ChickenLadyLovesLife

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
One thing I don’t understand about my childhood is that neither I nor anybody around me knew that Freddie Mercury, George Michael and Boy George were gay. Hell, we didn’t even think Boy George was a man.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's grandpa does his own research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Nonsense - they were The New Originals in 1963.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's grandpa does his own research⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I had an uncle just like this. He spent all his time listening to conservative AM radio, which he proudly called “hate radio”. He died of who knows what alone in his trailer in Florida and wasn’t discovered for two months because nobody gave a shit about him. My other uncle tried to rehab the trailer (which would have maybe been worth five grand) but gave up because the smell was too horrifying. My dad inherited a small bag of his belongings and the stench on those things was unimaginable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work as a waiter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Our union is the Teamsters and when I was taking my school bus training class I joked to the guy next to me that I was concerned I was going to start getting calls to go down to the docks and break somebody’s kneecaps. This guy, dead serious, said “I’d like that”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work as a waiter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Philly suburb.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work as a waiter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I absolutely love it, although the best description of the job that I’ve read is that it combines the jobs of truck driver and zoo keeper (not completely accurate - zoo keepers have bars and thick glass protecting them from the animals). The obvious downside is that it’s a major pay hit coming from the programming world like I did. I now make about 1/6 of what I did at my last job. My district pays pretty well (over $30 an hour) and provides health care, but most districts pay less with no benefits so it depends on where you are. I work less than five hours a day and I have enough time between my morning and afternoon routes to go for a bike ride and have lunch and a nap, and I’m able to take my elderly parents to their appointments and such. It really doesn’t feel like work and it’s a good feeling to know what I’m doing is actually of some benefit to humanity - unlike programming, where I think that 95% of what I did never got used by anybody.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work as a waiter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I’m a school bus driver. Last year our union shop steward got pulled over for DUI and blew a .32 which is insane. She was stopped at 3 AM and cited but somehow was at work that same morning at 6:30 AM and drove her normal route. The district found out about her DUI later in the day and she was suspended, but it’s clear that she was still horribly fucked up when driving kids.

After more than a week she was allowed to resign rather than being fired, which means she was able to get a job driving for a different district. How she was able to do this with a DUI on her record is a mystery to us, too. She is also a councilwoman in a neighboring town but it’s hard to imagine that level of politics gives you immunity from DUI. She did apparently flash her councilwoman ID to the officer that stopped her but that did her no good, at least at the time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a Russian pls confirm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Sounds almost as irritating as “OK boomer”. Which I have to say is especially irritating to be on the receiving end of since I’m not a boomer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contributions⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Not really relevant, but: word processors were just starting to be used when I went to college, but I still mostly preferred using my portable electric typewriter. During my junior year the G key broke off and disappeared, so all my papers from that point on have the Gs written in by hand. If they ever invent time travel, I’m going to assume that enough other people are going back to kill baby Hitler and I’ll slap the shit out of 20-year-old me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Wikipedia politely labels persistence hunting as “conjecture”. It’s interesting that pretty much everything important from our ancestral past (e.g. fire-making, flint-napping tools, spears, skins and furs etc.) can be and regularly is reproduced by modern people. But somehow you never see modern people jogging down deer and killing them - even with the benefits of modern footwear, portable water containers, and GPS trackers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
No, they’re talking about Newton, who did go kinda batshit as an older man.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That fucking alphabet grid where you try to type search terms with the four arrow keys is what always sends me back to reading books. Like, just doing that with a keyboard-type layout would be way better or even T9 - or maybe they could recycle old used Blackberrys for the purpose.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All downhill from there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Fun fact: the guy who first proposed this “running man” hypothesis about persistence hunting in the late 1960s (Grover Krantz) was better known as a staunch advocate for the existence of Bigfoot. Personally, I can’t believe that anybody could still believe in Bigfoot - it’s so obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.

For some weird reason, Krantz’s skeleton and that of his favorite dog are on display at the Smithsonian.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

how dumb does one have to be to tailgate a bus?

