SippyCup
@SippyCup@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 17 hours ago:
The goal with the red scare then and the anti socialism crusade now is to make people scared, so they crave authoritarianism.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 3 days ago:
The first female president will be a Republican, a nightmarish ghoul, and the source of a significant amount of right wing deflection. Everything liberal women are saying now, justifiably, will be twisted in to an evil, disingenuous retort. And that will only be a distraction from the nightmare president this woman is going to be.
The first female president will have no way to climb the ladder without being horrifyingly competent. Savvy enough to know when to look like an idiot without ever being one. Manipulative enough to not only work a crowd but work a room of powerful people.
Men can get by knowing the right people and being charming. Women have to know the right people, be charming, and absolutely crush any opposition to their ascent.
Quite frankly, Democrats just aren’t going to rally behind a candidate the way Republicans do. Republicans can promise much less and still expect a decent turnout.
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 1 week ago:
I support seizing the health from billionaires.
- Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code 2 weeks ago:
ahem
Create value, by taking it from whom?
The stock market was invented to make it less risky to plunder the everloving shit out of Non European countries.
It’s always been about extracting value.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device? 2 weeks ago:
They are not. Realistically this is not possible. And may never be.
Complexity is a real problem here. The more different things you want your machine to do, the more human intervention is necessary.
Let’s give this idea the best chance at success and say it’s raw materials and simple components are available to it. Basic fasteners, copper wire, sheet metal, etc.
This robot will undoubtedly have a motor, which would require a bunch of copper wire wound around a magnet, and assembled in a ring. This task is already done by robots. At least, the winding part is. The assembly is too, but it’s a different robot. And let’s say there’s even a robot that can transport the wound magnets to the assembly robot. Such robots exist at least, this wouldn’t be logistically efficient in this particular process but we’re building a self replicating automaton here, sacrifices are necessary.
Anyway this one task requires at least 3 robots AND at present, the raw materials are being initially fed by a human. The magnets might come from a hopper but the copper wire is an issue. Let’s say even THAT is surmountable.
The amount of floor space required for the process is probably something like 300 square feet. Just this process alone. Just to make a single type of electromagnet. We haven’t built the housing, inserted the drive shaft, or any of the other required bits. just the electromagnet.
To make all the parts of a thing that a robot requires is going to be about the size of a factory. and that’s assuming raw materials and basic bits are made somewhere else.
And even if you fully automate a factory, and it can make everything it needs to replicate itself, different machines would be needed to install them all somewhere.
You’re thinking “but 3D printers!”
Stop. No. Just… No. are not that powerful. To be clear, a single metal 3D printer that’s even half as capable as some people have been lead to believe they are could replace about 20 of the highest paid employees in my factory. They just don’t work as well in industry as people seem to think. And that’s printing in a single material. When you try to say, print a magnet with copper wire wrapped around it, you find very quickly that a: this isn’t possible with the current technology, and even if it were, b, the durability just isn’t there. It might be hard, it might be the right amount of brittle, but it doesn’t withstand wear the way you’d expect for something with those properties.
- Comment on It's rigged 2 weeks ago:
A ponze scheme is a scheme in which investors are paid only by recruiting new investors.
That’s literally how social security works.
- Comment on It's rigged 2 weeks ago:
If the maximum amount going in is exactly what people would expect to withdraw, then it cannot possibly ever pay for itself. It’s a ponze scheme, and is designed to eventually fail, leaving working class people holding the bag.
- Comment on It's rigged 2 weeks ago:
Brother read the room
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 2 weeks ago:
Given that establishment Democrats are actively working with Republicans to prevent progressives from winning primaries, I’d say you’re overly optimistic.
It’s only in our future if we take it by force.
- Comment on How come they don't do a cooking show for poor or middle class people? Something that is under 10 bucks that will last a couple days and be great. 2 weeks ago:
A lot of shows start with this idea. The chef goes in to it with the idea that they’re going to show people how to make good food with what they have that they can afford.
Then when they’ve kinda done all they can with that in a season or two it starts to go off the rails.
Then eventually you have Alton Brown lowering an entire turkey in to a boiling 25 gallon pot with a ladder and a pully system in the back yard of his studio house.
Because these shows are entertainment first, cooking second.
- Comment on UPDATE: I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title appeared on another Steam game as they plan to release before I do. 5 weeks ago:
I’m pressing the button why aren’t you screaming?
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 5 weeks ago:
“Carl over here is really good at making wheels. But he’s only made the 4 of them. Won’t make any more unless we give him a reason to… Ideas?”
