0 sats \ 0 replies \ @krispy_donkey 13 May \ on: So what is Tai Chi anyway ? 🤔 (Taijiquan) 太極拳 alter_native
my favourite style is Wu although I have never come across a teacher, maybe one day. Big fan of zhan zhuang, who I got to learn from a guy called Tuky Lam. It is a great tool which can accomplish quite a few things for both the body and mind. That said my true passion is Xing Yi, I was lucky enough to learn the some basic postures and the 5 fists of Hebei style, very detailed, a lot more going on than meets the eye. Cool to see fans of these quite remarkable styles here on SN! In case you've never come across it, check out the rum soaked fist dot org for... actually don't bother they just argue the whole time :-P
Good stuff IMF thanks for your hard work whatever would we do without you. Who cares if inflation is headed back down to 2017 levels, the damage has already been done. Prices will not come back down in any meaningful way as far as the the consumer is concerned. This coupled with the astronomical increase seen over the last ten years in asset prices particularly houses in countries such as Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand has in a handful of years snuffed out the old middle class. Those who do not already own a home will struggle to achieve that, and many that may have struggled before will never achieve it due to the increase in the cost of day to day living. In those counties, there is now the 1%, the middle class (homeowners), and the working poor (everyone else).
as someone who wasn't really paying attention to anything but the headlines, thank you, that article pretty much covers everything.
Again, totally amazing. Can't wait to get stuck into this. Thank you for your responses, no further Qs at this time! That is very warm given there is no insulation and the time of year where are.
Absolutely fascinating. I plan on buying a house in a cold climate in the next few years and I want to do exactly this. And then spread the tech far and wide. How cold does it get where you are? Do you have good insulation? What kind of ambient temperatures are you getting in any given room with a radiator? Are you getting enough sats to reduce your electricity bill and if so by how much e.g. 5%, 50%? Inspirational, I will be going through all this with a fine tooth comb in due course, I need to know what I should look out for when buying a house.
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I like exercise but never team sports and I've never liked going to the gym, nor lifting weights for the most part. In the past I've (rock) climbed, done a lot of martial arts including Xing Yi which is an excellent workout that requires zero equipment but is very rare, so it's hard to find a teacher and it's genuinely something you need a teacher for and done some yoga which I love but also think a teacher goes a long way. Then I did some BJJ and a bit later being a big martial arts nerd I came across a HIIT workout by a (at the time of release) famous MMA guy, and I have been doing it for ten years. It's arguably harder than anything I've done in the past but it has over time made me strong and healthy, lean and defined but not 'big' by any means.
Anyway I definitely recommend it, you only need a laptop/phone, a yoga mat, a towel (you will sweat) and two dumbbells. Best of all you can do it in a small space (like a spare room or a balcony) and from warm up to workout to cool down the whole thing is done in 45 mins. Very hard to find better value for the time. The down side is it's brutal, spartan brutal. Initially it will take your body a week to recover from the workouts, and it's important you let all the soreness go away but then get after it again as soon as possible afterwards, otherwise your body will need a week to recover again. There were times when my heart rate would be elevated for 2-3 days afterwards, one of the workouts in particular is very tough. Sometimes I think that it's too much but over a long time, longer than I ever thought possible in terms of these things, my body adapted to handle the work required. Now I can do even the toughest routine and still be good to do anything the rest of the day, I'll still be sore the next day though. I think anyone who is not crazy fit should proceed with extreme caution, I can definitely see these workouts giving some one a heart attack. But over time this type of exercise is I feel the best anti-aging, anti heart attack stuff you can do. Anyway if anyone is interested someone uploaded them to youtube a while ago:
The warm up and cool down is the same for each. The program features two other workout routines but I dropped them, I think these 3 are the money. It's also possible to mix up the rounds so you have 5 rounds that don't require dumbells, helpful if you are on holiday or something.
I won't be able to do this forever but I'll try for as long as I can, eventually I will go back to yoga and taiji/xingyi.
Are you familiar with Protos? I follow them on X/Twitter but I can't remember why I started to. They regularly run what I suppose could be seen as 'objective' articles about crypto, including Bitcoin, but sometimes I get the impression they are anti-crypto, including Bitcoin. Anyway I have come to take just about everything they put out with a large grain of salt. Always good to hear dissenting views, provided they are intellectually honest. I don't think I can say that with confidence for most of what I've read from them.
Interesting thanks, what are their consolidated assets comprised of I wonder oh wait actually i don't think i want to find out
As much as possible about all the sick stuff that is happening in places like Malawi, and also speaking for myself, info about home mining predominantly for the purposes of heating the home and using btc to offset the power bill. I could see that being a killer app in cold part of the world, though I suspect it's early days.
Oh cool idea. I will be totally unhelpful by stating that for my part I'd love a nice old school classical style watch face with a bitcoin 'B' when the 12 would be. or something like that.
well shit if that's not the future of this stuff I don't know what is, very interesting and extremely motivating to engage a lot more in SN haha. imagine an instagram or toktok powered by Sats...
also very interesting info and yes certainly makes them appear hypocritical at the least. I've further learned than there are multiple commissioners and they are by no means at consensus on this topic.
nice one, maybe we should make a territory to collect these MSM articles to document this slow but inevitable U turn in their sentiment towards Bitcoin. I expect we will see more of this over 2024 and it will be interesting to see what spins they are going to come up with. Hoping to see a lot of the stuff Daniel Batten covers and the projects like the ones in Malawi mentioned in the recent What Bitcoin Did podcast with Jeff Booth and Alex Gladstein, that's the exciting stuff imo.
One of the best things is spending time away from your desk, I guess, and making that part of your lifestyle. There is a subset of qigong/chikung that focuses on standing meditation, which is a habit you can pick up for life. Probably helps to have an irl teacher though. I think doing that Foundation Training free vid for a week is the best thing to do right now and if you like it keep at it and/or look into yi chuan/zhan zhuang.