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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by SilasX on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:08PM (#23022263)
Not to get too far on this tangent, but, for me, "jetty" doesn't evoke "jettison" but either:

1) Those little docks like in Venice (cf. "Let me off at this jetty" in The Last Crusade).

2) The jetty server library that Jenkins uses which shows up in error messages.

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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by hinkley on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:16PM (#23022369)
3) the short film that 12 Monkeys was based on
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by aaronbrethorst on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:29PM (#23022510)
La Jetée
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by supernova87a on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:31PM (#23022524)
3) A plank that pirates walk people off of into the water to be eaten by sharks.
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by sixstringtheory on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:37PM (#23022591)
Source? Never heard that, and not seeing it in cursory internet searches. IME it's just called "the plank."
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