rumschlumpel
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- Comment on Not sure how accurate this is as I can’t tell where I fit on this chart 1 week ago:
Have you seen actual black people with this pfp or are you just taking the chart, that OP found who-knows-where, at face value?
- Comment on Not sure how accurate this is as I can’t tell where I fit on this chart 1 week ago:
Still doesn’t seem like a particularly leftwing choice.
- Comment on Need to make a fire playlist. 1 week ago:
Shackleton - Man On A String pt1
That’s going to be quite the playlist if that ends up fitting in well Ü
- Comment on Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test 2 weeks ago:
They did say that it would be cheaper to do geothermal on land, though that depends on whether that is (easily) available in the first place. Land-based geothermal struggles with issues such as geothermal-induced earthquakes, IDK if this going to be any better under water.
I really want geothermal energy to succeed, it seems like a great, reliable energy source that isn’t dependent on foreign countries (e.g. solar is very China-dependent), but it carries real risks.
- Comment on It could happen… any day now 2 weeks ago:
Can’t confirm, last time I picked out lightbulbs I dawdled for quite a long time and didn’t talk with anyone.
- Comment on It could happen… any day now 2 weeks ago:
Fair, I am pretty lonely.
- Comment on It could happen… any day now 2 weeks ago:
I would be suspicious as hell if some manic pixie dream girl showed up in my life.
- Comment on Normally I’d say it’s too early for this, but have you SEEN stores already? 3 weeks ago:
I can already buy christmas sweets, it’s great! Not good for my diet, though.
- Comment on New California ghost gun lawsuit takes aim at company that sells 3-D printer filament 3 weeks ago:
Don’t tell them about pipes.
- Comment on ontologically evil human being 5 weeks ago:
Thanks!
My websearches also indicate that many of the deeds ascribed to Cromwell weren’t necesarily his personal doing, e.g. christmas and theater were already banned when he came into power. Puritans really didn’t like fun, like in general.
- Comment on ontologically evil human being 5 weeks ago:
This is kinda cheating. He may have done whatever “declare the leader is a Taghut” means ("call the king a devil”, or something like that?), but he certainly did not use that word.
Do you have a more in-depth source on his deeds? His Wikipedia article seems to refuse to engage with this aspect.
- Comment on The Chad lake stabilized flood pattern vs the virgin high sediment variable course flood "pattern" 5 weeks ago:
AFAIK it’s the gigantic sediment load plus the wind sediments from the Loess plateau, which makes the area exceptionally fertile.
- Comment on The Chad lake stabilized flood pattern vs the virgin high sediment variable course flood "pattern" 5 weeks ago:
You’d think so, but according to Wikipedia it was both, and the Yellow river is definitely the more prominent one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_River_civilization
- Comment on The Chad lake stabilized flood pattern vs the virgin high sediment variable course flood "pattern" 5 weeks ago:
Honestly amazing that they managed to become a cradle of civilization with such a capricious river as the centerpiece. Maybe the devastating floods were just frequent enough to make people organize to mitigate the shortcomings, without being enough to completely wipe them out.
- Comment on Fancy 1 month ago:
butter-flavored margarine gang
fridge-temp butter is annoying, and room-temp butter goes off too fast - Comment on Looking for a chat app with specific requirements 1 month ago:
I think Matrix offers most of the functions you need, though it kinda has issues with ease-of-use, performance and stability. “Discord but selfhostable and with E2EE” is pretty much what the Matrix devs are going for.
- Comment on [Discussion] Isekai that is really good, in your opinion? 1 month ago:
Grimgar was really good. I think ReZero was also really good about exploring what it’s like to actually use these “cheat abilities” that most Isekai-Protagonists have (in this case, the protagonist travels to the past after dying, like a video game savepoint), though it overstays its welcome IMO.
- Comment on Democracy 1 month ago:
9 out of 10 people think decimation sucks. The 10th wasn’t available for comment.
- Comment on Balding's Basics in Getting Old and Grumpy 1 month ago:
there are ways, no natural ones tho
- Comment on "So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin?" Main Visual 1 month ago:
These goblins look rather smurfy…
- Comment on Made me smile 2 months ago:
There have probably been a couple of meteor impacts, too!
- Comment on Made me smile 2 months ago:
Meh, you can’t really see the sun, it’s mostly just an undefined and incredibly bright blob in your peripheral vision. You can’t see any shapes in it other than “circle”. If you caught a glimpse of the recent partial solar eclipse in Europe, even when 80% was covered by the moon, it still looked like a perfect circle to the naked eye.
- Comment on Made me smile 2 months ago:
Earth changed a lot in 2000 years, the moon not so much.
- Comment on Seasons 2 months ago:
spring is allergy time. autumn is alright.
- Comment on Relatable 2 months ago:
truth in television
- Comment on Lead by example 2 months ago:
Recent research showed that they had lead-polluted air on top of things like lead-sweetened wine. Apparently the lead air pollution was also a byproduct of silver mining (which was mostly for coinage). e.g. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419630121
- Comment on Being a fan of something without ever interacting with the fanbase 2 months ago:
Beats me how there could even be much controversy around that game, TBH.
- Comment on We Love Cats 😺 2 months ago:
TBH I always felt bad about watching Tom get abused, so anime catgirls are clearly a vast improvement.
- Comment on I just wanted to know how bad Lead really is and end up here 2 months ago:
… yeah that’s sounds pretty bad.
- Comment on I just wanted to know how bad Lead really is and end up here 2 months ago:
I definitely heard about this kind of thing earlier than 2025. It’s pretty well-known that the Romans were fond of lead items, including lead-sweetened wine. Seems unlikely that it significantly impacted the decline of the empire, but it probably didn’t help, either.