JayleneSlide @ JayleneSlide @lemmy.world

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250kg GVWR on a folding chassis is some proper capacity. And ~27kg for a folding longjohn seems entirely reasonable. My Larry vs Harry Bullitt was ~21kg.

Abstract rational logic seems to be very poor in this place. I often forget how the elementary must be tediously explained.

Or... you're not nearly as smart as you think you are. You might be extremely intelligent and well-read, but you are plenty fucking stupid. There's no point in having ideas, regardless of quality or merit, if you can't convey them such that people can understand them.

Am I imagining it, or do they have serious Tiny Dick Energy?

All the tacticLOL hardware, rolling with the whole crew, and motherfucker feels the need to aim his pepper ball gun threateningly? I hope those small, insecure men get every ounce of hell they deserve.

Like the ones embedded in the sink perimeter? If so, those always tasted terrible to me; descaling them is a pain. I can't bring it over to my brewing setup. All the ones I used had a fixed temperature that was too hot for delicate teas and too cold for light roast beans. Also, for making a proper pour over coffee, you need a scale to precisely gauge how much water you're putting through the beans.

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.

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.

Oh! That is an angle I didn't consider. I'll start looking into possible signals I can send. Thanks!

In my opinion bicycles should not have a high beam

This is StVZO-compliant light, i.e. has a sharp beam cutoff.

Look inside, do any components look fried?

Tracing the circuit was my first thought. It would be difficult to open the housing non-destructively. Even if I could open the housing, getting it back together and restoring its IP rating would be sloppy at best.

Can you get the led to light by applying the a low voltage with a current limiting resistor directly to it?

Yes, the low beam works starting at ~7V with the negative and positive supply attached as pictured.

ENJOY YOUR FUCKING HOLIDAYS! I HOPE IT'S HOG-CRANKING, TOP-EVERYTHING RANKING! AROOOOOO!

AND, UH, SERIOUSLY... WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST!!!

The North Carolina! So many childhood days spent touching everything I could.

"Reached the clearing at the end of the path" - Stephen King, "Dark Tower"

In the process of dying: "Circling the drain."

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.

Right?! I once read somewhere that Eco researched "Foucault's Pendulum" for 25 years. Yep, that reads like a 25 year long research paper. :D

I had a 2-hour train commute, each way. I managed to get through all of his novels and essays in about a month of commuting.

Right there with ya. Tolkien's expository wanking is legendary. I put Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn up there with Tolkien for their excess of exposition.

Repeatedly using a blatantly false assertion is called the Big Lie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie). The derailing/zone flooding aspect, as @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world stated, is a Gish Gallop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop). There might be a term for using these together, but I am not aware of of what it might be.

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.

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.

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).

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

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.