I am impatient with long descriptions, but I do find that in a minority of cases, the description does lead in to a distinction that I would not have intuited.

I try to reflect on that during long descriptions, particularly ones that are highly redundant with something I remember.

Ribs. I don't mind saucy ribs. I suppose if you are supposed to use your hands, maybe it's okay if they get a bit saucy.

I don't really like buffalo wings. I know boneless wings are basically just "nuggies", but I prefer them, especially if things are getting saucy.

A dry spice blend can make for acceptable wings, but I actually still prefer something like a spicy breading and a bigger piece of chicken, if I'm going to have to deal with bones.

But, I will admit that is a good border case, and isn't quite the sin that shrimp w/ tail covered in cream sauce is.

Anything I can't eat with my hands, should not be covered in a sauce that I don't want on my hands.

Fried shrimp with tails = fine. Bone-in chicken legs = fine. Bone-in chicken in biryani = not ordering. Shrimp with tail in pasta = sin against god and crime against humanity.

I also generally prefer a Condorcet Method (ranked choice, single winner) over mixed-member-proportional, but either one would be a massive improvement over our current system.

I'll take Approval voting, even.

/c/SuicideByWords ?

Isn't 1600 m/s greater than the speed of sound? That sonic boom is gonna mess up the kitchen, if not the hand.

I think the phase change costs of the water content will also be a significant factor that isn't included.

He read Maus but took the wrong lessons from it?

Maybe some investigative journalist should check with Stormy Daniels?

I do or at least I have in the past. If the caller will answer my Google call screening, I'll answer or call back.

There's always been a issue of sample not matching population, and a variety of methods to correct for that. But, I will admit there is some limitations to that, and I don't quite understand where the limitations are. (I love math, but I failed statistics once, and barely passed the second time. I prefer symbols and proofs and closed forms...)

While that is also my pet name for JD, keep in mind it is aspirational, not historic.

Nope. I don't know exactly what happened there, but after ABC bought it, Nate was gradually phased out. He found alternative funding.

There are still people that distrust government as a general principle AND still believe the GOP is the party of "small government" so they will vote for whatever name is next to the R.

He's not an idiot. He is funded by Thiel. He has been politically captured by authoritarian capitalism, so I'd be wary of any models he produced that aren't independently audited for bias.

I think polls are useful, and the monte carlo simulation approach for turning them into a electorial vote probability is good, but there "too much" magic sauce left over for me to trust the outputs from Silver or 538.

Too redundant, just use S-exprs.

(Mostly joking, but in some cases...)

I think Bernie is just being pragmatic. But, that might be giving him too much credit.

I agree she's better than the only viable alternative.

We really need to replace FPtP and the Electoral College. Approval voting is pretty simple, and would improve both the primaries (if kept) and the final.

Most people never become auto-didacts. Most auto-didacts still benefit from formal training because above average gross performance can mask subtle mistakes until the mistake becomes root cause for a significant error.

Under significant pressure (like a well-written dramatic fiction, but almost never IRL), most doctors will be willing to perform a procedure without formal training, but under normal conditions, they know it is not worth the additional risk.

Some people hate it, including some independent developers. I wouldn't mind going without it, if there was a Free Software library management alternative. I want something to track what I have installed (because I've "lost" things and reinstalled them before) and something that has a decent uninstall.

I also get some benefit from the store integration, but I can understand developers being annoyed at the 30% "steam tax". I'd gladly purchase using some other method, if I didn't have to sacrifice library functions from previous paragraph.

It does seem cool and complex, but I don't think I'll ever get good at it, so playing it myself results in a lot of frustration and peaks with a rage-quit.

I wonder if it will be interesting to watch. Day9 seems to like playing it.

"users will be frustated and leave" exactly the same thing can happen to an instance that adds an instance (or wildcard domain) block. I'd be very surprised if no instance has ever rolled back a block.

Users don't need to worry about instance blocks on ActivityPub, any more than they have to worry about DNS RBLs for email.

if gmail could just randomly decide to stop receiving emails from outlook addresses and there’s nothing any user can do about it

This is the case right now.

There's good reasons GMail doesn't do that, but there's absolutely nothing technical preventing from doing that, and I can't think of anything that legally prevents them from doing that.

Using another ActivityPub-based interface is a LOT to ask for many users. They want a simple to pronounce name, they can stick in their browser's universal bar and be on a sign-up page in less than 3 clicks without making any more choices.

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There have been some complaints about Mastodon for years; both specific ("quote tweets") and vague (get rid of shitty, often bigoted replies for profiles with a lot of followers or with a marginalized identity).

Mastodon largely hasn't implemented them. Maybe Bluesky has. (I don't have a BS account.)

I rewatched recently, and while I love seeing the mother, that last season is quite bad.

But, GoT is worse and I refuse to watch "Season 9" of Scrubs, so HIMYM is not my priority for hate on this list.

(Also, complaints that annectdotally confirm the data don't seem to be the most useful comments.)

