SippyCup
@SippyCup@feddit.nl
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 12 hours ago:
Seriously, just, no.
Because not only all of that other stuff, but you’re also extremely unlikely to be the first person to suggest it.
A buddy of mine is constantly being told she just needs to go out and exercise a little more, or take this supplement or that supplement, or see a fucking chiropractor. She has been for as long as I’ve known her. She doesn’t remember the last time she heard something unique. Though the number times she’s been told to just get a spinal adjustment for an autoimmune disease is frightening.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 12 hours ago:
My guy, being fat is not the same as having a hard to pin down chronic illness.
I say this as a guy who does not remember a day where I wasn’t concerned about my weight, who only recently managed to drop from obese to over weight. You can fix being fat. You can fix fat with diet and exercise. You can’t fix “maybe lupus? Maybe MCTD? I dunno it’s probably autoimmune? We’re going to need to order more tests” with diet, exercise, magic crystals, or whatever other random bullshit people like to suggest.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 1 day ago:
Generally if you’re talking to someone with a chronic illness, and you think you have an idea of something that might help: A, it won’t, and 2, they’ve already tried it or C, they physically can’t.
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 5 days ago:
laughs harder in American prison industrial complex
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 6 days ago:
laughs in American prison system
- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 1 week ago:
If you were around in the early days of the Internet, this video was far from the worst thing you’d see.
- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 1 week ago:
He’s definitely gonna eat something out of that bag anyway
- Comment on Me too. 1 week ago:
You are a nervous system, piloting a space suit made of meat.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 1 week ago:
Ruminants creating greenhouse gasses is a problem that can solve itself by returning to huge fucking pastures and cooperative farming.
Instead, we’re getting synthetic food. We’re a decade removed from human grade kibble at this point.
Here again, capitalism is the problem. A capitalist offering capitalism solutions to problems created by capitalism isn’t appealing.
- Comment on Help. 1 week ago:
It happens multiple times in Star Trek. They kind of breeze by it but Riker was so infatuated with his holodeck girlfriend when he was captured by Romulans they thought she was a real person.
Thing is, it never seemed unbelievable in Star Trek. Just, a kinda weird thing that people will do.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I have a prehensile girlfriend. She can grab stuff.
- Comment on White Maleman, cooking YouTuber, loves to tell you what to do 1 week ago:
A class of barbarous thugs with titles were rampaging around Europe, so in an effort to send them somewhere else, the Pope asked for them to band together to recapture the Holy Land. As these thugs were highly religious, the plan worked! The knights mostly left Europe to be slaughtered by middle easterners. It also backfired! A new group of noble thugs emerged, but these ones said they were there to protect pilgrims. This lead to extortion and corruption, and many of these thugs would go on to be slaughtered by middle easterners. And eventually they were all slaughtered by other Europeans when they became too politically powerful.
The given justification was that the wrong religion has control over a particular piece of rock.
- Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron 1 week ago:
A lay off is generally broad in scope. A department might get laid off.
Firings are usually with cause and individual. You are fired for showing up late every day. You’re laid off when they simply don’t need you anymore.
This varies from state to state across the US and probably only applies here, but if you’re fired with cause, you generally don’t get unemployment benefits. If you’re laid off you might get a severance on top of unemployment.
Particularly shitty companies will always fire as many people as they can prior to a lay off. A big part of HR’s job at these organizations is making sure they have a case to fire as many people as possible at any given time. If you’ve ever worked in any call center in the US, you’ve been subjected to this, knowingly or not. They’ll document a handful of even the slightest grievances and make sure they have two in the chamber at any given time for any given employee, so if it looks like they need to get rid of a lot of people in the near future they’ll start digging for a third infraction.
- Comment on Life hack 2 weeks ago:
Where are you France? They’re a loss leader in most grocery stores in the US.
- Comment on This is WAR. 2 weeks ago:
I work around forklifts.
No.
By virtue of there being a lot more of them cars are killing more people, but forklifts are far more dangerous, relatively.
More car accidents happen by virtue of there being a lot more cars than forklifts. There are about 35000 forklift injuries every year in the US, 90 or so are fatal. Of roughly 800,000 forklifts in operation that gives you roughly a 4% chance for serious injury from any given forklift per year. This does not include non injury accidents which, conservatively, happen at least 10 times as frequently. That would be things like dropping a load or damaging a safety barricade.
Motor vehicle crashes, and this includes everything from minor fender benders to fatalities, are around 6 million a year. Out of 285 million cars on the road that’s about a 2% chance per vehicle.
Forklifts aren’t capable of anything quickly. Less so under load. Loads are frequently unsecured or poorly secured. Unlike a car, they’re not only interacting with the road, they’re interacting with shelving, pallets of shit, conveyors, and the people around them, and the people driving them are just as likely to be drunk or stoned as anyone on the road is.
Of the 6 forklift incidents I’ve seen in the last 5 years, 2 involved a driver who was able to pass a drug test after.
1 was an injury, that individual lost her leg below the knee. The rest were all loads being flung in new and exciting ways, in one case throwing the operator forward out of the lift. (Standing lift). In all other cases that no one was injured was purely luck that no one happened to be nearby when it happened. Our facility is on the good end of the bell curve for forklift incidents. They’re much more common in other facilities.
- Comment on Cutting sucks 3 weeks ago:
Actively exercising only burns slightly more calories than just sitting around existing does.
CICO works to an extent, but human bodies are shockingly efficient machines. What you eat is important, why and how you eat are important. Losing weight and keeping it off can be hard.
Adding exercise is great for a lot of reasons. If you aren’t getting regular exercise you really should. But one of those reasons is certainly not weight loss. You might even gain weight.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 weeks ago:
😬
I’d rather pay with my actual blood than use PayPal.
- Comment on heaven 3 weeks ago:
Short people got no reason to live
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 3 weeks ago:
AND a superiority complex
- Comment on Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites 3 weeks ago:
A laser heating one side of anything enough to ablate material in space will alter it’s trajectory, it’s entirely possible that objects in low earth orbit would be forced to return to earth. That’s been proposed as a possible way to deal with all the random crap in space.
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 3 weeks ago:
Bread comes in a bag already
- Comment on I choose to believe, what I was programmed to believe! 4 weeks ago:
Don’t judge a man. He really needed those suppositories.
- Comment on I choose to believe, what I was programmed to believe! 4 weeks ago:
OVER THE LINE
- Comment on This is why brexit happened 4 weeks ago:
Just wait until we can’t afford the debt anymore!
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 4 weeks ago:
It gave you more garment to work with on cold nights if you wanted to cover up more of your neck or face.
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 4 weeks ago:
He only haunts landlords
- Comment on I just shitpost🙃 4 weeks ago:
A lot of assholes describe themselves that way. Interesting
- Comment on I just shitpost🙃 4 weeks ago:
Wow. you’re particularly tilted about it. I’d expect this kind of reaction on Facebook but not on a refined, sophisticated place that clearly isn’t social media.
Go the fuck outside dude.
- Comment on I just shitpost🙃 4 weeks ago:
I will not bend my sails for a wind that blows the wrong direction.
- Comment on missing 4 weeks ago:
So fun fact, Italy has stricter laws regarding what can legally be called cheese. Meaning for McDonald’s to call it cheese on the burger, it needs to actually be cheese.
The American singles McDonald’s uses in the US and presumably other 3rd world countries is reportedly 60% real cheese and a bunch of other crap. Which more than passes as cheese according to the FDA, which only requires 51% real cheese content to be labeled Cheese. Kraft Singles, America’s favorite American cheese product don’t meet this requirement, and are notably not labeled as cheese.