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[–] 956@piefed.social 46 points 1 week ago

The remaining developers want to shutter it, as they say they feel they've been burned too many times.

[–] 956@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'll be honest, I did not watch much of this. I was too amped on SMX and then spent Sunday at a BMX race. Herlings and Coenen again in 450, tho I which we knew what happened to Herlings race 1.

250, other Coenen as well. Langenfelder stumbles, Triumph boys still looking good. Gotta mention Valin's first win too, guy was amped. Love to see it.

[–] 956@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Surprise surprise, the 250 class will be hard to nail down. Hammaker finally gets his win, which is wild cause he seems to always be hovering around the margins, but bad luck has usually followed him everywhere. Shimoda with a disappointing showing, Kitchen with poor starts and mistakes, Beaumer leading some in his return, Davies being healthy and showing some speed. The racing itself may not be close every week, but I imagine the chaos of the week-to-week points will be fun to follow.

Lawrence wins 450! But not the Lawrence most expected. Hunter wins without much issue, with Prado giving some fight but likely being happy to just be near the front given his tumultuous time with Kawasaki. Deegan has lackluster starts in his debut, mixes it up with Jett but doesn't have the speed, and finished top 5. Jett still suffering from that injury for the time being, but still looks fast. JCoop looks good as well. Big story obviously Tomac with his neck injury, pretty gutted for him. Hopefully he is alright, but hard to tell where that puts him in his career. May be curtains for him.

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[–] 956@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

You don't need a law. The US has codified protected classes through quite a bit of different areas like housing, employment, and education; they are race, religion, sex (and factors such as pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity (but who knows with this one), national origin, age (if over 40), and disability/genetic condition. If it isn't one of those things, then selecting employees based on other traits is not discrimination in the legal sense. You can absolutely bring suit against the employer, but you are the one fighting the uphill battle arguing why unwed non-virgin should be a protected class. It's also an incredibly hard thing to pursue, because the employee must prove that is why they were fired and that alone, while the employer can just say "that and they didn't fit values/they were late/I don't like their voice". Employees don't often win.

The employee who was fired while pregnant may well have some case, because they basically admit it's due to the pregnancy, but who knows where it lands in court because the pregnancy is used as proof of other supposed rule violations.

[–] 956@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Nah you're good lol. I have a lot of clients who aren't intelligent, but they aren't dumb either. It was more just me making a general distinction and not a commentary on you.

[–] 956@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As a matter of "fact", I work with a bunch of people in the left half of the bell curve. We regularly complete psychological testing, and it's uncommon that clients are above 100 IQ, tho it's not surprising when it happens. I would be hesitant to call anyone under 100 IQ "dumb" though. There is a certain level of intent behind it, I think. "Willfully stupid" is a better description.

However, I have recently had a client who called out of work because he "had a horn growing out of his stomach".

It was a skin tag.

[–] 956@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Herlings and Coenen show in 450, but the story was Tom Vialle red-flagging moto 2, taking Tim Gajser with him. Both would have bike issues and not be allowed to swap, so neither placed in moto 2.

MX2 class looks more wide-open than I previously thought. Farres is looking strong as of late, along with Triumph teammate McLellan. Langenfelder gained some space on Coenen after a lackluster moto 1. If Liam Everts and Camden McLellan can stay consistent, find a little more speed, we could have a sweet 5-way fight for MX2.

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[–] 956@piefed.social 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I assume the baby is in the other hard case, seeing as the one on the ground is no longer "on board"

[–] 956@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

Roczen finally did it. I swore he won a championship in SX before but I was mistaken. Just felt like he'd been there before. After his insane crash in 2017, re-injury in 2018, and then just general struggle for consistency and stamina, it's nice to see him win. Also I've been dying for an old man championship for a while now with Tomac, and we finally get one for Ken. Hopefully Eli is good for start of MX, nasty crash in the heat has me worried for his already injured hip.

Hunter rode well, but Ken played it right biding his time instead of sprinting out and gassing himself. Hunter went down chasing, and that was that. Sexton win going until MX, Prado continues to look more comfortable each week, I think he is going to be a monster in MX.

Cole Davies and Deegan Rd 2 and Davies wins. Makes contact on his own, to the body, and muscles Deegan out. Deegan comes back and folds himself. I think we'll see a bit of this in his first year or 2 on 450, but I've been wrong before. Cole looked great, and Star Yamaha is firmly in the spot Pro Circuit Kawasaki used to hold where they won everything.

[–] 956@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To give a little more nuanced answer, I don't think these are really mutually separate at this moment. They may not always be allies in the future but I think given current mechanisms, they're pretty intertwined with each other and will be for the foreseeable future.

[–] 956@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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