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bikepedantic, to random
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Fancy a challenge? Here’s an ooooold Urban Arrow with a Daum motor (who?) and I think roller brakes for $3500 in Brooklyn https://www.facebook.com/share/vg9F6Ga2Zaj6sRSr/?mibextid=79PoIi

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@bikepedantic @Andres4NY

The UA doubles as a boat, so it's not the same

dx, to random
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Just me, fantasizing about dropping immovably large boulders at the entrances of every street that really ought to be pedestrianized

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@dx

Dumpsters filled with cement

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@dx To be fair, volcanic rocks falling from the sky are more likely in some parts of the country than others

pleaseclap, to random
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I support roaming around at night with your BMX bike and making ramps out of things with your boi

But please disassemble the ramp when you're done so that the 12 y/o versions of yourself that come along tomorrow don't break their arms

pleaseclap,
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This particular trio of 12 y/os just chickened out because this ramp is held up by a loose log and they are smarter than that lmao

pleaseclap, to random
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If you told me you might want a change, then you come to me with research that you did that conveniently supports your change in order to tell me to make the change, and I don't agree with your change, and it's a visual strategy and I'm the resident expert visual strategist AND the resident expert researcher,

then yes I'd be a real fucking idiot not to cross-examine your sources wouldn't I

JoBlakely, to random
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“One adviser to major Democratic Party donors provided a running list that has been shared with funders of nearly two dozen reasons why Biden could lose, ranging from immigration and high inflation to the president’s age, the unpopularity of Vice President Kamala Harris and the presence of third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”

This is delusional or a deliberate misrepresentation of why.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/28/democrats-freakout-over-biden-0016004

I say the latter….

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@JoBlakely The first list - the delusional one - is messaging guidance that exists specifically to deny and bury the criticisms in the second list. If they weren't aware of the second list, the first list wouldn't exist

achadwick, to random
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I got a single stick of Twix (extreme fun sized), and now I'm struggling with what to call it

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@achadwick When I get one of those I usually hold it up and say "This is an insult"

pleaseclap, to random
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People from Oregon be like "that's thicker than a snicker"

mcnado, to random
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The thing I don’t understand about folks who support what Israel is doing in Gaza is this — if as a child/teen, someone bombed their home, killed their family, made them see their friends incinerated or dismembered, what would they do?

Do people not understand how terrorism thrives? Hopeless young people, with little left to lose, are prime targets for terrorist recruiters. Give them a common enemy, and you’re all set. Israel has created another generation of two of Hamas.

pleaseclap,
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@mcnado They've learned morality from the state, politicians, and pundits: in the contemporary rhetorical sphere, declaring something "good" or "evil" is more often a statement of the speaker's partisan alignment, not an objective observation.

"Their team" does violence and scares "my team"? They are evil terrorists. "My team" does the same? That's just necessary for goodness to prevail.

ColinTheMathmo, (edited ) to random
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An answer to a 100-year-old puzzle. I say an answer, because there is still part of the question that's open.

EDIT: The author/discoverer is here on Mathstodon!

https://mathstodon.xyz/@vesatimonen

And his post of this:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@vesatimonen/112513347111148808

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@tretron @ColinTheMathmo Let's just melt it down and cast it

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@ColinTheMathmo I don't think these maths are accounting for the wood lost while cutting

pleaseclap, to random
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I must have been talking in my sleep because today's Temu ads are showing go-kart frames next to e-bike hub motors

pleaseclap,
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4x20" 2000W hub motors = an 8000W all-wheel drive kart

ben, to random
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Ok so there's like a massive amount of friction from submitting PDF files as resumes. PDF is great for Janice in HR- but Janice doesn't even read the fuckin thing anymore, now the computer takes the first pass- except the computer can't easily read fking pictures.

So why don't we have a json-based open data standard- with fields for experience, education, etc and then just use cute little markup templates to automatically make any resume JSON human readable when necessary

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@ben I mean, you're right, the reason you can highlight text in some PDFs is because that's actual text data in the file, not because your PDF reader is really smart at images

And you're also right, if you've ever tried to copy/paste that text you know PDF text encoding is frequently garbled

I'm not sure this adds up to abandoning the filetype for a different architecture as much as just fixing PDFs but I like what you're proposing as like, a threat

"Fix it, or we'll burn it down"

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If an agency or a marketer tells you they're not accountable to sales, thank them and cancel your deal

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The reason for marketing communications in business is to sell without salespeople

Brand recognition? is sales. Brand reputation? Sales. Publicity? Sales. Advertising? Sales. Partnerships? Sales. Events? Sales.

If these activities weren't about making sales, they wouldn't exist

pleaseclap,
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So what's happened is basically a negotiation. By enforcing the assumption that marketing isn't accountable to sales, two things happen:

Firstly, when sales are down, leadership doesn't get to blame marketing (first). This is good, because marketing strategies require long-term investment.

Secondly, the marketing team doesn't get commission. This is bad because it removes incentives to do well and keeps marketers in a median salary bracket while salespeople break out and get rich

pleaseclap,
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Which is one reason why you see a lot of marketing agencies and not a lot of sales agencies: as an external partnership the marketer has more negotiating power and can get a larger share of the expected revenue per their effort.

pleaseclap, to random
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my jr. designer when given an open-ended assignmen: "Eh, meh, idk, I haven't been working on it"

my jr. designer when given a deadline: "Sorry it took me so long (two hours)(yes I know we don't need it until next week)"

pleaseclap, to random
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I wrote: "T.You" as a note two weeks ago and I've spent most of this week wondering what the hell I was trying to communicate

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It's gotta be "Thank You"

pleaseclap, to StarTrek
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So I'm on Episode 3 of Strange New Worlds and it's true that it's classic Star Trek - we just make up new science to save the plot, and

this one hits different, like the writers aren't really interested in disguising the hand-waving: it's all part of the fun.

Which I enjoy but I was wondering if anyone else noticed?

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When one of the actors laughs involuntarily, breaking character while delivering a particularly absurd science explanation, I believe the director must have left it in on purpose

They're just feeling the way we're all feeling

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"Professor Thandie, of Finnibus Three"

This must be the dungeons and dragons episode

wegonnaseeno, to random
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Stories of suburban insanity: there is a gentleman who lives a five minute walk from our place. When we moved into the neighborhood, it was one of the first houses we noticed on our walks because of the holiday decorations.
This person drove old corvette stingrays, I believe? As best as I can tell, he’s had at least two, perhaps three in my time here. He regularly wrecks the car because when someone on the road revs their engine at him, he can’t back down from the challenge. (1/x)

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@wegonnaseeno A lot of these facts in isolation are indistinguishable from incompetence, but the saga as a whole is hard to explain without somebody working hard to keep him on the outside

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