ChickenLadyLovesLife

@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world

• ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At an absolute minimum he would be listed as “pre-diabetic”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YOU FIRED!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calm your tits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the message the Calvin sticker sends: “I am childish but have an old man’s bladder.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calm your tits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Larry David and Bernie Sanders are actually cousins. They got hooked up on that PBS show sponsored by Ancestry.com.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thedonaldgrad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I was WFH at the time and they didn’t give me anything to do so it was effectively that anyway. And really they had given me almost no work to do for the four months prior to that - which of course is why I was not even the least bit surprised by the layoff. My severance was to the penny exactly what I would have gotten from unemployment, so it effectively meant I got unemployment benefits without having to pretend to look for work. Also, they randomly sent me a check for $6K that I have no idea what for (not PTO or sick time compensation) and I used it to buy a school bus. So overall I can’t really hate them too much. Years later I found out my mother had thought I was working for Sysco (the food supply conglomerate) instead of Cisco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked briefly for Cisco because they acquired my company (a much smaller competitor) to help eliminate competition. The only good thing I can say about them is they gave me (and everybody else from this smaller company) two months’ notice of the layoff and didn’t have us escorted out of the building or anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “… so we can be sure to avoid ever actually implementing them.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I wish I’d thought of that back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be a mobile developer (mainly Windows CE, Android and iOS) but once in 2010 I got put onto a project producing a TV-guide-like app for Blackberry. I was absolutely blown away by how fucking awful the developer tools were. Even during the development phase, an app had to be fully signed before it could be deployed to a device and tested and the signing servers were almost always down or operating under a severe delay. Even worse was that the framework code was divided up into umpteen billion different modules, each of which had to be separately signed, so the more modules you made use of the longer your app took to be signed (I often found myself writing custom functions that should logically have been handled by the framework, just to avoid the inclusion of one more module). Some days, even a one-line change to your code took 30 to 40 minutes to get onto your device - or else it was impossible because the signing servers were completely down. They did have emulators but they were worse than the physical devices and everything still had to be signed anyway.

  The built-in UI tools were horrible and there wasn’t anything that could be used for a TV guide, so I ended up having to do literally everything with Graphics primitives - although that was actually the fun part of the project. The most annoying thing was the 16-bit graphics, which probably made a bit of sense in 2003 but certainly not in 2010. And of course Blackberry was crashing and dying at that point anyway, so my work was pretty much useless.

  The scroll wheel was awesome, though. It allowed for a super-precise UI controlling aspect that just isn’t possible with touchscreens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss myspace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How could you miss “MeinSpace”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  then proceeds to recklessly dismantle huge parts of the US government

  Just give him a few more weeks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was young, you (supposedly) could still buy WWII-era original Jeeps disassembled and packed into crates in cosmoline. I always wanted one of those but never had any desire to own a modern one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doing a nazi salute while making the Mussolini face, no less!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the white flag stereotype for France comes from 2003

  It actually comes (unfairly) from the French army mutinies of 1917 and (also unfairly) from France’s surrender to Hitler in 1940, in addition to their not joining in the fun in Iraq. All of which obscures a prior thousand-year history of kicking the shit out of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That laptop lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My brother gave me his Facebook credentials so I could use marketplace without bothering him all the time. He’s been a liberal left-winger all his life but for the past few years he’s taken to ranting about how awful Democrats are (“Genocide Joe” etc.) while mocking people who believe that there’s a connection between Trump and Putin. Sure enough, his Facebook is filled with posts about how awful Democrats are and how there’s no connection between Trump and Putin - like, that’s literally all that’s on there. I’ve tried to get him to see that his worldview is entirely created by Facebook but he just won’t accept it.

  In my mind, this is really what sets social media apart from past mechanisms of social control. In the days of mass media, the propaganda was necessarily a one-size-fits-all sort of thing. Now, the pipeline of bullshit can be custom-tailored for each individual. So my brother, who would never support Trump and the Republicans, can nevertheless be fed a line of bullshit that he will accept and help Trump by not voting (he actually voted Green).