ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on MoistReeves 3 days ago:
I prefer the youtube channels where the person somehow talks about a single tweet for ten minutes.
- Comment on Yeah I see you... 3 days ago:
Well OK, but it will take awhile …
- Comment on Yeah I see you... 4 days ago:
I bought a used school bus for $3600 on eBay to turn into a motorhome (“skoolie”). Best $50,000 I ever spent.
- Comment on Anon works in an office 5 days ago:
I was part of a stable of about 50 programmers working for a company that manufactured lubricants circa 2000. For about a month at one point, the entire roomful of programmers spent the entire day calling into Who Wants to be a Millionaire? to try and get on the show. Absolutely nothing happened to the company – lubricants kept getting manufactured and sent to customers on schedule. The entire operation ran on mainframe applications that dated to the 1970s. I’m not even sure what any of these programmers did other than myself, and all I did was write IE6-based web frontends that sat on top of the mainframe apps (and they’re still running to this day lol, which means the mainframe apps are still in use).
- Comment on Spherical Bastard 6 days ago:
Mandel Bro
- Comment on Refer to the chart 1 week ago:
No Country for Old Muppets
- Comment on Refer to the chart 1 week ago:
It’s the second-best version of A Christmas Carol, after the Blackadder version.
- Comment on Refer to the chart 1 week ago:
Stop suggesting good uses for AI!
- Comment on So unrealistic 1 week ago:
I’m not a billionaire … I’m THE billionaire.
- Comment on protestation (advertisement sucks) 1 week ago:
I especially like graffiti on rail cars, it makes it a lot more interesting when I’m sitting at a rail crossing waiting for the train to go by. It’s usually top-quality work and who gives a fuck what rail cars look like anyway?
- Comment on It's rigged 1 week ago:
US Social Security is fundamentally not an investment plan. Workers who have not yet retired pay a special tax and this is used to pay benefits to those who have retired. Roughly speaking (using handy numbers) workers pay the tax for 44 years (ages 21 to 65) and collect SS benefits for 11 (ages 65 to 76), so in principle four active workers support one retired worker. SS benefits are very small, something like a third of what active workers make on average, so more like twelve active workers support each retired worker, so the tax is a very affordable amount.
Much of the confusion over this resulted in the 1980s, when Congress recognized that the changing demographics in the future (like, 50 years later) would mean fewer workers relative to retirees. They chose to prepare for this in advance by raising the SS taxes slightly above what was needed at the time to support retirees and investing the surplus in US Treasury bonds. This Social Security “trust fund” is now being tapped to provide benefits without raising the tax rate – as well as being used by Republicans to fool people into believing that when the supplemental trust fund is empty, Social Security itself will be “bankrupt”. Not true, because even then SS benefits will continue to be paid, either in slightly lower amounts of the tax rate is not increased, or at the same amounts of the tax rate is increased to cover it.
Incidentally, this SS trust fund is a huge part of what allowed President Reagan to rack up enormous debt without destroying (at least immediately) the US economy. Treasury bonds were paying about 2.5% at the time, so the SS trust fund was essentially a source of cheaply-borrowed money to cover the government’s general budget.
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 1 week ago:
My weed dealer a few years ago got all paranoid and made his buyers start contacting him with WhatsApp. “It’s encrypted and completely secure!” Lol sure. It’s weird that the only other person who has ever made me use it was my realtor.
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 1 week ago:
A reasonable solution has always been the “medicare for all” concept: just lower the eligibility age by a couple of years every year. Going from 65 to 0 would have taken just over thirty years, and if this had been implemented in the '90s when it was first suggested we’d have universal healthcare by now. Hilary Clinton was lauded for pushing for universal healthcare when her husband was president, but apparently she wanted instant universal healthcare and fought the “medicare for all” contingent. I don’t think she was as responsible for bad shit as is often made out, but it’s pretty clear that she didn’t help in this case.
