ChickenLadyLovesLife @ ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world

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Those fucking cord tangles GOD DAMN IT!!!

Tantrum at 58: I need a nap.

Monty Python used to be my favorite comedy group. Now it's the Cleveland Browns.

Ironically, one of the universal things I've noticed in programmers (myself included) is that newbie coders always go through a phase of thinking "why am I writing SQL? I'll write a set of classes to write the SQL for me!" resulting in a massively overcomplicated mess that is a hundred times harder to use (and maintain) than a simple SQL statement would be. The most hilarious example of this I ever saw was when I took over a young colleague's code base and found two classes named "OR.cs" and "AND.cs". All they did was take a String as a parameter, append " OR " or " AND " to it, and return it as the output. Very forward-thinking, in case the meanings of "OR" and "AND" were ever to change in future versions of SQL.

I always use wine when cooking anything with tomatoes in it. Tomatoes (and other vegetables) have a lot of flavor compounds that are alcohol-soluble and the wine brings them out.

Wow, I hate to bring up Spanish smoked paprika then.

Put black garlic in everything.

I started watching TV cooking shows in the late 90s (e.g. Good Eats, Iron Chef, Naked Chef etc.) and I would just cook what I saw for my friends. They were all "wow ChickenLady you're such an amazing chef" for a few years until they started watching that shit themselves. Then they were all "you should have used white balsamic vinegar and black garlic in that".

I always liked United Snakes.

They should ditch Microsoft 365 due to lack of not sucking balls.

Sure, fascists gonna fasc.

Franco did do the Allies a bit of a solid by not hooking up with Hitler. Britain would have lost Gibraltar and then all of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Hitler wouldn't have needed to waste so much military strength in the theater and could have concentrated more on the Soviets (and started Barbarossa earlier in the year). Even their fucking jets would have worked a lot better.

Ah, I was thinking Portuguese-esque.

Microsoft's business model has always been getting businesses who are even stupider than them to give them tons of money. Nothing is ever going to change that calculus.

forgejo

How is this generally pronounced? I feel like "for-GAY-hoe" would be the only workable pronunciation.

Interestingly, the calorie counts on food packaging are derived from the Atwater system (and later modifications) that estimate digestible calories from the amount of fat, protein and carbohydrates in each food item. These numbers are based on experimental research on food substitution and weight loss/gain done in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The calorie counts for alcohol are similarly based on the measurable amount of alcohol in each drink, except that the number used (7 kcal per g) was just a complete guess on Atwater's part since they couldn't do equivalent substitution experiments involving booze.

I had a friend in college whose parents were big into world government and had founded an organization to promote that. Talking to them was a weird experience because 1) they felt every problem facing the world could be solved by a one-world government, and 2) they actually felt achieving that world government was a realistic possibility. And it wasn't like they thought the solution was just the USA taking over everything; they were very critical of everything about this country.

I don't know if this is irony or not, but that friend is now worth $34 million after her parents' company went public. She doesn't say anything about world government any more.

It's more like chicken garlic.

My dentist plays a '70s soft rock channel. It's really impressive how good the production is on that stuff, and people could actually legitimately sing! No autotune or melodyne in sight.

I thought Imagine Dragons was a band I'd never heard until I checked out some of their songs and realized I've actually heard them a million times ... always in grocery stores shopping at night.