ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on one bright second 3 hours 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 4 hours 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 😗 5 days 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 😗 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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) 2 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! 3 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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”.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
It goes well with “we only use 15% of our brains”. Oh, OK, let’s remove 85% of your brain and see how things go.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
They made cheese and butter
The Nuer (a cattle-herding people from Sudan) would pour milk into gourds and add cow urine and leave it in the sun for months. I love eating food from around the world but that is one thing I would pass on. They never drank milk, but if they needed liquid calories they would poke a hole in a cow and drink some of their blood.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
When the real story of Vietnam is: we shot a bunch of Vietnamese people and then dropped our entire back stock of WWII-era bombs on them (and their neighbors) and then up and left and now they make our shoes for us.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
Edison being a giant dick of a patent troll is one of the main reasons Hollywood exists. I’m not sure Musk has anything that impactful on his resume.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 3 weeks ago:
My skoolie is semi-usable, basically just needs the utilities (electric, propane and water) hooked up. I bought a house two years ago and that has suspended work on the bus completely. Someday …
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 3 weeks ago:
I did a coop at IBM many many years ago. My project used a 1" thick slab of aluminum that was about 3’ x 4’ and it was so much fun to just touch that thing. We also had CADCAM which was not at all widespread in the '80s. It was so much fun to design parts and send them to the machine shop electronically and have them show up on a cart outside the lab the next day. Quite a shame how far IBM has fallen since those days.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 3 weeks ago:
I grew up obsessing over synths in the '70s and '80s. Now I’m a programmer who writes (more accurately wrote) software synthesizer apps, and I find it amusing that my cheap smartphone from ten years ago has orders of magnitude more sound generation power than those keyboard-based beasts from my childhood did.
That being said, I would probably be willing to kill somebody to get my hands on an original Moog to play around with.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 3 weeks ago:
I drive a roadster myself. Recently I’ve noticed that to get out of it, I have to lift my left leg up with my arms and set my foot on the ground, otherwise I get a sartorius muscle strain. I now understand why used roadsters are so cheap: there is only a tiny window where you’re old enough to afford one but young enough to actually get in and out of it.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 3 weeks ago:
I would trade sourdough starter for homemade chutney.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 3 weeks ago:
I bought a used rusty school bus. Six years later, at least I know how to weld now. Sort of. I also learned how to survive hitting my head on a large steel C-clamp nine times without suffering any brain damage. Additionally, I learned how to survive hitting my head on a large steel C-clamp nine times without suffering any brain damage.
- Comment on Come back to this post in 2030's 3 weeks ago:
I grew up in NE Ohio in the 1970s. Generally the first snowfall was in early October and by November the ground was entirely covered in snow. You didn’t see even hints of green grass until the end of April and the snow wasn’t entirely gone until some time in May (and the giant mounds of snow thrown up by the snow plows would often still be there into June, after school at let out). That is literally half the year in snow cover. Granted, being right next to Lake Erie makes the snow situation about as bad as possible, but it’s nothing like this today.
That shit made me move to the South as soon as possible, but it took me a couple of decades to realize that institutionalized racism is worse than trudging through snow once in a while.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 3 weeks ago:
I (not Indian) used to play Hindi film music on my stereo at college at top blast. It’s actually very listenable overall, but the women singing in falsetto can be hard to get used to – it is one of the most penetrating sounds on earth. Everybody on my floor hated the living shit out of me.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m no crow expert. I know they eat peanuts and I know they eat roadkill squirrel. That’s the end of my knowledge.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 4 weeks ago:
It’s state-dependent. And in my state, unfortunately, severance above a threshold amount is deducted from the amount of unemployment benefits you’re eligible for. I would have been eligible for something like $300 total, and this would have been payable only after nearly six months of filing claims and (pretending to be) looking for work that entire time. Certainly not worth it.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 4 weeks ago:
My (small) company got acquired by a massive West coast tech giant and six months later all the employees (but not the executives and managers) of the original small company were laid off. This was not even remotely surprising to me, and would not have been even if any of us had been given any work to do during that six months. When my boss told me I was being laid off, I laughed and said “of course I am” which surprised him as apparently everybody else was massively shocked and upset. Which surprised me as I don’t see how anybody could have possibly not seen it coming.
All things considered, this company was actually slightly decent about it, as they gave us two months’ notice and severance equal to about what we would have been able to get from unemployment. The severance disqualified us from unemployment, but at least we got the amount up front and we didn’t have to spend six months pretending to look for work.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
What kind of nuts should I give them? Deez?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Do you have a designated table you put the peanuts on?
Lol I get enough abuse from my neighbors for feeding the crows as it is. If I put out a crow table they’re going to sic ICE on me.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
TBF even crows are a lot bigger than what I always thought crows were. I’ve seen them up close since I’ve been feeding my local murder peanuts, and these guys are the size of roaster chickens.