SippyCup

@SippyCup@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So close!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Stew is thicker and chunkier. Generally made by slowly braising a big ole hunk of otherwise inediblely tough meat for a long time in some kinda liquid. Soup is generally thinner with little bits of whatever the fuck you have laying around tossed in to a broth or stock.

  Chili is a stew. A bisque or chowder is a soup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The solution to many problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to submit exhibit A in to evidence your honor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The solution to many problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Having to deal with the consequences of dropping a lifelong addiction most likely.

  Quitting smoking fucking sucks. You don’t start to notice the positive effects of quitting for weeks after your last smoke, and you don’t realize until then how much the cigarettes are affecting your health. So it can really feel like you’re putting yourself through hell for very little benefit. When just having a cigarette feels like it can fix all symptoms you’re having now, it’s hard to keep going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinda fucked up tbh⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the year 3250. Two harsh desert planets are in a bitter dispute over mineral and water mining rights over the asteroid belt. The Mars coalition insists that Earth may lay claim only to those rocky bodies that fall past her orbit. Earth insists that anything beyond their respective atmospheres is fair game. They use loaded language and plan to argue that an ‘atmosphere’ is one that sustains life, meaning she plans to mine uninhabited stretches or Martian soil too. There is serious debate on Earth of the inhabitants of Mars are even human anymore, cross breeding has become exceptionally difficult. Martians have a lower natural fertility rate and often need IVF to reproduce. Earth gravity is too strong for martians to safely return to the home planet, and so few Earthlings have ever seen one in person.

  The dispute, unresolved, leads to the second interplanetary war. A billion people will die on both planets. Mars will lose precious irreplaceable atmosphere. Earth will lose access to much needed water. The conflict only ends when neither can keep up the fight any longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey Badger hates silly meetings⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  See that’s an apprentice kinda attitude.

  Where I come from meetings can become fist fights any time you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a wonderful world we live in!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s satire yeah.

  And they don’t! But they’ll put up with it if whoever the horse in charge is says it’s ok.

  To note, the horse in charge is very likely the guy on the horse’s back. The horse does not seem to be confused by this arrangement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a wonderful world we live in!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Horses do not get used to unfamiliar environments. They have an environment they like and anything else kinda stresses them out. They’re big dumb skittish animals that long for quiet open fields of grass with nice firm rocky soil.

  So yeah, taking a horse and throwing it on an aircraft would spook the bajesus out of it. Throwing it off again would probably scare it to death, if the landing, however gentle, doesn’t kill it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you are now witnessing the peak of online discourse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think our mistake is assuming that our ancestors wouldn’t have also asked if your parents were related and farted as a hilarious insult over a stupid disagreement.

  People have always been people. We just do it faster now. And probably quite a bit less violently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse than they used to be?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just glad I pirated the premium version

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The gamification only works until you figure out the rules they used.

  I have completed multiple lessons on Duolingo without ever reading the prompt. I even started a language I knew nothing about because I felt like I wasn’t actually absorbing anything in the language I’d spent more than a year on, and pretty much the same results. After a few lessons it became possible to complete lessons basically blind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrimpposters begone!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Weeeellll classic memes are often celebrated for their excellence but there is a new meme featuring Orson Welles inspired by that same classic excellence. It is written in his voice and like the most choice classic memes, is fresh and OC so Orson Welles…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrimpposters begone!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Beautiful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrimpposters begone!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I DEMAND MORE ORSON WELLES STYLE MEMES

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus that’s just straight up porn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone here afraid of Mannequins?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once talked to a former military police officer and current cop about the only time he’d discharged a weapon outside of a training scenario ever.

  He was walking through a department store looking for some individual, the details of who and why weren’t important to him and so weren’t shared. Anyway, somebody bumped in to a mannequin next to him and he discharged his entire clip in to it before he realized it wasn’t a person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Tech Visa Applications Are Being Put Through the Wringer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda figured the H1B visas would be spared, since Elmo is a will known abuser of that program, along with most of silicone valley.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  V has as much money as you have at the end of the game, they’ve got properties and cars, whatever cash… But your connections are just whatever fixers are still alive when you get back. But now that you’re kinda useless to them now they won’t be very eager to help you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it twice when it came out, and several times since then, once or twice with every major update. Don’t judge me I love cyberpunk settings.

