@iiii no explicit expletives allowed I'm afraid.

And because I'm more muscle than I used to be because I can't do cardio, I do more weights and get more muscle...

@retoor the weight is tricky as fuck for me. I'm 193cm and 105kg, I'm more fat than I used to be because of health stuff but if I even look at some dumbells I put on some muscle. I used to be 90kg and pretty lean like 10% body fat, now I'm more like 20%. But the best way for me to lose bodyfat is jogging. Which I can't. So I'm stuck with a bit of podge. I'm also kinda cautious about weight loss after shit I've been through. Took 2 years to get back to a healthy weight.

@retoor I'm a serial monogamist, came out of a 6 year relationship in 2019. There was someone since but she was dealing with her own stuff and then I nearly died, I couldn't be what she needed and she couldn't be what I needed. That is one of my few regrets, she's the one that got away. She's now settled, we still talk occasionally cuz she was there for me for a lot. I'm really happy for her but also a little bit broken hearted at what I've had to miss out on. Would be at her door on the drop of a hat. Not holding out, just wishful thinking.

@kiki lol, I'm the one that had bleeding lungs 😜 but ye, I suffered severe lung damage. A lot of the medical stuff is mostly either "resolved" or "stable". I lost like 25kg at the time and that took 3 years to get my strength back. My aerobic fitness is shit but my anaerobic fitness is OK. Trying to improve. Trying to get over anxiety. Trying to push myself.

@kiki for 4 years I've basically done nothing other than work and exercise. No dating, no holiday, no hobby unless the hobby is exercise, all healthy eating cooked at home. In that time I paid off most of the debt from not being able to work for a year and saved up a bit of a cushion. Spending a bit on me. Definitely not rich and the money would probably be better put into savings, but can't spend it if I'm dead.

@12bitfloat never made it as a wise man? Couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing? Cuz I ain't deleting my comment.

@12bitfloat "not the be"? I think you've already failed your challenge.

The last 4 years I've just been focused on recovery. This year I'm trying to focus a bit more on me, on being defined by more than just my health. Spending time on hobbies I want to do instead of putting every ounce of energy into activities to push myself to recovery. Basically I've spent the last 4 years ADHD manic, focused solely on my health.

My phone is a few years old now, I've looked at upgrades but they're basically new black rectangles running the same software as the old black rectangles but only slightly faster. I used to be on the bleeding edge of phones, now it doesn't matter much.

@kiki yeah I spent 3 grand on my laptop in February, it's great. But the switch 2 has windwaker. I was obsessed with it as a kid. When that was announced as on switch 2, I knew I was buying it no matter what, no matter the price.

I support this opinion, if only because it's predicated on Musk being in prison.

@retoor we pages indeed

@lorentz this is what I strive for. That and something that makes me giggle.

I didn't use GPT to write it at all but I'm suddenly tempted to put the whole email in GPT to see what it thinks of my tone.

Sign off: "There is a lot to go through and I try to be meticulous. Please try to meet the same standard."
Translation: I think you're incompetent.

@jiraTicket it was via a web page on my phone, as I already had pay set up on my phone there was no need to enter a card number or sign in, it was just fingerprint authentication. Basically even less user friction to spend a not insignificant amount of money.

Hallelujah

@lungdart glad you're OK but at the same time "float crooked" is pretty funny.

@lungdart switch 2, so not far off

Me with my C++ foot guns loving life: what's "safe"?

@kiki I'm now so much better than I was (still not "well"), my employers have been twats about this since the day I joined. I didn't have the capacity to fight then but now I do. They're incompetent. They're insane. They're going to be taken to court.

@kiki SO! In July 2020 I was very unwell, suspected covid but pcr and antibody tests were both negative. Then October 2020 I'd developed large bilateral pulmonary embolisms (2 large blood clots in artery going from heart to lungs). This had blocked blood flow to part of my lung causing it to die. Dead tissue ruptured and bled into my lungs. I was also diagnosed with high thyroid, one complication of which is also blood clots. I lost like, 25kg in this time and stuff. When I was in hospital I'd lost like, a litre of blood. They wanted to put an arterial line in which is incredibly painful if you miss the bit of skin with local anaesthetic. So anyway, the 4th of 8 attempts to get the arterial line in, they missed the bit of skin with local anaesthetic, I swore a lot, heart rate went from 150 to 40, doctor called a code cuz he thought he'd killed me. I woke up 20 seconds later with a doctor stood over me saying "I don't want you to worry but there's about to be a lot of doctors rushing into the room".

It's funny but it also nearly killed me.

My backstory is multiple large bloodclots in my lungs caused part of my lung tissue to die. When the attending doctor saw the scan while explaining my case to a load of students his reaction was "wow!". He then switched to super professional.

I claim bleeding lungs as at least equally bad. I was mildly jaundice once from the drugs I was on for the other stuff and didn't feel much worse.

At least it was one of the the "less harmful" forms of asbestos...

@BordedDev as any firefighter will tell you, cooking people smells like cooking pork.

The ultimate sport.

@jestdotty how are we defining evil? And what kind of phone do you have?