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"We Didn't Start the Fire" set at the end of different series?

I spent the morning listening to the Fall Out Boy version of "We Didn't Start the Fire". Since Star Trek in the Kelvin timeline and elsewhere often re-uses songs from our time, I thought it would be hilarious if "We Didn't Start the Fire" ended up being updated every 35 years or so, till the 32nd century....

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Same! But does it make me an old fart that I don't like it as much because nothing is separated into proper timelines?

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I vote we all start wearing dead salmon on our heads. For the 0.0001 percent of us who get it, it'll be great. Plus it'll keep the other people away.

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I'm an Apollo user, but still. It's a sad night. Why am I so sad?

Maybe it's because I'm so lonely, and Reddit provided a bright little spark to fill the darkness. And it did that for like 16 years for me. And now it's gone.

RIP.

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Saving you a click: "…ultimately revealing that the man was secreting pregnancy hormones due to a tumor that had metastasized to the liver."

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I don't have a lot of words because I'm in the same boat, but I'm really sorry that you're having to go through this. :-(

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I'm not a biologist, but I feel like krill would be a strong contender, considering what percentage of ocean creatures rely on them for food.

Frooog, my pet Baja California tree frog that I rescued three years ago from a sewage treatment plant that was scheduled for demolition. (beehaw.org)

She was a tiny little thing, barely the size of my pinky nail. The movement of her jumping was the only reason I spotted her on the asphalt. I considered tossing her down into a treatment pit where I could hear her compatriots croaking, but I knew their time was limited, as the whole area was scheduled to be demo'd....

it's Friday night, what's everyone doing this weekend?

Mine is going to be laid back if all goes according to plan. I'm going to do some birding with a friend tomorrow morning, then I'm headed to a used bookstore to buy a copy of "the pricess bride" that I talked myself out of the other day (I've never read it). Then I'm hitting the farmers market and then relaxing at home for the...

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Oh god, good luck!!!

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Man, you are all such nerds, and that's why I feel at home here. :)

I'm going to continue playing Tears of the Kingdom and hopefully crush pull day at the gym tomorrow.

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Oh, don't get me started talking about lifting! You'll never get me to shut up. :-)

It's a way to describe the "split" that a person does at the gym. I do the so-called PPL ("push, pull, legs"), split, meaning that on some workouts I'm focusing on the muscles that generally push things away from you (like the muscles of the chest, the shoulders, and the triceps), and on others, I train the "pulling" muscles (the lats, traps, and biceps). Then of course there's leg day!

All it is is a shorthand to structure your workouts so that you don't fatigue the same muscle on subsequent days. Hope that helps!

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Sure, can you tell me what your goals are? If you can, I might be able to point you in the right direction.

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Sure, happy to help!

If you're willing to work out three times a week, I'd say that you could also do the push-pull-legs routine. It's super simple. On push day, pick one chest exercise, one triceps exercise, and one shoulder exercise. On pull day, do one lower-back or lat exercise, one trap exercise, and one biceps exercise. On leg day, do hamstrings, quads, and glutes. If you structure it like that—just three exercises, three times a week—it should put you ahead of almost everyone. Because most people don't lift. :)

So here's a sample schedule. Do 3x 8–12 of each:

Monday (push): Push-ups or bench press; tricep dips or skullcrushers; overhead press

Wednesday (pull): Chin-ups or pull-downs; shrugs; bicep curls or hammer curls

Friday (legs): Dumbbell, bodyweight, or sumo squats; dumbbell deadlifts; dumbbell hip thrusts

The beauty of a routine like that is that you can vary it as you like—there are dozens of available exercises as replacements for the above—and you can make it as intense as you want as well by doing heavier weights, more reps, etc. If you get close to failure at the end of your sets, that's good enough. And you can completely do it with just a set of dumbbells. It might be handy to have a bench for doing bench press as opposed to push-ups or for tricep dips, but it's not necessary.

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

Edited to add: And don't feel like there's a bar to jump over before you can start something like this, either. If you can't do push-ups, there's no reason that you can't do them on a wall or on your knees. That's just as good!

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Of course! Don't hesitate to ask if you need anything else. I love this shit. :-)

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I really hope you recover completely and have many more guys' nights ahead of you. :)

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Everything makes me despair for our hope as a species.

Request for Couch Co-Op Games on Switch

I'm looking for something new to play with my 7yo son. Mario games are a great amount of fun, but I'm feeling pretty burnt out and am looking to expand things a little bit. We are looking for cooperative games like Pikmin 3, Cuphead, and Hyrule Warriors rather than competitive-only games like Super Smash Brothers and Mario Kart....

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Wow, I didn't know that about the back of the neck.

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I looooove many of the Glitch games, like Forever Lost. If you haven't played it, The Room is also a classic.

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Seconded! Those are great.

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I'm a 47-year-old female gamer.

I'm with you—I'm not going to allow peer pressure to get to me, but it's obvious that people believe it's childish. Fuck 'em. I think it's a better hobby than mindlessly watching TV, for sure.

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We had a huge fire eighteen months ago that ripped through my suburban town and took 1,000 homes. One of the causes? A super-wet spring followed by a dry summer.

Give you two guesses as to what kind of spring we're having. Everything scares me.

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