  It’s a completely different game now. A much better experience. It’s still quite possible to make the game ridiculously easy for yourself. Hackers will have an easier time than a street samurai, and if you put the time in to do all of the side quests you’ll quickly level to the point of unstoppable brute force merc anyway. But, the core experience is good, the expansion adds a lot, and is worth playing through even if you don’t do the rest of the game.

  I say this as someone who, in spite of how good I wanted the game to be, could recognize that the released product, and even the game several updates in, was deeply flawed. I didn’t have the issue with bugs many people were having, but still it felt unfinished and unrefined. As of 2.1 I can confidently say it’s a good game, even if you’re not a freak for a criminal underserved cyberpunk setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit that ending hits hard.

  spoiler

  You’re abandoned by everyone you cared about, the few that remain are so changed they’re hardly recognizable, and you’re alone in a city that eats people alive. I think I had a few million eddies and literally every apartment in town, V could survive by never going outside. But with nothing left to live for what’s the point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got lots of 65 year old factory or construction workers, do ya? And I’m talking about laborers, not supervisors etc.

  Yes.

  The oldest guy on our seniority list has had one job his entire life, he’s 72. He refuses to retire. The entire first page of seniority is guys in their 60’s. To be clear, if they’re on the seniority list, they’re not supervisors, they’re machine operators, welders, paint line guys, and tradesmen.

  I, at 40, am one of the younger people in the building.

  We recently started sucking up as many students as we could for the trades jobs because of how dangerously close to retirement most of the workforce is.

  These jobs are not nearly as bad as people think. It’s not construction, which absolutely can and does destroy bodies. Factory work is engineered around being ergonomic and safe. If for no other reason than there simply isn’t the workforce available to replace people that leave young. But there’s actually lots of reasons. It’s legally required, it’s watched closelt by more than one federal agency (at least it WAS…). The factory literally can’t make money if these guys are getting injured all the time, and it’s way easier to make something safe to do than deal with constant injuries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d be surprised. Most industrial jobs are not all that physical anymore. I felt the same as you did at your age and I spent 20 years grinding jobs I absolutely hated because I too had no ambition coming out of high school. I ended up bouncing around call centers while trying to find something I enjoyed at college enough to be successful at, all the while being passed over by people who actually enjoyed what they were doing.

  I’m a tool maker now, I do a little troubleshooting, a little machining, and my job is immensely satisfying. It’s not for everyone but that’s every job.

  Honestly even if you’re opposed to industry, I wouldn’t bother with an expensive education until you have some idea of what you want to do. Find some place that’ll give you an entry level job and provide tuition reimbursement, get your core studies out of the way while you figure stuff out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Intelligent people get fooled all the time. The NXIVM cult was made up mostly of reasonably intelligent women. Shit that motherfucker selected for intelligent women.

  You’re not immune. Even if you were, you’re incredibly dependent on people of average to lower intelligence on a daily basis. Our planet runs on the average intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I WISH. hahaha I’m in danger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love eggs. I eat an omelette every day. Lots of butter. Yumm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's invite-only Deadlock has an even more exclusive top-secret hush-hush version⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best times I had with any PVP shooter were always in the middle of the day on weekdays. It was always a bunch of working age guys like myself and that was the only time they had to play. Dudes were always friendly, games were always fun. 3pm Eastern hit and the fun was over, if it was Friday you were done playing for the weekendb unless you stayed up really late, even then, it was never as good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRUCKIN'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The man loves 3 things. Beer, himself, and trucks. He’s clearly drinking the first and fucking the other two, hard to judge a man who’s obtained the kind of success in live that allows him to indulge in his hobbies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yarr, there be an alternative. Though some might’n be thinking acquiring such booty be illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rev up those 3D printers!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh noooo… Which frogs tho?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A great one at that