ChickenLadyLovesLife

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I think his strategy was to tell his bosses he had run out of fuel and wouldn't be able to make the rest of his deliveries. But I dunno, the articles about this never said what his thought process was. I drive past this station twice a day and the stink from it was horrible. 8000 gallons is a lot of fucking gas.

This reminds me that years ago I was friends with a bunch of Red Bull girls. Their job was to pick up the Red Bull mini-cooper, fill it with cases of Red Bull and then drive around handing out free samples wherever people were while being attractive. They were very good at the being attractive part, but most days they would just drive to the river, dump the cases of Red Bull in it, and then go home and get high. Their bosses suspected something like this was going on and gave them all Windows Mobile PDAs that tracked their location by GPS. I checked out the tracking app (I was a Windows Mobile developer at the time) and it turned out it just logged their GPS coordinates once an hour into a plain text file. I showed them how to edit the file to make it look like they were driving around -- just doing my part saving at least some people from trying fucking Red Bull.

Eh, if the public has all been replaced by AI, they won't have money to go anywhere.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Just a couple of years ago in my neighborhood a truck driver was arrested because he offloaded 4000 gallons of gasoline at a gas station, then ran the hose down an embankment next to the station and pumped the remaining 8000 gallons into a creek. He did this because he wanted to go home and didn't feel like making the rest of his stops. He apparently thought nobody would notice; for bonus points this was right next to a charter school which had to be evacuated while they cleaned up the mess.

He was arrested and sentenced to 20+ years in prison. This is the intelligence level that can get hired as a fuel truck driver (TBF I'm sure they're not all that stupid).

Edit: just for funsies, the gas station where this happened recently rebranded as a "Freedom Fuel" station lol.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 63 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

The point is moot. With diesel skyrocketing they won't be able to drive at all.

Over the last year I lived with my parents to take care of them and occasionally I had to entertain myself with their cable TV. I used to spend hours channel surfing and there was almost always lots of stuff to choose from. Now I just end up watching Beat Bobby Flay because there's absolutely nothing else to watch. And I don't really want to watch Beat Bobby Flay either.

Or you could eat whatever you want and then teleport it out of you. No more fatties -- unless they like that shit.

Why is our power source named "the demon core"?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At my first professional programming job workspace was tight so I was given a desk in the server room. This room was kept at 59°F because mainframes that the company didn't even have any more required it. It sucked -- I had to wear fingerless Oliver Twist gloves all day. I blame the cold for my executing a DELETE query without a WHERE clause on the production database. "Why is this taking so long?" I muttered through blue lips.

I prefer lobotomy, but then I always did idolize the Kennedys.

Elon Musk seems like a genius up until he starts talking about something you’re familiar with

He seems like a moron even when he's talking about things I know nothing about. There's a video on youtube of him giving a tour of SpaceX's museum of past rockets that they've launched, and he's talking about how they've reduced the "fiddly bits" on the outside of the rockets over the years.

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

I'm a retired programmer but I'm too young for Medicare, so I drive a school bus mainly because we get excellent health insurance as a benefit. Otherwise I'd be paying over a thousand a month for a shitty policy with something like a $7000 deductible and my limited finances couldn't handle that. Hopefully I can make it onto Medicare before my school district privatizes the transportation department or replaces it with AI-driven buses. Also hopefully Medicare stays around.

It's so weird that terrorism mainly strengthens authoritarian regimes rather than bringing them down. But of course there's no reason at all to suspect that's their real goal.

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