rumschlumpel
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- Comment on If you found out your cousin was a billionaire (non-famous) and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, how would you react? Would you be mad he didn’t tell you? 1 day ago:
If this was someone that I have regular contact with, I’d be kinda impressed that they managed to keep the secret. Though there’s degrees to richness - I wouldn’t be impressed of the secretkeeping if I already knew that they were some kind of rich manager type, just not that rich.
That said, fuck billionaires.
- Comment on Our Commitment to Windows Quality 3 days ago:
thinking windows is one of the most used technologies
I genuinely is, though. But it’s because they are a near-monopolist in an oligopolic market, a position they got because of anticompetitive (i.e. illegal) practices. Not because people like their tech so much.
- Comment on Our Commitment to Windows Quality 3 days ago:
I had a good laugh at this one.
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- Comment on What if medicine intentionally tastes bad? 4 days ago:
That kinda requires intention and effort, you wouldn’t be doing it because the process is so enjoyable. I definitely remember syrup medicine being really tasty when I was a kid.
- Comment on What if medicine intentionally tastes bad? 4 days ago:
Lots of pill-shaped prescription medicine already does. You’re supposed to swallow them immediately, if you don’t you often find that they are mixed with bittering agents (or just naturally taste bitter).
Where I live, cough syrup that might actually be dangerous (e.g. the purple drank stuff) is already prescription-only or fully illegal, anyway.
- Comment on somehow i don't make any progress 5 days ago:
I have 10 occupied workspaces at any given time. You can also use different browser profiles for work/school and fun!
- Comment on somehow i don't make any progress 5 days ago:
Imagine being so phone-brained that you do “fun” things on your phone while sitting in front of your laptop at a desk. Doomscroll on the big screen!
- Comment on Am I right to be afraid of germs / is my family disgusting or am I overreacting and this is germaphobia? (read post) 6 days ago:
Washing hands with soap is definitely important. IDK that you’d really get sick from a trash can being carried around the kitchen, but it sounds like your mom just generally doesn’t wash her hands after touching dirty stuff. Some germs are more harmful than others, I wouldn’t trust her around chicken or when there’s actually someone in the household with an infectious disease …
- Comment on Am I right to be afraid of germs / is my family disgusting or am I overreacting and this is germaphobia? (read post) 6 days ago:
Damn, I thought my parents’ kitchen looked like a mess, and I’m not exactly a neat freak myself.
- Comment on If we organised highly-publicised world-wide funerals for each animal that goes extinct because of our behaviour, maybe it would help sway people to take environmental issues more seriously 6 days ago:
Seems like the precondition to making it highly-publicised is that popular media actually wants to shine a light on this and isn’t prevented from it by those who actually buy their ads, sponsored articles etc.
It’s a bit of a catch22; to make the world better, the world already needs to be better. The media who would publicise this are probably already bringing stories about the evils of environmental destruction all the time, and they’re consumed by people who already know that environmental destruction is bad and want it to stop, but there’s only so much a minority can accomplish when big business can just pay off the people who could decide to really do something about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There’s Stack Overflow and Hackernews. I’d say that Stack Overflow tends to be a better resource than Reddit for tech questions - it’s not exactly a forum, and that’s both a strength and a weakness. And you can’t just copy Reddit 1:1, because then why would people move away from Reddit to another commercial site? It has been tried at least one time, and it failed (Voat). The threadiverse would probably also be considered a failure if it was a commercial operation.
- Comment on 80s and 90s anime starter pack 1 week ago:
Cyberpunk is kinda losing its appeal, the closer we’re coming to living it …
- Comment on Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education 2 weeks ago:
TIL Roblox makes billions of dollars
- Comment on They're calling it the Trump Laptop. Highest quality. So affordable. We're making technology great again, folks. 2 weeks ago:
What, no Microslop?
- Comment on Why does it seem like teenagers killing people is way more commonplace in the UK now? 2 weeks ago:
Is this based on real, reliable statistics or just newspaper headlines?
- Comment on What if it's actually pronounced "Arstralia," and we never realized because of the accent? 2 weeks ago:
Arsestralia lol
- Comment on You can bluntly comment on someone being fat or short in China and it's chill, but people get offended the moment you imply they're old... 3 weeks ago:
“old” also means less healthy. No one wants to have backpain and the like.
- Comment on You can bluntly comment on someone being fat or short in China and it's chill, but people get offended the moment you imply they're old... 3 weeks ago:
This stereotype isn’t China-specific, though. For Japan, the cutoff point would be WW2, which is the same as for most of Europe.
- Comment on You can bluntly comment on someone being fat or short in China and it's chill, but people get offended the moment you imply they're old... 3 weeks ago:
Interesting, seems like a very gendered issue.
- Comment on You can bluntly comment on someone being fat or short in China and it's chill, but people get offended the moment you imply they're old... 3 weeks ago:
Don’t east asian countries put tons of value on seniority? Is this changing, is china just not like that, or is there something else that I’m misunderstanding?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There’s worse places to have an unwanted pregnancy than Switzerland …
- Comment on Make a note 3 weeks ago:
I already made that mistake once. Incredibly shitty night. Half of one would have had me zoning the fuck out and I ate two …
- Comment on Employa destroya 🫵😫 3 weeks ago:
OP’s post is punching down (which OP said they find funny, even though they don’t seem to agree with the idea that workers are to blame - that’s not sarcasm, that’s just OP being and weirdo IMO), while the very obviously sarcastic comment is treated as if it’s serious.
- Comment on Employa destroya 🫵😫 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Employa destroya 🫵😫 4 weeks ago:
And yet here you are, mocking the workers.
- Comment on Newish to Fediverse - do I use one account across all services? 4 weeks ago:
You can do that, but fediverse and threadiverse (Mastodon and Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin) are very different kinds of websites and it will lead to unexpected weirdness. Best to make a separate account for each type of thing (i.e. one for the twitter-like experience, one for the reddit-like, one for the instagram-like etc.).
- Comment on Spray n Pray 4 weeks ago:
I heard that depending on the toilet design, flushing with the lid down is even worse.
- Comment on When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov 4 weeks ago:
AFAIK most billionaires become so by birth, even if the most prominent are the ones who made their fortune through their own exploits.
Becoming a billionaire by birth isn’t evil in itself, it’s the act of staying a billionaire.
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 4 weeks ago:
I’ll put it on the pile for things I should do (checking vitamin levels is already there TBH).