ChickenLadyLovesLife
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- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 23 hours ago:
I took German in high school and forgot it all immediately. A decade later I found myself in India studying Malayalam, the language of Kerala which is the southern-most state in the country. Very hard language to learn but as I was studying its formal grammar I was like, wait a minute this is very familiar. Turns out a German monk in the 19th Century visited Kerala and gave Malayalam its first formal grammar, which was basically just German’s grammar. So it wasn’t totally useless.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 1 day ago:
I got out of the language requirement in college by taking computer science courses, which counted as “language” only because programming languages are called what they are. It is just the dumbest fucking shit. If they were called “paradigms” or “code instruction sets” or something like that (which would be just as or more accurate than “languages”) it never would have occurred to anyone to let us computer nerds – who are already not exactly well-rounded in general – to get out of learning a real fucking language.
- Comment on Zootopia 1 day ago:
Hare down there
- Comment on YSK: Albert Einstein wrote about Socialism, and specifically calls out issues with the version proposed by technocrats. 2 days ago:
That was like the third-smartest thing about Einstein. Second-smartest was the Theory of Relativity, and First-Smartest was leaving Germany in 1933.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 4 days ago:
a and o are on opposite end of the keyboard
Maybe the author has a Dvorak keyboard layout (a and o are next to each other there).
- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 4 days ago:
I bought a house two years ago and had a plumber come out to install a new water heater. He asked me where the water meter and I had to say “fuck if I know”. He said lots of people just let their water account lapse and then remove the meter and tap directly into the water line in the street and get free water. He assumed that the previous owner of my house had done this; I was pondering whether this was a bad thing or not when he found the actual water meter out in the yard under a metal cover. Good news? Probably not – it turns out my house water is supplied by a very cheap independent local water authority, but they had to go into bankruptcy along with the city and apparently some Saudis are planning to buy it to provide water to grow alfalfa for their racehorses.
- Comment on Can't stop won't stop 5 days ago:
drinking one glass of whisky
To be fair, medical professionals generally triple or quadruple patients’ reported alcohol consumption.
- Comment on Can't stop won't stop 5 days ago:
In college I arranged a co-op at IBM. They made me take a drug test which I failed (for marijuana). A person from IBM’s HR called me and said literally “you need to clean up your act” and they brought me in to do the co-op anyway. I have no idea what the fuck that was all about.
- Comment on Can't stop won't stop 5 days ago:
British cartoon pig?
- Comment on Good one 1 week ago:
I thought Muscadine was the actor in Kung Fu.
- Comment on Good one 1 week ago:
Since horse racing is all about betting: Zinfanduel.
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 1 week ago:
The bus is not my main residence. I live in a place (Philly area) where residence in a motorhome is not really a legal option. I embarked on the skoolie journey without a realistic plan for actually living in it and so far it’s been nothing but a gigantic time and money sink. But it has been fun and I’ve developed a lot of skills (mainly metalworking like welding and riveting) that I didn’t have before. You may enjoy my build thread.
I do hope to someday be able to live in it for a few years at least. We’ll see if that’s possible.
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 1 week ago:
My sister-in-law had a victorian-era sofa in their house for a few years. Incredibly well-built piece of furniture and quite beautiful, but truly uncomfortable. Also heavy as fuck – I’d rather move a piano.
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 1 week ago:
I own a skoolie (a used school bus converted to a motorhome). I acquired two sections of one of those giant sectional sofas from a woman on Craigslist who was giving them away for free. She paid $4000 for the entire thing and when I deconstructed my sections to build them into the bus I was astonished at what incredibly poor quality the things were. The framing (such as it was) was unbelievably cheap wood that looked like it was cut by a beaver, and the ends were made from OSB scraps - not even cheap plywood. The backs underneath the cushions were entirely made from nylon lawn chair straps haphazardly stapled down.
The cushions and fabric were decent enough, but the thought of paying $4000 for furniture that shitty underneath is pretty hard to imagine.
- Comment on YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy 1 week ago:
DON’T DOXX ME
- Comment on YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy 1 week ago:
I like electric space heaters, but: I bought a cheap Chinese one a few years ago that somehow rewired itself. Like, the “off” setting became “low heat”, “high heat” became “fan” etc. I took it apart to see how the fuck that could possibly happen. The dial switch included a little roller contact that moved over a printed circuit board sort of thing to determine the setting; if the heater got too hot (imagine that!) the switch solder would melt and then re-flow into a different pattern, causing the switch to work completely differently. Just unimaginably hazardous.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You could take artificial diamonds back to the time before there were such things as artificial diamonds.
- Comment on It's the truth! 2 weeks ago:
In Japan they’re called blue onions - neither blue nor onions.
- Comment on It's the truth! 2 weeks 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! 2 weeks ago:
It was “purpura” in Latin. OP said purple is relatively modern in English.
- Comment on It's the truth! 2 weeks ago:
In Japan green onions are called “blue onions”. I do not know why.
- Comment on Hey Grok 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
Ah, I was thinking Portuguese-esque.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 5 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.