ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 9 hours ago:
go to live shows
Live shows not put on by Ticketmaster! Shit …
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Tesla quietly slashed over 3,400 job postings, leaving just 3 listed in the U.S. 17 hours ago:
My small tech company (which I really liked working for) had < 100 employees. We struggled through a few near-death experiences because of slow sales and panic from our original investors, then we got saved for a few years after being purchased by a larger company (with around 1000 employees). Then that larger company (a small player in the networking equipment genre) got bought by probably the largest player in that space, and within six months everybody from the 1000-person company (excepting a few c-suite types) were laid off - the company had only been acquired in order to eliminate a very minor competitor. There is no safety in small.
- Comment on ohhh 1 day ago:
it’s made from fucking grass!
I started making my own sourdough bread during COVID because for a while there they didn’t have bread or yeast at the grocery stores. I love the fact that the ingredients are just flour, water, salt and starter (which itself is just flour and water and the yeastie beasties). The yeast all dies during cooking and the water is essentially cooked out of it, so sourdough bread is really just flour altered into a really funky form with a bit of salt. I like the added thought that even the flour is just ground-up grass.
- Comment on So excited for the Cybertruck 4 days ago:
“So, how many polygons can we use to render this car in the game?”
“Uh … four?” - Comment on So excited for the Cybertruck 4 days ago:
I feel the same sense of embarrassment for the driver that I would if I saw some guy masturbating in public.
- Comment on So excited for the Cybertruck 4 days ago:
covered in rust
The best thing about these “trucks” is that they all will be, eventually.
- Comment on So excited for the Cybertruck 4 days ago:
What shocked me the most was how much stupider it looked when surrounded by normal vehicles. It looks like a cheap prop from an early '70s sci-fi movie - I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Sean Connery climb out of one wearing a codpiece while shouting “renew!”
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 6 days ago:
I love when owners show off how “practical” that truck bed is - when it has about the same carrying capacity as my roadster’s trunk.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 6 days ago:
I saw my first cybertruck in person the other day. It looks incredibly dumb in promotional photos, but it’s astonishing how much stupider it looks in traffic surrounded by normal vehicles.
- Comment on It's getting hot in here 1 week ago:
It’s never House.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 1 week ago:
The main similarity between Musk’s companies and MacDonald’s is that they both involve clowns.
- Comment on What a deal! 1 week ago:
I saw my first real Cybertruck in the wild the other day. It was absolutely incredible … how fucking stupid that thing looked.
- Comment on Yeah, I call BS 1 week ago:
This is domain-specific, but what annoys me the most about Paleoanthropology articles is that whenever somebody digs up another 4 myo shard of thigh bone, the article is guaranteed to contain the phrase “will force Anthropologists to rethink their assumptions”. This all goes back to the “Lucy” find which was fully bipedal but still had the small brain of a chimpanzee, which did actually force Anthropologists to abandon the prior assumption that upright walking and large brains had evolved together. No find since then has had anywhere near that significance.
- Comment on Yeah, I call BS 1 week ago:
My new book The First Thing, the Second Thing, and the Third Thing: a Cutesie Subtitle Following the Semicolon is dropping tomorrow.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 1 week ago:
This is 1874…you’ll be able to sue her.
By fax!
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 1 week ago:
You could always call him “the father of the capacitive touchscreen”.
- Comment on Mandelbrot 1 week ago:
This shows the phenomenon pretty well. I like to watch this once in a while to remind myself that I know nothing about anything.
- Comment on Mandelbrot 1 week ago:
I actually met Benoit Mandelbrot when I was an intern at IBM’s T. J. Watson research center in the late '80s. I was randomly walking around the building and passed by a tiny office with “B. Mandelbrot” on the door. I stuck my head in, saw an old bald dude sitting there and said “are you the Bernard Mandelbrot?” He said “yes” and I said “oh” and walked on. Apparently he didn’t hear that I said “Bernard” instead of “Benoit”.
- Comment on To put life into perspective 3 weeks ago:
OMG we’re gonna crash!
- Comment on He's got a point 4 weeks ago:
Add two+ hours a day sitting in your car and the aging process is actually reversed!
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 4 weeks ago:
it condenses when it hits colder air and falls back to the ground in liquid state, thus removing itself from the atmosphere
Oh sure … blame it on the rain.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 4 weeks ago:
Interesting! Can you link me to the one you ordered?
- Comment on more proof that they are just opossums with armour 4 weeks ago:
This is random but my graduate school program had an annual cookout event called the Armadillo Roast which featured an actual barbecued armadillo (along with more conventional meats). I tried some and it tasted like sweeter dark meat chicken. Then I learned that that particular armadillo had been found as roadkill and that armadillos can carry leprosy and that it can possibly be transmitted by eating it. These facts did not improve my mood that day.
- Comment on I miss vegetables 4 weeks ago:
I prefer to shop ironically.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 4 weeks ago:
Back in the '90s you could apparently send a letter to Michael Jordan by just addressing it “Michael Jordan” and nothing else. I think the poop cup works kind of the same.
Note that I am not telling you to mail your poop to Michael Jordan.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. Basically, she said finger-up-butt is good for 10 years but poop-in-cup is good for only 3 years, and if they find indications of a problem in the cup-o-poop then you have to go get finger-up-butt anyway. Still worth it in my book.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 4 weeks ago:
I just learned from my doctor that you can poop in a cup and mail it off somewhere instead of getting the finger up the butt. Yay! Now I can procrastinate and not do something only mildly unpleasant instead of not doing something miserable.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 4 weeks ago:
I miss wearing short-sleeved graphic tees over long-sleeved white tees. Everybody reminisces about the '90s flannel shirts but I feel the dual tees thing was more representative.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 4 weeks ago:
I drive a 25-year-old car and the only reason I’m able to play music from my phone on the car’s sound system is that it was built to accommodate a 6-disc CD changer in the trunk. For $50 I was able to hook up an accessory that plugs into the changer port and fools the car stereo into thinking the audio signal from the phone is actually coming from a CD changer. Unfortunately my newest phone of course has no 3.5mm audio jack and the USB-C adapter has like a third the maximum volume of a normal plug. Oh well, better for my hearing at least.
- Comment on English, old 4 weeks ago:
I’m a programmer, and this reminds me of one time when I got a support call about a bug in our app: a “State” picklist with 509 entries (for you non-United Statesians, this is a bit more than the 50 or so states - we sometimes include shit like DC, Puerto Rico and Guam in these lists - I should have been seeing), including about 20 different versions of “Louisiana” (like Lousiana, Louisiania etc.) and lots of different countries (occasionally spelled correctly). What had happened was that we originally had a table in the database for listing all the states, and one of our coders got the assignment to add a marriage license module to the app, mirroring the state’s paper form that was used for this. Since the “State” line had to accommodate people from other countries, the clerks just used this line to enter whatever country they were from and insisted on the same functionality in the app. Since our database was fully relational, this coder just used the existing “States” table but added new entries in code whenever a user typed out a non-standard thing in the box. Completely hosing every place in the app that used a States picklist.
The real mystery was how this table grew to 509 entries before anyone noticed a problem.