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Same here in my late 30s. I was a machine. By my late 40s/early 50s it actually started to feel unhealthy, way too cardio intensive, and I switched to a more balanced cardio vs resistance mix. I think Shaun T did the same!

I think that's fantastic. The dedication to such a trivial accomplishment!

I suppose it's no different to people that grind computer games to get 100% completion. A little dopamine hit each time that number edges up, followed by the satisfaction of having finally completed a long-sought goal.

Fair point, but then who are either of us to make that judgement? Who are you to say that it's small potatoes?

In my defense, I'd say that the suicide rate for men is 4x that for women, and that a large proportion of suicides come after divorce and loss of access to children. (Sorry for being hand-wavey, but I can't search for the research to back these claims from where I am currently.)

That alone at least backs the case for more research in this area.

I agree with you. The article also attempts to minimize the importance of the issue, saying "stop panicking [...] it’s not the problem you think it is".

Let's assume that their figure of 1% is correct. In the UK in 2021 alone there were 694,685 live births according to Google. That means in one year alone nearly 7,000 children were from "EPP". That's an enormous number of people, mostly men, potentially wrongly pursued for child support, or battling through the courts to be given access to a child that's not theirs, etc.

That strikes me as a hugely important issue.

Sorry for the slight tangent, but I noticed the "conict" typo in your quote. Selecting article 77 in the pdf you linked to selects everything but the "fl" in "conflict". How odd.

Thank you, this needs to be repeated whenever this situation arises.

Regrettably, the Guardian is gynocentric to its core.

I love this tip, but I sincerely hope I never have to use it.

You said you have aphantasia, then you listed a number of ways in which you can mentally process images, so I couldn't really understand what you were missing. Then I went and did the aphantasia test, and apparently I have hypophantasia, so I guess that explains it.

I wonder if there's a link between engineering skills and aphantasia, given the prevalence of the "programmer art" meme?

Warning: Method is recursive on all execution paths.

I would ask, why shouldn't it be laid squarely at the feet of these women? This is something that a particular type of woman does to vulnerable men.

These men ought to have our sympathy rather than being labelled as "incels", a term which so easily lets us avoid viewing them as victims. Similarly, these women ought to be held responsible for their actions.

People seem to be more concerned with the perceived misogyny of, at worst, a mildly offensive word than the systematic exploitation of vulnerable members of society.

Any of the non-distributed version control systems? /only ever so slightly s

Hard agree.

Weekly, I witness co-workers confused about git, I see posts online asking for help, I see articles like the one here once again trying in vain to explain something that should be simple.

In all my time coding, I don't remember anyone wasting hours trying to undo some mess they'd made in SVN, TFVC, Perforce, etc.

Tools exist to make our lives easier. If they can't do that, they don't deserve our time.