ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 5 hours ago:
Always Infosys
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 1 day 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 1 day ago:
I think that comes from pro wrestling.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago:
Oldhead here: we slammed the living shit of those phones.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days ago:
Yeah yeah, that’s what I meant.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 days ago:
Z3 master race.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 days ago:
Lol wait til you’re peeing five times a night.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 days 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 days ago:
If your pedals have power meters, you’ve gone too far.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 days ago:
Biking fills a similar crisis role, as long as you paid $15K for the bike.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 days ago:
Where is the one for dating someone 15-20 years younger than you?
- Comment on The city is so lively 3 days ago:
So weird to think of hanging on to your rage through the process of selecting a hammer and purchasing it. I think when I pulled out my credit card I’d be like “this is stupid - I should be buying a crowbar”.
- Comment on $1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up 4 days ago:
AAI
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 6 days ago:
let’s be real men’s feet are pretty nasty
Yo, check out ballerina feet.
- Comment on Anyone Hiring? 1 week 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 Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
If they do it quietly, they won’t get the stock price bump every company gets from saying they’re going to replace (costly) employees with AI.
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 1 week ago:
Russia?
Saudi Arabia might take him. Hell, they put up Idi Amin for the remainder of his syphilis-scarred life.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 1 week ago:
It’s OK - I’m only going to use the suicide cord for my fractal wood-burning project.
- Comment on I got that dept in me 1 week ago:
Rocket Mortgage has this commercial they run that shows some schlub walking into his house holding three bags of groceries while the voiceover talks about how it used to be six bags. Then the guy’s house starts talking to him about how he could mortgage his small bit of equity … and spend the money on fucking groceries. It’s depressing to think about the level of financial illiteracy - not to mention desperation - that could lead somebody to go into debt for food. Not to mention the utter depravity of building a business around taking advantage of such people.
- Comment on Unconditional support 1 week 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 1 week ago:
“I didn’t realize it was possible to cough up your pancreas”.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 week ago:
I really hope I’m dead before we have androids.
- Comment on Listen and 2 weeks ago:
Can’t hear the dialog | Christopher Nolan