[-] SharkWeek 4 points 1 day ago

Came here to post this.

I woke up sweaty and screaming from nightmares about the ending several times, up to 6 months after seeing it.

I may have been particularly susceptible, though, because I was living in Sheffield at the time and was badly affected by birth trauma.

[-] SharkWeek 20 points 1 day ago

Yes, this seems extra bizarre for that point.

Gross bigotry and incompetence often go hand in hand, though.

[-] SharkWeek 13 points 1 day ago

Because it makes the afternoons, when I want to be doing stuff, darker, and makes no difference to the mornings since I get to work before sunrise anyway, and we have lights for work ... ¿why do I have to sacrifice my winter afternoons?

[-] SharkWeek 3 points 2 days ago

The Baked Bean War.

I was there, and I remember.

[-] SharkWeek 1 points 3 days ago

I don't think Aliens has any CGI, just miniature and VFX stuff ...

Alien^3 does, and it's not horribly bad, but not great either.

[-] SharkWeek 4 points 4 days ago

Getting tattoos and piercings ... when I was little my Mum talked about how getting needles stuck in you was silly and very painful, and tattoos would mean you couldn't get a job, nobody would respect you, they'd look horrible when I was older, etc etc.

I fucking love my tattoos, wish I'd started getting them when I was much younger. On Saturday me and my wife are going to get booked in for matching tatts to celebrate our 10 year anniversary :-)

[-] SharkWeek 3 points 5 days ago

I watched Holland (2025, stars Nicole Kidman).

It's a weird slow pressure cooker of a movie, really enjoyed it :-) (avoid spoilers before watching if that sounds like your jam)

[-] SharkWeek 1 points 6 days ago

Mild by slash-fic standards, medium spicy by normie standards - IIRC there's one proper fully-described sex scene in each book. But the emphasis is on emotional connection ... to the point where, for me, the most sexy part of the whole 10.5 books is a specific first kiss because of how it was set up.

[-] SharkWeek 1 points 6 days ago

I grew up in a genuinely haunted house (built in the 1600s) and spent a lot of my youth in a haunted former pub, so ... yes, no problem, lol

[-] SharkWeek 1 points 6 days ago

I'm quite jealous that you get to read them for the first time :-)

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submitted 1 month ago by SharkWeek to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

Does anyone have links to proper research or statistics regarding the negative impacts or poor quality of AI in business processes?

My sister in law, who is an accountant and doesn't understand computing outside of Excel (in other words, not at all), has been put in charge of a project to offload as much work onto AI as possible.

She's been sent on a course regarding how to set up an AI instance, and has no idea where to go with it ... I'm not sure if she's being set up for failure, or if the upper management are incompetent, or if they're going through the motions to keep stock prices up. Since this is a large multinational, it could be all three at the same time.

I'd like to help her manage expectations of those above, so that she doesn't get burned when it all inevitably fails, hence asking for links to studies :-)

[-] SharkWeek 76 points 2 months ago

See also: following the rules too precisely.

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submitted 3 months ago by SharkWeek to c/womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone

Big text dump incoming ...

A couple of weeks ago I completely fell apart; I was ill, and pushed myself beyond my limits. The outcome was the most honest conversation I've ever had with my wife, and the conclusion we came to is that I need to air my emotions so I can process them healthily.

So, I've been trying to do that. I've cried at sad bits of TV shows, laughed joyously while teaching my wife to dance, and this last week at work I let myself be angry at incompetence.

When I was little I had emotional problems, and the solution at that time was physical discipline. Since coming through that I've been reserved and private, and taken a certain pride in being able to remain calm no matter what.

When I was angry at work I was careful not to direct it at a person, I focused on the task of fixing the problem. While doing this a member of my team came over to give me an update on his work, I nodded and said ok (all that was really needed) and he looked like a deer caught between the headlights.

I think I really scared him because he was subdued with me for the rest of the week, I've made sure he knows I wasn't angry with him.

So all that is to say, how do I deal with the guilt of scaring someone? I want him to be at ease around me ... my plan is to take some nice food in next week to share with everyone, but I haven't got any more tricks up my sleeve and I want to be able to express anger in a healthy manner in the future.

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submitted 4 months ago by SharkWeek to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

About a year ago I picked up a copy of Dirt 4 for very little money and put it on the side to play later (it appears that rally games drop in price when they no longer feature the latest cars).

One of the environments it features is Tarragona in Spain, which is where I live. Having actually started playing it I can say that the modeling and course design for my home stages is absolutely spot on - I live in a small village halfway up a small mountain which is often used for the WRC, and the stages really do feel like my daily commute.

The car handling, progression, team management stuff, etc, is good - with the variable difficulty settings it's very accessible to casuals like me :-)

At about 3/4 completion I'd give it top marks, and I'm enjoying it a lot more than the more simulation oriented rally games.

Screenshot for context

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submitted 5 months ago by SharkWeek to c/WomensStuff@lazysoci.al

My work is up and down like a yoyo at the moment, to help avoid doom scrolling during quiet patches I've decided to start reading (nobody at work is going to pay attention to plain text on my screen, we're all in the same boat).

I've got a copy of Naomi Altman's The Power to start off with ... any other recommendations?

(Obviously can't be anything smutty or very funny because I need to be low-key, and lighter stuff would be easier to pick up and put down when I have actual work to do)

Thanks in advance :-)

[-] SharkWeek 98 points 6 months ago

Yuuup. Woman in engineering here. I once had a supervisor whose behaviour I thought of as normal, but two guys I worked with separately reported him to HR for bullying after seeing how he treated me.

It's funny, I had many years with almost no career progression, now my boss is a woman and I'm having to get used to the idea that bonuses and promotions are things that actually happen when I work hard.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by SharkWeek to c/armedqweers

Hi, Iḿ not in the US, but earlier this year had the opportunity to try shooting firearms of various sorts for the first time, and it's something I'd like expand my knowledge about ... when I go on youtube the videos I've seen have been American with a right-wing lean which range from comedic, through surreal, and into creepy.

It would be nice to see content from people who are vaguely normal.

(Edit: especially if it has to do with revolvers!)

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submitted 1 year ago by SharkWeek to c/television@lemmy.world

Are there any other shows out there of this sort of lighthearted nature, yet made with quality writing, out there?

It feels like a lot of recent things we've watched has been a bit grim and/or relies on spectacle rather than telling a good story and working a few jokes in along the way ... the world is on fire, I'd like to stop it and get off, if only for a few minutes at a time.

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