ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's the truth! 6 hours ago:
In Japan they’re called blue onions - neither blue nor onions.
- Comment on It's the truth! 6 hours ago:
Cultures around the world divide the color spectrum up in wildly different ways, which really highlights the absurdity of “color” being a real, objective property. There’s one culture (I forget which, somewhere in Africa) where all the “dark” variants of colors are called by the same name. Other cultures often combine texture and other properties into their words for colors.
- Comment on It's the truth! 6 hours ago:
It was “purpura” in Latin. OP said purple is relatively modern in English.
- Comment on It's the truth! 6 hours ago:
In Japan green onions are called “blue onions”. I do not know why.
- Comment on Hey Grok 1 day ago:
Does he really
He definitely doesn’t. I watched a video tour he gave of the history of SpaceX rockets, and he referred to the tubing and whatnot on the exterior of the rockets as “the fiddly bits”.
- Comment on Hey Grok 1 day ago:
How could you leave out Steven Cheung?
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 3 days ago:
“When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to have a wonderful experience in those environments is just huge.”
This is such utter fucking nonsense. They already have to deal with the concept of a “client area” that encompasses variable-sized screens and (worse) the multiple-monitor situation. Movable task bar is trivial.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 5 days ago:
A red traffic light only means stop sometimes, but sometimes you can go if you’re turning right.
It always means stop. You can turn right on red (in most places) but only after you stop first and you must yield to crossing traffic. Unfortunately, not everyone knows this - I’ve met many people who think “right on red” means you can treat it like a green light as long as you’re turning right.
What really gets me pissed is the signs that say “right turn on red after complete stop” which implies that isn’t the case fucking everywhere, when it is the case.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 2 weeks ago:
Monty Python used to be my favorite comedy group. Now it’s the Cleveland Browns.
- Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein 2 weeks ago:
My dad’s doctor told him he needed to eat more protein, and he was like “ChickenLady, what can I eat to get more protein? High-protein Boost?” No dad, fucking meat … you can eat more meat. The thing is he loved meat, but it never occurred to him that he got protein from meat. And he was a biology professor!
My favorite thing was my mother at one point thinking she needed to eliminate her intake of fats, carbohydrates and protein because they’re all bad for you. Fortunately she does like kale …
- Comment on Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 and others due to lack of proper encryption 3 weeks ago:
They should ditch Microsoft 365 due to lack of not sucking balls.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 weeks ago:
Ah, I was thinking Portuguese-esque.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 weeks ago:
Microsoft’s business model has always been getting businesses who are even stupider than them to give them tons of money. Nothing is ever going to change that calculus.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 weeks ago:
forgejo
How is this generally pronounced? I feel like “for-GAY-hoe” would be the only workable pronunciation.
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 3 weeks ago:
Interestingly, the calorie counts on food packaging are derived from the Atwater system (and later modifications) that estimate digestible calories from the amount of fat, protein and carbohydrates in each food item. These numbers are based on experimental research on food substitution and weight loss/gain done in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The calorie counts for alcohol are similarly based on the measurable amount of alcohol in each drink, except that the number used (7 kcal per g) was just a complete guess on Atwater’s part since they couldn’t do equivalent substitution experiments involving booze.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 3 weeks ago:
Horseshoe crabs have nine different types of eyes. Even that tail is essentially a kind of eye, covered with photoreceptors. Not sure of the relevance of this horseshoe crab fact, it’s just fucking interesting.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 3 weeks ago:
Squirrels have eyes on the sides of their heads and they’re pretty fucking good and climbing and jumping. Next theory …
- Comment on Piano man 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this is the place for this, but god damn is the original Billy Joel song cringeworthy. “Making love to his tonic and gin”, something absolutely nobody ever says (it’s “gin and tonic”). “Talking to Davy who’s still in the navy” is another example of mangling shit to fit the rhyme scheme. And it’s all just a song about how awesome and better-than-this he, Billy Joel, is (“man, what are you doin’ here?”).
Would be the most lyrically embarrassing song of all time if not for “We Didn’t Start the Fire”.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 4 weeks ago:
Rocket Mortgage has had this commercial for a couple years where some schlub is trudging back into his house lamenting the fact that six bags of groceries has become two (thanks to inflation). Suddenly his house starts talking to him and reminding him that he could get a Rocket Mortgage loan backed by his small amount of equity and use the money to buy groceries. Dude lights up with joy and dances into this house. It’s just beyond fucked that this is obviously one of their most successful commercials. It’s amazing that they can turn borrowing money for food into a positive.
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 5 weeks ago:
When was the last time Switzerland actively made first strikes
I’m not sure, but I know halberds were involved.
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 5 weeks ago:
They got rid of the exploding roads, though. Or so they say.
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 5 weeks ago:
I remember when the original name for the invasion of Iraq was “Operation Iraqi Liberation” until somebody decided that was a little too obvious an acronym.
- Comment on The Typical First-Time Homebuyer Is Now 40 Years Old, a Record High 1 month ago:
Yeah, USD.
- Comment on The Typical First-Time Homebuyer Is Now 40 Years Old, a Record High 1 month ago:
I live in the Philly metro area and you see exactly 0 tiny homes around here. They are just not allowed by any municipality, anywhere. The closest I’ve found are at a sort of tiny home park in Lancaster, about an hour and a half away. And the owner of that development had to fight tooth and nail for years to get approval for it.
- Comment on The Typical First-Time Homebuyer Is Now 40 Years Old, a Record High 1 month ago:
I bought a home six years ago for cash. Unfortunately it is a used school bus and I can’t actually live in it legally anywhere.
- Comment on The Typical First-Time Homebuyer Is Now 40 Years Old, a Record High 1 month ago:
I was looking at one of these a few years ago, a decent 1BR unit for $125K. I thought that was reasonable until I learned that the condo fee was $960 per month and that the building had hit owners with special assessments for about $10K each for the three years prior. Like, I’m supposed to pay almost $2000 a month just to live in an apartment that I already bought?
I just bought an actual 2BR house for $140K and the cost of my taxes plus homeowners insurance comes to $400 a month.
- Comment on The Palantir Stare aka The Thiel Razzle 1 month ago:
I randomly got a job recommendation from one of the sites that looked for exactly my programming skill set. I was interested until I saw what company it was – Palantir. GOD DAMN IT.
- Comment on where the cuties 1 month ago:
Or gravy!
- Comment on sushi delivery 1 month ago:
When I first started cooking I used to burn the rice all the time and I had to throw it all away. Then one day I had dinner at a Persian restaurant and they brought me some of the charred rice (called “tahdig”) as a special treat. It was a real eye-opener (tongue-opener?) because that shit is incredibly delicious. They regretted serving it to me because I started begging for it every time I went, which is apparently a rather rude thing to do.
Korean dol sat bibim bap is similar. It’s a dish served in a massively hot stone bowl with the rice on the bottom, and the longer you let it sit there before mixing everything together, the more the rice chars and the better it tastes. It’s almost crazy how much charred rice is not a thing in world cuisines when it’s actually incredibly delicious.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 month ago:
Can also be used if you agree with former Bengals QB Boomer Esiason.