rumschlumpel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does putting clothes in the closet protect them from dust, or is the dust in there too?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It gets there too, but not as much. The dust comes from outside the closet, not inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fan Subber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  English is not my first language, either …

  Though it’s not like I’m putting in the work to translate anything myself, so IDK if I should complain that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fan Subber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully they can at least write English without tripping all over. Fansubs are usually fine for that, but I’ve seen some awful manga scanlations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since when does yellow journalism care about the environment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that they’re destroying the environment on purpose for some nefarious purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bit heavy for the shower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Irl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Browsing reddit would be quite pathetic, indeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy has a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the demographic for lemmy (and lemmy.ml in particular) is so niche and so biased towards privacy that even with a bigger sample, it’s next to impossible to get good data.

  Though I don’t doubt that the lemmy userbase heavily skews male.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy has a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How could that possibly lead to a bias? /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's a keeper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m sure most people use oral condoms / dental dams when they’re going down on casual flicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's a keeper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wife in a healthy relationship, looking at her sweatpantsed husband: heavy breathing Oh my!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, they don’t need irrefutable evidence to toss out your resume, or at least be suspicious enough about it to ask you what you did in a given period; and if they already paid for this data, they might as well verify your answer as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tracking smartphone users is a billion dollar industry, and it’s not that hard to figure out where a user is working if you have their location data and a million other data points from their phone usage. That doesn’t necessarily mean that this data is easily accessible to every employer, but it’s absolutely possible to know someone’s work history with reasonable certainty without government databases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgrace to you disgrace to your family disgrace to your cow⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just don’t want to listen to English voice actors all the time, and I like that degree of separation of listening to anime dialogue in a language that’s not native to me - it shields me from truly knowing how cringe a lot of anime dialogue is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgrace to you disgrace to your family disgrace to your cow⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So true. Related: I don’t read Japanese, so it’s usually English translations for manga, but whenever I read manga in my native language it just reads way to much like comics for grade schoolers with cringy dialogue - this might very well be the same if I read it in English if I was a native English speaker, but I’m not, so I’m enjoying that degree of separation that shields me from truly knowing how cringe a lot of manga is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did write that they came as slaves, but that’s not the necessary part. I’m starting to think that you just really want me to be racist, facts be damned.

  Brits didn’t need to immigrate to the US in order to learn about American rock music.

  Yeah, because american rock music already existed, and USA and UK have a long shared history. Inventing rock music without close personal proximity is much less likely, and inventing a style is one thing but popularizing it is quite another. It wouldn’t have gotten as popular in the USA and Europe if all the early blues and jazz musicians were in Africa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But the claim that you have to whip people and chain them up to synthesize European folk melodies with African base rhythms seems at once absurd and sadistic.

  Cool, I never made that claim. They probably needed to immigrate to a western country to invent it, that they went there as slaves is a different matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s counterfactual, though, and there’s little chance that immigration wouldn’t have been involved somehow in your scenario(s).

  Hell, maybe it would have come from middle class American Natives in the Mississippi Delta. Or Chinese rice farmers in a country not ravaged by opium. Or Iranians not ground under by the Shah’s dictatorship. Or Austro-Hungarians who weren’t cannibalized to fight the Napoleonic Wars or the 30 Years War that caused the Caucasian Exodus across the Atlantic.

  They might have invented interesting musical genres, but I really doubt any of them would have invented something that closely resembles 1950s-1960s era black music. Maybe one of them could have invented techno, but jazz, soul, blues and blues-derived rock music as we know it? I highly doubt that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The world would be a lot poorer without the music genres that spawned from the USA and UK, too. And most of those were only possible because people from Africa were (forcefully) brought to the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That how it always start⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF, back (and neck) massages are really nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vitamins are good but idk....⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Smell it … if you dare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Early humans already had mountain streams, which are refreshing as fuck in summer. And Africa is actually pretty mountainous, it’s kind of an issue for infrastructure development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I thought it made more sense this way. Bit of a bad habit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ‘edited’ indicator on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you Australian or just that freaky?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s winter sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You sleep with short or no sleeves in winter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You people sleep in tshirts instead of longsleeves?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Vampires know they are immortal without first living forever?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK about you, but if I became a vampire, got 150 years old without visibly aging and recovered from severe wounds without medical assistance I would probably consider myself ‘immortal’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually have a good time with isometric fantasy rpgs in the vein of Baldur’s Gate. They don’t really have grind, the world is generally well-filled with a relatively dense story and interesting quests (denser than Skyrim at least), and if the game becomes too hard you can turn down the difficulty. Though you do need to actually be interested in the combat mechanics (which are much more complicated than e.g. in Elder Scrolls games) to really enjoy these games, IMO. One downside is that these types of games are usually really long; I’ve dropped a couple of them halfway because they overstayed their welcome.

  Some examples:

  • Baldur’s Gate 3 (don’t really need to have played 1+2 to enjoy this one, though they’re still very good)

  • Divinity: Original Sin 1+2

  • Pillars of Eternity 1+2 (2 has much better combat, but the first one is pretty important to understand the world)

  • Tyranny (this is a relatively short one)

  • Pathfinder: Kingmaker 1+2

  For more Skyrim-style games, I really enjoyed the Gothic series. I think their level of grind is about the same as Skyrim (probably a little less, but it’s been a while), and if you can get past the outdated graphics of the early titles they’re quite fun. The dialogues are pretty fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  said one user on X.

  The irony.