SippyCup
@SippyCup@lemmy.world
- Comment on Fuckin CEO's and billionaires gotta go 1 day ago:
Closeout sale all billionaires must go!
Due to tragic, predictable and entirely preventable circumstances we are currently OVERSTOCKED on billionaires and they’re passing the misery on to YOOOOUUUUU!
Are you broke? Depressed? Working your ass off and still struggling to make ends meet? Then you my friend just need to take out the billionaire class! It’s free and good for you! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE???
- Comment on Hot Ones trying to sneak in the package protection 1 week ago:
My one and only order from them came damaged, and was replaced no questions asked without the insurance.
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 1 week ago:
Correct.
I submit a payment manually through my bank. Every month. Paying all of my bills this way takes about 5 minutes. At some point you have to ask yourself how much you’ve given up for the illusion of convenience.
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 1 week ago:
It is!
You’re really primed to expect to pay so much more than the asking price for literally every transaction. It’s fucking awful. Tax. Tip. “Estimated totals” convenience fees. Fuck you fees. Fees for the bees. You got too many fees fees. Subscription fee. “That was the price if you subscribe, it costs more if you don’t” fee.
I fucking hate this place
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 1 week ago:
Seriously, do this.
Also, never, under any circumstances, allow a company to automatically withdraw funds directly from your bank account.
“Ope, we’ve changed the terms of service, and charged you a backdated amount based on the new terms of service you’ve already consented to by paying us”
They don’t get a dime until I know for damn sure I’m giving it to them. If an organization refuses to do business with you without direct access to your bank account, it’s because their business model depends on them being able to fuck you.
Credit cards and physical paper checks only for recurring transactions. Amex if they’ll take it. Don’t let them keep your debit card on file either.
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 2 weeks ago:
I think you dropped this --> /s
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 2 weeks ago:
Does he walk with his abs??
- Comment on This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits 2 weeks ago:
The Ghost and the Darkness, Val Kilmer. I enjoyed that movie a lot. But every time that handsome devil smiled it took me right out of 18th century Kenya and straight to 1996 LA TMZ.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
You can get a mini mill and do a CNC conversion, I know a few guys that have done just that. A few stepper motors and a little code gets you a long way.
- Comment on The Shoebody Bop | Drue Langlois 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
I have a mini mill in my garage. I makeb ghost firearms as a hobby.
I have a bit of experience with a mill, but even if I *didn’t * these are not hard skills to learn yourself. A couple hundred bucks for a mini mill on marketplace and a few hunted bucks for a blank and some tooling and anybody could be making ghost guns in their living room.
- Comment on Mike Solana, a multimillionaire venture capital executive, on college-educated Americans frustrated by narrowing economic opportunities 3 weeks ago:
Get the mini korbel bottles in bulk at Costco.
While you’re there, they sell cheap high proof liquor by the crate. They also sell socks by the crate.
- Comment on Mike Solana, a multimillionaire venture capital executive, on college-educated Americans frustrated by narrowing economic opportunities 3 weeks ago:
Be the change you want to see in the world
- Comment on Hexagonal slotted misalignment 3 weeks ago:
Hexagonal material is fed through a die and held in place while grinding wheels push in the hollows in each face, generally simultaneously. The tip is cut off and sent to another process to finish the back and deburr.
The alignment of the head is intentional on both parts. Generally you want the flats to continue all the way up the side. Particularly wide flats have to be aligned diagonally.
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 3 weeks ago:
/r/wewantplates would have a field day
- Comment on What do Centrists know about electability? 3 weeks ago:
If a centrist saw a burning building he’d lecture the fire crew for wanting to change too much.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 4 weeks ago:
Again, we have already passed that step. Cheeto Mussolini is already in power. His goons already have unchecked power to round up anyone they want.
we are the reactionaries.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 4 weeks ago:
Because it’s beer. Generally the way laws are written in the us, they call out beer, wine, and spirits, or some such wording, not being available to under 21s.
Laws generally do not mention alcohol content of whatever it is you’re buying.
Vice is difficult to regulate, and laws surrounding vice are imperfect
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 4 weeks ago:
Fascism in Italy had a lot more to do with nationalism than leftism, ultimately it wasn’t really a leftist movement at all. I’m not sure if you’re aware of the current state of the US but we already have an ethno-nationalism problem here, and it’s exactly the thing we’re trying to fight against.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 4 weeks ago:
I’ll keep it in mind not to try to rebuild the Roman empire while I advocate for extreme social reform.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 4 weeks ago:
They will never give it to you.
You will have to take it by force.
- Comment on "Don't unionize, just get a better job." When you unionize, you ARE getting a better job. 4 weeks ago:
Hey there sparky, you’re not supposed to put the live wires in your mouth.
- Comment on "Don't unionize, just get a better job." When you unionize, you ARE getting a better job. 4 weeks ago:
Cost of living is a big factor here. 100k in NYC is comparable to 50k in the Midwest. Stepping outside in NYC feels like it costs 100 dollars every time you do it.
- Comment on The rich passing our money back & forth 4 weeks ago:
An economist is at a baseball game when he sees a man outraged that a hotdog costs twelve dollars, and a beer costs 20. “I just wanted to have a fun day with my family, but tickets are suddenly 100 dollars! Now this?!”
What an idiot, the economist thinks. Can’t he see the revenue he’s generating?? The economist pays 64 dollars for two hotdogs and two beers, which he immediately drops on the ground, which makes him very happy.
- Comment on Hey jackass, this is why trucks with large tires are supposed to have mud flaps. 5 weeks ago:
Your mileage may very. I’ve checked ordinances in the 4 states I frequently drive in and didn’t see any of that mentioned for any of them.
- Comment on The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about... 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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 month ago:
I support seizing the health from billionaires.
- Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code 1 month 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? 1 month 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.