Oracle is not the worse DB in existence. They are a worse company than MS, but I’d much rather be talking to Oracle than MSSQL.

(My go-to is PostgreSQL, tho.)

Unfortuntely, nothing fine-grained enough for me. But, you can block communities and users (or even whole instances).

I prefer the keyword filters on Mastodon, but I don’t mind the political stuff, so my needs are clearly different from yours.

Definitely burning. It is possible to make reusable plastics out of oil, e.g.

Of course, plastics might have their own problems, but they aren’t always CO2 emissions.

It seems unlikely we’ll be able to completely eliminate plastics (current medical practices is the sticking point I see), tho we can certainly make a more “circular economy” around them, to reduce the need for oil extraction.

I only buy pizza from The Hut.

See, this pizza comes with cheese in the crust; that’s not normal, it’s awesome!

(Seriously tho, the Dominoes is closer, and if someone local was making the equivalent of “sutffed crust”, I’d order from them. But, I’ll pay a premium for cheese in the crust.)

EDIT: TIL Dominos has a stuffed crust option as of May 2025, and Papa Murphy’s might.

We should have nationwide consistency on who is eligible to vote (felons?) and how/when to register to vote (same day? automatic as part of getting state id?), yes. I think that’s actually what his addled brain was thinking of, even if it’s because he thinks blue states “cheat” at all states from rules-making to operations, which we have good evidence no state does, blue or red–other than gerrymandering.

But, there’s little need for it to be actually administered by the federal government (our state and local governments are corrupt enough). In fact, any election activities by the federal government should be more like FEMA, where they assist the states be the states remain in control from procedures to priorities and everything else.

I wouldn’t be opposed to UN election observers, either.

I don’t know if this it “the line”, but I wouldn’t expect anything less than state pd vs. national guard standoffs at voting locations in blue states, just like we had around schools during desegregation in ex-confederate states. Blue state governors are unlikely to stand down; they generally has good poll numbers / support.

I’m in Arkansas so it won’t matter if they nationalize or not; plus, Sanders will volunteer for nationalization of our voting operations and claim it saves money and benefits the people of Arkansas.

So far, everything I’ve wanted is freeleech, so that hasn’t been an issue. I continue to seed, but the ratios are much worse for the same amount of time seeding.

I’m a BS in CS from UA Fayetteville. But, that was 20 years ago.

I hate that a ratios on the private tracker I joined are so bad. I feel dishonest.

My public torrents routinely have 10-25 times the ratio.

I’m not a hunter myself, but plenty of venison on the menu in my childhood in rural Arkansas. It’s definitely inferior to good beef. But, if you treat it like a tough, lean cut of cow, it’s fine. Usually this means adding fat, slow cooking, or both. I never found the taste bad, but chewy and ropy is definitely the default texture unless you work hard to make it more palatable.

When I cook at home, I’m vegan (beans, quinoa, cheese substitute, mostly), but when I go out I can certainly appreciate all meats and dairies.

Instructions unclear; dick stuck in taco shell. (Note: there’s no sour cream in this picture.)

There are FOSS games, in all the major genres. They are generally acquired the same way you acquire other applications in your OS. For me it’s aptitude on the command-line, but that’s far from the most common experience. (I really like “Singularity” which is a strategy game where you play as a newly sentient AI; Wesnoth is also good.)

There are a near endless supply of gratis independent games on itch.io and probably other sites. I do think there’s some FOSS trackers that will help you manage game installations that are not done through the OS application management, but I can’t name one.

I just use steam, but I’m not a purist in what I consume – I also use Discord and have a YT Premium subscription. I AM a purist in what I force other people to consume: what I publish is always under AGPLv3 or CC-SA or some other “strong copyleft”.

Thank you. I just saw her video on that yesterday (via Nebula), and I was coming in these comments to make sure she was visible.

