***Official H&F LC Thread***

Yea I'm referring to the dry sauna thats my bad

I use the steam room as well but we have no temp guage in there , I should ask for one

Melk,

105 is a very hot sauna and none of the ones I goto on the reg utilize that temp. That being said there are a variety of circumstances that make that temp more palatable. FWIW it is really all about the water amount being dropped. A sufficiently large stove in a small sauna rocking 95ish with lots of water will be immensely hotter than 1110-120 in anywhere. If you aren't dropping water OTR, w/e. Is that really even a sauna?

KY,

You have no clue what you're talking about. And you sound like a complete buffoon.

How so?

So to be blunt, I've always thought you're a bit... touched as they say in the South.

So I will attempt to be clear and not mean.

Your experience with using what you think is a "sauna" is vastly different than the people who literally invented the word and people who use it around the world. You sit in a sauna that an elderly woman would walk out of saying "too cold" and think these insane thoughts about being tough or whatever. It is a George Zimmerman fantasy. You have never actually been to a sauna. Please goto an actual sauna. Have a lapin kulta. Have 8. See a bunch of other dude's sweaty dicks while you roll around in the snow. (Not touching, no ****.) Just have a ****ing passable familiarity with a subject beyond this slackjawed viewpoint you've put forward.

lol k

This seems like a quite apt self-descriptor of your views.

This is one of the aidsiest conversations I’ve ever read on tpt and that’s a huge achievement

Oh, you sweet summer child . . . this was just a normal day back in the glory days.

Happy New Year, S&F!

Well, I'm sold.

If you live in Texas, you will be in a sauna all summer. This last summer we had 100 consecutive days of 100F. WTF.

I just got engaged in Oaxaca. Now we talking. Great food. Great weather. Good peoples.

I seriously think good weather comprises 75% of a great quality of life. The other 25% being money and friends and family (whatever ratio tickles your fancy).

So I am thinking, is there any way I can live in San diego/oaxaca/or flagstaff during the summer and winter in Texas? I think you need serious money for that. San Diego year round or oaxaca. But mexico gonna mexico, especially starting a family. San Diego it is. Back to work, I guess money important.

Congratulations! May you still be packing a baseball bat and living the EV good life on your wedding night.

SD is a solid choice. I'd move there tomorrow, but wife isn't on board. She likes having seasons. FML.

Also congrats on the engagement.

Spot on.

Absolutely. I was never as happy as when I lived in CO. Part of it was I was stoned 24/7 but CO spoiled Vegas for me. Sunny all the time? Whatever. Better than Wisconsin but pretty boring.

I'll take the 75 and sunny one day and 15 and snowing the the next all day. Air so clean. The mountain melt overflowing the rivers in spring. Summertime in the mountains is pure. Fall colors incredible. So are the winters. The snow was nothing like midwest winter. Getting snowed in and turning the house into a roasty cozy refuge. A+ Would do again.

That being said I could get down on some central america weather, I dont mind the heat either.

Congrats on the engagement man!

How old are you again? Is this your 2nd time being married? I can't remember. There was something about a Chinese lady but I can't recall the details.

I hope your fiancee is at least 15 years younger than you.

IIRC, have no fear. I think that he's mid 40s and she's around 15yrs younger. Probably a bit more.

If was married in the past, I missed it.

Modern Wisdom podcast has been pretty stale the past few month, but this one was a homerun. Best episode since when he had Alex Date Psych on. Wildly black pilling. STAY AWAY FOR YOUR OWN MENTAL HEALTH!

I'm only 1/3rd in and feel like my soul is being banished into the shadow realm.

Behavioural genetics is undefeated. Another win.

But one thing I take from this is that I need to be more sympathetic to obese people/fatties. They can't help themselves. This is just how their brain is wired. It's genetics. They didn't ask to be born in a world of unhealthy bullshiet junk; the will they need to resist what their genetic blueprint is compelling them to do is just superhuman compared to a skinnybro like me. That feeling of a ****ing high you get after an hour of stimmed out cardio first thing in the morning? The feeling of elation and exhaustion from hitting a PR set of 10 on the ATG hbbs with your muscles and lung burning and your HR up in the low 200s? That enormous release of serotonin and dopamine you get from looking at your pumped muscles in the mirror when you're 40% into the workout? Yeah, they just straight up don't get that response in their brains from exericse. It feels like torture and a chore to go into the gym for them, even if its the highlight of your day. Stop bullying them. What you do doesn't even require discipline or will power. Going to the gym is pleasurable for you in the same way cheesecake and double cheeseburgers are for them. You get confused when people say they admire your willpower or discipline because going to the gym is like playing a video game or smoking crack for you in terms of brain response. Brutal.

You gotta be positive about all this and realize just how little control you really have and just enjoy the ride. It's a rollercoaster with a steering wheel that doesn't actually steer the cart. Enjoy the ride because it ends eventually and you die! Don't stress out about steering.

Oh it just gets worse and worse. Antecdotal tales of upper class American families dropping tens of thousands of dollars on growth hormone for their teenage kids to earn Hockey scholarships at Ivy League universities. Stay away. Blissful ignorance.

Being more empathetic generally leads to a more enjoyable life.

Genetic determinism is probably going a bit too far. You can overcome all obstacles is also probably going a bit too far.

Recognizing that the human experience is an extremely complex interplay between nature and nurture and that you really don't know what it is like to be someone else and that you should definitely give everyone else some slack and definitely not yuck their yum is probably about right.

Only worrying about your own "choices"* is definitely about right. Being judgemental about other people's "choices"* never leads to happiness.

*Air quotes

Even if it's not genetically deterministic on an individual level, it's still a damn good heuristic for guessing the outcome of somebody's life. There's going to be individual exceptions, and for that reason it isn't necessarily disempowering. But it's stil paints a bleak reality for humanity at large since not everyone can be an exception by definition. And even to the extent somebody can be classified as an exception it will be contextually and not universally; in some aspects of your life the steering wheel really doesn't have any power to change the course.

But yeah, when learning about this stuff it's hard not to be grateful to random chance for your own successes to some extent, as well as to extend some compassion to people in undesirable situations. They are more "unfortunates" than they are "losers".

Hey...saw Frank Yang video somehow pop up on my (99% chess - don't worry it's not about chess) Twitter.

Just gonna drop it here:

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That was actually really beautiful. He started becoming increasingly coherent as the video went on. The very last section was both touching and insightful. He's incredibly skilled and capturing human emotion and atmosphere visually.

It's kinda wild how much Frank has shifted; going from proto-youtube fitness 2006 to weird shock value bbc stuff to bodybuilding to Buddhism and spirituality. But god damn is he great with cinematography.

Yes, yes, indeed.

Clicked wondering how many BBCs would pop up, then was impressed, then was more impressed, then wondered how the hell he evolved so positively.

wowowowow

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/6797...