EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft, The New York Times, Fox “News”, Walmart, Amazon, Google…

The list is very, very big. They must just be blind as all fuck.

I also don’t want to discount yoga! It’s good motion and position trianing and definitely stretches plenty, at least for ‘tight’ people like me.

I just wanted to point out that one doesn’t need to do an entire routine just for stretching. (although still, yoga’s a great way to start a journey with exercise, especially if someone isn’t a self-starter type)

Ehhhh, you’re kinda’ discounting how broad “average” is. Some people cannot even get close to touching their toes without daily stretching (like me) whereas some people can grab their feet and they do nothing extra.

For people like me, daily stretching quite literally directly prevents injury both from exercise and when normal movement goes awry like when tripping.

Repeated motion injuries can happen even in very fit people. The body needs time to heal even from low impact/low stress movement. Especially if it’s at the edge of what’s “easy”.

A good example is a food server. Even if you can handle the weight of a fully loaded tray easy enough, unless that weight is like throwing a nurf ball around for you, you’re going to need a healing period after a long shift. Most likely longer than any asshole shift manager would ever allow if you’re a small pretty gal.

I’d say stretching and familiarizing yourself with what the edge of acceptable motion is goes A LOT further with not hurting yourself. You can deadlift all you want, but if you don’t know how to deal with shifting weight or an odd position once you start doing some generic activity that doesn’t mirror the lift, you’re still going to hurt yourself.

In fact, overconfidance with being able to lift a heavy amount vs dealing with shifting forces can be the reason someone tries to move too much weight in the first place. Think lifting a solid, easily grippable mass of a steel bar vs moving a heavy-ass wobbly mattress. The mattress might be a fraction of the weight but it’s still a pain in the ass. Don’t know how to deal with weight suddenly shifting? That’s a pulled back anyways.

At least for flexibility and balance. They’re a nothing burger for strength, but strength can only come after your body can actually move without hurting itself.

Nah, not those alone. Developing only one side of a movement can cause serious health problems. Like how people that get only their calves really strong are prone to getting pulled tibia muscles doing sports because those muscles cannot keep up and fatigue out quickly. I can only imagine how terrible it would be to only have a strong back if you end up doing the wrong movement some day.

I still do if the weight in less than around 100lbs, but that’s only because I’ve strengthened my back to the point where 100lbs is no big deal even in weird positions, and bending at the waist is sometimes way easier.

Stretching in general helps, it doesn’t even have to be yoga. Though a good yoga routine makes it easier to hit most of the major areas.

and stretching. Gotta’ stretch, especially if you’re like me and aren’t naturally very flexible. I’ve probably avoided dozens of injuries just by knowing my limits well and making sure they don’t show up pitifully fast.

Jellyfin and others transcode some videos to a more streamable format. Not important if it’s already a good streamable format, but if it’s some older file, it might not even be streamable (like AVI, and WMV). Those situations are where transcoding is necessary. It also comes in to play when the bitrate needs to change, like trying to watch a high bitrate video on old hardware that cannot handle it (like an old chromecast). It’s nice when the server can just transcode the video and send a less heavy or more compatible stream.

Hardware acceleration for the transcoding is simply more efficient these days. Most CPUs for the last decade can do software transcoding of 1080p without much issue (if that’s all it’s doing), but get multiple people watching older videos or some really high bitrate ones and hardware acceleration will become a tangible benefit, too.

Your situation only works for video formats that are streaming-friendly, meaning all the browser has to do is feed the stream of data to a video player, and it Just Works. The media player doesn’t need significant chunks of the file to start playing it, so as long as the connection is fast enough, it’s fine.

Perhaps a base drawing the AI and prompter are riffing off of, but this collage is so nonsensical and only gets worse the more you look at it. Most of it is either AI, or the artist has some very curious mental disorders.

This ai generated crap does less than nothing to promote communism.

Blanket downvoting stuff just makes you a useless hater. Downvote the ones that are just saying things that aren’t funny or parody. At least this one is using irony to be a comic, whether or not you care about it or the artist.

Congratulations, so am I? What I said is applicable to FAR more than Japan having low age of concent laws and media reflecting that…

You seem to want to miss the point, so have fun being a bigoted shit that only contributes to the problems you whine about…

I desperately hope you are ESL with all the assinine takes.

You do realize that kind of jaded opinion on art is akin to the prudish teachings of religion, right?

A pretty lady choosing to show some cleavage doesn’t magically make it OK to SA them simply because they made a choice you disagree with… They CHOSE to go in to public like that, not unlike how an artist CHOOSES to present their art.

Yes, it is not exactly the same, but ideological associations do not have to be literally equivalent to never the less have strong similar tendencies.

If you’re against even fantasy being sexy, I’d hate to hear what you’d think of a sexy reality…

Doesn’t sound too insane except for the social contributions tracking and realtime dashboard. Maaaaybe all of the social data could somehow magically not end up as a ton of traffic just for metadata, but a realtime dashboard would exponentially exacerbate how much data would have to flow around.

It would be very unwise to make the gamification of financial support end up being a significant % of the overall traffic required to run a service, though I guess as long as it stays a low %, it could be worth it.

Because rich morons think they’ll get free digital slaves out of it. Because they’re rich morons who do not understand anything they ask for.

Google has been mask off since they removed “don’t be evil” as their slogan, and they’ve been proving it ever since. Apparently people don’t pay attention!