ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Have you noticed this where you work? 1 day ago:
I’ve had many coworkers over the years who made their greatest contributions to the company by doing nothing. In programming, the amount of damage some people can do by actually doing stuff is almost inconceivable.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 3 days ago:
Hot Dog Self-Harm Assistant
- Comment on The right kind of vibe 4 days ago:
No, it wasn’t WMMS (unless my memory is even worse than I thought). It was a different station although I don’t remember which one. They called themselves “the End” (hence the song), maybe WEND? I dunno. They had that one DJ who had relocated from LA for the gig.
I stopped listening after that one Barenaked Ladies song started getting played once an hour. “It’s been” had me changing the channel so fucking fast it even happened when it was used in their promos. Good god do I hate that fucking song.
- Comment on The right kind of vibe 5 days ago:
obviously the product of too much booze, coke, and resultant self-confidence
And that’s exactly how Toto got the gig doing the soundtrack for the 1984 version of Dune.
- Comment on The right kind of vibe 5 days ago:
sare-en-get-EEEEEEEE
- Comment on The right kind of vibe 5 days ago:
A radio station where I grew up (Cleveland) switched formats to alternative/grunge/whatever in 1990 or 1991 and they kicked this off by playing that song over and over for three straight days. It was a surreal experience to hear it on the radio every time I went to drive anywhere. For me, this was the real moment the '90s began (the other contenders being the premiers on MTV of “Groove is in the Heart” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit”).
Apparently many stations all over the country switched formats the same way, by playing “End of the World as We Know It” over and over again.
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 1 week ago:
Based on Hollywood’s current casting priorities, it would have to be a Subaru.
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 1 week ago:
Not quite the same timeframe, but that clip of the surviving members of The Doors listening to Skrillex is one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
If employers had to pay employees for their commute time, that would be the end of RTO.
Maybe. I still don’t understand the economics of making people come in to work when the companies have to pay rent on the spaces where employees work.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
I think his strategy was to tell his bosses he had run out of fuel and wouldn’t be able to make the rest of his deliveries. But I dunno, the articles about this never said what his thought process was. I drive past this station twice a day and the stink from it was horrible. 8000 gallons is a lot of fucking gas.
This reminds me that years ago I was friends with a bunch of Red Bull girls. Their job was to pick up the Red Bull mini-cooper, fill it with cases of Red Bull and then drive around handing out free samples wherever people were while being attractive. They were very good at the being attractive part, but most days they would just drive to the river, dump the cases of Red Bull in it, and then go home and get high. Their bosses suspected something like this was going on and gave them all Windows Mobile PDAs that tracked their location by GPS. I checked out the tracking app (I was a Windows Mobile developer at the time) and it turned out it just logged their GPS coordinates once an hour into a plain text file. I showed them how to edit the file to make it look like they were driving around – just doing my part saving at least some people from trying fucking Red Bull.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
Eh, if the public has all been replaced by AI, they won’t have money to go anywhere.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
Just a couple of years ago in my neighborhood a truck driver was arrested because he offloaded 4000 gallons of gasoline at a gas station, then ran the hose down an embankment next to the station and pumped the remaining 8000 gallons into a creek. He did this because he wanted to go home and didn’t feel like making the rest of his stops. He apparently thought nobody would notice; for bonus points this was right next to a charter school which had to be evacuated while they cleaned up the mess.
He was arrested and sentenced to 20+ years in prison. This is the intelligence level that can get hired as a fuel truck driver (TBF I’m sure they’re not all that stupid).
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
The point is moot. With diesel skyrocketing they won’t be able to drive at all.
- Comment on Title goes here 2 weeks ago:
At my first professional programming job workspace was tight so I was given a desk in the server room. This room was kept at 59°F because mainframes that the company didn’t even have any more required it. It sucked – I had to wear fingerless Oliver Twist gloves all day. I blame the cold for my executing a DELETE query without a WHERE clause on the production database. “Why is this taking so long?” I muttered through blue lips.
- Comment on Anon gets in a bad mood 2 weeks ago:
I prefer lobotomy, but then I always did idolize the Kennedys.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 3 weeks ago:
I’m a school bus driver and drug testing is a DOT mandatory requirement. Some of the districts around me have a reputation for making sure the “random” tests are only give to the drivers they know will pass, so a driver just has to keep clean long enough to pass the initial screening.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 3 weeks ago:
I was a programmer for 25 years and never had a drug test in that time. No employer ever even contemplated doing it.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been tested only twice in my life (I’m nearly 60), once while in college for an engineering internship at IBM and once five years ago when I started driving a school bus. I actually failed the IBM drug test (for marijuana) but they just told me to “clean up my act” and gave me the intership anyway. I’m kind of OK with drug testing school bus drivers only because there’s not really any way of testing whether or not a driver is currently high. On the other hand, they don’t regularly test drivers for alcohol and it’s more common than most parents would want to know for drivers to be drunk.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 3 weeks ago:
the only thing I noticed was the return of dreams
Same thing happened to me. I quit wake-and-baking about five and a half years ago because I felt it had just taken over too much of my life. Shortly afterward I became a school bus driver, which requires an initial drug screening and then you’re subject to random tests thereafter. I’m a little pissed that I’ve never been selected for the random test, which means I could have been happily puffing away for the last five years.
The dreams are insanely weird and happen every time I sleep, even just a short nap. Most of the dreams are about me messing up driving a school bus and losing my job; one dream was me driving through high school hallways with kids scattering in all directions while thinking I really shouldn’t be doing this. I never dreamed at all when I was smoking.
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 3 weeks ago:
The Republican strategy for decades was to target fifth-grade intelligence. Trump’s political innovation was to target third-grade intelligence.
- Comment on Anon uses AI in a smart way 3 weeks ago:
Prompt engineer? No, prompt whore.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 3 weeks ago:
I was on private health insurance for a couple of years. My premium was over $300 a month and my deductible was $7000. I had looked for an ACA policy on the government website but something with the same level of deductible was closer to $1000 a month. What really sucked is that my private policy did not qualify for the exemption from the fine you had to pay for not having health insurance. Somehow I never had to pay the fine, I dunno why not. I’m sure my policy also would have fucked me if I’d ever tried to collect on it, but fortunately I was completely healthy during that stretch.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s just their lebensraum, nothing to be concerned about at all.
- Comment on I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER 3 weeks ago:
I got the moobs like Jagger.
- Comment on I can't help myself, they're eggcellent. 3 weeks ago:
Fresh! I don’t grow that shit for no reason.
- Comment on I can't help myself, they're eggcellent. 3 weeks ago:
I like to make half with paprika and half with diced chives, around Christmastime. I think that’s the only valid reason to not put paprika on them.
I might get some hate because I used spanish smoked paprika instead of the hungarian variety.
- Comment on I can't help myself, they're eggcellent. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never even thought to buy pre-made deviled eggs. Never even seen them for sale, for that matter.
I might buy pre-boiled eggs in a pinch, though.
- Comment on I can't help myself, they're eggcellent. 3 weeks ago:
I try to keep it down to three
Three eggs … meaning six halves, right?
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 4 weeks ago:
the average person isn’t using AI for anything important
You’re discounting all the students who are using AI to make it seem like they’re learning something.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it has gotten progressively worse, only because it couldn’t.