The thing that gets me is I eat a vegan diet and forgo honey but I also use bug spray, so I've got a revealed preference to kill insects if it'll make my life moderately better.
That said, I'm probably not killing insects on the scale of bee suffering given for honey, especially given if I stopped being strict about honey I'd just be eating e.g. cereal that has honey as an ingredient rather than getting it as an ingredient in its own right, so the amounts would be miniscule. IDK.
Honey is about 3000 cal per kg, beef 2900, so pretty similar. I'm more concerned that they're not doing typical consumption rates - you could stop eating pork and eat a similar amount of beef instead (or tofu or Beyond, of course), but nobody is replacing a 200g steak with 200g of honey.
I'd imagine the average serving size of honey is 10-30g and a heavy honey consumer eats on the order of 10 servings a week. My dad was a beekeeper growing up and we didn't go through 1kg of (free---he sold it at markets for an overall profit---extremely high quality honey) a week as a family but we went through several kilos of meat.
I'm a traffic engineer and I'm just cringing at this metaphor. Like, it's probably a great metaphor, but the maximum throughput for cars is generally accepted as 1200 vehicles / lane / hour, and you have to keep these vehicles at a specific speed range, otherwise the traffic flow breaks down.
More info is this kind of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_diagram_of_traffic_flow
I think the reason I worry about injury is because I am far, far more clumsy than average, am really bad with form in general (I am in a theatre troupe and we often have to learn choreographed movement or rarely simple dances and I'm always the worst at it), and when I did running I ended up with a hip injury that still gives me grief (that said I am trying to build back up to hopefully running 10-20k a week again as I did really love it).
So, yeah, essentially, I'm terrified of baking in poor form and then injuring myself over time, as well as terrified of dropping a weight on myself (that said, I have never dropped a weight on any machine, so maybe that's a good way to update myself).
The lower body exercises I do on the gym are the leg press, hip abduction/adduction, leg curl, leg extension. They also have an ab and back machine but to be honest I hate them and only use them rarely (once a month when I'm having a good week and want to do everything). But I do alternate between leg-focused machines and arm-focused machines when I exercise. Sometimes I do split sets between two machines if it's quiet but that's obviously rare because I want to be courteous. I aim to do 7 rep sets, and will lower the weight if I can only get around 4 and raise the weight if I can get 10+.
Thank you for the suggestion, it honestly didn't occur to me that I could just add in one or two free weight exercises and use the machines for everything else.
My fitness goals are "have nice buff looking arms", "do a pullup" and "lift up my husband (~80kg) in the traditional wife-carrying pose", though I'm not pursuing them relentlessly or optimally, they're just milestones I want to reach.
What free weight exercises might be best for getting me there, and have the most straightforward technique?
I've been lifting once a week for 20-45 minutes for two years and have noticed that I am stronger in everyday life and my body looks better (arms/shoulders/etc). There's definitely a benefit to be had even if you think 45 minutes twice a week is too much.
Here's my questions:
Thanks for posting this, it's not something I talk about but (As A Woman) I have noticed the same things.
I'm trying to be the change I wish to see in the world but I'm not inclined to the sorts of contributions that do well on LW.
That said, I did write a rational vampire romance novel (Vampire Flower Language) as I noticed the same trends with the rational fiction craze (HPMOR et al).
So yeah, please make more posts, about whatever subjects come to mind for you.
I was talking specifically about childhood language acquisition, where learning a new language doesn't require you to forgo reading tvtropes or watching buffy the vampire slayer, it's just part of your background acquisition the same way that children learn how gravity works and how to manipulate small objects as they grow up.
There's plenty of research showing that bilingual children have some small advantages, e.g.: https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/advantages_of_a_bilingual_brain
Then there's the cultural value of language that I raised in my previous post, especially for minority cultures (and you state that things from your culture like Buffy and TVTropes are valuable to you). I'm assuming you're from an English-dominant culture. Can you imagine if you moved to, say, Portugal, and you learned Portugese and all your friends and family spoke Portugese all the time, you might feel as though something was lacking if they watched Buffy episodes that had been dubbed into Portugese?
Generally speaking, people who speak endangered languages also speak the majority language - otherwise it wouldn't be endangered. Preservation of endangered languages involves raising children bilingually in the majority and endangered language. Being bilingual has been linked with a lot of benefits, and the only downside is that it slightly slows initial language acquisition (but children quickly catch up).
Generally speaking, endangered languages are from a cultural minority and members of that minority culture enjoy being able to speak that language. I went on a date with an Australian man who was half belgian half japanese and he said that he wishes his parents had taught him either language, instead he just speaks english.
Our local (australian) Indigenous language is called Noongar and is undergoing revitalisation. By all accounts, the Noongar people benefit from this socially, and the language itself has information and culture.
Imagine if english went extinct. In a sense, we'd lose Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Steinbeck. They can be translated into other languages (and, well, Chaucer has to be translated to be understood). But, to my mind, something valuable is lost if culture is lost. These "endangered" languages had culture too - songs and stories, maybe books and plays. That's important.
I get the feeling that a lot of people in the rationalsphere think that if something won't help us invent friendly AI or space travel it's pointless. Culture's important. Lesswrong has culture (HPMOR, the sequences, etc).
Thanks, you're right.
I was talking about the spray that kills insects, so yeah, my revealed preferences definitely call for insect death.