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Cake day: February 7th, 2025

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  • For exercise equipment, always used, especially in the first few months of the year as people are ditching their new years resolutions.

    I’m in the US, but around here I can find a used Nordictrack bike on Facebook marketplace any day of the week for 100-150. If you’re handy, you can buy parts for most of those when they break. If you’re not comfortable fixing things, you can still buy 2 before you hit your budget on that one.


  • I’ve had a variation of this bike for about 5-6 years, this is one where you’ll have a lot of companies throwing their name on exactly or almost exactly the same bike. My display isn’t near as fancy and there’s no bluetooth (It broke about 6 months in anyways), but the body and the rest of the pieces are similar. The pedals are complete garbage and honestly outright painful for me. The resistance dial also sucks and I don’t remember a time where I ever felt that it actually did anything. It’s also always made this real weird noise when cycling that I don’t hear with other exercise bikes at the gym and you got to be careful not to get going fast or it starts to feel real unstable.

    With all those things mentioned, after swapping out the pedals, it works as an exercise bike. I got mine for $90 on sale and paid another $20 for some new pedals. It’s a piece of shit, but it’s a functional piece of shit and probably appropriately priced around $100. Looking at the price on amazon for yours, I’d be real unhappy about it if I paid $270.







  • Some think that this one specifically was pulled from an older myth about another mythological entity who had slain a seven headed serpent and just kind of forced to fit in however they could. Note that it refers to plural ‘heads’ and not singular ‘head’ on this one.

    The hero who slays a seven headed snake story has some staying power and it keeps coming up throughout time.


  • It’s probably leftovers shoehorned in from when the bible had adopted stories from a wider pantheon. Leviathan might have had a much bigger role somewhere at one point. May serve as a stand in for ‘controlling the waters of the earth’ and there’s going to be a dozen biblical scholars saying Leviathan represents one of a dozen ancient countries around when it was written (maybe one of them is right, but boring).

    For the actual verses though… There is a passage in Isaiah where God will some day slay Leviathan with his pretty cool sword and this is one of the things that marks the end of maybe the end times. So, waking might be one step closer to this whole deal being over with. There’s also some passages in Job that kind of indicate that anything mankind tries to do to Leviathan isn’t going to work because only God is powerful enough to control it (So, trying to freeze it isn’t going to work).