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  • I started out as a mountain biking kid with my dad, but pretty much exclusively road bike now. To be honest, I routinely go over grass and dirt on my road bike for shortcuts, as long as you’re careful it’s fine. Especially if you throw slightly more robust tires on them and it’s more the occasion than the rule I wouldn’t worry about it.












  • niucllos@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldSomebody Fucked Up
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    1 year ago

    During Obama’s first campaign Bill Clinton came and spoke at a local college (maybe for Hillary? I’m not sure tbh, I was like 12), and I climbed up a statue plinth outside the speech zone to better see. Some guy in a black suit came and told me to get down immediately



  • niucllos@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlWYM I'M UNQUALIFIED?!
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    1 year ago

    It’s definitely not a perfect system and you’re absolutely right that it significantly favors people with strong support and safety nets, especially those of a financial nature.

    That being said it’s a very easy shorthand for a company to take and is reliable enough to keep using it, just like how financial institutions in the US use SSNs as private identifiers because it’s easier and cheaper than running and supporting their own systems/assessments and mostly works well enough





  • Because companies mostly don’t want the degree to prove skill sets, which is why they don’t generally ask for transcripts, just that you have a degree in a somewhat related field. The value of a bachelor’s degree to a company is that it proves the applicant is capable of undertaking a ~4 year commitment, achieving a tangible result, and that they pass a threshold competence at navigating beaurocracies and interacting with other humans. The specific skills/experience the company wants are much better assessed using prior experience, interviews, assessments, etc.