SippyCup
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- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 15 hours 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 5 days ago:
It seems like he’s expected to return as well.
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 | Announcement 5 days ago:
He’s already signed on, along with Bill Pullman
- Comment on W H Y 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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.. 1 week ago:
Lump is a person who happens to enjoy buggy marshes.
- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 1 week ago:
“voodoo dick my ass!” Comes to mind
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 week ago:
I mean that DOES sound fun…
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 week ago:
I made a goof. I am factually wrong. I pray we all forget this quickly and for whatever being can grant it to grant mercy upon my mortal self.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 week ago:
The way it works is I’m actually a moron and am wrong.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 week ago:
You can’t draw a right triangle with those lengths, but you can draw A triangle with those sides.
- Comment on So close! 2 weeks 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 weeks ago:
I would like to submit exhibit A in to evidence your honor
- Comment on The solution to many problems 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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! 3 weeks 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 The Democrats’ One and Only Union-Busting Governor: Jared Polis 3 weeks ago:
Conservatives are pro money. Liberals are pro money with rainbows.
Workers should own their own labor and have a right to be safe at work.
- Comment on What a wonderful world we live in! 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 Shrimpposters begone! 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks ago:
Beautiful
- Comment on Shrimpposters begone! 4 weeks ago:
I DEMAND MORE ORSON WELLES STYLE MEMES
- Comment on Anyone here afraid of Mannequins? 4 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 Helpful tip for this weekend 4 weeks ago:
“are you made of sugar?” Is how I’m going to question the fortitude of people from now on