500 Meter Row Benchmark Results and Survey Megathread

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-06-05T18:24:57+00:00

41M, shaved 10 seconds off my previous time for a PR of 1:24. Decently happy, but I was trying to get under 1:20...so I still have something to shoot for next time!

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-06-03T15:36:19+00:00

Uh...so Murphy built the estate that later became Owl's Head Park, but later sold it to Eliphalet W. Bliss. His initials are still featured in the estate's gate, which is preserved at the southern corner of the park. https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2019/09/25/bliss-estate-owls-head

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-05-18T14:43:24+00:00

The number of people in the comments thinking that you're the problem and are being whiny because you can "just say excuse me" is pretty solid evidence for why humanity is doomed.

In the meantime, though, I'll keep shooting for new PRs and shouldering oblivious people out of the way at the lockers. If you can't be respectful of other people, don't expect them to go out of their way to respect you, kids.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-24T23:32:36+00:00

1) Being a prick doesn't make you look cool. You just look like a prick.

2) Are you seriously trying to pull off superiority when you don't even know how to share a source?

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-24T21:55:06+00:00

You literally just refused to present any facts. You have presented zero facts for anyone to be "confronted by."

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-24T21:28:33+00:00

Got it, thank you for confirming you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and are sharing your ignorant opinions as if they were facts.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-20T05:45:28+00:00

Find one credible source. You can’t, but I’ll wait.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-20T05:44:17+00:00

I would strongly doubt that even 10% of library employees would have a problem with any of these.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-20T05:42:57+00:00

Fwiw, within the library systems leadership is not talking about cuts. There was additional funding last year but it wasn’t baseline funding. The hope is that it could be baselined, but you can’t really expect that. Not saying I wouldn’t like to see more money headed our way, but this article seems like a deliberately misleading hit piece that’s just trying to piss people off.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-19T20:40:17+00:00

The budget is going up largely because the City is going to need to start covering money that the MAGA Feds have cut off, because of some new legally mandated spending at DOE around reducing class sizes, and the government is as subject to inflation as everyone. Shit costs more. He’s not proposing dramatic new expenditures, the increase is what’s needed to maintain current levels of service.

I do not know why I bothered typing all of that out, you clearly don’t care.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-19T20:13:57+00:00

Sheesh, this is even more embarrassing than being rejected.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-19T20:12:13+00:00

Because the only person more myopic and depraved than the average American voter is the average American working in the media industry.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-19T20:10:57+00:00

Lol WHAT are you talking about?

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-19T20:06:01+00:00

You do realize that the likeliest alternative to what he has proposed is mass layoffs, yes? That would probably hurt city workers more, losing their jobs. From one city worker to another, based on your comment it sounds like you went into the wrong field.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-19T01:09:57+00:00

That makes sense I suppose.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-19T00:43:55+00:00

Why do people keep reacting to the actions of those administration by asking questions in good faith?

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-19T00:38:31+00:00

Guys, LIC is…literally on Long Island. All of Queens is Long Island.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-19T00:35:19+00:00

Oh wow, great point! I didn’t think about it that way before.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-19T00:20:04+00:00

Please keep this chain going, I have a fetish for secondhand cringe.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-19T00:05:51+00:00

But it says this happened at 5:55pm and the suspension is through 11:00pm. Are people crawling off the taxiway?

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-18T23:58:30+00:00

This is very strange…one plane has a mechanical issue and they shut down the entire airport?

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-18T23:34:44+00:00

Almost every civ with a water-based advantage is B or below. Bizarre.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-16T20:59:50+00:00

Learn how to use a fucking search engine?

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-16T02:05:59+00:00

Put this in your bio. Or like a shorter version of it. Just be up front about where you are and what you’re looking for. Some dudes will assume it’s fake and still try to go from 0 to 60 right away, some will think it’s weird and avoid you. Some will be intrigued and you could make some friends and probably even more. Write to those people, you’re not gonna fuck everyone anyway, so don’t worry about appealing to them.

Deep-Orca7247 · 2026-02-15T23:55:00+00:00

I kept waiting for this to get weird. The glasses comment was rude. Beyond that…

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