SippyCup
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- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 1 day ago:
Everyone is on the moron bell curve. Most people are morons all the time. Some people are only morons occasionally.
- Comment on Cow eggs 4 days ago:
How else would they do it?
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 4 days ago:
Be the goblin you were destined to be
- Comment on Cow eggs 4 days ago:
Ruminant egg. Bovine egg don’t make no dang sense.
- Comment on Cow eggs 4 days ago:
From the bull. Duh.
- Comment on Wake up fam, two new genders just dropped 5 days ago:
Username checks out.
- Comment on I'm shy 1 week ago:
At least it’s not a waffle
- Comment on Sadge 1 week ago:
Obviously he was actually a woman, or he wouldn’t have died.
- Comment on Dots! 1 week ago:
Demon core has entered the chat?
- Comment on Dots! 1 week ago:
I believe the guy who tasted plutonium did so accidentally when the powder got in his mouth. The metallic taste probably has something to do with how radioactive it is.
- Comment on Dots! 1 week ago:
Evidently plutonium just tastes metallic. And radium is flavorless.
What I’m saying is people have tasted these things.
- Comment on No rational person would do this... 1 week ago:
π is the only rational number in base π.
Also every base is base 10.
- Comment on Breaking lamp 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Breaking lamp 2 weeks ago:
A.E.Y.O
aeeeeyyyooooooo!!
- Comment on 8999 BC 2 weeks ago:
We have “arrowheads” as old as 72000 years old. Some found outside of Africa are 40ish thousand years old. We’re not certain what these objects are, but we’re pretty sure they’re arrowheads.
The oldest evidence for a bow we’ve found is only 9000 years old. But if you think about what a bow is made of, it stands to reason that we wouldn’t find one much older than that.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 2 weeks ago:
I was referring to like, parks, and town squares. Town squares are pretty rare in the US
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 2 weeks ago:
Conservatives wouldn’t build the bench.
Free public spaces don’t encourage people to go in to a shop hard enough. You wanna sit down? Starbucks has chairs. Want a sip of water, go buy a bottle.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 2 weeks ago:
Mice are just new meals, chef
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 weeks ago:
Still, going from a stream powered spinning toy to locomotive is a few orders of magnitude. Heron’s “engine” was a little jet engine. Heated water pushed it’s way out of pipes. It’s a far cry from building steam pressure in a tank, using that pressure to drive a crank shaft, and pushing along a vehicle of any kind.
There are a number of industrial era inventions required before you can even start putting something like a train together.
The Romans didn’t even have replaceable parts yet. Every nail was custom made.
If you haven’t seen it, watch Clickspring’s series on the antikithra mechanism. It’ll give you an idea of how hard it was to produce complicated machinery was at the time.
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 | Announcement 3 weeks ago:
It seems like he’s expected to return as well.
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 | Announcement 3 weeks ago:
He’s already signed on, along with Bill Pullman
- Comment on W H Y 4 weeks ago:
Well yeah that stands to reason, our grammar structure is still Germanic, which is why they still call it a Germanic language. The 100 most common words are almost entirely basic grammar, like to, be, it, for, etc. Words used to reference other words.
The first non grammar based word, the first actual noun, is Time, which is a French word.
- Comment on W H Y 4 weeks ago:
I just looked it up, German isn’t even the biggest influence. French and Latin are. German is 3rd
OUI OUI BON BON LE PETITE CROISSANT EIFFEL TOWER I AM LE FRENCH NOW MOTHERFUCKER
- Comment on W H Y 4 weeks ago:
We added a bunch of French. It’s not a romance language by any stretch but it’s kind of a Francish one. Francish being a Celtic word, because we added a bunch of those too.
- Comment on I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308 4 weeks ago:
And, don’t forget the magic word: unionize.
- Comment on I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308 4 weeks ago:
That’s kind of a pipe dream.
The reality of manufacturing is that unless people are physically in the building, the business isn’t making money. Tool and die is largely a support role. We’re not just making the tooling, we’re making sure the press is still running all day.
That means that if the machine is running, we have to be here. The machine has to run frequently to make sense. They’re simply aren’t enough people for a 4 shift rotation, which is what we’d need to have reduced hours. We struggle to fill 2. Right now we’re running 3 maintenance shifts and 2 production, and that’s more than most manufacturers near me can handle. The labor just isn’t there. We’ve tried 4x10 shifts and that’s difficult to sell to 2nd and 3rd shifters. About half of first shift couldn’t make it work. But it didn’t really matter, ultimately.
The reality is that most of the building is working 5 ten hour shifts and a 6 hour Saturday for the foreseeable future. Could we attract young people with fewer hours? Maybe. It’s manufacturing and it’s a hard sell regardless. I love my job, I work with a lot of people who love their jobs, and that includes guys on the floor who do little more than plug parts in to machines. It can be immensely satisfying work, but it’s hard, dirty, and loud. Ask 50 teenagers if they’d rather stand next to a punch press every day or throw burgers out of windows through college, 49 are gonna throw burgers.
- Comment on I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308 4 weeks ago:
Hey it’s me a tool and die maker.
I can say at least that my company and the larger manufacturers in my town are spending enormous sums of cash getting students in to the trades. It’s not just tool and die that’s suffering, most of the “skilled” trades are bordering on geriatric.
A lot of the kids entering the trades are farm kids, which is another problem entirely. The average age of farmers in the US is close to retirement too.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 4 weeks ago:
I think they’re just two overly inflated narcissists who’s goals briefly aligned, and now they don’t so much.
- Comment on I got a feeling.. 4 weeks ago:
Lump is a person who happens to enjoy buggy marshes.
- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 4 weeks ago:
“voodoo dick my ass!” Comes to mind
