SippyCup
@SippyCup@lemmy.world
- Comment on I miss filthy frank and that whole genre of weird youtube 6 days ago:
BuT mOnEy MoTiVaTeS uS tO iNnOvAtE
- Comment on Why do people call Michael's house from GTA 5 a mansion? 6 days ago:
It’s a luxury home, 5 bedrooms sure but it’s also a huge property in an area where property value is insane.
It also has a pool, hot tub, and tennis court with some yard left over. It’s not a boilerplate, built from catalog “McMansion” that are common in the US, but it’s bigger than most of those homes tend to be.
- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 1 week ago:
My wife abused star trek of being a soap opera at some point. At first I thought, maybe she’s just showing up at the worst possible time?
No. It’s all of the time. Every episode has some weird soapy bullshit. Beverly fucking a ghost, LaForge fucking a hologram, Riker fucking anything with genitals INCLUDING a hologram. Everybody be fuckin. That’s not even the soapiest thing. Voyager is basically Soaps in space.
I love classic trek, but guys I think it’s a soap opera.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
Almost everything about the situation you were born in to is an accident of birth.
As in, you had no hand in it. Your parents may or may not have had some say in the matter, but for the vast majority of Americans, they didn’t choose to be an American either. Any more than they chose the color of their skin or the texture of their hair.
If you’re the child of immigrants, then sure, be proud of their accomplishment. It was hard and they earned the right to be here. But for most of us, it’s just where we happened to be from.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
Pride comes with accomplishment.
Being human, being American, being male, being white, these are all accidents of birth. There’s no reason to take pride in any of it.
Bring born in to a disaffected class of people, being gay, or a person of color, and overcoming that adversity to any measure of success, that merits some pride.
But just being human? Anybody can do that.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
WELL I THINK YOUR BROWSER LIKES TO FELATIATE BIRDS!!
… YEAH! it sucks cloaca. How do you feel about THAT‽
- Comment on Memory Makers Expect Shortages to End in Late 2028, Could Pause Expansion Plans 2 weeks ago:
Frequently the attitude towards equipment is that it can be sold once they’re done with it. Particularly specialized equipment might sit a little longer but that’s built in to the calculation.
There’s a bottleneck in hiring skilled workers to run that equipment, and time to get that equipment up and running. It can take months from when the equipment is in the building before it’s making parts, up to a year for very sensitive equipment. And troubleshooting it to get it working at capacity takes even longer.
Which is great, if you need time to find people to run it, but usually those skilled workers already have jobs, and there are only so many available in any given area. Even if you have them available you’re stuck paying them for months before you’re ready to put them to work.
It’s high risk and it takes a long time to pay off. A miscalculation is the end of the CEOs career and may bankrupt the company. The first to pull it off though will be in a great spot, assuming it’s not a bubble and it doesn’t burst. Manufacturers are going to want some solid guarantees before taking the plunge. Optimally they want someone else to pay for it. They may actually be negotiating with these companies now about funding their expansion.
- Comment on Memory Makers Expect Shortages to End in Late 2028, Could Pause Expansion Plans 2 weeks ago:
Most companies don’t make much money selling to “normal” customers. Enterprise sales are almost always the bulk of the revenue.
- Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 2 weeks ago:
One of my senators is a trust fund baby who started out in venture capital. My other senator insists on receiving fucking faxes. Neither respond to constituents.
My congressman, famous coward Don Bacon, is retiring to take a lobbying job at a defense contractor and was never receptive to feedback anyway. On account of being a coward and all.
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 2 weeks ago:
Most people just want to collect Pokemon and don’t read up on what the company that made the app is doing.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 2 weeks ago:
This is one of those fun conspiracy theories that is harmless, and can’t be argued against because you can always just say “SEE THEY’VE CONVINCED YOU TOO!”
It’s not, we can prove that marketing does in fact impact sales, but it’s fun nonetheless.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 2 weeks ago:
Please, go on
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 2 weeks ago:
It’s unlikely that you’re exceptional in your resistance to advertising.
It’s just that 95% of all advertising fails to hit its intended target.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 2 weeks ago:
Same principle as the weed doctor. You just need a therapist willing to sign off on whatever you tell them. Quite honestly it’s probably even easier than that, normal intake for drug abuse is a questionnaire about usage history.
So what all young men should be doing now is going to get drug abuse treatment just to get the intake paperwork done. Tell them you’ve been using since you were 13 and can’t stop. Give them a phone number one digit off from yours if you don’t want a phone call to remind you to come to treatment since you’re just trying to establish a history.
- Comment on Need deck stair tread help! 3 weeks ago:
With a press brake it would take a few minutes. Doing something at home with sheet metal that thick is going to be a bear of a job even with a sheet bender. You might be able to find an outfit online willing to do it for you, or at the very least cut the sheets for the fab shop to bed for you first.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 4 weeks ago:
My next car is going to have physical fucking knobs and buttons.
I’m not buying another car with a tablet to control the media and the climate, regardless of power source. If I have to buy a 10 year old rust bucket I will. I’m not going back to the tablet until there’s literally no other option available.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I mean, my boy Jescob Jerome Walter did it on December 9th, 2024. Some video game guy took the rap tho
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 5 weeks ago:
He’s not totally serious he’s cardfire. Silly human
- Comment on Are there any easy ways and methods for actually studying socialist theory and such? 5 weeks ago:
It’d be real cool if that could be made in to a mobile game. I’m so rarely at a desktop anymore
- Comment on Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda! 5 weeks ago:
I played it as a kid, though to be fair the only progress was made when my dad played. It was mostly brute force, “ok, can’t go any further here let’s try another path.” And eventually you were at the final boss. My dad eventually got to the end and thought he got lucky, that he’d just happened to go through the rest of the game first and collected everything he needed. I don’t actually think it’s possible to get to Ganon in the first game without going through all the dungeons.
- Comment on Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization 5 weeks ago:
Somebody watches too much Maggie Mae Fish.
- Comment on What television series in your opinion had very good writing and character depth? 5 weeks ago:
Babylon 5 too.
- Comment on 15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees. 1 month ago:
15 f is pretty chilly. 35 f is cold if it was warm yesterday, but warm if it was cold yesterday, 45 is the same. 5 f is really cold if it’s humid or windy, but tolerable otherwise.
-15f is where your teeth start to hurt if you open your mouth outside.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Fun fact, while the earth will almost certainly be engulfed by the red giant phase of our sun, it will not be immediately consumed. A floating lump of rock will exist and continue to orbit the center of mass for millions of years inside the sun.
- Comment on Smuggler's Blues 1 month ago:
To be fair to the meme, Han Solo was a terrible smuggler
- Comment on If cannibalism were the norm and human meat was freely available in grocery stores, there would surely be people who prefered to eat only the meat of people of their own ethnicity or only women's meat 1 month ago:
“one cock sausage coming right up”