ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Need clean laundry in the apocalypse 6 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
“This meeting could have been an email. That I accidentally deleted.”
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
The only non-functioning payphones I ever saw were the ones where the handset had been sawn off.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 2 weeks ago:
We had a smoking room, but it was only for seniors.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 2 weeks ago:
Oldhead here: we slammed the living shit of those phones.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 2 weeks ago:
I was less impressed when I learned that all the actors in that scene were on bicycle seats. But then I was more impressed when I learned they only had one ladder to let them down to take a pee.
Another fun Life of Brian fact: the production re-used the Tunisian sets built for Zeffirelli’s Jesus of Nazareth television series. Zeffirelli was furious that the Tunisian authorities allowed this; he apparently did not know how money works.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 2 weeks ago:
The whole “high school is the best years of your life” thing was always total bullshit. The drugs are much better in college.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, M Roadster != M3 lol. The cheapest M Roadster I can find on Autotrader is $16K. Looks really nice, too. God damn it.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know about the swapping thing, but power meter cranks are like a grand. I’d rather buy the regular kind and pay my local mechanic $50 to swap them. Although I’ve biked about 5000 miles a year for the last 20 years and I’ve never had to swap cranks.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
I bought my second one a few years ago for $8500 with 70K miles on it, with the 2.5L and near-mint condition. You can get the older ones with the 1.8L engines even cheaper, maybe around $5K or so. I’ve driven most of the roadsters at least once and I think the Z3 is at the top of the list in terms of bang for the buck. Miatas are not bad but they cost around the same (or more) and they don’t really have the power and handling of the Z3, although they’re generally cheaper to maintain (especially in terms of tires - the back wheels of a Z3 have a severe toe camber so tires barely last 10K miles even with regular rotation). I think a Z3 is easy to find as long as you’re willing to buy on eBay or Autotrader (I’ve bought one on each) and fly somewhere to pick it up. If you’re only buying local it would probably be very hard to find one.
My holy grail car is an M Roadster, which looks almost identical to a Z3 but is apparently an entirely different car from the ground up.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
Yeah yeah, that’s what I meant.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
Z3 master race.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
Lol wait til you’re peeing five times a night.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
I bought a roadster … which turned out to be probably the best financial decision of my life. $11K (used, obviously) and I drove it for nine years and then resold it for $5K. The thing about roadsters is that they’re thoroughly impractical, so dudes buy them and then keep them in a garage for a decade or two and then sell them for next to nothing. I have no friends so I don’t even need the one passenger seat let alone a back seat.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
If your pedals have power meters, you’ve gone too far.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
Biking fills a similar crisis role, as long as you paid $15K for the bike.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 weeks ago:
Where is the one for dating someone 15-20 years younger than you?
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
No. 4 is proof that you really are a disc golfer.