ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Typical First-Time Homebuyer Is Now 40 Years Old, a Record High 6 days ago:
Yeah, USD.
- Comment on The Typical First-Time Homebuyer Is Now 40 Years Old, a Record High 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 week ago:
Or gravy!
- Comment on sushi delivery 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Can also be used if you agree with former Bengals QB Boomer Esiason.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 2 weeks ago:
I’m a Cognitive Developmental Transportation Engineer … aka school bus driver.
- Comment on mercy merci 2 weeks ago:
My mom taught me growing up to deal with spiders like this. She proudly told me how her dad had taught her to do it. Now she’s nearly 90 and when she sees a spider she’s like KILL THAT FUCKIN THING!!!*
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
My local Acme carried red bananas for a while. They are fucking delicious, taste more like a banana custard than a regular yellow banana. They’re also a bit smaller so less of a commitment to carbo-loading when you peel one. I wouldn’t mind at all if they became the new standard banana, even if it would kind of ruin Mario Kart.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 weeks ago:
TBF this was all more than 5 years ago when the job interviewing process at most IT companies involved just putting a moistened finger underneath the candidate’s nostrils. Apparently the programmer job market is pretty horrific these days, although I wouldn’t know since I drive a school bus now.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 weeks ago:
How about an example from the last 40 years?
- Comment on I AM BETTER 3 weeks ago:
“Jimmy Page wrote Stairway to Heaven when he was 23, but I learned to play it at 18.”
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 3 weeks ago:
You had me until “unless”.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 weeks ago:
MS is waaaay too big to fail.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 weeks ago:
I was thinking Microsoft employs clever people
As a programmer, I’ve had numerous colleagues who have ended up as software engineers at MS. They were mostly either unbelievably lazy or extremely incompetent. The rest who were both ended up there as managers.
- Comment on What was I thinking? 3 weeks ago:
I shave my head. I have to shave it every two or three days or I look like a mangy old dog. I wait until just before I go to bed to shave it, at which point I’m too tired and I tell myself I’ll do it in the morning before work, which of course I never do. So I end up shaving it once every three weeks, and spend most of the time looking like a mangy old dog.
I eventually hit upon the strategy of shaving a small patch somewhere on my head before I go to bed, which forces me to do the rest of the job in the morning before work. Except that I usually forget I did that and often go to work looking like a mangy old dog that somebody tried to shave before giving up. Fortunately I’m a school bus driver so I only scare children.
- Comment on American public transit 3 weeks ago:
I used to bike to work when I lived in Louisiana. It was fortunate that my office was a block from the YMCA, so I could shower and change after my ride in. The downside was that the Y was the hangout of the fat old white men who worked at the courthouse and like to lounge around naked on the couches in the locker room, laughing and making jokes about sending black men to Angola prison for decades for crimes they probably didn’t commit (these were judges, prosecutors and public defenders talking about this shit).
- Comment on American public transit 3 weeks ago:
I had a few years where I rode the train from a stop a mile from my house to a station literally in the basement of the building I worked in. A 55 minute ride where I could read peacefully or nap, absolute heaven. I didn’t even like moving to WFH because I missed the restaurants in the city.
- Comment on World would be a better place 3 weeks ago:
I used to even have props for some gags
Imagine trying to convert people and you run into fucking Carrot Top.
- Comment on World would be a better place 3 weeks ago:
I used to canvas door-to-door for a public interest group, so I almost always give them some cash and offer them water and a bathroom break. It was an absolutely horrific job and I’m sure it’s even worse today. I still want them to move the fuck on as quickly as possible, though.
I still remember the best interaction I ever had going door-to-door. We were raising money to help fight rising insurance rates, and I was talking to one old guy standing next to his truck. He listened to my spiel and then said “I’ll tell you why insurance rates are so high: it’s because the n*****rs are burning the cities down.” I said “well that’s what we’re fighting, sir” and he gave me $25.
- Comment on World would be a better place 3 weeks ago:
I like the solicitors who put their sales brochures in ziplock bags with some rocks and toss it onto your driveway. It gives me rocks to throw at all the other solicitors.
- Comment on World would be a better place 3 weeks ago:
“I’d let you in, but I prefer Mormons. They have better porn.”
- Comment on one bright second 3 weeks ago:
conscious energy systems or something
Like Kevin Spacey? Ew.
- Comment on one bright second 3 weeks ago:
I suppose you could wish for all genies to be instantly annihilated. Maybe toss the GOP in there for good measure.
- Comment on one bright second 3 weeks ago:
This is the main reason why, if you come across a genie in a lamp, you should probably not wish for immortality. You’re gonna be hellafuckin bored for a loooooooong time.
- Comment on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents 4 weeks ago:
I have no idea how an engineer working in a software company could trust that thing
Because many of us are fucking morons. I had one colleague who was writing the control software for a baseball-throwing machine. Despite being way past the deadline and way over budget, the client asked him to create a special version of the software so the machine could be used with Little League teams. He decided to do his first test of this version on a field with actual Little Leaguers on it, which resulted in a 125 mph knuckleball (no spin at all so incredibly erratic in flight) a foot above a 10-year-old kid’s head. Which resulted in the only time in my programming career that I had to physically intervene to prevent a fistfight between two people (my boss and the client).
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 4 weeks ago:
When I read that shit as a kid, I thought Asimov’s laws of robotics were like natural laws, so that it was just naturally impossible for robots to behave otherwise. That never made any sense to me so I thought Asimov was just full of shit.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 4 weeks ago:
Limbed Lugubrious Motherfucker