It doesn’t need comms if the pack is functioning as a multi part individual the way bees or ants do.

My boss literally every day: wow look at this new ai tool I just found!

Still worth it. I already had smart features turned off. I don’t even remember what annoyed me into doing that before.

This is the exactly the thing I would get excited about thinking maybe chat gpt could finally do something useful, then it would just ask me if I remembered any details.

My point is that in the context of a relationship, fair can mean different things.

Instead of equality, aim for equity. If everything is 50/50 but one person makes double what the other does, the lower earner is paying more than their fair share.

Which is also the same position as Des Linden recently.

Plus above, increased move to ownership/physical media as people realize continued monthly costs are not worth it.

For me it’s the opposite. I tend to get really into a pandora station for a few months, then get tired of it and it’s almost permanently played out to me. Even going back to it years later it will feel old. For someone like me, physical media just doesn’t make sense. Paying pandora $5/month to have ad free (and DJ free) music when I’m driving or exercising is worth it to me.

Doesn’t that apply to every aspect of sports? Nutrition, hydration, technique (looking at you pole vault), equipment, etc, all changes and advances over the years.

A little trail running, but not much lately. I have some lone peaks that I like a lot, though. The new foam in the fwd via 2 (side of the shoe calls it ego p35) feels so much different to the torins. I’m not sure how to describe it, but I enjoy it so much that I haven’t used the torins since I got a pair of fwd via 2.

Zero drop and “barefoot” shoes are two different things. I first tried minimalist/barefoot style shoes after not liking many of the traditional running shoes I tried. I stuck with these for a few months, but the constant soreness and worry about stepping on something that would hurt my foot got me to switch to some zero drop Altras.

Initially I tried to stay with some of their most minimal shoes, like the escalante. I finally landed at the Torin and really liked it for a while. It worked pretty well for me in the twenty to thirty mile per week range, but as others have mentioned I also suffered a constant stress in my Achilles. Not pain to the point of injury, but just feeling like I was on the edge of an over use injury.

I had the chance to try some max cushion Altras with a 4mm drop and absolutely loved them. My Achilles soreness has gone away completely, and several other minor aches have also improved. I’ve even pushed my mileage up in recent weeks to a new high of fifty miles. Despite this, I feel better than when I was running 20ish mile weeks with the torins.

I think one major point that many people miss is that even if you’re barefoot or wearing zero drop shoes for everything else (walking, work, etc), running is much harder on your feet, legs, and body.

Try a few things and see what you like. Just be aware that some of the barefoot running communities can be kind of dogmatic. Any mention of issues with barefoot shoes is met with the suggestion that you did something wrong (too much too soon, landing on the wrong part of your foot, not paying enough attention for tiny debris on the road).

Good luck finding what works for you! Don’t be afraid to change it up. What works today might not be quite right in a few months or years.

Nobody knows or cares how far into your run you are or how much further you have to go.

Similarly, CO2 is where plant mass comes from.

Get the book if you haven’t. I got it used for less than $8 on ebay. Be sure to get the second edition with the yellow cover.

Slowing down your easy runs, eating more, and sleeping more are all great. Another option would be to just drop down to the beginner plan. I would stick to the planned taper rather than trying to do your own thing, though.

In general I like to think that the coaches that make these plans know more about running than I do, so I really try to avoid changing things unless I know why I’m doing it. In this case reduced mileage and intensity the last two weeks seems pretty reasonable.

Plastics manufacturers say loosening the rules will encourage more people to compost.

More like plastics manufactures say loosening the rules will allow them to greenwash their products and increase profits at the cost of our planet.

Leave out the salt unless you want more long term control. Vinegar on the leaves in the heat of the day should be enough, but you need to use the hardware store stuff (30-40%) instead of the grocery store stuff (5-9%). Organic vapor respirator is recommended, it’s strong stuff that will hurt you.

This “asking to be removed from flood maps” is as common as people disputing their property valuation for tax purposes. In the immediate term, no owner wants to go from not in a flood plain to on a flood plain. Of course the reality is that maps don’t dictate nature’s behavior, but property value goes down in addition to property expense going up.

One possible solution is government buying out flood prone areas, but I’ve only seen this happen in more affluent communities. This still leaves some risk, though, since there will always be a threshold where there is some flood (or hurricane or wildfire or windstorm or hailstorm…) risk, but not enough risk to be relocated by the government.

Were you rinsing it or actually using a narrow bottle brush to wash the metal straw?

To emphasize how unfortunate it is, the first dose of the measles vaccine isn’t given until age 12 to 15 months. That means that even if parents fully intend to vaccinate their kid, they’re still vulnerable to measles for at least that first year.