Pretty fucking dumb but it’s a low bar. The only upside to tailgating a larger vehicle like a bus is that our stopping distance is a lot greater so the tailgater is less likely to slam into us.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Fun little Stalin fact: when the Bolsheviks first took over the Kremlin, food was a scarce commodity. Stalin faked being sick so he could have a whole chicken to himself every day.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I live in PA and I’m not holding my breath for this shit to ever be enforced. I’m a school bus driver and last year I had a local cop pass me when I was stopped with my red flashers on letting kids off the bus. He was driving with one hand and looking at his phone in the other - never even saw me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’m a school bus driver and many of my coworkers use their phones (talking, texting and even doom scrolling) while driving a bus - sometimes even when they have kids aboard. And these buses have internal cameras that are always recording! I don’t understand how they’re not fired or at least suspended for it, but I suppose the driver shortage has something to do with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’m a school bus driver and the course material (and test questions) for the CDL state this explicitly. If someone is tailgating you, you slow down. Tailgaters are gonna tailgate no matter what, and slowing down means the damage will be less if they do happen to hit you. If that makes them mad tough tittie (the course material does not use “tough tittie” but you can tell they wanted to).

The great irony of people who tailgate school buses is that WE CAN’T EVEN FUCKING SEE YOU BACK THERE. Even in your fantasy world of the person in front of you feeling pressured and speeding up (which never ever actually happens), it can’t possibly happen if they don’t even know you’re there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

he’s been selling the AI kool aid for so long that he actually believes his own bullshit

I worked for an Internet startup in the ‘90s and at one point we were sucking up to R. J. Reynolds’ venture capital division for more funding. This tobacco company had so much fucking money they had actually branched out into venture capitalism to do something with it. The VCs came to visit us one day; we were in a non-smoking office and these assholes spent the entire day literally chain-smoking in the meeting room. We had not much ventilation and the smoke was so thick you couldn’t see to the end of the hallway. I kept walking past the meeting room and loudly coughing and my bosses eventually sent me home.

We ended up not getting any money from them. The only good part of this story is that these guys have all surely died horrible deaths from cancer or emphysema by now. But in order to sell the lie that cigarettes aren’t harmful, these R. J. Reynolds executives had first convinced themselves of it. The human capacity for self-delusion is truly remarkable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ugh!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Or using stairs. “Ooh. Ah. Ugh. Argh.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA CEO Andrew Wilson got a nice pay bump last year, while the company's workers earned less on average⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Are you kidding me? That’s a daily double punchable face. The mouth is smiling but the eyes are making sure the battery cables are firmly clamped on your nipples.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign me up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Next you’ll be telling me there are active oil wells in downtown Los Angeles.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweatshop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Uh, airline tickets to India?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweatshop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I spent a summer in south India a few years ago during monsoon season. I was fucking miserable in my jeans and shirts until I switched over to wearing loose, flowing clothes made of bleached kahdi (loose homespun cotton) like the locals. It keeps the sun off you and even when it gets soaked it doesn’t cling to your skin, and then whenever the rain stops it dries completely very quickly. Other westerners I met made fun of me for pretending to go native, but they had no clue how effective it was.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "We Tried" Award⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

It was tee-ball, I stopped playing after six months.

I played t-ball. I struck out in every at-bat … in t-ball. Fortunately I excelled at defense: coach put me in right field and the other teams were so scared of me they never hit the ball there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate, Round Earthers 🌍⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

you will be limited by the gasses in the atmosphere

Lol if you’re going to abandon the round earth theory, you might as well dump the concept of an atmosphere, too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need clean laundry in the apocalypse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I take care of my elderly parents and they would not last very long without me. I have fears of what could happen to me but they’re greatly compounded by having people dependent on me. I’m so glad I don’t have any children, at least.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need clean laundry in the apocalypse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
All my life Spring has always been a happy time for me. This one has just sucked, though, even though the weather has been near-perfect.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a good question⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I bicycle past a catholic church that has a banner that says “JESUS WELCOMES YOU WITH OPEN ARMS” and a drawing of Jesus nailed on the cross. I’m like … wait a minute, is that actually a joke? Jesus’ arms are open because they’re nailed to a piece of wood?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a good question⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
And yet having sacrificed himself, he’s now back hanging out with his Dad in heaven and having a great time. That’s not a “sacrifice”, it’s more like a bad time at summer camp.