[-] academician@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago

There's too much misinformation on this subject. I'm not an expert, but this is all based on what I've read from the most reliable scientific sources I can find.

Creatine timing doesn't matter at all since your body has to load it over the course of days or weeks anyway. Take it whenever. Just take 5g at some point every day.

Pre-workout obviously before working out. Ostensibly 30 minutes before, to give your body time to take it in. But be aware that caffeine is the only legal OTC pre workout chemical that's proven to be effective. A recent study even showed carbs didn't increase performance measurably.

Recent studies show protein timing doesn't really matter at all either. Your body will use the protein you give it. Now, you probably do want to get enough around the time you're triggering muscle protein synthesis... Like, within a few hours of exercise. Ie, don't fast all day, work out, then get your protein 8 hours later.

Other than that? The best pre workout is sleep. Get enough of that shit every night for your best gains in basically every area of your physical and mental health.

[-] academician@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Sure, but that means on social issues (like the trans rights) he is very "progressive".

[-] academician@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Sorry, not really into God fanfic anymore.

[-] academician@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Right? How many mass-murdering psychopaths has God raised up in authority? What an idiot.

[-] academician@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I hate Nancy Pelosi. I hate Trump MORE, but I hate him more than just about anyone. Pelosi is still a garbage person.

[-] academician@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

When do we stop wearing masks, in your estimation? Never, since airborne diseases will always exist?

[-] academician@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was on Reddit for 17 years. It was my home on the Internet. I used to go to Reddit meetup days and hang out with other Reddit nerds. It's natural for people to have sentimental feelings about something that's been such a big part of so many of our lives.

I haven't been back since the Lemmy exodus, except by accident a few times. But I miss what it was.

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[-] academician@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man...it's been years, so I don't remember, but honestly it felt like it at the time. Everyone hated their massive V4 redesign, so people just...left. The Reddit situation is different, because it only really affected third-party app users, not every single user of the site.

Edit: I looked it up, and yeah, there was a "quit Digg day" on August 30, 2010 when pretty much everybody just left for Reddit and didn't look back. It helped that people actively bombed Digg's front page with links to Reddit that day, letting people know where to go. Two days later Digg's CEO was ousted by the board, two months later they laid off 37% of their staff. They basically died overnight. That's not happening to Reddit.

It's worth noting that Reddit has been around a lot longer than Digg had at the time, and has way more traffic than Digg ever did. Unseating Reddit is going to be a lot harder than quitting Digg was.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by academician@lemmy.world to c/baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

I haven't played at all yet since I've been waiting for the full release.

I'm thinking of rolling up the tempest cleric pirate I used to play in an IRL campaign. I remember using some shenanigans with taking Magic Initiate for Booming Blade, delivered with a whip, which felt fun and not too OP. Edit: Guess I'm not doing that since there's no Booming Blade in BG3 yet :(

Any fun builds you've already tried in the Early Access?

[-] academician@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Voyager (formally Wefwef) is doing this. You can favorite communities and it will push them to the top. It's been useful for monitoring smaller communities.

[-] academician@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What I do not understand about this take is that they can already collect all of this data, today. They don't need to federate with the rest of the Fediverse to scrape basically all of the data they want. The only problematic thing they'd need an instance for is linking votes to users - which is something they could do just by spinning up a Lemmy instance. And they probably shouldn't be able to, Lemmy should try to figure out a way to anonymize votes.

Threads joining the Fediverse does not significantly increase their ability to collect data about existing Fediverse denizens.

[-] academician@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yes. I am comfortable with that. Do you think most meat eaters don't know that?

[-] academician@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Sorry, eating meat brings me too much raw, unbridled ecstasy to do that.

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