ChickenLadyLovesLife

joined 3 years ago

Every time I've seen Russia mentioned in the MSM, it's "Russia has attempted to influence our elections" without mentioning that the influence was on behalf of trump.

My last company had a cool pathway where you could become a "distinguished engineer" instead of a manager and get the same sort of huge salary and stock options. Unfortunately, my last company also liked to lay off huge swaths of engineers, particular those who were a year away from being eligible to become "distinguished engineers".

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago (10 children)

If you're dumb enough to have been dumb, keep being dumb.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Donald Trump has done similar things.

Like shilling for Goya products from the Oval Office? Yes that's totally similar to turning down a raise.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

In the Roman Republic, it was understood that officials needed to line their pockets as much and as quickly as possible during their limited time in office. This is why term limits are also bad when combined with low pay.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Four years of "Merrick Garland is a professional and he is just making sure all the i's are dotted and t's are crossed before prosecuting trump".

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unrelated, but my elderly uncle drove a minivan with an automatic transmission that he drove like it was a manual. He would start from every stop by putting the shifter into "1" and then "2" and then "D" and then back to "N" when he stopped. He was a former Navy pilot (A-1 Skyraiders) and I guess he just couldn't accept the loss of control that goes with an automatic. It doesn't seem like this could possibly have been good for the transmission, but I dunno.

I remember years ago seeing a video about a company that was supposably developing tactile touchscreens. There was a layer underneath the LCD layer that could be puffed out with some kind of fluid to form bumps where the buttons were shown. Nothing has come of this, unsurprisingly.

My favorite thing is the cop cars that have an actual fucking laptop set up next to the driver. Nothing distracting about that, no sir.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (5 children)

"Fascistic" means like fascism. This isn't like fascism, it is fascism.

My local Shop-Rite still has cheap-ass chicken, at least. They've always had these packs of chicken (breast, legs or thighs) of about 6 or 7 pounds that cost $10 total. Thank god I like hot dogs, too -- stores still damn near give those away.

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