have AC. contrast that with the 'springville, ohio template but in the outback' approach adopted in, er, your country.

now do the household energy use for your household.

probably 4-5x as high, judging by space/floor plan alone. wouldn't surprise me if you literally have 3-4 AC units.

isn't a ~quarter of your electricity still from coal or fossil fuels?

wow, do the math.

australian suburbs are notable for their reliance on AC during increasingly hostile summers.

genius!

but yes, it is nice to be within 5 minutes walk of all my amenities, now you mention it. how far do you have to drive to get some roll for the dunny, m8?

Western Sydney has some of the dumbest design ideas I have ever seen. Huge, same looking cheaply built houses that take up 90% of the block, all with big black roofs and no greenery to be seen. No wonder it regularly has days where its the hottest place on earth. Peak of summer it is insufferable.

2025-05-12 03:07:32

#4172

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,820|6495|eXtreme to the maX

OK so:

Australian building standards are woefully bad.

Australian house design is woefully bad.

Australian consumer choices are woefully bad - why not choose a huge open plan house with single glazed picture windows, a black roof and no insulation?

Also you have to be aggressively retarded to buy a black car and yet it happens a lot.

Fuck Israel

2025-05-12 07:25:22

#4173

uziq: Member; +522|3841

you forgot the part where your suburban lifestyle relying on a considerable amount of fossil fuel for household energy/transport to any nearest store or amenity or place of work still contributes more emissions than 99.9% of any other human being on earth.

glad to help.

Last edited by uziq (2025-05-12 07:26:17)

2025-05-12 11:30:22

#4174

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,990|7021|949

uziq wrote:
pocari sweat

I know this brand because of Shohei Ohtani. He's a sports ball player that you can probably throw a rock anywhere in Japan and hit one of his adverts.

2025-05-12 11:39:15

#4175

uziq: Member; +522|3841

essential drink everywhere in asia basically. i even get it in big powder boxes like laundry detergent and make my own high-concentration versions if i’m camping at a music festival or something.

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