Annnnnd 5000 years later; mortgages, wage slavery, and “let’s have an all hands to realign with our core paradigm”
- Comment on Instead we got a trillion dollar man 1 month ago:
Then get drafted, go to Vietnam, maybe come home but bring irreversible trauma with you.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 month ago:
I get what you’re saying, but even when the Pinkertons lost, the strike action was ultimately broken by force anyway. At one point the local sheriff was literally bombing coal miners.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 month ago:
The Pinkerton agency has entered the chat.
If you’re curious, yes they’re still around, yes they’re still doing it, and they’re owned by Securitas now.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 2 months ago:
Why is every field on my phone just NULL VALUE now??
- Comment on "Top Movies" in Amazon Prime is full of series 2 months ago:
I didn’t have prime for the streaming and hardly used it. Until Christmas when I just wanted Christmas bullshit on in the background and prime decided to cut in mid sentence to run an obnoxiously loud ad.
Also, paying to watch ads was how cable worked.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 2 months ago:
Because that used to be illegal so there was no need to tax it
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Ah, so it was brought up in bad faith.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
The problem is that the specific argument you point to is often brought up either in complete ignorance or straight up bad faith. Communism bad, look at (insert one of like, 5 events here)
But let’s ignore the untold millions slaughtered, enslaved, or maimed in the name of profit.
- Comment on Nerve-controlled prosthetics 3 months ago:
Yeah that’ll be an Easter egg joke at the beginning of the movie. There’ll be a guy jogging on the national Mall talking to his jogging partner about how he jailbroke his limbs and now he runs on Arch. He’ll still be jogging at the end of the movie.
- Comment on Nerve-controlled prosthetics 3 months ago:
There’s a pretty good movie to be made here.
B plot has a bunch of injured vets, many with these limbs, picketing congress and marching around inside the offices trying to petition lawmakers about getting benefits that they’re owed but are being stalled by budget talks.
A plot could be a spy thriller, John C Everyman investigating evil tech bro over whatever nonsense. Finds out all too late that the evil tech bro owns the company manufacturing those limbs, and wants to install a puppet government. The only way to stop them is to literally shut them all off remotely. The vets are running all over, unable to stop themselves, attempting to lock down and assassinate representatives.
Everything resolves as hundreds of injured veterans literally fall limp all over the halls of Congress. The media eats up the protest, the vets get their benefits, John C Everyman goes on to pick up another case. Evil Tech bro lives to plot again. Or dies being ripped to shreds by his own limbs. Who cares.
- Comment on Why do airports place a cap on 10,000 USD for undeclared cash? 3 months ago:
You are much less likely to to be robbed by some random crook than you are a police officer. By almost a factor of 10.
There were 1300 cases of armed robbery in the US in 2024.
CAF resulted in 2.5 billion in assets seized in 2010, 11000 cases of seizure were for non criminal offenses.
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- Comment on Adult costume for Frozen themed children’s party 3 months ago:
Spoilers… For a joke from a kid’s movie with the plot depth of a sidewalk rain pond from 13 years ago.
Some of the children obsessed with that movie when it came out are old enough to rent a car now.
- Comment on We all know crack was introduced primarily to black neighbor hoods. Why them? Why not people in the Appalachians? Or in Asian neighbor hoods all over the west coast? 3 months ago:
The war on drugs was a dog whistle continuation of the Jim Crow era. Because it was now illegal to discriminate against black people simply for being black, new methods of oppression needed to be instituted. When Nixon announced the war on drugs, drug use was going down and was approaching it’s lowest point in decades. His hope was that by finding ways to continue to police black people, he’d win support of Southern Democrats who were largely at the time, pro labor but mad about the civil rights movement.
This strategy worked, and it was continued and expanded under Reagan. When Nancy Reagan pleaded with Americans to ‘just say no’ drug use was at about 3% nationwide.
American police were always a tool of oppression of black communities. They grew out of post civil war racist brotherhoods like the KKK. On multiple occasions, entire chapters of KKK members were deputized.
The narco trafficking the CIA did was a natural progression of this, and was used as an excuse to further militarize the police.
“Because they were black” is a simple answer. And it’s correct. But you could add “and black people are who we oppress in this country.”
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 3 months ago:
You know what they say, nothing beats thirst like a cop beats black people like a crisp cold coca cola. The cops beating up innocent people of beverages.
Yes indeed coca cola loves to assault your thirst. The way cops assault their wives.
Coca cola and cops, two peas one pod. Like two girls one cup. Except instead of two girls eating shit it’s coca cola.
Mmm. Coke.
- Comment on It hurts. 3 months ago:
Sweety.
Optional sweaty is the perfect amount of perspiration to have upon one’s person.
- Comment on Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs? 3 months ago:
We need some form of law enforcement.
We do not need a standing military with a license to kill and random citizen.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 3 months ago:
Long answer: deep breath NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo