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JayleneSlide

@ JayleneSlide @lemmy.world

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  • [discussion] cars are so fucking stupid

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  • My general contractor buddy once explained to me the state of plumbing: "We used to make plumbing with lead and cast iron pipes, but that old tech would only last 50 to 100 years before it needed major maintenance. Then we modernized with copper pipes, which gave us about 20 years of working life. We really stepped into the modern age with PVC pipes, which generally give us a solid eight years of working life."

    That said, I redid my house and sailboat with PEX, and it's been solid AF. And anything that can survive being on a blue water sailboat is probably going to last a century in a house.

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    What makes a horror movie good to you?

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  • Horror movies, at their core, are about subverting expectations. You cite "Suspiria" and "Midsommar" as favorite movies. The second and third acts of both movies are a massive subversion of audience expectations. And the best horror movies can most jarringly break what viewers anticipate, all without using jump scares.

  • I'm a cyber major, but what should I minor in?

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  • Technical writing and/or communications. I got my minor in TechComm, and it has been my sharp end into every job. "You can communicate effectively across a wide range of media for a wide range of use cases?! Hired!"

    Public presentation, meetings, project management, interpersonal dynamics, documentation, elucidating articles, proposals, DevRel, requirements gathering, specifications, business analyses, enrichment of peers' skills... All dependent on tech writing and tech comm skills.

    TW also makes a decent fallback if (when) you burn out. Hypothetically, let's say you burn out at the 15 year mark. You'll have solid, senior- or principal-level skills and experience in your field which allows you to effectively liaise with professionals in your field. You could switch temporarily to a TW role, move into project or product management, or take over the docs backlog. And there is always a docs backlog.

    Since you brought up IT: networks and hardware are always going to require hands-on personnel. It's a solid career choice; just be ready for the continuous learning curve (like most things computing).

  • Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more

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  • My anecdote was unclear; I apologize. My parents suuuuuuck, are boring AF except as a case study of Conservatives, and their only contribution to the world will be their absence when they're gone. My parents' best friends were a lifelong exemplar on how to live life and leave things better,

  • Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more

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  • Growing old is compulsory; growing up is optional. My boomer parent besties (Edit to clarify: the best friends of my lame-ass boomer parents) taught me that. They were awesome, hard-partying, and so full of life. They would take me for long weekends and vacations with them, doing fun shit including breaking his RC cars doing ill-advised shit. He was an EE for Phillips NA and she was an EE for IBM. We stayed in close touch until they died.

    If my own parents are what adulthood looks like, nah, I'm good, thanks.

  • Robocop and Terminator crossover

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  • What's the band name?

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  • Meow Mix

  • Antifa uniform

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  • I agree that there was unfavorable media coverage of the Vietnam Conflict. There was also a fire hose of positive media coverage, as well as a very intensive campaign to conceal how badly things were going, along with a lot of disinformation around why the US was there in the first place. Hell, I recall reading newly disclosed details about the Gulf of Tonkin Incident not too long ago.

    Anecdotally, my family were boat people fleeing the Communist regime. To this day, to a one, they are all hard-line Conservative, even when subjected to profiling under this administration. I like to think I'm somewhat informed and have certainly consumed a lot of media regarding the US and Vietnam. Somehow, I only first heard of the My Lai Massacre around 2005. Again, merely anecdote, but media control by the governments is a hell of a drug.

    My original points stand: we get to Monday morning quarterback a lot of shit; better an imperfect ally than more enemies; and however long it takes for someone to come around, better that they come around than not.

  • Antifa uniform

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  • You are using a modern, privileged metric informed by an intensive media penetration that was unavailable during the first three campaigns you mention, and only to a slightly higher degree in the last two.

    Most enlisted I have known, and it's a lot, thought they were defending the world from despots. Hell, even the officers I know initially thought they were serving the public good. The rest I know who don't fit into that category just wanted to be able to afford college and a family.

    And even if the Marine in the picture knows NOW he only served a bloodthirsty tyrannical regime, the fraternity of the USMC, the commitment to the Constitution... It's some deep, deep connection. Even the most disillusioned Marines I know are still loyal to the Corps and the Constitution. Moreover, it is better that one realizes US hegemony later than never, yes? So how about we welcome those have opened their eyes and remedied their ways?

    Or we can just keep shitting on allies and see how that works for us.

  • An exclusive, members only restaurant with a limited menu. Some people pay top dollar for that

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  • Wants Costco for a first date? Absolute keeper. Loads of green flags there.

  • Some photos I took, advice wanted

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  • Get closer so that your subject occupies more of the frame. Use a wider aperture to get narrower depth of field so that your subject pops more relative to the fore and background. When possible and reasonable, control the light with... lights. Control in this context can be reflectors, strobes, snoots, gobos, flashlight, cardboard (blocking light from portions of your scene), whatever works. Try both natural and unusual lighting angles to get desired details to pop. Just be sure pay attention to color temperature of any lights you use.