I read a story of someone that contributed to a BSD project, including fixes over some period of time, but later they ended up having to use a proprietary UNIX for work, that included their code, in a an intermediate, buggy state, but they were legally forbidden from applying their own bug fixes!

At the very least the GPL guarantees that if I am ever downstream of myself, I has fix my own damn mistakes and don't have to suffer them.

I am still willing to contribute to BSD stuff, but vastly prefer something like the AGPLv3.

But, for several reasons is a much worse experience for people with a large number of followers, especially if they are from a marginalized group.

Everyone should get off X, but I find it hard to recommend any replacement. Threads and Bluesky have problems, but they might work better than Mastodon for some people or organizations.

Podcasts or music are not essential to my gym experience, but they are important. My pace on the treadmill certainly suffers if I forgot my headphones.

A few weeks ago some "commedian" decided he needed to get my attention (pause playback, turn off noice cancelling, "yes?") twice for idiotidic jokes like "When are you going to be done with that machine, because there aren't any others: gestures to empty gym with only He and I".

He did pay me an appreciated comment during one of those interruptions, but overall his behavior was grating and made the session worse than average.

I haven't yet found a combination activity where I still feel like I'm getting sufficient exercise. I think combination activities work better for many people and you gotta find a way that exercise works for you, or you really won't get enough.

There are places I could get to on a bike, but none that are currently in my routine errands. I suppose I could hit the post office on the bike.

I set time goals for my 5k treadmill sessions, but I only meet then by converting over to a pace and setting the treadmill there. I continue to increase my weights, too, though I generally don't go up until I can do an "extra" set.

I get close to the NIH recommendations and I keep pushing myself to be better, and I still dislike exercising. It's just non-optional maintenance for this shell until I can shed it.

I have tried swimming and hiking, and while I can enjoy doing those activities, I fail to maintain an elevated heart rate if I'm enjoying them.

I live in a rural area, the Grocery store I use is 15+ miles up a US Hwy.with narrow/shoulders in places. I can't do errands on a bike. I haven't actually been on a normal bike in years, but on the stationary bikes at the gym, it's another scenario where I won't maintain my heart rate.

I'm 44 now, and last year I did a 5K every day for 28 days in a row. It was overdoing it, but I was trying to get in my best shape ever and it helped.

The Kurzgesagt video is fine, but the NIH exercise guidelines are actually better for deciding how much and what exercise to do.

I dislike exercising, I often have to "parent" myself into starting, I have to fight the urge to stop several times during a session, and I almost always feel worse immediately after. Sore, tired, sweaty, or various other uncomfortableness, and I haven't found a recovery activity that erases that temporary badness.

But, my life when I'm not exercising has gotten better, and it's at least partially due to the exercise.

I'm the opposite. Never much liked sports, and when I am not held to a pace like a treadmill does, I'll not maintain enough heart rate elevation.

So, for me, if I don't get to the gym a couple of times a week, I fall well short of the NIH guidelines.

The full report is quite clear that heart rate elevation is the most significant population-wide contributor.to general health. 150 "points" per week, which you can in theory knock out with one long (~75 minutes) high-intensity work out.

Resistance training across all major muscle groups is secondary, and really only needs one set, on two separate days each week. Your don't need to build bulk or anything, just keep then fully active. Add some weight if you could do an extra set before exhaustion.

Stretching is good, in particular if you don't reach a range of motion, you are likely to lose it as you age, but no specific recommendations are given

Hmm, maybe next time I'm buying games, I'll pick up BL3 hoping it works on my Debian system through Proton or something.

Thanks for the info.

From the reviews I've seen (Outside Xbox), that's the most you'll get out of it. It's mostly a nothing burger, "bad" is the best thing you can say about it.

BL2 still works on Linux, too. I can't play BL3, which I hear is the better game (albeit with worse plot).

Back when my weight started with a 3, I was told I was pre-diabetic, but I'm much better now, and my current GP hasn't mentioned diabetes to me at all. I got down to 201 lbs. towards the beginning of the year, but I'm 220 today. (Current goal is 197, but 165 would be better.)

I tried intermittent fasting both sticking to a 16/8 for a few months and separately abstaining entirely for a couple of weekends. Didn't really help reset my instincts / cravings.

I still feel hungry more often than I should eat. I have gotten into the habit of trying to silence the rumbling guts with calorie-free fluids and waiting 30 minutes, but frequently I find myself still hungry and in a worse mood after that wait.

If I stick to the diet I have planned, I will lose weight, and sometimes I can do that, but it's getting harder and less frequent.

I'm a gourmand and a lazy one. If I go thru the effort to open a package, I'll probably eat the whole thing. I'm trying to get better at portion control, but I'm many months in and my instincts are no better, and I'm less happy.

I might have to buy one just to support that union.

Careful with "American Made" tho; they often mean Guam or American Samoa which both get right shafted by government and policy.

Last Week Tonight also has a longish segment about him.

And I think both of them were produced before the rotting bear meat admission to Rosanne Barr.