This seems…unenforceable. they’ll catch the low hanging fruit and it gives marketplaces incentive to pretend like they care, but the burden of proof to show someone is using fake reviews or view/likebots is kind of high.

There was potential legislation and a lot of congressional probes in the mid-late 2000’s in the US that essentially forced cellular carriers to publicly admit that it cost next to nothing on their end to send SMS messages(like 10^-7¢ per message) yet they charged insane premiums for them of 20¢ per message. This ended up being the catalyst for US carriers dropping most SMS charges to stay competitive while the rest of the world just changed over to alternate messaging services to avoid the fees instead like you said.

I’ve recently started wondering how many people are here because they’re too toxic for regular social media rather than because they want to be here.

This has largely been my operating assumption as well since day one when I came over during the Reddit API lockdown. I was fairly active on a NSFW alt up until recently and I’ve actually seen dozens of comments from new users mentioning that the only reason they were here on Lemmy was because they were banned from Reddit and had no other viable options. They were always an asshole to the posters and the reality is that with a lower population of users is that there aren’t enough other voices to drown out these people yet and you end up with a feedback loop of toxicity.

I’m not sure I understand your problem with this. Are you perceiving being asked to do a task as rude or are you just annoyed at being asked at all?

"Insert monotone request or statement. Thanks.” Is just an objective and no fluff way of saying “You need to do this” by a manager or someone tasked with delegating work.

That’s good to hear! It kind of sounded like you tweaked something or at worst have a minor tear so you should heal quick. Still, take it slow next time to feel things out. Always better safe than sorry, good luck!

It’s always a good idea to err on the side of caution with an injury. Better to take a week or two off and be able to jump back into things where you left off than to end up with a chronic issue because you keep exacerbating the injury.

Front delt isn’t the worst spot, but your shoulders are involved as a minor muscle group for most upper body. If you are determined to try to do your normal sets, make sure to keep the weights light and really pay attention to what your body is telling you. If it hurts any more than a minor ache/soreness, you should stop.

I finally found a great and convenient gym and ending up putting on about 25lbs in muscle in 2023. It’s not as impressive as it sounds because I’m a very skinny dude, but it was nice to be consistent again.

For 2024 I just want to have visible abs again and put a little more work into redeveloping good cardio habits because those were two areas I neglected more than I would like for various reasons.

For real. Either way I appreciate you fighting the good fight even if it’s a futile effort!

Yeah. For fun I checked from another account and they edited out a lot of their inflammatory remarks that were downvotes to make themselves appear more reasonable too.

I get enough of this in my daily life and don’t need to be lectured by a child who thinks that all great human accomplishments happened because someone paid attention really hard for 6 hours straight.

I blocked OP so I can’t see if they’re still on the same tirade as earlier with fetishizing fixations. Do yourself a favor and just disengage. I’m pretty sure they are a literal child.

All of your points only have any validity if you could control what you actually hyperfocus on, which you cannot. It’s not something that you get to pick and choose what to use it on or turn it on and off at will.

You really don’t understand what hyperfocus is from your remarks.

I follow YouTube videos for flows at home. There are a bunch of options depending on your skill level, time, and type of yoga to choose from. If you’re brand new I would say to not do a flow more than 30 minutes and make sure the video is geared for beginners or else you’ll end up trying to do a headstand or half-moon before you’re ready. When I was starting out I personally found ‘Yoga with Kassandra’ to be the best for me in terms of learning.

I personally like to do it first thing in the mornings on my rest days. It works mostly but can be a little tough if my chest or arms in particular are sore.

I would say just do it whenever you can work it into your day. As long as it’s not directly before your actual workout, otherwise you’ll risk injury.

People in general have a hard time conceptualizing how large and empty space is. With our current propulsion technology it will take longer than the human lifespan, barring any absolutely groundbreaking cryonics developments, to reach even the Oort cloud of our own solar system.

I think in the next century, a reasonable goal is to have small sparsely manned mining outpost settlements on Mars. There’s enough financial incentive where I could see a future where it happens.