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Personally, if I'm doing intervals, I don't stop my watch in between. Mostly this is so my Garmin-recorded PB doesn't automatically update. I don't want it telling me I beat my 5k PB because I did 12×400 m in 90 sec, ignoring the 60 sec rest between each.

But it's also so the overall activity pace doesn't look deceptively fast to friends on Strava. And it's also so that I can use the "lap time" of my rest "lap" (I hit the lap button manually, when doing intervals, rather than using the automatic 1 km laps) to time how long my rest should be.

Delete the activity already recorded? No, I wouldn't. If you've broken any PBs, I'd go in and manually revert those, and maybe add a description to the activity explaining that it was intervals.

I do pause my watch, without shame, on my longer runs, when I'm stopping for water, or to cross the road at lights.

Yeah to be honest, if I hear about a law in Australia that affects technology, my default position is that it's probably a bad one. That's a stance I've developed thanks to long experience of it mostly being the case that our tech laws are dumb.

A more recent example: the News Media Bargaining Code. Literally requiring Google to pay Murdoch's news outlets for sending traffic to them. If there was any sensible financial transaction, it would be the other way around.

Or for something under the Labor Government, the social media minimum age laws, which were rammed through without time for real public consultation or debate in Parliament.

Yeah, I think she's learnt to keep her politics outside of her actual videos. She doesn't want the broader audience knowing about how transphobic she is, because, well...many of them would stop watching.

It's tweets, blog posts, Patreon, and the like, instead. Where only the most hardcore fans will see.

Unfortunately, she's also a transphobe

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

(I actually hadn't seen that video before just now, and am watching it as I write this. I stopped following her in 2022 after she did a crossover with Tom Scott, which led to wider attention on her transphobia, and to her being dropped from Nebula. I assume the video will cover those, but it's the discussion from at that time which I was already familiar with, not anything more recent.)

I actually do HEMA, and have had a lesson or two specifically on Thibault. What the above analysis misses is that while Dutch, he lived at a time when Spain ruled over the Netherlands, and thus exported its distinctive style of fencing, known as La Verdadera Destreza (the main style I study). Whether Thibault "counts" as Destreza or not is a bit of a debate among Destreza practitioners, but at the very least his style shares a fair amount in common. Most crucially for our purposes, is the extensive use of non-linear (i.e., circular) footwork, which, according to Destreza authors like Caranza and Pacheco, is ideal for countering the direct lunge popular with the Italians.

The article's talk about high ground could be correct. I've not studied nearly enough Thibault to refute it myself, though I did note a comment under the article from someone who seems to have read it and refuted that claim. Regardless, it's not necessary for the dialogue to make sense.

Oh shit. I stopped reading at the end of the quote and didn't even notice. Fuck. I was genuinely relieved.

I feel like this is a really good example of how not to do April Fool's jokes. It touches on a subject that people care strongly about, it plays it completely straight without any hints all the way through, and they filled it with completely believable subject matter. I actually find it rather mean-spirited to do that.

As far as extant English accents go, non-rhoticity is basically the default at this point. Most Americans and Canadians are rhotic, as are Irish and Scottish. Then a tiny number of English accents. That's about it.

cross-posted from the sh.itjust.works community from over a year ago, just because I was looking at the most appropriate linguistics community to share stuff with and noticed I shared this there, although this is a much more active community.

Well, that was fast

Ah, but you're not thinking like a fascist. See, the 12th says "constitutionally ineligible to the office", but the 22nd doesn't make a person ineligible to the office, only ineligible to be elected to the office.

Universities that closed their Confucius Institutes:

• University of Melbourne
• University of Queensland (UQ)
• University of New South Wales (UNSW)
• University of Western Australia (UWA)
• Adelaide University (probably)
• RMIT

Universities that still have a Confucius Institute:

• University of Newcastle
• University of Sydney
• Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
• Griffith University
• La Trobe University
• Victoria University
• Charles Darwin University (probably)

Colus pusillus, apparently. A type of stinkhorn.