Random Unthreadworthy Questions

[bagtagley]

I'm always interested in how those people ate. I'm not discounting genetics, but I wonder how often, if ever, diet is a factor. I say that because I know some incredibly fit people that eat like complete shit because they can. I especially see this among the trail running community. Folks that put in huge mileage and are more concerned about caloric quantity than quality.

[Cruiser]

If I strap a gopro on and then video myself 24/7 can I use the footie to train an AI to think about stuff for me so that I can spend more time not thinking about stuff

[ötzi]

You don't really need a gopro, video and AI to blow shit off. Trust me on this.

[Skistack]

Anybody know what kind of cloud this is?




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[ötzi]

Nuclear?

[Meadow Skipper]

Anybody know what kind of cloud this is?

Maybe some kind of cumulonimbus? Search on images for that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonimbus_capillatus

But yeah, it’s a forecast of doom. Hit the bomb shelter.

[Skistack]

Yeah, I think that’s it. When we got to the top of the hill the cumulonimbus base was more visible and had some lightning percolating around.


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[gaijin]

As for hearts— athletes having enlarged hearts, and then having those hearts fail is not rare.

I’ve been warned. I used to run marathons weekly in the mountains. Cardio was through the roof. I also have a bicuspid valve. Docs tell me every year to listen to my heart and call for help if those arrhythmias last more than a few flutters.

My heart scares the shit out of me. I’m 47, 5’9” and 155. I can be biking and feel my heart just flutter for a moment.


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[Cruiser]

What's the deal with intentionally misspelling Elon Musk's name as elno? Is it an inside joke? Are you supposed to pronounce it "hell no"?

[J. Barron DeJong]

What's the deal with intentionally misspelling Elon Musk's name as elno? Is it an inside joke? Are you supposed to pronounce it "hell no"?

I believe it started with Twitter employees making fun of him by calling him Elmo (close spelling to Elon). Then probably just evolved to Elno.

[riser4]

There's a separate thread for this.

[mcphee]

Why is it when you start making a certain amount of money and/or reach a high(ish) level in a company your social awareness and grasp on reality fly out the window?

[Rideski]

Is goat cheese unique and flavorful, or overpowering and distracting?

[babybear]

chavrie goat cheese is a daily food for us. funny but texting with my coworker about this right now too

[shroom]

Is goat cheese unique and flavorful, or overpowering and distracting?

yes

[OregonDead]

will I save money and it is actually worth the time to bring my own oil and filter to the quick oil change place. seeing the parts store has a 5qt full syn plus a fancy synthetic type filter for $35 but I don't really want to change it myself and put it out for recycling rn

[dan_pdx]

Why is it when you start making a certain amount of money and/or reach a high(ish) level in a company your social awareness and grasp on reality fly out the window?

Ha! CMO of a former company asked a bunch of 20 and 30-somethings in the Bay Area to raise their hands if anyone had experience buying and rehabbing an old house. VP of Marketing at the same company used to participate in all-hands Zoom calls from their fancy-ass boat on Lake Tahoe.

[old goat]

As for hearts— athletes having enlarged hearts, and then having those hearts fail is not rare.

I’ve been warned. I used to run marathons weekly in the mountains. Cardio was through the roof. I also have a bicuspid valve. Docs tell me every year to listen to my heart and call for help if those arrhythmias last more than a few flutters.

My heart scares the shit out of me. I’m 47, 5’9” and 155. I can be biking and feel my heart just flutter for a moment.


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Make sure they're keeping an eye olut for an aneurysm of the ascending aorta--relatively common with bicuspid AVs. Detectable with cardiac echo but if the aortic root is dilated need a CT or MRI to see higher on the aorta.

[Cruiser]

What's a good cheap corded vacuum? Bought a cheap cordless one 2y ago and one of the batteries is already dead so I'm gonna switch back to a cord.

[Danno]

Costco usually has a decent vacuum for cheap.

[mcski]

What's a good cheap corded vacuum? Bought a cheap cordless one 2y ago and one of the batteries is already dead so I'm gonna switch back to a cord.

Handheld? The b&d blue and white one kicks ass. No issue w the batts

[old goat]

Sharks are highly rated in CR. We iike them.

[The AD]

I'll fully admit I'm cheap, but what is the appeal of valet parking exactly? Are people really that opposed to walking? Okay, if you're somewhere that even finding a spot could be difficult I suppose it makes sense, but otherwise it just seems like laziness and I'd really prefer not to hand my car keys over to some random twenty year old.

[mud]

How many wives do I need to invest in the Mormon Hedge fund?

Mormon church has $100bn ‘clandestine hedge fund’, says whistleblower

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...xes-hedge-fund

Former church investment manager claims funds were intended for charity work but spent on for-profit initiatives as a tax dodge

A former investment manager for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says that the organization stockpiled more than $100bn in funding intended for charity work but never spent it on such projects.


“It was really a clandestine hedge fund,” David A Nielsen said during an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes. “Once the money went in, it didn’t go out.” Nielsen, who submitted a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service in 2019, previously managed the church’s investment arm, Ensign Peak Advisors, for nine years.

A report on the complaint to the top US tax authority was published by the Washington Post in 2019 after Nielsen’s brother provided a copy.Nielsen, a devout Mormon himself, was first recruited to work for Ensign Peak while working on Wall Street.


Nielsen said that during his time with Ensign Peak, he observed the church’s investment firm “[masquerading] as a charity”, dodging what would be billions of dollars in taxes by falsifying records, and generally misleading other believers of the Mormon faith. Every year, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints collected an estimated $7bn from its 17 million members through a practice known as tithing, in which members give about 10% of their income to the religious organization. About $1bn of the collected money was placed into a reserve fund at Ensign Peak – which is registered as a non-profit – and invested, with profits growing tax-free.

Created in 1997, the reserve fund has ballooned to more than $100bn, which is nearly twice the size of Harvard’s endowment, Nielsen said. “I thought we were going to change the world,” Nielsen remarked. “We just grew the bank account.” Records show that money from the church’s reserve fund was used to support for-profit initiatives, including a Salt Lake City mall built on church land and a church-owned insurance company.


Nielsen resigned in 2019 after a website named Mormon Leaks linked church members to shell companies that held billions of dollars in stocks and bonds, assets that were actually controlled by Ensign Peak. After his resignation, Nielsen filed a 74-page whistleblower complaint to the IRS that accused Ensign Peak of violating its tax-exempt status by directing money to for-profit businesses.


Nielsen’s complaint was later forwarded to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which said the church took great lengths to hide the size of its investments through shell companies and fake office addresses, the Washington Post reported. The church paid $5m to resolve its SEC case in February.


The Mormon church official W Christopher Waddell, who oversees the organization’s financial, real estate, investment and charitable operations as the first counselor in the presiding bishopric, vehemently denied Nielsen’s accusations.
“Flat-out wrong,” said Waddell, who added that Ensign Peak acted as “the church’s treasury” and provided resources for its operation.

Nielsen’s interview with 60 Minutes is one of the first times he has given public comment on the report. “We gave the IRS and the SEC all the professional courtesy,” Nielsen said. “This is just too important to fall through the cracks.” But experts say that the likelihood of the IRS investigating Nielsen’s claims is low. “The political risk is so great that it comes with real danger,” former IRS official Phil Hackney said during the 60 Minutes segment. “At the same time, there’s a real risk to the rule of law if the IRS doesn’t come in and enforce those rules.”

[Ted Striker]

Pixel Tablet, yea or nay?

iPad not in the running