buckenmuck

u/buckenmuck@kbin.social
2 posts · 30 comments

Recent posts

Recent comments

Huh. Is there a reason a fence doesn’t work there? If pigs were wandering into a road, both the owner and the city would want to eliminate that conflict

Why is the trail closed?

We have a portion of a trail that closes for no reasonable purpose at like 5pm. We've been fighting to keep it open--lanes of car traffic don't just close unless it goes through private property. Why should bike trails?

i... i'm not circlejerking over anything. the same thing happened in my city to the ghost bike of a good good man. this shit is very sad and extremely sucks.

look i'm sorry that Canadian Cycling Magazine doesn't meet your journalistic standards or whatever, but "this is clickbait" is a very weird reaction to this article. sometimes the tweet is all the information there is and publishing it elsewhere helps inform people who are not on twitter--of whom i am one, and was one back in december, 2022 when the op's article was published.

at this point, i think you're actually mad about something else. i don't know what that is, but a normal reaction to someone taking the time to answer you questions about veracity is, "oh, thanks" and not... whatever this is.

(ps: it's interesting to me that you called BLU "a guy." it feels kind of like calling the ACLU "a guy.")

You haven't been to a country with a functioning transit system and it shows. (ps, u can do road trips in those countries, too)

on Using squat wedges · c/Fitness · 1 pts · 3y

Lifting your heels when squatting indicates that you're not squatting correctly. If your heels are lifting up it's because you're leaning too far forward with the bar as you go down and up, instead of having the bar go straight up and down with no front-back movement. The weight you're using may be too heavy, or you may not be paying close enough attention to the path of the bar on the way down and up. Wedges aren't going to prevent you from leaning forward and your heels lifting.

(Not saying there's no reason for wedges--there are! Same with lifters! But they're not a solution to the problem you're experiencing. I don't use them, but a quick Google search does say that ankle flexibility is one of the reasons, so sure--use them for that! But it would be good to also fix your form in tandem with using wedges.)

on Happy 4th, all! · c/washington_dc · 1 pts · 3y

Had to head out to Reston for the fourth because our dog would die from a heartattack with all the fireworks. I thanked my stars for metro going all the way out there, and coming back. It was... good? And cool? And amazing? And made me fall back in love with metro! I missed the crowds, but even the "regular" service was A+.

on Consolidate? · c/washingtondc · 3 pts · 3y

I think consolidation would be a good thing. Because engagement is low and the way the kbin algorithm works, I never see any of the washingtondc@lemmy.world or washington_dc@dmv.social posts as part of my subscribed feed. (Lemmy might be better about boosting the content of low-traffic communities in their algo.) Consolidating to one community or the other makes sense to me--no preference which, either.

The routine I'm working off has me doing two upper-body lifts, one-lower body compound lift, and one upper-body accessory lift twice a week; and one upper-body lift, two lower-body compound lifts, and one lower-body accessory twice a week. And then there are two days that I take to mean, "eh, do whatever compound/accessory work you want." (Those days are supposed to be structured around cardio, but I get enough non-gym work there that it's like, whatever.)

I mix the lifts up every five weeks, so maybe for one cycle I focus on improving 2 count-pause bench press for one of the upper body compound lifts and then for the next five-week cycle I focus on the close-grip bench instead. Keeps me from getting bored. (I ran the same routine for three years at one point without any progression. I don't know why I was convinced that programming didn't matter--it does!)

Seems the summary of the report is available here if anyone is interested.

At any rate, very weird that Bowser (presumably) tried to bury this. Obviously it was going to be big news and I think people would have more respect for an Administration that was up front with the public. If the report is indeed honest (and it does report two of the claims are substantiated), why would you bury it and give the appearance of dishonesty? And with the two substantiated claims, there's no way Falcicchio's coming back--so who would gain from not just being open and honest?