SippyCup
@SippyCup@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 day ago:
Long answer: deep breath NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo
- Comment on Why do people call Michael's house from GTA 5 a mansion? 4 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 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? 1 week ago:
WELL I THINK YOUR BROWSER LIKES TO FELATIATE BIRDS!!
… YEAH! it sucks cloaca. How do you feel about THAT‽
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 2 weeks ago:
Please, go on
- 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 The irony 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been in hiring meetings, probably 12-15 of them, where we screened candidates by education level. It literally did not matter to the hiring manager what field their degree was in, where they went, or if they’d even graduated yet. He just wanted everyone to have or to be working towards a degree.
This was a call center. The job posting literally only listed high school diploma or equivalent as a job requirement. There was absolutely nothing about a college experience that would markedly improve your work at that job.
When that was explained to him, as only a handful of applicants during one round of hiring were even in school, he said, “if they haven’t been to college they quit sooner.”
That was it. The only justification for screening out people without higher education. He had a hard time keeping people at work and figured that people with worthless degrees would feel more stuck than people without them.
- Comment on Are there any easy ways and methods for actually studying socialist theory and such? 4 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 What television series in your opinion had very good writing and character depth? 5 weeks ago:
Babylon 5 too.
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 1 month ago:
the secret service wants to know your location.
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 1 month ago:
He’s in one of two cars, they’re easily identifiable. The rest are various security assets. Armed dudes, jamming suites, surveillance, etc.
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 1 month ago:
They fly them in a few days in advance.
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 1 month ago:
No no no, they only care about the best interests of their employees! That’s why they spend so much fighting unions. It has no profit motive whatsoever. Because, obviously, the union won’t be able to secure any better wages or benefits anyway! So there’s really no reason to unionize. Ever. Don’t even talk about it. Definitely don’t talk about it with your co-workers. Definitely don’t leave union literature on the break room table. Certainly don’t bring up unionizing to a few people you trust.
- Comment on Overbearing datetime pickers 1 month ago:
I… Do you often find yourself needing to schedule video uploads at 12:07?
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 1 month ago:
Name one person uplifted by Oprah that’s not a fucking ghoul.
- Comment on I am not even close to MN but this banger is going on my playlist. 1 month ago:
Scottish accent is a bold choice for the AI vocals.
- Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis 1 month ago:
They’re actual Nazis though
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 1 month ago:
They’re almost certainly one of the more profitable Google services or they’d have been cut loose by now.
Google serves ads, YouTube is a great platform for them to serve ads, and they don’t even have to pay content creators that much, because they serve their own ads. The biggest expense is probably bandwidth and memory, which Google owns enough of to sell off bits they aren’t using.