ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 15 hours ago:
I used to work for a west coast tech giant. Their early retirement package was: “you are retiring now, goodbye” along with a severance just large enough to disqualify me from unemployment. At least I didn’t have to spend months pretending to look for work.
- Comment on God gives his best beasts .. 1 day 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? 3 days 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? 3 days 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? 3 days 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 Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 6 days ago:
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 6 days ago:
extra power under load to the rear wheels
Lol like there’s enough room back there to add a load.
- Comment on bruh 1 week 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 Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 2 weeks ago:
Lol check out modern bikes with electric shifters.
- Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 2 weeks ago:
Or that you wouldn’t last a year without your statin.
- Comment on Pelicans will literally try to eat anything 2 weeks ago:
I just realized the irony of Zion Williamson playing basketball for the New Orleans Pelicans.
- Comment on Is Marlon Brando in Heat? 2 weeks ago:
Shedcostumetotinklaphobia
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 3 weeks ago:
Bill Gates is rich enough to have other people work out for him.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 3 weeks ago:
Better or worse than rape-via-twitter? Better, I guess.
- Comment on If all the money in the world can only make you look as good as elon musk or jeff bezos there is truly some things money can't buy. 3 weeks ago:
Making a million a year doesn’t mean you’re any less happy than making a billion.
Eh, I had a boss years ago who owned a temp agency. His income from the business was about $40K per month and he lived in a beautiful beach house and drove a nice Mercedes and ate out at great restaurants every day etc. etc. No financial problems whatsoever but his friends were all west coast venture capitalists worth hundreds of millions of dollars and he absolutely seethed with resentment at how relatively poor he was.
- Comment on Perfect Easter cookie for Christians 3 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!!!”
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 4 weeks ago:
I had a boss once who went through a bitter divorce and many people at work were Facebook friends with his soon-to-be-ex-wife. She made one post where she described him as “ol’ three inches two minutes”.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 4 weeks ago:
At an absolute minimum he would be listed as “pre-diabetic”.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 4 weeks ago:
I can’t even bring myself to capitalize the t in trump. Or the m in musk, for that matter (or the n in nazi). It just implies a modicum of respect.
- Comment on That’s enough for today 1 month ago:
YOU FIRED!
- Comment on Calm your tits 1 month ago:
I like the message the Calvin sticker sends: “I am childish but have an old man’s bladder.”
- Comment on Calm your tits 1 month ago:
Fun Blackbeard fact: he actually spent some time in Philadelphia. It’s not known whether he preferred Pat’s or Geno’s steaks.
- Comment on Calm your tits 1 month ago:
I’m a school bus driver and I have one total moron of a coworker who thinks we should all carry guns to protect the buses. He specifically wants to have his AR15 with him, with its magical 40-round mags like that would make the slightest fucking difference after somebody starts off their assault by blasting the driver’s seat. I’ve been pretending I agree with him and encouraging him to suggest this to our (very liberal) school board - since he’s above me on the seniority list.
- Comment on Calm your tits 1 month ago:
The fact that you used the word “Cringe” means the song probably came out before you were born.
Ha ha, I never actually ever paid attention to the lyrics all the way through. The last rap by Bush I is awesome.
- Comment on Calm your tits 1 month ago:
Does anyone ever think the guys with anything at all like that on their clothing have forgotten how to be violent?
I don’t think he’s forgotten - I think he’s old and fat and has mostly lost the ability to be violent, except maybe to his wife. A young, fit man would beat the shit out of him and he knows it. IMHO that’s a big reason gun nuts are so into their guns, because it compensates for their physical weakness.
- Comment on Climate-denying conservatives after every year for the last decade has been the hottest on record [Day 105] 1 month ago:
But it snowed this winter! Once!
I’m a school bus driver and I have a coworker who is an avid climate-change denier. Here is an example of how stupid she is: she needed to borrow my bus for a run and I had it chocked. Since the chock was wedged solid under my front wheel, she decided she needed to use the crowbar to get it loose and tore the fuck out of it (and my front tire) in the process. It never occurred to her to start the bus and back up to free the chock.
She also 1) hates immigrants because they’re unvaccinated and “spread disease”, and 2) is anti-vax. I could never make this shit up in a million years. If you have children, consider that a lot of the people driving them to and from school are exactly this fucking stupid.
- Comment on Bernard 1 month ago:
Larry David and Bernie Sanders are actually cousins. They got hooked up on that PBS show sponsored by Ancestry.com.
- Comment on Bernard 1 month ago:
the exhumed corpse of Jack Lemmon as Joe Biden
He’ll finally get that third Oscar!
- Comment on Good to exercise at home instead of gym? 1 month ago:
I just wanna lose my gut
The most critical part of losing weight is counting the calories of what you eat, so you know exactly what you have to do to lose the weight. One pound of body fat is equivalent to 3500 calories, so if you can manage to eat at a 500-calories-per-day deficit you will lose one pound per week (most people lose scale weight at a faster rate than this when they first start dieting, but this is water weight loss and won’t be maintained in the long term).
Will drinking less alcohol and fewer sweet treats put you into a 500 calorie daily deficit? There’s no way to know unless you start recording the calories of everything you eat on a daily basis.
- Comment on Washington DC to be renamed to St Donaldsburg 2 months ago:
Thedonaldgrad.