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Donjuanme

@ Donjuanme @lemmy.world

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  • I learnt to swim! Efficient swimming techniques ?

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  • I'd say the butterfly is the most energy intensive way to swim, and dead man's float is the least energy intense.

    Swimming is the best exercise you'll ever do, and you should be able to do it for most of your life. You can do it to get ripped, you can do it to rehab.

    The 2 most important things when swimming are: don't get overconfident, and don't mess around with safety. The ocean absolutely doesn't care about you, and it's amazing how little it'll take to become disoriented. Never swim halfway past where you can't see the shore, and never swim more than halfway past the longest you've swam before.

    Saltwater is generally fine if there are no nasty organisms in your neighborhood, but fresh water swimming can kill you if the water is stagnant or polluted.

    If you're looking to swim for exercise or fitness my biggest recommendation (after goggles) is get yourself a speedo/teva suit (if you don't want a banana hammock get the thigh length shorts), you'll be amazed how much further you move per stroke and how much less energy it takes to go from a to b.

    As I've said in another reply, the most efficient stroke with easy breathing is probably the backwards frog, it's very easy to learn, just pulse like a jelly fish while keeping a bit of your face out of the water.

    I'm glad you had a great experience and you're looking to continue practicing! Knowing even the basics can be life changing.

    If you ever find yourself under water and can't tell which way is up (this can happen surprisingly easy), follow your bubbles, bubbles always go up

  • I learnt to swim! Efficient swimming techniques ?

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  • Life guards will always have a floatation device with them, it's incredibly energy intense to egg beater with any amount more than your head out of the water, let alone trying to hold another person up. I've convinced many people that the hardest/most energy intense thing you can do in the pool is to get hands and elbows dry without touching the bottom.

    But once you learn the technique, keeping your head out of the water is almost 0 effort. But nothing is less effort than having a flotation device!

  • I learnt to swim! Efficient swimming techniques ?

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  • Back frog is the easiest for breathing, but if you're trying to get anywhere efficiently the crawl is the fastest and easiest to breathe with

    Get yourself a pair of goggles, nobody should take the brunt of the ocean directly to their eyes. If you're interested in the ocean get a half mask that covers your eyes and nose, and honestly you can find a cheap snorkel as well and you don't need to worry much about breathing at all.

    Please be aware of local beach conditions, if there's a spot that says don't swim it's not worth the risk, even if it looks calm, hell especially if it looks calm.

  • What movie(s) did you watch 10+ times and offered something new with each view?

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  • Forrest Gump

  • It's Like Magic Dust...Poof, Distraction!

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  • I'm worried they'll be doctored to shit, maybe they can't release doctored versions of them because someone with knowledge of the originals would call them out (if you're that person stay safe!), but when (and I mean when, they're waiting until they've gotten all the good people out of the way before they try lying) they're going to be full of nothing but their common targets and enemies.

    Still though release the damn files, they were on your fucking desk and you gave to podcasters

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    How do I connect these two exhaust parts?

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  • Don't mess with slip fits where pressure is involved, take it to a welding shop and they'll do it on the cheap, most exhaust shops will probably be able to do the same

  • 'You Buy the Game and You Get the Whole Thing': Judas Dev Not About Live Service

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  • I don't think you should be allowed access to the source code unless the developer wants you back there.

    You don't buy a hamburger and get to take home the cookware.

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  • It's important to support those in your community that have the target on them before the target gets placed on you. Once the target is on you and the community has failed you keep yourself safe.

