ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Scary stuff and it wasn't that long ago 9 hours ago:
My mother was born in the mid-1930s and from time to time she likes to talk about “the good ol’ days” of her childhood when people respected each other blah blah blah. I remind her of the horrific racism and she’s like “but I didn’t even know any black people!” lol.
- Comment on So Deep 3 days ago:
The best my local wing place can do is to deep fry the wings, refrigerate the ones that don’t get sold and eaten, and deep fry them again the next day. Not literally the best way to have wings.
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 6 days ago:
I also saw Falling Water as a teen. I was in awe … of the fact that an artist could actually have the name “Lipchitz”.
- Comment on Send HOAs To the Stone Age 1 week ago:
Mine has that rule but I assumed it applied to the HOA board.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 week ago:
I originally sold my app on Beyond.com (which was originally software.net). They took 10% which didn’t seem too bad. One day they contacted me about giving my app a “freebate” – basically the app was still $29.95 but buyers could fill out a form and send it in and eventually (like months later) get their $29.95 back. Per their data only about half of buyers ever bothered to do this so it was effectively a 50% off deal. Beyond.com was supposed to give me about $10 per copy sold instead of the normal $27 to cover the freebate and they would make $5 per copy instead of their normal $3.
I said OK and they featured my app on their front page and sales went up like 100X and I was of course pretty happy. The funny part was that their accounting system was all fucked up and I kept getting $27 per copy sold even though the freebate was still in place. I actually tried contacting them multiple times about this to get the situation corrected and I could never get through to anybody who had any clue about what was going on. Eventually they went bankrupt and shut down and years later I got one of those class-action settlement checks in the mail without any explanation of what it was for. Maybe sales of my app were even better than they were telling me, I dunno. I’ve never once met a person in the real world who has ever even heard of the app so that doesn’t seem very likely.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 week ago:
He does like to launch into racist rants, but sometimes you just gotta hold your nose and swallow.
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 1 week ago:
Man, you are letting Mississippi off the hook here. I used to live in Louisiana but spent a lot of time working in Mississippi and I could not say which state is worse. The only good things about either one are the winter weather and the crawfish.
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 1 week ago:
Definitely cruel but not at all unusual. And as SCOTUS has determined, a punishment has to be both cruel and unusual to be unconstitutional.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 week ago:
It’s wild, I released a shareware music creation app for Windows back in 2000 and it was easy to get people to pay $29.95 for it. I now have a vastly superior iOS version and nobody’s willing to pay a dollar for it. It’s a very depressing situation for an independent developer.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 week ago:
I had my sewer line backing up into my basement a couple of months ago. My regular plumber was busy so I had to call in a company that I knew was an overpriced scam (“Dream Team” lol) but I had no choice since I had guests in the house for my father’s funeral. They came and of course they couldn’t clear the line and said they had to dig up and replace the whole thing. The guy had a special tablet that he showed me the three options and the prices on and it initially showed them all in dollars per month with “zero-interest financing”. I was like dude just show me the total cost. The three options were $17K, $22K and $36K total but the monthly payments actually decreased with increasing total price (naturally the payment option didn’t show how many total payments you would have to make).
Fortunately I called my regular plumber and he was so outraged at these motherfuckers that he came out that afternoon and cleared my line for me. Total cost $850.
- Comment on Long live the king 1 week ago:
I feel the movie was enhanced by the in-house organist.
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 1 week ago:
My aunt died in 2013. At the reception after the funeral, my cousin (her stepson) suggested that we all make a “Harlem Shake” video. He did not say whether or not he wanted my aunt to appear in it. I refrained from explaining to the older members of the family what a Harlem Shake video was.
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 2 weeks ago:
They did know that lead was toxic.
- Comment on The Truth Is Out There 2 weeks ago:
It’s insane that in this day and age people still believe in Bigfoot. It’s obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.
- Comment on This is why you should respect our vets 2 weeks ago:
My mother-in-law used to be a vet. When she sold her practice (to a national chain that told her explicitly that they were buying it to close it down and reduce their competition yay capitalism) she took home enough euthanasia drugs and syringes to take care of herself and everybody in her family if it ever comes to that. That’s probably the only thing you would actually want in a real apocalypse.
- Comment on Correlation equals causation 2 weeks ago:
Not directly relevant, but I’m surprised at how many people I’ve known over the years who think “correlation does not equal causation” means “correlation equals not causation”. In other words, they think correlation is somehow proof of a lack of causation. “Correlation does not necessarily mean causation” would be a better formulation of the original expression.
- Comment on Slay Girl 3 weeks ago:
Crows are complex, though. The ones that live around my house can often be found ganging up and chasing away the red-tailed hawks that like to snack on the squirrels. The squirrels repay the favor by chasing off the crows who come to eat the peanuts I leave out for them (and eating the peanuts themselves). One time the crows flew around above me making a godawful racket until I went to the back yard and freed a baby raccoon that had accidentally gone into the box trap I leave out for groundhogs; they immediately flew off as soon as I let the little guy out.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 5 weeks ago:
I took German in high school and forgot it all immediately. A decade later I found myself in India studying Malayalam, the language of Kerala which is the southern-most state in the country. Very hard language to learn but as I was studying its formal grammar I was like, wait a minute this is very familiar. Turns out a German monk in the 19th Century visited Kerala and gave Malayalam its first formal grammar, which was basically just German’s grammar. So it wasn’t totally useless.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 5 weeks ago:
I got out of the language requirement in college by taking computer science courses, which counted as “language” only because programming languages are called what they are. It is just the dumbest fucking shit. If they were called “paradigms” or “code instruction sets” or something like that (which would be just as or more accurate than “languages”) it never would have occurred to anyone to let us computer nerds – who are already not exactly well-rounded in general – to get out of learning a real fucking language.
- Comment on Zootopia 5 weeks ago:
Hare down there
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 5 weeks ago:
a and o are on opposite end of the keyboard
Maybe the author has a Dvorak keyboard layout (a and o are next to each other there).
- Comment on Can't stop won't stop 5 weeks ago:
drinking one glass of whisky
To be fair, medical professionals generally triple or quadruple patients’ reported alcohol consumption.
- Comment on Can't stop won't stop 5 weeks ago:
In college I arranged a co-op at IBM. They made me take a drug test which I failed (for marijuana). A person from IBM’s HR called me and said literally “you need to clean up your act” and they brought me in to do the co-op anyway. I have no idea what the fuck that was all about.
- Comment on Can't stop won't stop 5 weeks ago:
British cartoon pig?
- Comment on Good one 1 month ago:
I thought Muscadine was the actor in Kung Fu.
- Comment on Good one 1 month ago:
Since horse racing is all about betting: Zinfanduel.
- Comment on It's the truth! 1 month ago:
In Japan they’re called blue onions - neither blue nor onions.
- Comment on It's the truth! 1 month ago:
Cultures around the world divide the color spectrum up in wildly different ways, which really highlights the absurdity of “color” being a real, objective property. There’s one culture (I forget which, somewhere in Africa) where all the “dark” variants of colors are called by the same name. Other cultures often combine texture and other properties into their words for colors.
- Comment on It's the truth! 1 month ago:
It was “purpura” in Latin. OP said purple is relatively modern in English.
- Comment on It's the truth! 1 month ago:
In Japan green onions are called “blue onions”. I do not know why.