SippyCup

@SippyCup@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do airports place a cap on 10,000 USD for undeclared cash?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

• Let's say hypothetically I wanted to leave the US permanently;
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adult costume for Frozen themed children’s party⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Long answer: deep breath NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people call Michael's house from GTA 5 a mansion?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please, go on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Babylon 5 too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD Vance visits Milan, Italy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the secret service wants to know your location.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD Vance visits Milan, Italy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They fly them in a few days in advance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where *does* the money come from?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I… Do you often find yourself needing to schedule video uploads at 12:07?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it for your country's debt!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scottish accent is a bold choice for the AI vocals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re actual Nazis though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.