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JayleneSlide

@ JayleneSlide @lemmy.world

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  • Choosing to not to help your friends dying child doesn't make you an asshole

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  • Just keep telling yourself that, buddy. Also: "The guilty conscience needs no accuser."

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    Show us how you haul stuff with your bike

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  • Hase Pino Tour with the stoker position removed. I put on an Aventon cargo tray that someone abandoned at the LBS. Burley Travoy for additional lightweight capacity. This load was supplies for a Juneteenth cookout party for 20 people.

    For very heavy or large loads, I have a Surly Bill trailer.

    Carrying a boat of this size on the Surly Bill is strongly contraindicated. :D I had a lot of weight in the stern, but the load shifted and things got squirrelly.

  • Discuss salaries!

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  • I was leading a team of engineers (in contrast to managing). There was another team that hired a cohort of engineers straight out of a boot camp. One of them was a shit-hot Jedi of a woman, so I totally poached her for my team. It helped that my team was working on cool stuff and most people wanted in.

    After she joined my team, I asked what her salary was (leads don't typically have access to pay info like a manager would). She was making $70k while most engineers of her tenure and skill were making $110k to $145k. I went to talk to motherfucking HR about this problematic disparity.

    The HR jerkwad had the nerve to say, "Discussing your salaries is a terminable offense."

    "I will give you five seconds to amend your statement."

    He stammered a bit and made some non-committal statements. I went to the division VP, to whom I directly reported. He fixed that shit the next day and got her back pay to her previous review.

    So yeah, absolutely discuss your salaries with your peers. And FFS don't be cowed by these douchebags.

  • Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI

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  • their systems are straight garbage

    Unequivocally complete and utter garbage. I led an engineering team at a multinational energy efficiency company. My team built an extremely performant upstream and downstream intervention solution for US utilities, completely in ASP.NET and SQL Server. It was broadly used, on-prem, maintainable, extendable, and more importantly cheap to run. Single proc at every tier.

    A new VP came on and had some wiry hair up his sandy ass about doing everything in Force. He refused to listen to anyone on my team about how this was a bad idea. So we built a POC and gave us 4 weeks to go live. The new solution was glacial in its performance, brittle, and expensive. I forget the numbers, but I recall that our cloud spend that first month of deployment would have bought us four more clusters of hardware and MS licenses. His response? Moar Force! You're doing it wrong.

    All of us who could jump ship were gone before the second month on the new solution. He somehow survived another 3 months before he got fired, but the damage was done. Oh well. Salesforce, not even once.

  • Mike Johnson sends entire house home ahead of Epstein files deadline

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  • We lack the will.

    Kinda, although I fully agree with everything else you said. Collective action is really difficult even when the government isn't running COINTELPRO-like operations on anyone who tries to organize anything like a mass protest. For an example of the challenge of collective action, think about how hard it is to get your group of close friends to agree on which restaurant to go to and when. And that's when everyone wants to hang out together, with nobody intentionally mucking up the works.

    If we can overcome the "internal" hurdles to collective action, we can take back the country.

  • 🤏🤏🤏

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  • This is actually a very significant factor. The guideline is that an ocean freighter spotted on the horizon will be on you in five minutes (guideline, we know the math doesn't exactly check out). That doesn't leave a lot of margin for being away from the helm or distracted while on watch.

  • 🤏🤏🤏

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  • Ocean-going sailor here. Some people might be surprised how often some people have trouble avoiding huge ships. These days, we have modern systems such as AIS, Doppler radar, proximity alarms, and all can be integrated into autopilot. Yet there are still so many stories of near-misses with tankers, freighters, and container ships.

  • What exactly is this behaviour called?

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  • What 'bad' movie could you fix with a simple casting change?

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  • I still want to visit the alternate timeline where Lucas didn't cave to fan pressure. And the big reveal in Ep 3 is that Jar Jar is revealed to be the Sith Lord. Could Lucas have pulled off a Shyamalan-level surprise? We'll never know.

  • "I expect every member of the Department to log in, learn it, and incorporate it into your workflows immediately. Al should be in your battle rhythm every single day" says Pete Hegseth

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  • First of all, fucking LOL at Google Gemini being secure.

    Look, I'm all for hating on AI. I also have zero love for any of the tech giants. But this is a just plain ignorant statement. Google and most every cloud services provider have sovereign cloud offerings. Accessing any data above Unclassified is progressively more difficult. Humans are the weak link in the security chain.

  • Alien v Pitch Black

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  • Can you name any other character in Pitch Black besides Riddick?

    You mean like Jack (both actresses), the Imam (Keith David!), Radha Mitchell, and Claudia Black? I'm generally bad at character names, but can recall the actors.

  • Alien v Pitch Black

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  • Screw your Ripley-Riddick movie. Let Ripley stay dead. Oh, who I am kidding? I'd totally go see your movie in the theater. At least twice. :D

    Now, if there were a Riddick-Xeno crossover with Mae, Zula Hendricks, and The Jackals, I'd be all over that (too).

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  • Now that you mention it, a lack of sexual uptightness seems generally anomalous in the US.

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  • Wait, is it really that rare to have a friend group with whom porn gets shared? My friends and I, men and women, share our favorite porn finds all the time. It's not for shock value, but sharing things we genuinely enjoy, much like a cool song, a great recipe, or an engaging book.

  • And my axe.

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  • The Adventure Bike That Will Outlive Its Owner

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    • Username checks out
    • This guy motorcycles
    • 300 pounds?! That kind of load was very noticeable on my FJR!

    Also, thank you for the thorough breakdown.

  • is this real?

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  • Are Crocs with socks Gentoo?

    A handful of my co-workers are Gentoo loyalists, and they wear CwS year-round. Contrary to the stereotype of CwS being the strongest possible birth control, these dudes are beating back the female suitors with a stick.

  • All Your Base Are Belong To Us

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  • There was a downtempo version of the song with more inflected voiceovers, around 2001 or 2002. I lost the video in a hard drive crash. If anyone happens to have this version, would they care to share?

  • What is the purpose of your life?

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  • The purpose(s) that drive me are:

    • share helpful knowledge and experience where they're welcome
    • sow beauty and light where I can
    • hopefully bring levity, a chuckle, and maybe a way out when things are dark
    • build strong communities wherever I can
    • elevate those around me and hopefully improve their day
    • strive to leave my spheres of influence better than I found them
    • find the positive or at least an opportunity for me to learn
    • enjoy the trip
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Fauja Singh, ‘world’s oldest marathon runner’, dies in road accident aged 114

    www.theguardian.com /uk-news/2025/jul/15/fauja-singh-worlds-oldest-marathon-runner-dies-road-accident-aged-114
  • Bicycles @lemmy.ca
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    Refurbished Bike Day: 1983 Rodriguez Sport Tourer

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick

  • AssholeDesign @lemmy.world
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    B&H Forces Users to View Financing Ad

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What Synthesizer Makes This Sound?

  • Bicycles @lemmy.ca
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    Surprise Blizzard

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    RefurbBD: 1986 Batavus Course

  • Film Photography @lemmy.world
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    Wappingers Falls Train Station | Canon A2e | Sigma 135mm f1.8 | Ilford XP2

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    South Station Boston | Canon A2e | Sigma 50mm 1.2 | Fuji SuperG 400 pushed 2 stops

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    Shakespeare Garden, Vassar College | Canon A2e | Sigma 50mm 1.2 | Fuji SuperG 400, pushed one stop

  • Bicycles @lemmy.ca
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    Refurbished Bike Day

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK Your Rights Around Dealing with Funerals and the Death Industry

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