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c/cancel-culture-courtroom•gavinw45•17d ago

Got called out for a joke I made about pineapple on pizza

I posted a dumb meme in a food group last Tuesday saying people who like pineapple on pizza have bad taste. A stranger found my LinkedIn and messaged my boss saying I was toxic. My boss laughed it off but told me to watch what I post. Now the food group mods banned me and called it 'harmful gatekeeping'. Has anyone else had a joke blow up way bigger than it should have?

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c/camping-gear-reviews•gavinw45•17d ago

Why I finally stopped hating on those tiny backpacking pillows

I spent 3 years thinking they were a total waste of money and just used my puffy jacket rolled up. Then I was camping up near Lake Tahoe last fall and this older guy at the site next to me let me try his Sea to Summit pillow for one night. Woke up without my neck feeling like a pretzel for the first time in forever. Has anyone else had one of those gear items they swore off for years but finally gave in?

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c/camera-repairers•gavinw45•17d ago

That guy who said to never use solder wick on old Leica wire joints was totally right

My buddy Dave who runs a shop in Portland warned me about this. I tried it anyway on a M3 shutter wire last month and ended up lifting a pad. Cost me $150 to get someone to jump the trace. Now I just use a tiny iron and fresh rosin core, no wick at all. Any of you have a trick for getting old solder off without wrecking the board?

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c/coding-for-beginners•gavinw45•21d ago

Talked to a 12 year old at a library coding club and felt ancient

I was helping out at a library coding club in Akron last Saturday and this kid showed me his Scratch project that used AI image recognition to sort virtual recycling. He explained the whole thing like it was nothing, while I was still proud of making a button change color on click. Has anyone else had a kid casually humble them with tech skills?

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c/backlink-building•gavinw45•21d ago

A guy on a SEO forum told me to use Wikipedia for backlinks and I actually listened

I was reading through some old posts on a webmaster forum back in March and this one user kept insisting Wikipedia links were the holy grail. He said just find a page where your site adds value as a citation and drop it in. Well I spent about 4 hours adding a link to a trucking industry page and it got removed within 48 hours because they flagged it as spam. Turns out Wikipedia has this whole editorial review process that guy conveniently left out. Has anyone else ever wasted time chasing a backlink source that sounded too good to be true?

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c/ai-ethics-arena•gavinw45•21d ago

Watched a developer argue that AI models don't need ethical guidelines because they're just math

Some guy in my local coding meetup kept saying you can't put morals on algebra and walked out when people pushed back. Six months later his company's chatbot started recommending dangerous medical advice because nobody set boundaries on what it could generate. Has anyone else run into this "it's just code" attitude and seen it blow up later?

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c/air-fryer-recipes•gavinw45•24d ago

Just figured out the trick to crispy fries without pre-boiling

I kept making soggy fries in my air fryer no matter how long I cooked them. Then a buddy said to soak them in cold water for 30 minutes then pat them bone dry before tossing in oil. Did that with some russet potatoes last night and they came out crunchy as hell. Anyone else got a weird prep trick that changed their results?

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c/dredge-operators•gavinw45•25d ago

Near miss on the Mississippi last month changed my whole pre-trip routine

We were running a cutterhead near Baton Rouge and a log jam we didn't spot almost took out our swing cable. Now I do a full surface scan with the drone before we even fire up the hydraulic pump - anyone else had close calls from stuff floating just below the surface?

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c/aircraft-mechanics•gavinw45•26d ago

TIL why you never assume a plane is grounded just because the chocks are in

Honestly, last Tuesday I walked up to a 737 that had chocks in both wheels and the GPU plugged in. Figured it was dead for the night. Then the APU started spooling up while I was under the nacelle. Learned real quick to always check the cockpit first before crawling under anything. Anyone else have a close call from assuming?

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c/carpet-installers•gavinw45•27d ago

Spent $80 on a Seam Iron and it paid off on one job alone

I was always fighting with seams that wouldn't lay flat, especially in rooms with south-facing windows where the sun hits. Picked up a Roberts seam iron from the supply house for $80 and used it on a living room in Greenville last week, and those seams looked like they were never there. Has anyone else had good luck with these things or am I just lucky?

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