Yeah, I’m in that boat. I did have some sugar, but it was extremely rare, and IIRC got phased out more as I got older. I don’t think it was ever a hard rule of “no,” but more of a “have very little except maybe on special occasions.” I never developed much of a taste for sweet things to the point I quite often find muffins for scones unreasonably sweet. When I was doing mountain bike races, I had energy chews and bars. In hinds sight, that was probably a poor nutrition choice for my metabolism, and I now I simply have roasted and salted pistachios, with a sugar free electrolyte mix before and/or after the ride.

I also very much seem to be the exception here. Probably my experience more comes down to my own eccentricities. I have the eating habits and body type of a distance athlete; healthy but low weight, diet consisting largely of slow-burning foods like nuts, fruits and starchy vegetables. I am still figuring out what diet and training routine works best for me, but sugar, even as a mid-ride fuel is a hard no-go for me. I like putting in the work to be able to do extreme sports like mountain biking and snowboarding at a reasonably intense level all day long. I listen to my body and I know without a shadow of a doubt touching high sugar and certainly processed foods is not worth it by any means.

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*me resisting the urge to create a 10 page long paper on helicopter engineering*

I have some wild helicopter watching stories. Best would probably be when there was a small wildfire a few miles away from my college. I was watching the flight tracker and saw them pull in a Huey and Blackhawk, and tracked down exactly where they were collecting water. Ditched class and went to watch them. They let us get like 100ft away from these ridiculous massive machines as they were taking on water. At one point, the Blackhawk pilot started playing chicken with us, trying to see if he could knock us off the hillside, LOL. Even still I will go out and watch most helicopters.

Yeah, totally see it now. Woops.

Are you referring to my questionable font choice? IDK about the left-hand side of the image, I just downloaded the template but it looked right to me, all I did was add in the text, as one is want to do with memes.

I will legitimately go esc, :w, i on Google Docs to try and save the document…

Direction navigation in vim is hjkl.

Yeah, check the oil levels every time I get gas.

Similar experience for my first time having they/them pronouns used IRL… I was mountain biking in full body armor, full face helmet, and goggles. Someone said to their kid, “let them go ahead, they’ll be really fast,” or something. I proceeded to hit 48km/h on singletrack, a speed I haven’t replicated since. So I guess I was given a speed boost by the comment?

A WRX will always love you… if you give it the love they deserve. (If you don’t your gearbox will explode and your head gaskets will disintegrate).

Of course. It’s a Subaru Impreza WRX. Heck, looks to be a bugeye if my eyes don’t deceive me. I probably did that when I got my first WRX…

I don’t watch YouTube on my phone anymore other than FireFox with uBlock. For me, it’s all a YT feed aggregated by RSS and played by MPV on Linux.

What the fuck?! That application process is insane!

Nah, I saw salsa at first too.

I am in this picture… I don’t know if I like it or not, but I am in it.

If your anything like me, that imaginary world is a horrifying character of the cyberpunk distopia we find ourselves in as a means of overt social commentary… So I’ll take some laptop memory if you will.

Sorry to hear that. I’m in a similar boat (and have been there many times before, and will be there many times after). Heal up and feel better!

No. I injured myself doing BMX(ish) style street riding. Nothing too bad, but I will be off the bike and doing leg-only exercises for a week or two. I was also in a no riding zone, during graduation on a fairly capitalistic college campus, but hey, biking’s not a crime (and even if it was, legality != morality)!