Yeah absolutely! Or even just walking him in. A brisk walk (ballpark: <10 min/km) is quite good exercise.

I don’t know if this is at all a viable option for you, but some of my favourite memories from growing up were going for runs with my dad. It’s not the kind of exercise that’s going to get you marathon trained, and my dad was also doing a heap of exercise on his own without me, but if you just wanted to get enough exercise in to feel like you’re being healthy, that could be one way to fit it in—with the added bonus of helping your kid’s mental and physical health at the same time.

If you haven’t seen Avatar before, please, do yourself a favour and go watch it. It is an incredible piece of media.

It really is difficult. There are a lot of good tricks you can play to make yourself do it, you just gotta find which one works for you.

Someone else mentioned having a show that you only watch while exercising. If non-static exercise like running or walking is more your thing, swap that for a podcast or audiobook. (I recommend checking your library’s audiobook programme if they have one, or check out one of the smaller audiobook sellers, before giving money to Amazon’s Audible, if possible.)

Another option is to set yourself a goal. Tell yourself you’re doing a half marathon in six months and actually sign up for it to commit yourself. Or a 60 km bike ride. Or an Olympic distance triathlon. If you want, especially if you’ve already done this trick once or twice and need something a little spicier, add a time goal to that. Do the HM in under 2 hours, the triathlon in under 3, whatever.

The hardest part is often getting out the door. Tell yourself it’s a success if you just put your shoes on and step outside. Once you’re there, its much easier to start running than it is from inside. If it’s still hard, tell yourself you’ll just run to the end of the street and turn back. Once you’re at the end of the street, set a new goal, etc. I find it best not to plan a run that involves multiple laps, because I’m much more likely to end up only doing 5k if I plan on doing 2 laps of a 5k course than if I set out on a 10k single loop.

Have people you train with. Training directly with people is best, and as an added bonus is really healthy mentally in terms of socialising. But failing that you could always find an online group of people, or just a chat group of IRL friends, who check in on each other and hold you accountable.

If whatever exercise you have been doing doesn’t work for you, try something else. If you’re not a runner, hop on a bike. If you don’t enjoy riding, get in the pool. A social team sport like netball, touch footy, or ultimate frisbee could be good, if you can find a friendly non-judgmental group.

If you’re a data nerd and/or the kind of gamer who likes getting all the Steam achievements, buy a Garmin. Try and build up a streak, or watch your time or distance climb the more often you train. Earlier this year I earnt myself the trophy for meeting my step goal 90 days in a row—I had step goal set to automatic, where it increases every time you meet your goal, and decreases if you miss it. Increases more if you overshoot by a lot.

You could plan out some GPS artwork and ride or run a route that draws something cool. You may need to train up to be able to achieve the distance, if your artwork is more ambitious.

That’s just a few of the tricks I have used at varying times to varying degrees of success to help keep up my exercise habit.

Will-power is a finite resource in the day

The scientific name for this is “ego depletion”, but recent evidence is suggesting that it may not actually be a thing, with multiple attempts to replicate the original result failing to do so.

In fact, the best evidence for ego depletion seems to be possibly that it’s a sort of nocebo. That if you believe your willpower is spent for the day, you give yourself an additional excuse not to make harder choices.

I regularly use this page.

Unfortunately it looks like the font lemmy-ui uses really fucked up the ‘h’ lookalike:

on my phone when I wrote that comment last night I thought I could just about see the difference between the lookalike ‘u’ and a real ‘u’ because it wasn’t the same height as the (real) ‘c’ next to it. But I may have been imagining that.

It’s very common on most social media for comments with swears to get shadow removed. Personally I often resort to non-ASCII lookalike characters instead, because fսсk those sһіttу censorship rules. But it’s also a lot easier to just self-censor.

Ok, I guess you’re a lost cause then. Your comments in this thread had me almost thinking I was speaking to someone reasonable, but nope…just typical tankie bullshit.

Antz was an excellent example of parallel creation, and the creation and rivalry between the two is a fascinating story and a microcosm of the broader early rivalry between Pixar and DreamWorks. It’s detailed in the Production section of the Antz Wikipedia page.

Traumatic insemination

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Is that Lustwig van Bearthoven?

Ok, so if I’m understanding this correctly, you’re supportive of the actions of countries that oppress their own people (e.g. Russia’s anti-LGBT+ laws, China’s oppression of Uyghurs and Tibetans, etc.), aggressively invade other countries (as Russia is doing in Ukraine, as China sort of did with Hong Kong’s semi-independence and is threatening to do to Taiwan, not to mention their enforcement of their claims in Vietnamese and Filipino waters), without being supportive of the countries themselves. Because you think that those countries causing harm to the western world is likely to eventually lead to the west doing less harm to the developing world, and/or help accelerate the proletarian revolution in western countries?

Is that a fair (in content, if not in tone) assessment of your stance?

From context I’m assuming Pennsylvania is where Trump did his Maccas stunt?

Yeah unfortunately here in Australia we’ve got far too many cases of drivers killing cyclists and getting away scot free, too. Sometimes that’s because the police fuck up and it doesn’t even make it to court. Sometimes it’s because our legal system (including juries) just don’t care enough. Always it’s because it’s impossible to hold transport engineers and city councillors legally accountable for their failures.

Not just the US, unfortunately.

It’s actually really easy for a developer and for a user. Apps can provide a notification sound for themselves, but the Android API automatically creates a user interface inside of the notifications settings that let a user set a sound of their choice on a per-notification-channel (for example, Discord has separate channels for “Incoming calls”, “Direct messages”, “Friend requests”, and a heap more) basis.

Like, in a court of law, considered a weapon

In theory. In practice? A car is the best way to kill someone and get away scot-free, or with only a slap on the wrist as punishment.

Yeah I don’t know any apps that have custom notifications out of the box these days, apart from Messenger. It’s too convenient just to use the operating system’s API and default to the user’s default sound.

Yeah Lemmy doesn’t actually support direct video uploading. So you’d need to upload somewhere else and link from there. Like people used to have to upload images to Imgur before linking that to Reddit, before Reddit supported direct images.

YouTube is one obvious option, especially with unlisted videos.

Imgur might work, but has a habit of trying to make things harder for people who are directly linking.

Catbox.moe has been popular on Lemmy, but is actually blocked in many countries and by some ISPs in others.

There’s also the difficult bit of actually getting the video file that you want to upload. Reddit deliberately makes it hard (in fact, it looks like the solution given in that post no longer works), so you might need some third-party tools to end up with both the video and audio in one file. For example: https://rapidsave.com/

Reddit does this really shitty thing where they deliberately strip out the audio so you can’t just link to a video like this (or easily download the video by just right clicking and pressing download), because what you end up with is a silent video.