    If you're new to color correction and white balance, get yourself a calibration card. It can totally be a cheapie to start out. Hell, I still use cheapies. Protect it from UV light when not in use. Set the card in your scene at the beginning and end of your shoot. Those pics will make it easier to define baseline color corrections for your session.

  • Bike repair stand recommendations?

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    • What's your budget?
    • How strong are you, i.e. what is your capacity for repeatedly lifting a heavy bike into the stand?
    • What is your anticipated build weight?
    • How much floor space do you have/need?
    • How many steps to your tool bench? Will you need additional trays attached to your workstand?
    • Do you have wheel truing available elsewhere or will you also want wheel-work management with your stand?
    • Will you need the stand to be portable or put away when you are done wrenching?

  • Trump Backs Pride Flag Ban as Allies Spread False Claims Tying Transgender People to Violence

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  • What were the handful of instances wherein violence wasn't required to defeat fascists?

  • i don't know if my ex really did like me.

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  • Not enough context to say. And really, my opinion one way or another is (and should be) worthless. If you feel used, your perception here is necessarily valid regardless of how grounded in reality.

    The key here is to examine your own interpersonal template and remedy whatever it is that results in these relationship dynamics in which you keep finding yourself. If you weren't actually in an exploitative relationship, it's up to you to address the thought patterns that led you to believe that. If the relationship was exploitative, then it's up to you to address your traumas and lack of boundaries that precipitate these relationships.

    I'll close with: all relationships are transactional in one way or another. The exchange might not always be immediately apparent, yet can be utterly benign and mutually beneficial. Just because someone wants something from you doesn't mean it's nefarious. You need to define your boundaries and needs, then be explicit about that with potential partners.

  • i don't know if my ex really did like me.

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  • highkey tired of people who only like me platonically getting with me because it's only them who try to date me, then they realize they don't like me or didn't like me all along and just played with me because they didn't want to feel bad

    can't help but be upset and i do not wanna see my ex at all, but she's such a nice person

    These are some awful feelings with which to grapple. The need to be appreciated, cherished, and nurtured is why we enter into relationships.

    There is opportunity for you here to find people who fulfill your companionship needs. However, the corollary is: out of all your past relationship failures, the common thread is you. There is something in your interpersonal template that attracts you to people who treat you badly, attracts such people to you, or some combination thereof.

    I hope you can find healing, growth, and the companionship you crave.

  • YSK about 15 bean soup.

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  • Result: there are 16 beans.

  • AMA: I test rode the Savic electric motorcycle today.

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  • I've ridden electric stuff with really bad/jerky throttles

    What are those models with bad throttle response?

  • Gatorskin wearing out fast

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  • My commute used to be 52 miles every weekday. Gatorskins very quickly proved themselves to be a hard no. Those tires somehow magically merge low traction and low longevity. Tread wears out quickly, sidewalls degrade quickly, and flat resistance was on par with tires that don't claim to be hard-wearing. I've had sidewalls start to delaminate in under 500 miles. After about a year of that chaos, I switched to Vittoria Rubino Pro III on most of my bikes and never looked back.

    While I have no love for Conti Gatorskins, that chunk looks like it was initiated by a lateral cut. The top edge looks very clean, while the remaining edges look torn.

    I generally mistrust Conti tires regardless of mode. I had a new car and motorcycle that both came with Contis. Just terrible. Switched to Michelins on the motorized vehicles. That resulted in better traction, better ride, and better wear.

  • Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism?

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  • I have a hypothesis that the Nassau pirates were a successful socialist economy. The Flying Gang/Republic of Pirates was founded mostly from former privateers (legally sanctioned and "licensed" marauders). The democratic and socialist nature of the republic was a growing threat to royalty and the American ruling class, especially given that Africans could be full crew members and even captains with all the rights afforded those roles. Furthermore, European royalty and American capitalists were the only ones "allowed" to pillage native lands. The pirates were in turn sacking European and American ships of their ill-gotten and exploitative gains.

    Having a socialist, comparatively egalitarian and equitable society amidst the Carribean sugar plantations was too much of a threat to the ruling classes. The pirates were ruthlessly pursued and purged from history. Sure, King George I (and some others? don't recall) first tried to bring the Nassau pirates (back) into the fold with offers of amnesty. This is analogous to offering modern engineers well-paying jobs; most terrorists whose names you know start out as engineers*. The ruling classes first wanted to put the pirates' skills to use for their own gain. Benjamin Hornigold was one who returned, hunting down his former peers.

    *think about that the next time you run across a bored, disgruntled engineer

    I find it very odd that books on the golden age of piracy all remark how the pirates supposedly kept no records, yet discuss at length how the pirates had healthcare, disability, pensions, equitable wealth distribution... these things all require assiduous record-keeping. And so my bullshitspiration is that there were records. But the campaign to wipe out the pirates was so thorough that we are now led to believe that the pirates were just brigands and chaotic anarchists.