ChickenLadyLovesLife

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same as it ever was⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Our ancestors’ brains went from chimpanzee-sized to modern-sized (actually slightly bigger than today) between two million and one million years ago, and more importantly the language-governing areas increased in size during that stretch. So human beings a million years ago were very much like us today, just without the advanced technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same as it ever was⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite was “a sucking chest wound is Nature’s Way of telling you you’ve been in a firefight”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same as it ever was⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Galluspetat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same as it ever was⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I always liked how archaeologists would dig up ancients statues of big-breasted and big-butted women and call them evidence of a “cult of fertility”. I guess that sounds better than “porn”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know thy enemy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: through the 1800s coal-powered steamships mostly replaced sailing vessels for the transportation of people and time-sensitive cargo around the world. But steamships were highly inefficient and required frequent re-coaling, and locally available coal was dirtier and contained less thermal energy than the good stuff that Britain (who was doing by far most of the shipping) got from Wales and other places on their island. Because steamships could not efficiently and cheaply haul the coal that they needed around the world to restock the coaling stations, this was done instead by an enormous fleet of sailing colliers. So the “steam revolution” of the 1800s was actually a steam/wind-power hybrid. It wasn’t until the advent of triple- and quadruple-expansion steam engines, turbines, and greatly improved boilers in the early 1900s that steam-powered vessels could efficiently and economically haul their own fuel. And even with that, wind-powered cargo vessels remained economically viable and operating in significant numbers right up until the start of WWII (that’s II, not I).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you think those guys would know to do something about a dude on a roof with a rifle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Genesis of a joke.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Should’ve put “John” above the “Holmes” logo and made fun of your boss’ small-dick energy when he complained.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Genesis of a joke.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  people mistakenly associate Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering with Gabriel despite being voiced by Phil Collins

  Just saw an interview with Peter Gabriel where he said people come up to him almost daily and tell him how they much they loved Trick of the Tail. He just had this defeated look on his face when he said he had to keep telling them that was Phil and not him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At my last company, they usually gave end-of-the-year bonuses instead of raises. They were pretty generous, usually amounting to about half of our annual salaries, but it of course prevented us from being guaranteed that level of compensation the following year. That’s why I always describe bonuses as raises followed by pay cuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once quit my job at a software company I really hated. They were desperate to keep me around for the projects I was leading so they asked if I would work hourly for a while. I quoted them a go-fuck-yourselves hourly rate which they immediately agreed to, which made me even more angry about my prior years of poor compensation. I worked under this agreement for about half a year and further improved my effective hourly rate by not working very hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve traveled in India - there’s no way that would produce anything but piles of dead children. My money’s on being replaced by AI first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At my last job I managed a team of developers in India (while residing in the US). It was pretty much necessary for me to be available outside of my company’s normal work hours. I always compensated myself for middle-of-the-night activity with time off during the day and nobody ever mentioned having a problem with it. I was eventually rewarded by being laid off with everybody else when my company was acquired by a west coast tech giant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not allowed to work from home and it seriously pisses me off. Whenever I complain about this to my boss, she always gives me shit like “you’re a school bus driver”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨placebo F⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I could remember what product this was, but many years ago there was some bullshit new age supplement that had “Guaranteed Placebo Effect” on the packaging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fret, check your spam folder⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when I was working on my (never completed) dissertation, I would sometimes call up televangelists’ hotlines and talk about my research. It was pretty amusing how they would initially try to steer the conversation to the God stuff but then give up as I kept relentlessly returning to my subject. Eventually they were reduced to “uh huh … uh huh” but they couldn’t just hang up on me because they weren’t allowed to. I actually worked through some problems this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You misspelled “harvest” and “organs”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You fuckin monsters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun borzoi fact: borzois feature prominently in a chapter of War and Peace (Tolstoy’s epic novel which probably would have been better titled Whatever I Fucking Feel Like Writing About Next). The narrator describes one character’s prized borzoi and mentions that he paid a family of serfs for it. He doesn’t mean the character gave money to a serf family in exchange for the dog - he means that the price of the dog was a family of serfs. Imagine being that serf family and finding out why you have to move to a new estate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Badgers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mushroom mushroom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never mind the weather report.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most accurate description ever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mind the hairs growing inside my ears - it’s those sneaky fuckers growing on the backs of my ears that piss me off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most accurate description ever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking as an old dude, it’s absolutely astonishing how fast eyebrow hairs grow. Like, a quarter of an inch a day and I’m not even joking.I trim mine every day and I still look like Thufir Hawat by dinnertime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No further questions your honour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How on earth do people still think Bigfoot is real? It’s obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More trustworthy than what's currently on the road⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, look how bad he fucked up Lindsay Lohan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Get rid of those ugly strain reliefs on the plugs!”
  “Uh, we don’t make hardware.”
  “I don’t care, get rid of them!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a non-technical manager (in 2012!) come to me and tell me he had just read an article about something called an API and he wanted us (a software development company) to start using them. I told him I would research it lol and fortunately he quickly moved on to other varieties of uselessness. Eventually he was fired for wearing a bowtie to the funeral of the company’s founder who famously wore a bowtie. I wish this story were not true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, working from home meant eating endangered species for lunch seven days a week instead of just two. Checkmate, liberals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women in STEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The clearest case of this is when Jethro Tull won the Nobel Heavy Metal prize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women in STEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF the male researchers involved in Franklin’s case are/were straight-up assholes across the board, not just sexist appropriators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women in STEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My former best friend one day out of the blue told me he thought that women are on average smarter than men but are not capable of rising to the very top level of human intellect. His “proof” of this was the fact that nearly all major scientific discoveries have been made by men. Needless to say, he thought of himself as being at the highest level of human intellect - despite having made no major scientific discoveries himself (or even minor ones for that matter). This was the beginning of the end of our friendship, and I’m only embarrassed that it wasn’t instantly the end of our friendship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Elon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer Melon Husk.