Probably true, but none of us knew anything about turtles before we started.
One of our more controversial opinions:
It has been theorized that turtle behavior is random except for coming back to the same beach to nest that they were born at. We challenged that notion mainly because almost no animal acts randomly. We figured there had to be a foraging pattern or something.
That was met with “No, can’t be”. Even though we talked to scientists from Greece who said they do boat tours every day and the turtles show up at the same time to get fed.
Edit: when we also countered with the fact that not even ants behave randomly we were met scoffs and sneers like we didn’t know anything.
Even so, My little bro probably knows more than me just by being more socially competent. Case in point, I was listening to an episode about developing psychological safety and listening in on my little bro conduct a meeting as president of a club, he applied EVERY one of the points mentioned
I don’t know. It was what one guy suggested like 45 years ago and it stuck for some unknown reason.
Edit: the dude who theorized is worshipped like a god in turtle circles. I read his books about his time in Costa Rica studying turtles and the books were less about turtles than his interactions with locals and crappy anecdotes.
em, I’m no expert… but that does not sound like solid research…
Some pretty sketchy stuff comes out of behavioural science labs (replication crisis), but still, this is really shady. When was this research done?
felt good, wanted to do the 500 swings but neck was messed up and it hurt pretty bad so decided to cross out another workout. the pushups felt comically easy. Curls sucked again- grip was the limiting factor
Getting sorted and settled would be my first priority were I in your shoes. This is possible the ONLY time I would suggest getting in big step goals; spend time getting reacquainted with your surroundings, sort out fast(er) routes around campus, etc etc.
Sheiko isn’t going anywhere, and you won’t get any weaker waiting a few days.
@jskrabac I don’t want to derail the other thread so I’ll respond here:
The thing is, no one has ever initiated a conversation with me unless it’s for academic help or school work (ie group project)
I jump into conversations on servers and ppl talk to me or when I text to talk to others, they usually respond and are willing to have a conversation if time permits
I’m not to bothered by this, but since I have no way of telling whether they actually want to interact with me, I try to be respectful and not expect them to always want to converse with me
Planned to take yesterday off, but raining → shopping not happening, so got some squats and bench in
Squat: 1x6-65kg, 3x5-70kg, 3x5-72kg
Bench: 1x8-30kg, 35kg, 3x5-40kg, 3x5-45kg
DB fly: 5x10-10lbs
Week 14: Day 4
Deadlifts: 2x8- 80kg, 3x5-85kg, 3x4-90kg
Pullups: 5x5
5x(10 alt lunges-40kg+10good mornings-30kg)
I’m still getting used to working out in a mask, makes breathing and bracing quite a bit harder, like I’m suffocating, also, I felt quite good for deadlifts today, moved fast, didn’t really feel any “muscle burn” but definitely felt like I was working. With that said, I’ve noticed that my recovery-ability has gone way up
I regret not starting Sheiko. Next week my sorority has some all day events and bc of limited gym hours, getting in proper workouts might get tricky. Of course that’s not an excuse, but it will take some less than cooperative measures
@simo74 I’m tagging you here to prevent derailing spock’s thread
Unironically, one of my motivations for getting a BF is so I can get help with stuff like moving heavy objects at sometimes inconvenient times.
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Since there seems to be a trend of ppl posting about relationships or lack thereof, I figured I might as well supply a rant of my own… because Herd Mentality, and maybe some availability bias on my part
First, I will need to amend my post from yesterday saying that no one has ever initiated a conversation with me. This morning, my friend (yes, the same one) sent me an excerpt from Freakonomics and we had a nice discussion about the effects of competition and incentive on ethical behaviour. Surprise, surprise, he is also very familiar on the topic. As usual, he’s a couple of steps ahead. I honestly have a hard time understanding why he bothers keeping me around
… and about this friend…
I’ve talked about him a lot here. Tl;dr: he’s extremely smart and hard working and is the reason I did not fail my maths classes as well as why I’m continuing to study maths
I like him… a lot… and our values line up. He’s the only one of ALL my closer friends who gave the “right” response to my “test” question.
A few months ago, I attempted to ask him out, and got friendzoned. I wasn’t bothered at all
I needed to get my priorities straight.
An “official” relationship would literally have been identical to what we have right now except that we’d meet each other’s families. I’m glad he has agreed to continue this despite what could have turned sour/awkward very quickly.
There is no connection beyond school/research and I don’t really feel comfortable “being myself” with him. He also doesn’t like cooking and doesn’t workout, so he wouldn’t be much help moving stuff and I wouldn’t be able to cook for/with him. Aside from that, I’m not comfortable sharing my more frivolous interests (writing, fashion and high jewelry), which I feel like are pretty important to me. He’s actually the only one of my friends who hasn’t read the stuff I write or knows that I have a brother.
On a tangent, since engaging with the comp sci ppl on the class chat, I’ve really connected with one of the guys.
He’s brilliant and seems to actually care about me as a person. He even agreed to watched Death of Stalin with me and let me pause the movie to add historical context!
However, I have 0 feelings for him
Eli Finkel did suggest that ppl should have a wide variety of friends for different purposes. I’m not particularly socially adept, but I feel that I’ve gotten this one right
