Australian here. Torrenting with no vpn is a terrible idea. Right now today there may not be any litigation of end users, but if you think about whether there will be at some point over the next several years? The odds are pretty good, and you’d be the low-hanging fruit.

Your risks diminish dramatically with a vpn.

Yes, concerned about cardiovascular events.

For me personally, my lipid profile (cholesterol) doesn’t move significantly when I’m on keto, but by HbA1c (T2D marker) improves dramatically, which makes the cholesterol less relevant.

I know there’s some good science supporting a keto diet, particularly for people with my specific maladies. However, there’s also a large well established body of good science indicating a strong link between the consumption of saturated fat and poor cardiovascular health.

I think your comments are reasonably accurate generally, but I’d like to offer some context.

I have T2D (diabetes). You did mention I’m a special category in your comment. I’ve never been obese or consumed too much sugar, I just lost the genetic lottery. Eventually I will die from one or more of the myriad of complications caused by T2D. However between now and then keto will be a main stay of my management of T2D.

I agree that most people, including myself, just can’t maintain a strict keto diet for more than several months.

As you alluded to, the way to lose weight is to run a calorie deficit. Either consume less or burn more.

In my opinion, keto inspires weight loss in several ways. Firstly you shed a heap of water weight in the first few weeks, instant results, you feel different, it inspires you to continue your weight loss journey. Secondly you’re intently observing what you’re eating, if it’s your first time on a strict diet, might be your first time with a rigid meal plan, of course you’re going to lose weight. Thirdly fat does make you feel satiated for longer - that is to say, it’s easier to consume fewer calories because you feel less hungry.

That said, there are some real dangers - like consuming too much saturated fat. If keto requires you to consume ~100g of fat per day, then the only way to stay under the heart foundation’s recommended maximal intake of saturated fat is to acquire every last gram of that fat from good quality olive oil (EVOO). In my own experience, after being on keto for several months you start to consume far too much saturated fat. If you’re getting your calories from cream, cheese, and pork or beef, you’re going to be consuming 4x or 5x the recommended maximums. Additionally, this can instil bad habits even once you discontinue keto, by promoting an attitude of “fat is actually good for you” which is not the whole story.

Finally, and this is just a personal opinion rather than fact, the “healthy food pyramid” with all that grain at the bottom is bullshit. Its borne of the fact that grain can be mass produced in most places and can be used to manufacture shelf stable products that don’t require refrigeration. Legumes are a far superior source of carbohydrates.

My advice to a non-T2D person thinking about starting keto would be… it’s a great way to challenge the way you think about food, but only attempt it for 3 months or so at a time.

Of course people can do what they want during their breaks.

What I’m getting at is, mediation or yoga in the break room is an unusual behavior and well meaning co-workers “just trying to be nice” will enquire after your well being.

If you don’t want to interact with co-workers on your break, put your head phones on while you play with your phone.

Nonsense.

If a voice recording could be used with nefarious intent you wouldn’t be able to eat a meal in a restaurant without being recorded.

This selling point is not important to you because you’re not part of Mozilla’s target market. Mozilla already has the 2% of the internet that hangs out on Lemmy. They’re pursuing some of the remaining 98%.

Not necessarily complaining about mozilla’s actions here, but did anyone actually get an opportunity to use their instance ? I thought I signed up to get an invite when they opened publicly but it never happened.

they likely will have my credit cards, my birth certificate, and my youngest daughter.

that’s… not how SSL works.

These sound like bread and butter small talk type work interactions.

Just gonna be blunt… meditating at work and adopting a yoga like position is going to attract attention and will invite co-workers to enquire after your well being.

If this guy is your biggest problem at work then you have a pretty great job.

This is what OP has been doing.

Meditation is one way of getting control of your brain.

I suspect that most people who have a meditation practice would disagree with this assertion.

The tech hasn’t regressed, it just hasn’t progressed while the marketing has.

Look up the automation levels: https://au.pcmag.com/cars-auto/94559/is-your-car-autonomous-the-6-levels-of-self-driving-explained

My wife’s car is 6 years old, and is level 2. Nothing amazing now, but kinda cool in 2018.

Since then expectations have increased dramatically, and the problems you’re hearing about are cars expected to have the higher levels of automation but failing to achieve that.

It seems like this is one of those technical problems that gets exponentially more difficult to solve, the closer we get to solving it. What I mean is, suppose a human averages 100,000km per “incident”. It was easy to make a car do 90,000km per incident, less so to have it do 95,000km per incident, but we’re finding it very very difficult to get that last 5% performance.

God that fucking bot.

The bot itself is only mildly offensive, but the fieflord bot-love is just repugnant.

About a month ago news did a “feedback about the bot” thing, in which they declared undying love for the bot above all things and declared any input other than breathless support for the bot to be vote manipulated misinformation.

There were about 3 mods involved, all contradicting each other, and themselves, very condescending, and very sooky and sulky. “One of the mods almost resigned over this!” kind of stuff.

You had to start every comment with “look I know you guys are doing your best and investing all your free time as volunteers but…”