exasperation

Nope, no real discomfort. Just normal fatigue and some mild soreness after particularly heavy days. I'm up to squatting sets of about 1.5x body weight, and deadlifting almost 2x, so warming up takes a while.

Honestly, my knees and ankles feel more after running than after lifting. It's part of the reason why I switched emphasis from running to lifting. I used to run a lot, but nagging injuries caused me to step back about 10 years ago.

I am tired of not being able to run after bulking all winter

I went running earlier this week for the first time in months. Somehow I was able to knock out a 30 minute 5k, despite not being able to run continuously more than 2 miles (around 3.2km) around a year ago, at around a 10 minute mile pace.

I suspect that just going all in on lifting volume has actually gotten my cardio and leg endurance to be able to run without specifically training it.

Just an anecdote, but for me lifting heavy and high volume has somehow improved my cardio.

New In Town came out in 2009, 16 years ago.

Hallucination feedback loop

IT'S A BEAR DANCE

Those are called pancrepes I think

To quote The Good Place:

There's something so human about taking something great and ruining it a little so you can have more of it.

It's not about work ethic. It's an openness to new things, and a willingness to coordinate and plan things.

And seeing "moving away" as a huge sacrifice, to where you'd tend to describe it as "uprooting your life," is a particular worldview that you're entitled to, but one you should be aware that many other people don't share.

You're attributing a lot of unspoken values in that comment that I don't really think are there, and I suspect it's because you place a much higher value in staying close to home than the typical person does, and because you seem to elevate the purpose of a career to primarily be maximizing one's own money.

So take a step back. Reread that comment with the revisited assumption that some people choose careers for reasons completely different from money, and that people don't feel a strong need to stay in the same city where they grew up. It's just career advice at that point.

Definitely one of the best villains ever put on screen. He killed it.

I don't really see it as a fixed amount of work that needs to be distributed among all the people. Getting more half moons dug in a shorter amount of time will reclaim a lot more farmland, and will have labor opportunities in actually working the land.

Digging out the half moon, one per person per day, is only the start. These communities are trying to actually grow crops, too. So it seems that if you have a pool of labor available, the upper limit is going to be how much agricultural land area can be managed by that labor pool. At that point digging more half moon patches isn't going to create any more opportunities (unless we're talking about improving the agricultural productivity per worker, and should probably talk about farming equipment too). If the income is to come from the crops they produce, shouldn't increasing the output of crops be economically good for that community?

It seems that using equipment would transform a larger quantity of land, which is good for the environment in general. Then, the economic impact would still be distributed among the entire workforce, able to work that land and do the actual agriculture.

What am I missing?

There's more to careers than just money. The distribution of jobs in different industry sectors, job specialties, etc. aren't going to be uniform throughout the world, so many types of jobs will require people to move.

It's not even about money. It's about wanting to work in something specific that isn't as easily available in the town you happened to be born in.

that's insanity

makes me feel sick

That's a pretty strong reaction to the simple idea that maybe living your entire life within a 30 minute drive of where you were born isn't the best way to experience this life. You don't have to want it, but is it that much to ask to simply understand that some other people want it?

My hometown is, like, fine. I could've stayed. But its state government is insane, the dominant local industries and companies don't really fit my moral framework, and the social aspect pushes people into a car-based lifestyle that I'm not particularly interested in. I left for a job, but I also was just looking for a reason to leave.