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  • I'm closer to 40 than 35, and my wife recently gave up ever replacing "college blanket", which was actually bought for me in early high school after I asked if I could take my grandparents comforter home with me. They found one and got it for me that Christmas (I think it was Ross/home goods), it was probably the most generic comforter ever, I always thought I'd be able to find another when needed. After 2 cats, a dog and the better part of 2 decades, my wife decided it was time to let it go and get a replacement, no problem, it's the most generic comforter ever. She gets me a nice duvet, so we can keep the inside nice and replace the outside as needed, nope definitely not the same. She gets a comforter, it's stitched way too tightly, and doesn't breathe the same (okay maybe a 20 year old blanket has gained a bit of aeration, maybe it breathes better than it did when it was new, but you can definitely tell the padding is stitched much more tightly than college blanket's ever was), she got me a "cooling" comforter, it's decent, but paired best with college blanket, and when I only have 1 blanket 9 times out of 10 it's college blanket.

    Now college blanket has had 5 cats and 3 dogs and the majority of my life, it's been the bed of desire for multiple animals, myself included, and my wife sometimes asks for it when she's sick. Apparently it's really scratchy, and holey, and it's closely missing about 20% of it's original fluff, and I would put it away in a place of honor in a heartbeat if I could find a new one. I swear it was 40 dollars at a home goods store, in a pile with a hundred others just like it, but we've looked for the better part of a decade now, and it's been deemed irreplaceable. It would probably be the first material thing I went for if we had to evacuate. I'm not highly sentimental, but you don't let a good blanket go.

  • What people miss about Steam Deck's "loss" to Nintendo

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  • I mean...

    I haven't read anything about a console "beating" my deck, I've not really kept up with consoles since getting my deck.

    I'm not upset if something sells more than the deck, it's a different environment, should I be annoyed i-phones are more popular than the deck?

    I don't think Nintendos success will have any bearing on the next deck, be it design, marketing or release window, if anything the Nintendo coming out right now is great holdover/low market time between the deck and whatever comes next. If anyone was looking to buy new hardware right now it would be apt to compare the two products as the Nintendo would probably have better hardware, even though the product you get is so much different that 9 times out of 10 the honest & correct answer is 'deck'.

    Whatever is driving this theory/controversy is baiting for your attention. I'd recommend taking it with a grain of salt and focusing on the bigger issues right now (especially if in America)

  • Why Squeeze Water Bottles?

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  • We used to put dry ice in them and toss them under the liquid tanks as people were cleaning the insides of the tank. Definitely was a great reminder to use the PPE.

  • Why Squeeze Water Bottles?

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  • Or leave it uncapped?

  • When has an extra cost extended warranty actually worked out for you?

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  • Both times with the new car.

    Both times transmission within a thousand miles of the warranty being over (both times on the wrong side of the warranty, but they were cool about it).

  • By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

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  • Use a messenger that doesn't require to to log in to view data stored on your phone. I'm sure the data is there, I'm just not allowed to see it.

  • By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

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  • I'm using the same device, I stopped using signal about a year ago, my phone has updated versions a couple times since then, every couple months I would go back to find a password or login that I was texted, a couple days ago I started signal to look for a login and it said it had to update, now it says I have to "secure your number" and use it to log in to retrieve my messages.

  • By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

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  • Signal also conveniently forgot all of my previous messages in the most recent update.

    But hey if I log in and register my phone number they might be able to get it back.

    Fuck signal

    Threema for me

  • Which TV show do you watch again and again?

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  • Taskmaster

    Uk, new Zealand, Australian, on repeat forever and ever. Even throw some of the Scandinavian versions on when I'm feeling focused enough for subtitles

  • What will the world be like in 10 years?

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  • Hotter, stupider and angrier.

  • Since it won't happen the other way around, how do I get people to approach ME in public?

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  • Hell yes! Grandma was wild! I love old person stories, so many of them are fabricated, but also so many that I think are fabricated turn out to be legitimate. Oh you did party with (famous people from back in the day)? No shit...

  • Since it won't happen the other way around, how do I get people to approach ME in public?

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  • I hate it as a tactic that's been used on me, but darn if it isn't effective. Also I genuinely appreciate people who offer their advice when I'm doing something foolishly, but my actions are from a place of genuine ignorance, not trying to catch someone into my friend circle.