I saw it explained this way: with square tiles, for example, you could shift the pattern over a certain distance (say one square width to the right) and the tiles would line up perfectly with the original. With this tile, you can’t ever do that.

I like Zizek’s take on tolerance

Why are today so many problems perceived as problems of intolerance, not as problems of inequality, exploitation, injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, not emancipation, political struggle, even armed struggle? The immediate answer is the liberal multiculturalist’s basic ideological operation: the “culturalization of politics” - political differences, differences conditioned by political inequality, economic exploitation, etc., are naturalized/neutralized into “cultural” differences, different “ways of life,” which are something given, something that cannot be overcome, but merely “tolerated.”

When I worked at a supermarket one of my duties was collecting shopping carts from the parking lot and moving them to the front of the store. It was the best part of the job because I didn’t have to deal with customers and I had an excuse for not hearing the telecom if someone needed me to do a price check or whatever. So yeah, not putting your cart back is good and praxis

They aren’t recommended due to the stress they put on your back. From Stuart McGill’s textbook, Low Back Disorders:

The traditional sit-up imposes approximately 3,300 N of compression on the spine (Axler and McGill, 1997).

Further, the spine is very flexed during the period of this load (McGill, 1998). The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) (1981) in the United States has set the action limit for low back compression at 3,300 N; repetitive loading above this level is linked with higher injury rates in workers, yet this is imposed on the spine with each repetition of the sit-up!

Many recommend performing sit-ups with the knees bent, the theory being that the psoas is realigned to reduce compressive loading, or perhaps the psoas is shortened on the length–tension relationship so that the resulting forces are reduced. After examining both of these ideas, we found them to be untenable.

The psoas does not change its role from a flexor to an extensor as a function of lordosis—this interpretation error occurred from models in which the psoas was represented as a straight-line puller. In fact, the psoas follows the lordotic curve as the lumbar spine flexes and extends. Further, it is true that the psoas is shortened with hip flexion, but its activation level is higher during bent-knee sit-ups (Juker, McGill, Kropf, and Steffen, 1998), not lower as has been previously thought. This is because the hip flexion torque must come from somewhere, and the shortened psoas must contract to higher levels of activation given its compromised length.

Given that the sit-up imposes such a large compression load on the spine, regardless of whether the leg is bent or straight, the issue is not which type of sit-up should be recommended. Rather, sit-ups should not be performed at all by most people. Far better ways exist to preserve the abdominal muscle challenge while imposing lower spine loads. Those who are training for health never need to perform a sit-up; those training for performance may get better results by judiciously incorporating them into their routine.

He also noted that more than one exercise is needed:

Quantitative data have confirmed that no single abdominal exercise challenges all of the abdominal musculature while sparing the back (Axler and McGill, 1997).

Instead, he recommends a set of three core exercises (the so-called “big three”). There are many videos demonstrating the, e.g. here.

That scene in Snowpiercer where he gags after finding out what the protein bars are made of but instead of bugs it’s beans

I do not nor will I ever know who that is

I haven’t read the book so I might be full of it but here’s my take.

I take humanization to mean human flourishing, hence why humanization is “axiologically” our central problem, i.e. it’s the problem of realizing what we are or are meant to be.

I think they’re saying that once you recognize the possibility of flourishing you have to recognize the logical/“ontological” possibility of it’s negation (dehumanization), and that in fact dehumanization isn’t just a possibility, it’s the norm in our society (historical reality) which raises the question of whether humanization is even possible in our historical situation.

Then they say that both humanization and dehumanization are possibilities if we are aware of our incompletion, which I guess means that if we are aware of this historical situation we can change it to promote humanization.

Yeah most of them are paper. This finding should only apply to fancy brands with “silken” tea bags

Thanks comrade, I really appreciate it :stalin-heart:

Here’s hoping we’re other pain free soon

I’m glad your mobility is OK at least! But yeah chronic pain is horrible. I reallyyyy feel you on the impotent rage

I’m not sure it’s torn. The doctor I saw didn’t grade it, they just said to give it 5-6 weeks. I’m at 3 and a half weeks in and I feel like it isn’t getting better, but I’m in a really pessimistic place right now so the outlook might be better than I think