shalafi

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

Huh, that's exactly what it appears to be. Never heard of those.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Something wrong with inspiring stories?

The chances of that happening to the average person

Pure lemmy right there. Hard work is useless and derided. Only chance determines success. What a miserable way to navigate life. Is there a word for "economic incel"?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Democrat Josh Stein up 53% to Robinson’s 36%

JFC, how is it not 95% to 5%?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

“Your 'best'! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.”

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Corporations are simply groups of people, and people are terrified of being blamed for failure. The dumb things we see corporations doing are often cases of many people making small, super-safe decisions. Big names and big visuals attract eyeballs so that's a safe decision. Writers may be a swing and a miss, risky.

This is why a good CEO is paramount. They can take the risks that drive success. Of course some are cowards and only look to drive the needle one tick over, quarter after quarter, so the board doesn't fire them. But leaders like that will never hit it out the park.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Figured this out some time back. Firing a manager is an admission of failure by someone even higher.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I was making sandstone pyramids as a child. Ground them on the sidewalk.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

they're hoarding billions of cash in bank

Lemmy's understanding of wealth right there.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 29 points 4 hours ago

I actually was going along with this for 2 split seconds.

"Wait. WAIT! Is she serious?!"

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I'd argue the Boomers are a fair cut above Gen Z. We Gen X folk are the greatest!

Seriously though, we straddled the digital divide. We went from nothing to having to figure it all out. All when we were young and able to learn quickly. FFS, we couldn't play a simple video game without understanding drives, IRQs, CLI, all that.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

rainbow table

You win the thread. That is straight up out the old school Player's Handbook.

 

Finished a short horror tale yesterday. Is there a spot on lemmy that would get it read and criticized?

 

She had interviewed and met both remotely and in person, this guy was merely an HR drone confirming her documentation. I was a little bent when she told me he had asked her to remove her blur filter "to have a look at her working environment, make sure it's not cluttered" (something along those lines). No one else at this company requested such. Was he way out of line?

I should note, this is my PC in our living room and not where she will be working from. And this guy wants a look around our home?! Told my wife to bring this up once she's settled in, ask HR if this is policy. She started today!

She thinks it's a racism thing. I'm not so sure, but I don't have any other explanation.

 

Where do I begin to even see if I'm interested?

 

I'm wanting something to run around the hood and offroad, mostly in deep sand. An electric version of this: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/coleman-mini-bike-bt200x-g

What else do I need to be concerned about?

 

Got a couple of acres in a NW Florida swamp. Been hearing Barred Owls for years.

How do I spot one? And tricks other than sitting still and being quiet? They seem to come pretty close. Can I "bait" them somehow with a box or something they would like to visit?

Funny story: First night I camped, three were doing their call/response thing. Every time they called, closer, and closer. Freaky sounding, one of the calls sounds almost like a child crying out.

For some reason, my idiot self thought coyotes were closing in. (Yes, I know well what coyotes sound like.)

Got a little freaked, grabbed my .410 (tiny shotgun) and decided to take the fight to them, scare 'em off (didn't want them rooting around my site). Again, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, promptly got lost.

Got home, "Hey Google! What do coyotes sound like?" Oh FFS. I am not a clever man.

Saw a Pileated Woodpecker the other day though! Super cool and way bigger than I thought.

 

Saw this on the table. Been waiting all year for the prism to start working well!

 

It stands to reason he must have been doing something right to have stayed so close to the halls of power.

I was a toddler when he was carpet bombing Cambodia, never knew him as anything but "an important person" that was sometimes on the TV. Only learned of his crimes in the past decade.

How did an in-your-face war criminal retain such influence for so long?

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by shalafi@lemmy.world to c/armedqweers@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

I'm an old (GenX), straight, white, American guy, but I'm right with you all.

I might say things that are offensive, because I can't pretend to be in your shoes and might get something wrong. I'm often just trying to understand. Hell, I didn't figure out that gay rights are civil rights, my rights, our rights, until 10+ years ago.

It's 100% OK if you want to keep this a non-cis space. I get that and won't be butthurt.

(If shotguns are your jam, I got many more to post! Weirdly, of all the antique and vintage shotguns I have, this cheap-ass Turkish thing runs like a dream.)

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