No Stupid Questions

De Facto countries count as a country for the purposes of this question, including unrecognized ones.

So since the last 2 days, I've been building the courage up to start doing exercises. I'm starting with weights that were just collecting dust so thought "hell why not, never too late to start getting fit"

Now I'm being realistic knowing that starting off you're not gonna be shredded like a wrestler but I'm just tryna get leaner and fitter body wise.

Is it reasonable for absolute novices to never go to the gym for their exercise and fitness journey? I feel like would be saving some dosh even though I could be missing on some equipment they use there.

A penny for your thoughts?

I don't see the point in doing men's vs women's clothing sizes. Surely there's a big enough variance in size and shape between individuals that it would be more useful to size based off of measurements of body shape?

Take shoes for example. Why is a uk men's size 10 so wildly different from a UK women's size 10?

All it seems to achieve is making shopping for clothes difficult for anyone that doesn't fit into the expected body shape for their gender and make it hard to find well fitting clothes outside of specialist shops.

I often make late-night walks down the street to the convenience store. Due to my work/sleep schedule, I can pretty much only do this late at night.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the same time that the local skunks begin prowling around the undeveloped lot between my home and the convenience store. Luckily, they've not yet gotten close enough to be a threat, but I always worry that one night I won't be so lucky, and I'll accidentally sneak up on one and spook it into spraying me.

I've looked online, and most of the articles I can find on the subject are about how to keep skunks from occupying your property in the first place. Which is great, but I don't own the property they're hanging out in, so I can't do much about that. I couldn't find many articles about skunk encounters that offer much advise beyond "stay away, dummy". Which I obviously plan to do, but life doesn't always go according to plan.

I live in the city, so it's actually kinda weird that there are skunks this close to a populated area. The city life has prevented me from having a lot of experiences with skunks, and honestly I want to keep it that way. But does anybody have any advice on how to help ensure that skunks stay away while walking?

The reason 6Ghz was introduced with WiFi 6E and 7 was because 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz was very busy.

My question is why isn’t there anything in between? Why isn’t there a 3Ghz, 3.5Ghz, 4Ghz, etc?

Also, what if things that require very little data transmission used something lower than 2.4Ghz for longer range? (1Ghz or something?)

Most American thing I can think of.

i am not talking about performance anxiety i think

it is something else

i might feel

• being close to someone = danger = EJECT EJECT EJECT
• someone i like shows she likes me = danger = PUSH PUSH PUSH her away
• i am needy therefore i will be exploited
• those who love get screwed. so i must not get close to anyone i love
• i have no support network therefore i will be badly hurt when this ends, and almost everything ends
• she does x or y, so she is not good enough, so i won't get close to her

what i mean by stress:

1. i met someone. we talked for 5 hours on the day i met her. she made me forget which country i was in when we went out to a cafe. we returned to our hostel at 23. got into our separate beds. but i went downstairs to the balcony. there was nothing there other than some wild trees. it was cold and deserted but i stayed there for 30 mins. which was weird. when i was leaving back to my bed, receptionist started a bit of a small talk. she tried to understand what i was doing. i randomly said something like "balcony was calming"... the word i used was calming. so apparently this girl, specifically the connection i felt with her, made me so stressed that i needed to cool down. i don't remember needing to cool down like that, ever. next morning another girl in our room assumed we hooked up. but i didn't touch her. i didn't say anything to clarify her interest in me. she ordered love potion in the cafe we went. she wanted to talk about our love lives but i pretend to not hear what she said.

2. another girl. she was the hottest or second hottest girl in the social dance class. she was more engaged in conversation with me than others (asked me good smart questions). she was smiling more than others. she was making more eye contact than others. we were laughing and having a good time. so i thought we had a connection at the time. she gave me a semi which i wasn't expecting. i broke eye contact to make that disappear. that's how this started. then i was a bit formal next time i was with her and she understood. anyway, after a while, she acted in a way that was very welcoming. this was because they showed a closer move in class which made me stressed. mostly because of that stress, i didn't understand the move. so i told her i didn't understand the move. and that's when she acted like that. its hard to describe. most people are nice, and a few were really nice too in this class, but she was different. she was nice in a more authentic or meaningful or real way. anyway, i got home. i sat down. i stared at nothing for 1-1.5 hour. there was no idea in my mind. there was no emotions i can recognize. maybe i felt like "this attractive woman wants me" and that made me stressed. i am not sure. because of this stress, i broke my diet for the first time in 4 months. i ate junk food to comfort myself. then i took a break for a week.

3. my experience with her led to a discovery in therapy. i realized maybe i am not afraid of rejection, i am afraid of acceptance. i realized i avoid intimacy really hard e.g i realized i made myself believe in false things e.g i am unattractive to avoid intimacy. well this realization led to a lot of connections. in next class, 3 women were physically flirting with me for the first time. i started getting random compliments that have nothing to do with my skills. someone indirectly invited me to hooking up. i was getting very close to a woman who maybe loved me. about 10 women in a week made me feel i am very attractive. meanwhile, my energy increased. but i started being unable to sleep anymore. i suppose due to stress.

