SippyCup

@SippyCup@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  “hey know how we cut a few developers loose and they created an iconic video game without our oversight? Should we do that again and forsake all profits and consumer goodwill a second time??”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I stop occasionally use floppies and I can assure you that they do in fact occupy more space than I’d like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Corrupt, yes. Violent, absolutely. But shooting Brown people was much less common then just beating them with a club. Police had to, and likely still do, answer for every round they discharge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And I can say with confidence you never will be.

  Prior to a bunch of vets coming home from Iraq where they served as local police forces and getting jobs with their hometown police force, 99% of police officers never fired their weapon on duty. Outside of training anyway. Most rarely even drew their weapons. People who’s job it is to intervene when things are dangerous rarely needing a firearm, means almost no one will ever actually be in a situation where having a gun makes things better.

  At the time I believed I wanted to be a cop and was a member of a program to guide young people towards policing as a career. Of all of the police I spoke with during that time, one or two knew a guy who’d fired his weapon on duty.

  Then, veterans who had been acting as police in a city where they were literally an invading military give, started getting jobs as police officers and the culture dramatically shifted towards violence. Literally it went from “question and negotiate” to “shoot first.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Mike Judge is terrified of poor people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do to the US what the US has been doing for 150 years.

  Invest heavily in local anti government revolutionist organizations and support their efforts covertly. You know, like Russia and China have already been doing for 30 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You absolutely do not want him to have time on his hands and a creative platform. If he’s still going to beer halls, he’ll be charismatic and evil enough to gain power.

  Assassinate Hitler during WW1 or earlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And for driver’s licenses that won’t even be issued for another 20 years? It’s not very useful information if it doesn’t exist yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot stress this enough. Do not kill Hitler after 1925. Once he’s started his ascent to power the train is moving and all you can do now is change the conductor. As it happens Hitler wasn’t the best conductor. Once the war starts he’s the best person for the allies to be in charge of Germany.

  Kill Hitler before he goes to jail and writes that fucking book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Among games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  5k ish negative reviews and they seem to come in two flavors, multiplayer bugs and too repetitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is an unreliable narrator happening here. The source of most of the information about the Alliance is from the crew. Notably, Shepard and Inara do not share those views. Zoe and Mal have very strong opinions about the alliance and the Doctor and River help feed that narrative. But the things they don’t say out loud paint a very different picture. I think had the show gone on, the brown coats would gradually have become another villain and Mal would have had to contend with the reality of who he was fighting for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The brown shirts coats?? I think the point was they weren’t actually the good guys. The show kinda hits you over the head with that. Mal (which literally means bad) is the main character who goes out of his way to associate with other bad people, and do bad things. The show paints the Alliance as evil but if anything they’re just authoritarian and they’re up to some shady shit but 90% of the interactions with the alliance, Mal is actively breaking the law and has a reason to be afraid of them other than the alliance being evil.

  The Alliance is a simple allegory for the US. The brown coats an obvious allegory for the Confederacy which happened to spawn a bunch of old West outlaws that we turned in to folk heroes. The entire James Younger gang were confederate soldiers or their siblings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone recommend a logging blood pressure cuff that doesn't require an app or account?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a physical cuff?

  Put a physical journal on top of it. Write it down and keep those two things together. If you’re taking your blood pressure every day already it’s not a huge leap to stack a habit on top of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US one can graduate *cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude*. There should be another honor added if you survive a school shooting.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The barista would still spell my fuckin name wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They have no authority to enforce any law. And they have no legislative powers.

  Rulings have been ignored multiple times because the judiciary just has no means to enforce what the executive branch refuses to enforce

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3 days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The shrimp fortells. The shrimp knows all.

  In three days hence.

  Shrimp knows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨posting an actual shitpost each day till I stop seeing regular news posts here #2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. Only 30% of eligible voters voted for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iowa's state motto⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s Tennessee.

  Iowa’s is ‘take the cob outcher mouth before you kiss my ass’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨posting an actual shitpost each day till I stop seeing regular news posts here #2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the children who can’t vote don’t seem to like him that much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨posting an actual shitpost each day till I stop seeing regular news posts here #2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok. Only 30% of us voted for him.

  Is that better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨posting an actual shitpost each day till I stop seeing regular news posts here #2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Half of us didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨posting an actual shitpost each day till I stop seeing regular news posts here #2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  137 school children dead today in a drive by Tylenol attack on an ICE detention center. We’ll have word from the president when he wakes up from his nap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨posting an actual shitpost each day till I stop seeing regular news posts here #2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love corm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And that would be doable, realistically. Though there’s a bit of plastic on the bottom that would be quite difficult to replicate.

  The point is they’re only useful as a currency. And really only to a society that can’t really make much. If society advances again to the point where a used bottlecap can be replicated, other systems will already have been established to make it less attractive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost certainly a joke but bottlecaps in a post civilization society would make a pretty decent currency, more so than gold.

  They’re light, easy to carry, hard to reproduce and therefore scarce. They’re also useless for anything else. So if you happened to have a lot of caps laying around they might find their way to becoming a currency.

  Gold is heavy, requires a lot of work to make it useful as a standard, and has other practical uses. Caps are actually better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So fun thing about vanity, that historically refers to asking God for petty things that God would not care about.

  Like winning a basketball game, or the lottery. It’s “vanity” to assume God would give a bother about things so unimportant just because YOU asked. Because whether or not you win is (theoretically) more about practice and application than divine intervention.

  Though, obviously modern Americans don’t give a shit about what the words in the book actually fucking mean. They’re still likely to call it Jesusland, as likely as anything else, because even with the modern definition, they’re not likely to actually care. THEY are God’s chosen, and therefore THEY have special rules to go along with their special connection to Christ.

  You may not blaspheme, though. You may not exist in their presence so long as you are not pious, upstanding, and white cis Christian. Though they wouldn’t call you cis, that’s for some reason a slur in Jesusland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jefferson has entered the chat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A single massive swath of Missouri River Basin, containing roughly the population of California and Texas combined.

  LPT could effectively break off, form it’s own country and win the upcoming water wars alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Usually, silicone nippled showerheads aren't replaced or cleaned regularly.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I gotta flick the nipples to get the crust off. (Phrasing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Usually, silicone nippled showerheads aren't replaced or cleaned regularly.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at this soft water havin motherfucker with his clean ass shower head