The Reiser footnote was on point. I couldn't resist clicking it to find out if it was the same Reiser I was thinking about.

I expected to see him in the list too, but after looking it up turns out he made his posts on web forums. I remember reading the compilations in the early days of the web and being fascinated by them.

I adore Dostoevsky, and he was eerily prescient about many things. Notes from the Underground predicted the failure of positivism and the industrial revolution to create a utopia due to the inherently irrational nature of man, ultimately leading to the nihilistic world we find ourselves in as we discarded our old traditions in favor of science and technology. And for the record, I am not a religious person, so I make that statement without any intentional bias, nor am I saying the previous order was inherently superior or something to return to.

There's something very funny about the lead for global AI enablement blogging about his layoff with AI slop.

Dexas are notoriously inaccurate. Your dexa scan is probably wrong, and you are fatter than you think. I've been lifting over a decade, so I have far more muscle mass than the average person, and I am 6'1", yet am still easily over 20% BF if I'm 200 lbs or more. Don't believe me? Try to get truly shredded. You'll see for yourself that you will have to lose far more weight than you think. Everyone is fatter and less muscular than they think they are, even if they're active. Unless of course you are a heavy steroid user, in which case you may actually be muscular enough for that to be valid. But for the average natural trainee? Nobody who's truly lean is getting an obese or morbidly obese BMI. Overweight at worst, maybe.

BMI is definitely inaccurate for those with greater amounts of muscle mass, but not as inaccurate as many would like to believe.

I didn’t want to belabor the point in my original post, but since you went there…

The next steps at the doctor is that I show them my MyFitnessPal nutrition tracking, my dexascan, and (at some point) take off my shirt. I ask them what exactly it is I should change. 100% of the time the answer has been something like “Oh, sorry. Please continue as you are doing.”

They just aren’t used to seeing muscular 200 pound dudes at my height in my area at my age (btw, I’m in my 50s).

Also, someone can workout in the gym all they want, but I think most people will struggle with lowering their body fat percentage if they don’t focus on their nutrition.

I realize that my lean body mass (both bones and muscle) are decreasing, and that rate of decrease be higher each year. That said, I’m doing what I can to maintain whatever muscle and bone mass I have.

I can attest to this. My best friend and I have known each other for almost 24 years, and we still talk/hang out regularly. We lived together for about a year in our early 20s and that did NOT go well. Luckily it didn't kill the friendship, but things were definitely tense for a while.

I had some concerning digestive issues a few years ago at 36. Tried repeatedly to get a colonoscopy done, but was told I was too young. Fought with my doctor for almost a year to get a referral to a specialist (standard procedure in Canada). Then had to fight the specialist to finally order a colonoscopy. I finally had enough and lied about blood in my stool to get one. Luckily the digestive issues turned out to be stress related and nothing serious, but guess what they found during the procedure?

3 pre-cancerous polyps! Might have saved my life, as the recommended age for first screening here is 50! I'm now on a schedule to get checked every three years.

The more you play, the more you save.

I don't believe any hair on the human body truly grows continuously. Even head hair has a lifespan of ~7 years and whatever you can grow in that time is the max. I was a big metalhead in high school and grew my hair out. Indeed, after about 7-8 years it stopped getting longer, right at about waist level, and was stuck there until I finally got sick of it and cut it off.

I think they call this the "terminal length". As long as it will grow before it falls out.

And thank god for that, because the 4:3 remasters are quite good, and IMO the best way to watch the old episodes on big screens. They've just remastered enough to make them more crisp and less pixelated but not so much that they look like a flash cartoon like the previous 16:9 TV "remasters".