ChickenLadyLovesLife

@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Palantir Stare aka The Thiel Razzle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I randomly got a job recommendation from one of the sites that looked for exactly my programming skill set. I was interested until I saw what company it was – Palantir. GOD DAMN IT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where the cuties⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or gravy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sushi delivery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I first started cooking I used to burn the rice all the time and I had to throw it all away. Then one day I had dinner at a Persian restaurant and they brought me some of the charred rice (called “tahdig”) as a special treat. It was a real eye-opener (tongue-opener?) because that shit is incredibly delicious. They regretted serving it to me because I started begging for it every time I went, which is apparently a rather rude thing to do.

  Korean dol sat bibim bap is similar. It’s a dish served in a massively hot stone bowl with the rice on the bottom, and the longer you let it sit there before mixing everything together, the more the rice chars and the better it tastes. It’s almost crazy how much charred rice is not a thing in world cuisines when it’s actually incredibly delicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can also be used if you agree with former Bengals QB Boomer Esiason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better safe than sorry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a Cognitive Developmental Transportation Engineer … aka school bus driver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon studies Organic Chemistry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a trade school near me that is fucking free. They have a huge endowment and that pays for everything, even room and board for the on-campus students. They still have to advertise and meanwhile kids go $300K into debt to get a degree in English Lit. I’m all for a classic Liberal Arts education but god damn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mercy merci⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My mom taught me growing up to deal with spiders like this. She proudly told me how her dad had taught her to do it. Now she’s nearly 90 and when she sees a spider she’s like KILL THAT FUCKIN THING!!!*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My local Acme carried red bananas for a while. They are fucking delicious, taste more like a banana custard than a regular yellow banana. They’re also a bit smaller so less of a commitment to carbo-loading when you peel one. I wouldn’t mind at all if they became the new standard banana, even if it would kind of ruin Mario Kart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I AM BETTER⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Jimmy Page wrote Stairway to Heaven when he was 23, but I learned to play it at 18.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You had me until “unless”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was I thinking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I shave my head. I have to shave it every two or three days or I look like a mangy old dog. I wait until just before I go to bed to shave it, at which point I’m too tired and I tell myself I’ll do it in the morning before work, which of course I never do. So I end up shaving it once every three weeks, and spend most of the time looking like a mangy old dog.

  I eventually hit upon the strategy of shaving a small patch somewhere on my head before I go to bed, which forces me to do the rest of the job in the morning before work. Except that I usually forget I did that and often go to work looking like a mangy old dog that somebody tried to shave before giving up. Fortunately I’m a school bus driver so I only scare children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American public transit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to bike to work when I lived in Louisiana. It was fortunate that my office was a block from the YMCA, so I could shower and change after my ride in. The downside was that the Y was the hangout of the fat old white men who worked at the courthouse and like to lounge around naked on the couches in the locker room, laughing and making jokes about sending black men to Angola prison for decades for crimes they probably didn’t commit (these were judges, prosecutors and public defenders talking about this shit).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American public transit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a few years where I rode the train from a stop a mile from my house to a station literally in the basement of the building I worked in. A 55 minute ride where I could read peacefully or nap, absolute heaven. I didn’t even like moving to WFH because I missed the restaurants in the city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World would be a better place⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to even have props for some gags

  Imagine trying to convert people and you run into fucking Carrot Top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World would be a better place⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to canvas door-to-door for a public interest group, so I almost always give them some cash and offer them water and a bathroom break. It was an absolutely horrific job and I’m sure it’s even worse today. I still want them to move the fuck on as quickly as possible, though.

  I still remember the best interaction I ever had going door-to-door. We were raising money to help fight rising insurance rates, and I was talking to one old guy standing next to his truck. He listened to my spiel and then said “I’ll tell you why insurance rates are so high: it’s because the n*****rs are burning the cities down.” I said “well that’s what we’re fighting, sir” and he gave me $25.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World would be a better place⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the solicitors who put their sales brochures in ziplock bags with some rocks and toss it onto your driveway. It gives me rocks to throw at all the other solicitors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World would be a better place⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’d let you in, but I prefer Mormons. They have better porn.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  conscious energy systems or something

  Like Kevin Spacey? Ew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose you could wish for all genies to be instantly annihilated. Maybe toss the GOP in there for good measure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the main reason why, if you come across a genie in a lamp, you should probably not wish for immortality. You’re gonna be hellafuckin bored for a loooooooong time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was Yes (“Going for the One”) for me. Led Zeppelin was for the burnouts!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought my first album in 1977 for $7, which is $37 in today’s money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They have a right to feel smug⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it makes sense like how private schools there are called “public schools” and public schools are called “private schools”. I will never understand that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dangerous crow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I shave my head year-round and I grow a long beard in the winter. I just can’t figure out how to handle the transition well. Like, here? Maybe here? Fade it? I dunno. A goatee solves the problem but nothing says bitter old dude like a baldheaded goatee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dangerous crow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a man, my wolves are hairless and my crow has no feathers. The problem of what to do with my hair would be nice to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t been able to find this again, but there’s a short film that was made in England in 1946 that perfectly nailed how cell phones were going to work. There was even a man in a grocery store calling his wife at home to find out what ingredient he needed to pick up. The only difference was scale: the man was using a walkie-talkie, which despite the movie images of an officer using a device about 1’x4"x4", in fact also required a ginormous and heavy backpack thing lugged around by some misbegotten private.

  BTW a fun fact: the word “ginormous” (a portmanteau word combining “gigantic” and “enormous”) dates to WWII or earlier. I’d always assumed it was valley-girl speak until I encountered it in a Battle of Britain memoir written by a pilot who was killed in 1942.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good one!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a camp counselor one summer and while processing a bus of arriving 7-year-olds one kid got off, pointed at me and said “if you give me any trouble, I’m gonna bite off your head and shit down your throat”. I couldn’t stop laughing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What even is money at this point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to Lowe’s the other day and bought a couple of drill bits. While there, I looked at some cabinet pulls – didn’t buy any or even picked any up, just walked past them and looked at them. That night on Amazon I got ads for drill bits and cabinet pulls. I assume it was something linking store footage with my phone data, but who knows. Maybe I got the neural implant already and the implant makes you forget you got the implant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PC game “Lemmings”

  Best game of all time IMHO. “I’ll just try one more level” followed by the sunrise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did we think think the USSR fell?

  The most common belief was that it fell because Ronald Reagan ordered Gorbachev to “tear down that wall”.