rumschlumpel
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- Comment on Throw the baby out with the bathwater 1 day ago:
LOL, “anthetical”
- Comment on Ska ftw 4 days ago:
Its either “the world is broken but ignore it with the help of a song that has no right to be this groovy”
Also, “I’m broken, here’s a sad and angry song about it that has no right to be this groovy”. Nu metal was/is big on introspection and personal tragedies instead of societal tragedies, though introspection =/= wisdom.
- Comment on Ska ftw 5 days ago:
Death Metal: RAARRRAOARAAAGHHH (booklet with the lyrics probably says “world is broken let’s fuck shit up” )
- Comment on Days after Christmas are confusing 5 days ago:
Christmas leftovers and noodles with grated cheese. Definitely eating a lot of sweets and snacks, though.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 1 week ago:
Influencer sponsorships are still not the same thing as random online ads, though. I totally get how sponsorships work, what I have trouble believing is that showing random ads before YouTube videos or in the middle of some news article works.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 week ago:
(continued) For your example, I’d be too worried about whether the game does the book justice to preorder.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 week ago:
Definitely no preorder, I’m not buying a cat in a bag for no real benefit. Kickstarter is a bit different because the game might not be made at all if you don’t back, but in that case I’ll definitely research the people involved to get a better picture on how reliable they are and if they really need Kickstarter-style funding in the first place.
For early access, I try to judge whether the current state of the game is already worth the price. Games like Minecraft or 7 Days To Die provided great value even before their 1.0 version.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
Professions that have a high pay cealing do have a different relationship to capital than miners, nurses etc., but most athletes and musicians still aren’t millionaires. It just feels like a waste of effort to complain about a celebrity who owns tens of millions, when the core issue is the people who own hundreds and thousands of millions. Crab bucket mentality IMO.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
OP is also only comparing top earners. For every athlete who earns millions, there’s probably hundreds of athletes who make around median income or less - it’s the kind of career where people will keep doing it even if it pays barely enough to pay the bills. There are a lot of doctors who make more than the poorer professional athletes, and doctors don’t age out.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
Complaining about athletes just makes it sound petty. Athletes are just employees, if you’re going to complain, complain about the athletes’ and nurses’ employers. Rich people never gave a flying fuck about their employees, and underfunded schools are a feature for them, too.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 1 week ago:
As far as I can tell, most online ads don’t have that kind of microtargeting, though, and for most products the consumers don’t believe that they will actually earn money for choosing that product.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
How does AI actually improve their financial position? Who pays for them to use AI?
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
I probably would, if the organizational structure and its spending focus(es) weren’t so fucked up. They have been spending insane amounts of money on bullshit like AI instead of core browser features, and their leadership has extremely high wages for something that should be a non-profit open source organization. And it has been like this for years at this point.
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 1 week ago:
Try incremental games like Cookie Clicker.
- Comment on The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic 1 week ago:
The issue with a “The worst of …” list is that you need to find examples that are both really bad and also notorious/high-profile enough to be interesting.
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 1 week ago:
Most porn sites do run ads!
And I did support a probably independent creator of erotic audio on Patreon once.
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 1 week ago:
If we compare humanity to other species on earth, the year-round horniness without any specific mating seasons is fairly uncommon. There’s not really a good reason to assume that a sentient alien species works the same way.
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 1 week ago:
For masturbation, mostly.
Humanity is relatively unique compared to earth’s other animals in that the species’ females can conceive all year (minus the time when they have their period), and while it’s very hard to study this, it doesn’t seem like sex is particularly fun in most species, especially for females. This does help humans somewhat with forging long-lasting social bonds, which is definitely something that’s core to the human species, but it’s by no means the only way that a species can be instinctually inclined to form long-lasting social bonds. So to a hypothetical alien civilization, humans probably seem to spend a lot of energy on sex.
- Comment on What is the best way to support Lemmy specifically and the Fediverse in general financially? 2 weeks ago:
The main dev is also an admin on lemmy.ml. There would probably be more instances that defederate lemmy.ml if it weren’t for that, and the way that account-level blocking is implemented isn’t really that great.
- Comment on What is the best way to support Lemmy specifically and the Fediverse in general financially? 2 weeks ago:
Servers cost money to run.
You can try to post about lemmy on other platforms, but be aware that that carries a risk of getting banned.
Normally I’d also recommend supporting the devs, but fuck tankies. I plan on switching to piefed.
- Comment on When you find your favorite anime's fandom 2 weeks ago:
I think that may depend on the kind of anime you’re into …
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
So yeah, I don’t have any gifts yet. Not that people expect much from me, but still, it’s a bit much to turn up completely emptyhanded …
- Comment on "Man, I used to beat this level so easily when I was younger..." Me now not realizing I did it on Easy mode 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I never cared about the cheating aspect, I was never particularly good at gaming and I’d definitely prefer cheating over not finishing a game or trying to bruteforce whatever I’m stuck on for 10 hours. The issue is that looking up stuff casually like many people (including me) do today has a high risk of reducing the fun for no real reason. And I feel like games today tend to be easier and less grindy than they used to be in the dial-up days, too, so there’s also less reason to look anything up in the first place.
- Comment on "Man, I used to beat this level so easily when I was younger..." Me now not realizing I did it on Easy mode 2 weeks ago:
The real easy mode is looking up stuff on the 'net. It might be subtle at first, maybe you just looked up something when you were genuinely stuck, but before you know it you’re just looking up stuff because you’re impatient or don’t want to take notes yourself.
Though I guess there’s games that are mostly about getting the timing right. Like I don’t think the internet helps much with beating the early Super Mario sidescrollers.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 2 weeks ago:
Is it, though? If there’s a non-government person who has the means to protect themselves against fucking missile strikes, one of the richest people on the planet seems like a likely candidate.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 2 weeks ago:
Nah, they kill way too slowly for that.
- Comment on Elon Musk, doing Elon Musk things. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Usually, silicone nippled showerheads aren't replaced or cleaned regularly. 4 weeks ago:
I had to replace mine every couple of years because they break (i.e. start leaking).
- Comment on Cities aren’t built for women — it’s time to change that 4 weeks ago:
The conflation of “built for women” and “built for carework” makes me a little uncomfortable. Would stay-at-home fathers not face these challenges? Is it natural that women are responsible for such a disproportionate amount of care work?
And considering that men are much more likely to be victims of violence than women, IDK if they’re actually much safer in those “dead zones” or if they’re just more likely to take risks.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 4 weeks ago:
It’s the texture for me. But it’s not nearly as bad if the penis is all the way in.