rumschlumpel
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- Comment on In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views 9 hours ago:
I think there’s also an issue that many people got radicalized through internet rabbitholes and the like in recent years. I assume you need to already have some compatible views, but there’s a big difference between “a bit racist” and “full on nazi”. It’s a matter of which tendencies get reinforced and what biased information you’re being fed.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 19 hours ago:
TBH I don’t even hate that part of her, but couple that with her people’s fucked up society that she wholeheartedly endorses until a certain part of her personal quest …
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Maybe a fake version that doesn’t include Trump. Why would a dictator let his government release it with his name on it?
- Comment on Germany's Schleswig-Holstein Completes Massive Migration to Open Source Email Systems 1 day ago:
To me, the most astounding part of this is that the state is ruled by the CDU, Germany’s big conservative party. It has often been said that the state’s CDU leader, Daniel Günther, is in the wrong party - Germany’s chancellor, who is also a CDU member, has completely opposite positions on many issues.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 2 days ago:
Many past peace price winners were leaders in armed conflicts, and war is dirty business. So I assume the rules on crimes aren’t that strict.
- Comment on wish 2 days ago:
It really doesn’t sound like the original OP wants to be rich, though. As far as I can tell, their fantasy is to be regular school kid. I suppose an upper middle class kid in philippines, indonesia etc. is probably similar enough to satisfy anon’s fantasy. But I think especially in Korea and China, you would actually still be expected to work your ass off in school even if you’re rich.
- Comment on wish 2 days ago:
Even just a standard family in South Korea sounds pretty horrible. Very stressful, very little free time. Japan is better, but still not great. Now imagine what happens if the country turns full authoritarian again from that starting point, as is the general tendency in most countries nowadays.
- Comment on This hidden electricity drain can have a massive impact 2 days ago:
What was the source of that energy? Just the wiring or something?
- Comment on This hidden electricity drain can have a massive impact 2 days ago:
I tested most of my devices with a wattmeter. Definitely not true for me. But I live in Germany and don’t even own a TV, it’s possible that it’s true for other types of devices or that the devices that are sold in my country just have higher standards than devices sold in the US.
- Comment on OLAY! 3 days ago:
mine’s a typo (fixed now, thanks for the poke)
It’s still wrong :D
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 4 days ago:
Well, in that case, it’s clearly because ear hair really got the early human women going. Rawr!
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 4 days ago:
It’s basically your body aging and breaking down, which leads to hormone imbalances and the like. Tons of stuff our bodies do doesn’t have an evolutionary advantage, it’s just that it’s not really a big disadvantage for the survival of your genes.
- Comment on As a straight guy, I've got no interest in the "cocks" community so I added it to my blocklist - did I just do my first "cock-block"? 4 days ago:
So like … any links?
- Comment on discuss 4 days ago:
Elephant might have something to do with that.
- Comment on Let's be honest about this 4 days ago:
heavy breathing
- Comment on Let's be honest about this 4 days ago:
Totally would. Alas, I’ll have to settle for your dick.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
or “serial killer who enjoys thoroughly slicing & dicing their victims”
- Comment on 6 days ago:
So, guy ass or guy tits?
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 6 days ago:
Tell them to get fucked, it’s ours now!
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 6 days ago:
That user has a sick UI theme, though!
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Pretty much www.merriam-webster.com/slang/crash-out
But the issue isn’t really that he’s doing a completely different thing here, and more that the intensity just doesn’t match. This person isn’t severely angry or distressed, he’s just telling some people off in a mildly angry post. The only thing that might point to severe emotions is the lack of punctuation, but that’s a completely normal way to write for lots of people - I guess you’d have to be more familiar with how this person usually writes, like if they were usually very particular about grammar, orthography and punctuation I’d agree with saying that this is “crashing out”.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
That’s what “crashout” means now?
- Comment on "fridging" is honestly the only good motivation to become a superhero or good person 6 days ago:
The relationship with your kid should be deeper than with your partner. Nowadays, many people have far more partners during their lifetime than children - you’ll never know whether your partner will still be with you in 10 years, but it’s very unlikely that your child will not be yours anymore. Similar with parents.
I will say that family members who aren’t love interests typically don’t get enough time and characterization to make the audience care much about them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
White bread is not inherently ugly/disgusting, so this is one that genuinely can go either way.
But if some rando calls me “white bread”, I’d assume it’s a race-based insult, along the lines of “cracker”.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 1 week ago:
I suppose that would help, but I’d assume that most nukes are still in the continental US.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 1 week ago:
Nah, Europe ain’t shit. I bet the US east coast timezone could beat all of GMT+1 alone even without using nukes.
Nukes kind of create a conundrum, though, because they’re pretty much the reason why the big powers stopped direct warfare between each other. If China, Europe and the US had an outright war, those nukes would probably start dropping, and then everybody loses, but also, it’s kind of difficult to truly know how good a country is at nuclear warfare. GMT+1 is certainly going to lose this, though, each of the 4 US timezone could probably nuke it into oblivion, especially since e.g. Germany already has US army bases that are equipped with nuked on its own ground. But how many nukes China actually has and how good the US’s missile interception systems are? Who knows, maybe they’re just that much better. Though even if the US were theoretically stronger, they’re divided into 4 timezones, and it’s not a given that they’ll automatically ally with each other, which again gives China a huge advantage.
- Comment on Winner winner! 1 week ago:
Oh boy, I do feel like a winner!
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 1 week ago:
You don’t need “everybody” to be transphobic for transphobia to be a big problem.
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 1 week ago:
You’re implying transphobia is a common view.
It’s not?
- Comment on Salmon 1 week ago:
As a non-native English speaker, sometimes it really feels like the language is just making fun of us.