10K on a nordic track

My 5k treadmill times are about novice: https://runninglevel.com/running-times/5k-times

My 10k treadmill times are about beginner: https://runninglevel.com/running-times/10k-times

(I’m 45.)

I’m not going to discourage a low level of exercise (or even not exercise, but activity), but I think the NIH recommendations reflect that my peer group (I’m a professional programmer and hobbist gamer; so pretty sedentary outside of intentional exercise) are very unhealthy.

their version of lifting weights is like 10lb dumbells and 5lb ankle weights. not full body lifting

They specifically mention resistance across all muscle groups and recommend a single set (8-12 reps). They imply that weight should be increased, rather than increasing the number of sets, with muscle fatigue being a a good measurement of effectiveness.

Adults should also do muscle-strengthening activities of moderate or greater intensity and that involve all major muscle groups on 2 or more days a week

(from pg. 56)

muscle-strengthening exercises should be performed to the point at which it would be difficult to do another repetition. When resistance training is used to enhance muscle strength, one set of 8 to 12 repetitions of each exercise is effective,

(from pg. 61)

NIH recommends 150-300 minutes of moderate activity (or 75-150 minutes of strenuous activity) every week. If I keep my HR in the 130s for 60 minutes, that’s ~120 *minutes" due to the intensity. I don’t 10k every day, usually only once a week.

When I did the 5k every day that was too much. But 5 days/week or 3 5ks and 1 10k per week is just about right, as long as I keep up the intensity (if they get too easy, I can increase distance or grade or resistance to maintain HR for the right amount of minutes).

I only do 2 days a week lifting, that’s the NIH recommendation. Granny wants to do 3, but that doesn’t currently fit into the rest of my life.

I would do cardio every day, but things get in the way of that often, too.

I haven’t really looked into them, so I’m not sure. I guess it would depend on risks and side-effects. I do think they would help me consume fewer calories by reducing how much I overeat, so they could be worth it.

If you doubt BMI (like many of the replies I got to my other comment), you can probably ignore this study:

Design, Setting, and Participants Analysis of measured body mass index data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and bias-corrected body mass index values calculated from self-reported height and weight data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and Gallup Daily Survey using spatiotemporal gaussian process regression and an ensemble of annualized rate of change and meta-regression bayesian spline models. Surveys for input data were conducted using population-based sampling by state and by race and ethnicity group with a total of 11 315 421 US participants.

Main Outcomes and Measures Obesity prevalence (BMI ≥30).

So, one reason I’m concerned about my BMI (39.5 kg/m²) is because I’m making my country look bad. Tho, with Trump at the helm, my contributions to that effort are overshadowed.

I did. I didn’t start lifting until I had my cardio doing much better. IIRC, I started lifting after I is a sub-30min 5km for 28 days in a row. But, I might have did some lifting before then.

Cardio is more my priority because the NIH recommendations are primarily about cardio, with weight/resistance training being secondary. I need to get my running / treadmill 10km to under an hour – the Nordictrack^tm lets me do a sub-hour 10km, but I’m not sure it’s getting my HR up quite as much as treadmill time. I find it easier to keep myself in “zone 2” on a treadmill with HR sensors in some hand grip.

I think most people give their single-arm / free-weight curl weight. I can only do about 25 on my left arm with that. (My right arm does more and doesn’t hurt in the same way.)

The curl machine I use has both hands on the same bar, and that’s how I can do 60. I don’t mean to be confusing, but I often have trouble talking about lifting because I’m entirely self-taught and didn’t start paying attention to what I was doing until I was like 40. (I avoided exercise for most of my life.)

That said, I’m doing more weight than many people in the gym, so I’m not small. On the hip extension and the rotary abdominal / oblique machines, I do the whole stack 170 lbs. and then +20 lbs.

No shade to people no matter what they can lift. Honestly, I’m more proud of what my 93-year-old grandma does, and it is understandably much less. Health the goal, not weight. You just move the weight up to make sure you are continuing to exert.