ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on I gotcha, boss 11 hours ago:
Cops and big city racism
- Comment on Also how do I know if it works? 11 hours ago:
Jesus Christ you still have a DOS umbrella?
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 22 hours ago:
A friend of mine had a Commodore 20 with no tape drive. Not only could we only have one game at a time installed, but also we had to manually type in the code for the game each time.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 22 hours ago:
When my main (only) programming language was TurboBASIC, I was amber all the way.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 22 hours ago:
I vaguely remember somebody sending me a bitcoin many many years ago, but I haven’t been able to find it.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 22 hours ago:
Angel is a centerfold!
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 22 hours ago:
I remember getting a Hotshot/286 card which allowed me to upgrade my 8088 to a 286. I don’t even remember what programs I used back then but I’m sure they ran a lot faster after that.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 22 hours ago:
Anybody here remember Plastic, circa 2000? It was a forum kind of like Reddit, although I don’t remember if it had upvotes or not.
- Comment on In this house 1 day ago:
I can’t believe people still believe Bigfoot is real. It’s so obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.
- Comment on they don't know 4 days ago:
I give peanuts to crows but sometimes one squirrel shows up and chases the crows away (and there are usually 5 or 6 crows there). I don’t get it – this particular murder will gang up on red-tailed hawks and chase them away but they’ll just sit there looking sad at the one squirrel as he eats the peanuts.
- Comment on Anon likes geography 1 week ago:
You better Czech yourself before you Reyjavik yourself.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 1 week ago:
I’m so glad my parents and brother have (nearly) the same politics as me. Having to regularly deal with trumpers (without being able to laugh in their faces as with my co-workers) would be a perpetual torment. My brother did have an inexplicable phase of loving Putin, but that passed quickly.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Every cybertruck I see where I live has some company logo or wrap on it. It’s great advertising – it lets me know never to hire that company for anything.
The most hilarious one is for a company that does waterproofing. Like yes, I’m going to hire a waterproofing company that just spent $100K on a vehicle that can’t go through a car wash.
- Comment on 2006 called, they said we need better memes and left this 1 week ago:
I can’t hang in there 'til Friday.
- Comment on K.I.S.S. 1 week ago:
almost always knew
I mean, he had no idea the shoot-up of his bedroom was coming. And he only found out about Fredo’s betrayal because Fredo was an absolute fucking moron.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 1 week ago:
Also, don’t use the wifi routers provided by Cocmast. Cocmast uses them to provide their xfinity-branded wifi, so as their customer you are literally sacrificing bandwidth and paying their electric bill. I assume all cable companies do this but Cocmast is the only one I know about for sure.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 1 week ago:
Sir, this is a Burger King.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 1 week ago:
When I was in graduate school, I used to call the 700 Club’s prayer hotline and talk about my dissertation. To their credit, those people were remarkably patient and would only occasionally attempt to steer the conversation back in the direction of Jesus and his need to have some of my money. “Oh, I don’t have any money. Anyway, it turns out that there’s a perfect correlation between the giving of dowries and engagement in plow-based agriculture.” Completely true but for some reason they didn’t really care.
- Comment on Scary stuff and it wasn't that long ago 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
I feel the movie was enhanced by the in-house organist.
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 4 weeks 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.