- Comment on Oh boy 1 week ago:
All of my local grocery stores offer sushi, and all of the signs say the same thing: “sushi under new management” and the signs never change. You’re not going to trick me like that, colluding grocery store chains.
- Comment on national anthem 2 weeks ago:
It’s like Requiem for a Dream. Great movie, would recommend it to anyone except my elderly mother, am not gonna fuckin ever watch it a second time.
- Comment on The Old Car Summertime Struggle 2 weeks ago:
My first brand-new car was a '90 Nissan Sentra, back when Sentras were the absolute bottom of Nissan’s product line. It had AC but the car basically couldn’t accelerate with it on unless I was going downhill. Unfortunately I lived in Florida (no hills) so I drove around with no AC. In Florida. This was bad enough but also the windows were hand-cranked so I just left them down all the time. That car was a soggy mess and I kept getting shit stolen.
- Comment on More chickens! 2 weeks ago:
There’s a guy in my town who keeps a herd of goats and rents them out for brush clearance. I assume his neighbors hate it but there seems to be nothing they can do about it. I’ve been meaning to ask him if he sells goat meat.
- Comment on More chickens! 2 weeks ago:
I had an Indian friend who flew from Florida home to Bombay. As he was waiting there for his luggage he glanced down at his shirt pocket and noticed part of a joint sticking out.
- Comment on More chickens! 2 weeks ago:
I have this thing called a utili-key, which is a 6-in-1 multitool that folds up into the shape of a key. I’ve flown with it numerous times, TSA never even had a clue it was on my keyring. I went to one fucking Philadelphia 76ers game and they confiscated it. Perfectly encapsulates TSA.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 2 weeks ago:
I want to say he’s mistaking it for the Belgian Congo, but he would have loved that place.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 2 weeks ago:
The fourth was extremely embarrassing as well, although who cares at that point. There’s a defender there watching Lukaku literally flat-footed, even though there was nobody else around for him to guard.
At least with the header we had two defenders closely marking the guy, even though that just made it an even more spectacular goal.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 2 weeks ago:
What amuses me is the soccer fans here who think we’re going to get better. I first encountered this in '94 when we (the US) hosted the world cup and got spanked by a Brazil team playing with 10 players. It’s like Indians saying they’re going to be good at basketball soon (they aren’t, because they love cricket).
- Comment on I gotta feeling, that tonight’s gonna be a good night. 2 weeks ago:
I’m amazed by people that put those Monster scratches on their cars. Like, your energy drink of choice is that big a part of your personality?
- Comment on GinkNo. 2 weeks ago:
Damn, I wish I’d read your entire sentence.
- Comment on I'm just trying to finish my plate now 2 weeks ago:
The n-word is an effective appetite suppressant.
- Comment on This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school. 2 weeks ago:
Oh here we go again. You know that shit is why WWI happened, right?
- Comment on This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school. 2 weeks ago:
When I was a programmer I liked wearing suits and sport jackets and Norwegian wool sweaters and selvedge jeans and the like, even though it negatively impacted my career. People in my profession genuinely assumed that I must not have been a very good programmer because of it. Now I’m a school bus driver and whenever I dress like I used to (which is very rarely) everybody assumes I have a job interview or a date.
- Comment on This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school. 2 weeks ago:
Cole Haan
Ha ha, my residual /r/MaleFashionAdvice instincts kicked in on this one.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
That and Quake II are the only console games I’ve ever sunk an enormous amount of time into.
- Comment on More unions! 3 weeks ago:
I’m a school bus driver and we’re unionized (Teamsters) … at least for now. Our contract states that if ever fewer than than 50% of the drivers are in the union, the contract is voided. A lot of the newer drivers are not signing up for the union because they don’t want to pay the dues which are around $80 per month. We are surrounded by non-union school districts that pay their drivers about $8 less per hour and don’t provide health insurance, PTO or a pension like we get.
In case this isn’t obvious, school bus drivers are generally some dumb motherfuckers.