ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers. 56 minutes 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 hour 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 19 hours 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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' 3 days 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! 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Next you’ll be telling me there are active oil wells in downtown Los Angeles.
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 week ago:
Uh, airline tickets to India?
- Comment on Sweatshop 1 week 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 1 week 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 🌍 2 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 4 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.
- Comment on That's a good question 4 weeks ago:
Sam Kinison had a routine where he was pretending to be Jesus explaining why he hadn’t returned yet: “yeah, I’ll be back as soon as I can PLAY THE PIANO AGAIN! OH OHHHHHHHH!”
- Comment on AI boomer trait 4 weeks ago:
Even if they hear and enter the order correctly, the probably of exactly that ending up in the bag is still pretty low. At least the food service robots might get that part right.
- Comment on AI boomer trait 4 weeks ago:
My cursive writing is … cursive writing. I went to elementary school in the '70s when that was still being taught and I could not do it now with a gun to my head. All those capital letters like I and S and G that all look the fucking same.
- Comment on AI boomer trait 4 weeks ago:
This is why I always liked the “Butlerian Jihad” in Dune where people entirely banned “thinking machines”. Because there’s no fucking way humans would still be around in 10,000 years without something like that having happened.
- Comment on AI boomer trait 4 weeks ago:
anthropogenic climate disintegration
I like this better than the milquetoasty “global warming” or the even weaker “climate change”, but I prefer “Anthropogenic Runaway Global Heating” because of the handy acronym.
- Comment on Hell 4 weeks ago:
Or they can’t fucking write. I’m a programmer and many of my colleagues over the years have been entirely unable to form a coherent idea into a sentence or paragraph. For a lot of them, that’s why they became programmers in the first place.
- Comment on Hell 4 weeks ago:
“This meeting could have been an email. That I accidentally deleted.”
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 4 weeks ago:
I always assumed he was a moderately intelligent tech CEO until I saw a clip a few years ago where he was showing off the evolution of Starlink rockets and he referred to the piping and whatnot on the outside of the rockets as “the fiddly bits”.
Unrelated, but he was also wearing a t-shirt that highlighted his noodle arms and his man boobs. You would think that somebody vain enough to get hair implants and plastic surgery would have enough sense to at least dress in a flattering manner.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 5 weeks ago:
how often do you really get mad enough at someone that you hang up on them?
“I love you.”
“I know.” - Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 5 weeks ago:
I think that comes from pro wrestling.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 5 weeks ago:
The only non-functioning payphones I ever saw were the ones where the handset had been sawn off.