rumschlumpel
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- Comment on Does moderation work with addictions? 10 hours ago:
If you can moderate, it isn’t really an addiction. At least, not by the strict definition. If you use it more colloquially, sure.
I think that doesn’t really work for physical addictions. Even if you can easily stop using because your mind just works that way, if you used an addictive substance for long enough you’ll get withdrawal symptoms.
- Comment on Does moderation work with addictions? 23 hours ago:
I think that depends a lot on the specific addictions and which circumstances make you want to give into it more. e.g. physical addictions like to highly addictive drugs are typically harder to moderate that non-physical addictions.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 day ago:
No longsleeves? A tshirt doesn’t cut it in winter.
- Comment on Has the use of a comma instead of the word "and" in English news headlines always been a thing? 1 day ago:
Weirdly, as a non-native speaker I find UK headlines even harder to read.
- Comment on The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son 4 days ago:
Who took over Europe? The German nazis didn’t use the 14 words.
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 4 days ago:
Influencing their subjects (especially other aristocrats) through their economic power was always important for monarchs, though. The medieval period had lots of weak kings who had substantial trouble bringing the aristocrats under them in line, a lot of the time they weren’t even able to collect taxes at the kingdom-level (in part because you kind of need a money-based economy for that, which was not a given).
- Comment on The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son 4 days ago:
1488 is not a well-known Nazi thing in e.g. Germany.
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 4 days ago:
You’re telling me the tourists would stop looking at British castles etc. if the UK became a republic?
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 4 days ago:
Which king?
- Comment on The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son 4 days ago:
And yet it is, and making fun of them without explaining anything doesn’t help with that.
- Comment on The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son 5 days ago:
- Comment on The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son 5 days ago:
Unfortunate price.
- Comment on There are some sign. 5 days ago:
“nah, she’s just fucking with me”
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I found that most gift ideas that are somewhat good suffer from being over budget for the kind of relationship I have with the person. Same would be true for most people who might ask me what I want - if it’s that cheap, I probably already bought it myself.
- Comment on The Overwatch developer team has unionized 6 days ago:
Good for them. I suspect Overwatch is going to get shut down earlier than planned …
- Comment on Does alcohol speed up evolution? 1 week ago:
I have a hard time believing that not having enough sex was ever the reason that prehistoric people had too few children.
- Comment on Does alcohol speed up evolution? 1 week ago:
Fetal alcohol syndrome has to have a huge negative impact on population survivability. I have a hard time believing that even that one one-in-a-million genetic freak superman is able to offset that.
- Comment on One Panel Manga 1 week ago:
*one page manga
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I hate any insect that’s making noise around me, and with flies you also know that they’re very unhygienic (as opposed to certain beetles that are just kind of loud and annoying, but completely harmless).
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 weeks ago:
blocking the sun at every step
That’s a feature. I don’t want to be grilled by the sun everywhere I go.
Great for local air quality, too.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll probably die of dysentery. Just because I know modern hygiene rules doesn’t mean I’ll survive interacting with all the other people who don’t but are used to local bacteria and viruses.
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 3 weeks ago:
Only one of those is actually what I’d describe as “polo shirt and sweatpants” - first one isn’t really wearing sweatpants (and doesn’t have super hairy legs like many men) and the third one isn’t wearing a polo shirt. And yeah, the look might work if you’re fit and at least know how to pick clothes that match (color and fit) both with each other and with the way your body, hair etc. look.
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 3 weeks ago:
OP seems to care about appearances a lot, they’re just not good at it themselves.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 3 weeks ago:
That really doesn’t solve the problem, like every other Firefox fork they’re completely dependent on Firefox. You can’t just make a new webbrowser just like that, and while third party developers can certainly disable some anti-features, there are limits to that and they can definitely not do the basic work that the Firefox devs do (or could do, if Mozilla had different priorities).
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 3 weeks ago:
Ideally it would be financed by user donations. Probably not that realistic for a project like this, though.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 3 weeks ago:
Considering how little they invest into their core product compared to all the other shit and how much money the top brass earns despite declining market share, I don’t think they’re hurting for money that much.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, Firefox is investing a ton of money into AI, too.
- Comment on "Uhh What?" 3 weeks ago:
Considering the voice acting for a lot of “normal” anime (for the record, I’m blaming the producers, not the actors), is it really that different? There’s a lot of “sexy” characters with mickey mouse voices.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered revealed, it's out now and Steam Deck Verified 3 weeks ago:
Yawn. Call me when there’s actually a new Elder Scrolls single player game out.
- Comment on Please don't stop horny 4 weeks ago:
Seconded! I’d feel much better about fanservice in my anime if the characters were at least in their 20s (and no, “1000 years old being that looks younger than a highschooler” doesn’t count).