4. i took a break from people for 5 weeks. i was very happy to leave due to the stress...

for 4 weeks i was so sleep deprived, eventually i lost consciousness in gym after a deadlift (it was not that heavy). so connections with women made me so stressed that my body kinda broke.

that incident made me use sleeping pills to sleep. apparently they have sedative effects. those effects removed most of that energy and i got my sleep back.

in my break i tried to process my experiences and accept my new self. it took 2 weeks for me to talk to someone about my experiences online anonymously. idk why it was difficult. i am used to talking about anything and i am used to realities of life that are very hurtful.

5. after my break, i returned to the place with the girl i was getting close to. i had to because i had to stop avoiding intimacy. i did my best. she made me so stressed that my face twitched while i was touching her. before going there, i broke a bottle in supermarket for the first time in my life because i was stressed. i went to the supermarket to get junk food to comfort myself because of her. she acted like she loved me way more or authentically than others, so she made me way more nervous than others

6. another girl's body was touching mine more than others for no reason. she was talking to me too much while almost everyone else was dancing. i felt she's into me. i sweated a lot. when i got home, i ran. idk why exactly. i couldn't sleep for 2hrs.

btw i don't get stressed if someone shows she is into me while i'm not into her. i wasn't into that girl who indirectly invited me to hooking up. i used the word unfortunately during some innocent sentence and gave her a hug. if i liked her, i probably wouldn't have given her a hug. this was the first time i initiated a hug towards a girl out of my free will lol.

7. i talked about all my experiences with a girl... only because she was closed to me and everyone, maybe due to her trauma. if i thought if she was open to me, i wouldn't have talked (because when i talk, it makes women into me). after a while, i met her again for real touch practice. by real, i mean with emotions. i tried to unsuppress or feel emotions while touching someone

8. then i practiced sex with an escort whose ex is an avoidant. there was no connection. using dance songs felt wrong with her like insult to memories of others but i think it might have been useful to practice. then i was gonna see if anything is different with me after two types of practice, but i got sick... and that was two months ago. i used my sickness as an excuse to avoid intimacy by isolating myself. i have been eating like an absolute pig to make myself fat and unattractive. btw it was calming to not dance with women and not listen to dance music (they make me feel memories).. even tho i miss it sometimes.

so intimacy (emotional and physical combo) stresses the fuck out of me apparently

50501 comes up on /all feed every so often, with new pictures of protests and rallies and so forth, but I never see information about upcoming events on there.

A) Funeral, casket and burial, or B) Get myself taxidermied ?

I often manually choose English every time I post, but do I actually have to do this? Does this affect the ability of other users to view my posts, or am I wasting my time by taking this extra step on most posts and comments?

On one hand, its easier for a spy to communicate with their handlers.

On the other hand, mass surveillance make it more difficult for the spy to hide their activities and thus make it easier for them to get caught.

And before anyone makes a cheeky "what do you need this for 🤨" comment, I'm a writer. I'm not going to murder anyone I promise, I just want to write a scene where one guy gets poisoned.

I need something that doesn't require modern technology to extract/produce, and would make sense to be avaible in a place with a temperate to mediterranean climate. The slower, the better. Does a plant or something like that exist or do I need to make one up?

My third question about mythology games and less used mythologies.

https://auctoresonline.org/article/friendship-quality-scale-adaptation-and-psychometric-evidence

For example, “Washington” (US), “Brussels” (EU), “Moscow” (Russia).

I guess it’s a short hand for writing “US government”, “Russian government”, etc. but why? And what happens when you’re referring to a country with multiple capitals like South Africa?

For me any that is not Greco-Roman and Norse have poor representation

Given that someone got domestic terrorism charges for saying "Deny, Defend, Depose", do you think it would be a bad idea for me to carry a sign at a peaceful protest that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"?

For context, this protest is in a moderately upscale suburb of DC with a particularly liberal (not leftist, liberal) population base. The protest has been happening every Saturday for several weeks now, and usually pulls around 200-300 people. There is usually a police presence, but they have not gotten confrontational in the past. They've only warned people to not block entrance to the dealership, but have otherwise left us alone.

Working on a project, for whatever reason one of the pages I'm reading up on doesn't load the math formulas, instead showing error messages. Frankly it's annoying, as they were literally displaying perfectly fine the other day. Any help on this? Searching the internet brings up nothing useful.

Edit: This was on firefox. Checked it on my phone's firefox and chrome browsers and it still shows the error. This is probably on Wikipedia's side of things.

Edit 2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_of_an_n-ball

I'm shocked that I haven't seen one protest yet. Is the media suppressing them? If there aren't any, why?

I just asked a question about poorly represented mythologies, and it seems that Smite is the only video game that I can think of that includes poorly represented myths. All others are focused on overused myths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ

Serious answers only. For over a year I was told that trump "doesn't have anything to do with that".

I honestly need to know from an actual Republican who believed trumps words and is now witnessing p2025 almost hit 50% completion with the department of education getting dismantled.

And with that; how do these people feel that public schools, daycare centers and tech schools all going to cost 3-6x as much as it does now for tuition?

You're only able to choose two options, how is that democracy? I thought democracy was about being able to choose anyone you think is suitable to be a leader, not one of two pre-selected people. At that point, it's not much different to a one-party system, just with two people rather than only one person.

I seem to have acquired a baby face next to my name when I post something. How do I get rid of this please? I’ve have looked.