ChickenLadyLovesLife

@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weapons trafficking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a Teamster - you don’t have to sell me on unions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone Hiring?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve worked for a number of “family businesses” in my career and the pattern is always the same: a company founded by someone who is technically competent but a complete asshole, who then has kids who are complete assholes and also complete idiots and who then take over the business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weapons trafficking⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “Trickle down” refers to urine, not wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weapons trafficking⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Union membership in the US was at 16% in 1991. Obviously that’s better than today’s 10%, but that spread is hardly big enough to be the difference between the presumed worker’s paradise of the early '90s and the dystopian nightmare of 2025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weapons trafficking⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Giedi Prime looks like a great place to raise a family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Tech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s OK - I’m only going to use the suicide cord for my fractal wood-burning project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol you rich kids and your cassette drives. I cut my teeth on my friend’s VIC-20 which didn’t have a hard disk or a tape drive (they were available but my friend’s parents couldn’t afford one). If we wanted to play a game, we had to type it in in BASIC every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Please. You’re talking to a man here who ripped his entire CD collection into iTunes … and then backed his library up on 1.44 MB floppies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, are they doing a Boeing over there at Microsoft?

  What, killing whistleblowers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconditional support⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently liquor stores make their money off of hard-core drinkers and alcoholics, so liquor ads (and liquor store employee customer support) are designed not to attract new customers but rather to make the existing customers think their level of drinking is normal and acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unconditional support⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “I didn’t realize it was possible to cough up your pancreas”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listen and⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t hear the dialog | Christopher Nolan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do people not aggressively prepare for this all the time?

  They do not. People making $150K a year think they will keep making that (and more) for decades to come, and it’s ludicrously easy to spend all that on useless shit. Shit, just drugs alone can take most of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What does it matter if it’s a worse product, or barely functional

  I spent (wasted) years of my career developing shitty Skype clones for cable companies and ISPs, just so these companies could say they had them on offer even though absolutely nobody ever actually used them. It wasn’t even a case of companies ripping off their customers - it was lower-level managers and vice presidents ripping off their own technically ignorant corporate executives. It was depressing busting my ass on this stuff when I knew it didn’t make any difference whether it worked or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a Teamster as a school bus driver. When I first joined the Teamsters, I started making a joke about getting a phone call at midnight to go break some kneecaps down at the docks. One of my more psycho coworkers responded to my joke with a dead serious “I’d like that”. Same dude thinks us bus drivers should carry guns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I meant “motion capture Morgan Freeman”. Harriet Tubman would be CGI of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Medieval history especially

  At least we have Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  they tend to be great talkers and networkers

  This is selling them a bit short. They’re also generally pretty good at raping aspiring actresses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  does “Dr. Kwame Nkrumah” mean anything to you?

  C’mon, there are lots of NBA fans outside of the United States.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AI Morgan Freeman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God gives his best beasts ..⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to hang out with some behavioral psychology (BF Skinner stuff) graduate students. They transport pigeons head-down in juice pitchers; I asked them how they got the pigeons into those pitchers, and they showed me that they just open the cages and hold the pitchers up and the birds dive into them, sometimes knocking themselves out in the process. They are into that lever-pressing shit, although TBF that’s mainly because they’re maintained at 80% of a normal diet so that the reinforcing effect of the food pellets is maximized.

  FWIW pigeons can be trained to do some pretty interesting shit. Skinner had them playing ping-pong, and really competing at it - like, they got rewarded for winning shots, not just for hitting the ball back. Skinner also had a scheme going to use pigeons to steer flying bombs into enemy ships during WWII.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do recommend drugs, at least weed and the hallucinogens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their Shakes are pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  my parents also wanted me to stop listening to it because my dad found one article about a guy who beat up his girlfriend and he apparently liked Metallica

  My dad once picked me up from a party when I was in high school in the 1980s; he noticed a video that was playing on MTV and was highly disturbed by the imagery in it, as he told me later (many times).

  The video was “Cuts Like a Knife” by Bryan Adams. My dad thought he was losing me to Satan because of fucking Bryan Adams!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bruh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to grad school in the '90s and one of our friends used to show up to our house parties with her infant in tow and get blackout drunk and pass out, and we would have to collectively take care of the baby. Weird to think that kid is in his 30s by now, if he’s even still alive. The double whammy of fetal alcohol syndrome and growing up in Florida would be hard to overcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pelicans will literally try to eat anything⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just realized the irony of Zion Williamson playing basketball for the New Orleans Pelicans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ingenuity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My cat loved to hang out in my bathroom sink and he often slept there. One night he woke me up by jumping on my chest and batting me in the face, something he never did; when I stepped on the floor my feet sloshed in about an inch of water. Turns out he had managed to push down the sink drain stopper and flip up the faucet lever, and since the sink had no secondary emergency drain (which was weird because I’ve never seen any other sink without one) it had overflowed and nicely soaked most of my house.

  At least he recognized that there was a problem and what he should do about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Marlon Brando in Heat?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shedcostumetotinklaphobia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For all you inked people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Better than showing up on time some of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfect Easter cookie for Christians⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always liked Sam Kinison’s routine about Jesus coming back: “yeah, I’ll be back when I can PLAY THE PIANO AGAIN! OHH!! OHHHHHHHH!!!”