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  • denast@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneheight rule
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    1 month ago

    “mogging” is a relatively recent meme representing a situation where one person next to others has radically better looks in some way or another, supposedly creating a subconscious atmosphere of their superiority. Typical examples are photos of bodybuilders next to regular people.



  • Well this comment section was an interesting read. Interesting how many comments still bend the discussion towards bashing lemmy.ml and defederating from it. People, it’s not even the topic of this post?

    Also it seems like very few actually read the post beyond the title? The problem is not lemmy.world banning the piracy community, they have the right to do so, that’s how federation works. The problem is them making a promise to make announcements about such bans in advance, but they instead did it quietly in the background again.




  • Earlier in his political career (at least as late as early 2010s) he indeed skewed much more right, somewhat moderately right-wing. For instance he used to partake in russian marches, which are annual demonstrations of partially nationalist, mostly just conservative factions. Here is him speaking at Russian March 2011. He also made several comments about the status of Chechen Republic within Russian Federation (a complicated region that has lead to Russian armed forces clashing with local gov/insurgents in two Chechen wars), I think mainly arguing that it should be excluded from Russian Federation.

    I, however, still believe that in late 2010s he genuinely switched to much more liberal views, mainly focusing on liberal populism.

    In general, while he definitely started off in conservative crowd, it would be a huge overstatement to argue that he continued to be an active fascist and anti-islamist right up to his death.






  • While I understand why FOSS community hates Discord, I don’t know an alternative that is better at everything.

    Discord’s main problems:

    • Not FOSS / Privacy respectful
    • Hard/Impossible to index/search for data and organize tech support

    However alternatives we have are not ideal either:

    1. Old-school web forums
      • Great for info archival / organized tech support
      • Separate accounts for every one of them, different sets of newsletters / email notifications. Basically, to efficiently be active on several forums you have to manually log in to each on regular basis and check what’s new
      • Due to slower pace of communication, it’s harder to just log in and “hang out” with community, everybody is more of a pen pal.

    1. FOSS messaging applications (e.g. Matrix since that’s what most use)
      • Info archival is even worse then on Discord. Every time I tried to search for anything useful on Matrix I would give up due to poor results and HUGE delays for every search
      • Because most communities use a single Matrix chat, it’s a huge disorganized mess for any communication and tech support. There’s often 2-3 concurrent conversations in a single room and some just stop abruptly due to it getting confusing to keep up
      • it’s FOSS and Private, though

    Feel free to downvote me for this, but I think that Github for support & issue tracking and Discord for community hang out spot is currently the lesser evil approach until better Foss tools arrive








  • denast@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldBuff
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    1 year ago

    My general advice is to never set yourself visual goals and expectations. Social media has completely distorted the image of natural lifter by promoting top 1% responders and steroid abusers.

    Accept the fact that you won’t see a lot of gains until 2-3 years into consistent lifting unless you’re genetically gifted. Focus on technique, nutrition and recovery and find a good rhythm that allows you to put gym into a background routine like brushing your teeth and your body will eventually reward you.

    Setting yourself standards and expectations without knowing your genetic growth potential is a slippery slope that almost always results in misery and disappointment. Don’t do it. Keep lifting.