rumschlumpel
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- Comment on Once you are over 30 we no longer want to go out - we want to be left alone, with a beer/wine, a blanket, tv, and tacos… 6 hours ago:
I still want to share those with people, just without the randoms at bars, music clubs etc.
Kinda hard to meet people while avoiding public transport (it sucks, and especially on weekend evenings) if you don’t have a car and live too far apart for cycling, though. Driving a car and having a drink don’t mix well anyway …
- Comment on Special sampling opportunity 4 days ago:
TBH I would welcome the opportunity to touch toilet paper before buying. It can be hard to figure out how soft or rough it is just by sight and what’s written on the package.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
How is this a “shitpost”?
- Comment on "Kinks" 6 days ago:
It’s a porn plot and there is definitely porn in it, but TBH the plot part is better than the porn part (for my tastes, anyway).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Which country?
- Comment on I have an acquaintance that have their own "password system" that involves having a "core" set of characters, plus a few unique characters for each site; Is that system safe? 1 week ago:
That doesn’t really answer the question though, you just assumed that attackers would instantly figure out your system with a sample size of 1. How do they do that? Not saying that they definitely can’t, but I want to see logical arguments before I believe it.
- Comment on I have an acquaintance that have their own "password system" that involves having a "core" set of characters, plus a few unique characters for each site; Is that system safe? 1 week ago:
I doubt it can figure out whether a password system is secure. I’d be surprised if “leumSWydThIThBaPl!690720” didn’t get a decent score, though.
- Comment on I have an acquaintance that have their own "password system" that involves having a "core" set of characters, plus a few unique characters for each site; Is that system safe? 1 week ago:
On one hand, it’s probably not that unlikely that an attacker gets 3 samples if the email or username gets reused a lot, on the other hand I wonder how well automated password crackers deal with systems like this. ‘one good pattern with a couple of extra characters per site’ seems like a pretty common password system.
- Comment on My wife says it's thanks to wearing sunscreen and avoiding cigarettes 1 week ago:
Gender norms were even more rigid in the 80s than they are right now. What men did is a very poor predictor of what women did.
- Comment on My wife says it's thanks to wearing sunscreen and avoiding cigarettes 1 week ago:
, while his dad isn’t even in great shape
Surprisingly, higher bodyfat can help with that. Fills out the wrinkles.
- Comment on My wife says it's thanks to wearing sunscreen and avoiding cigarettes 1 week ago:
I have a hard time imagining that women didn’t moisturize in the 80s, though.
- Comment on glupi jebeni bot 1 week ago:
“objective distribution” yeah right
- Comment on How much has the ratio of accidental vs intentional pregnancies changed over time? 1 week ago:
most humans were conceived unintentionally
I’d assume that most people who are married expect at least some children, even if they don’t have much control about the exact times and numbers.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 week ago:
That’s not how science fiction works.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 week ago:
Just because they don’t treat it like it’s advanced, doesn’t mean it isn’t advanced. Most tech in most sci-fi works is treated as a fact of life, no one goes “holy shit, they just invented hovercars!”.
- Comment on Unholy curses 2 weeks ago:
Weird how soap never got it included in the supernatural remedy arsenal. Maybe too mundane …
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of cyberpunk tech is vastly beyond our current abilities, though. They treat getting a new fully functional cybernetic arm like we treat getting silicone tits.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 2 weeks ago:
It’s still high tech if it’s vastly beyond our current technological ability.
- Comment on 🪰 ❤️ 🪰 2 weeks ago:
I mean, 17 years seems like a pretty long time to live for an insect, larval stage or no …
- Comment on On trees... 2 weeks ago:
I thought crab-like animals were all actually pretty closely related to each other, i.e. all crab-like animals are arthropods, which is a less broad category than ‘all the plants that can form a wooden trunk’. Any taxonomists here to confirm/deny?
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 2 weeks ago:
Why wouldn’t it work?
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
It would help to at least try doing that, but in practice this would probably be very difficult - it’s likely not possible to always drink boiled water and well-cooked food, and given the possibility of contaminating food and drink after boiling, you might effectively have prepare all your drink and food yourself, which is logistically difficult given the length of the work days. Diseases also spread in other ways, like smear infections (e.g. on toilets, doorhandles, tools) and airborne infections.
- Comment on That's it. That's the joke. 2 weeks ago:
You know, I can see male doctors not getting it, but wtf is the excuse of female doctors here?
- Comment on 1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah IDK about peace, but in terms of tolerance in ‘the west’ it was a huge step up over 1955, and rave culture in particular (where it was a thing anyway; might have been focused on european countries like UK and Germany?) was probably more tolerant and friendly than a lot of popular ‘party’ scenes today.
- Comment on 1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025. 2 weeks ago:
Well damn.
The 90s are definitely a nicer place to be than the 50s, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
While that’s true, the wrong meaning might absolutely be the intended one.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that can accurately be described as “racism” though, if even the “racists” won’t say that the ethnicity they’re hating is a different race. More general terms like ‘chauvinism’ would fit better.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Depends on context. In the context of an informal conversation about a specific kind of law it’s fine IMO. It’s also fine if it’s obviously not that serious, like e.g. different styles of toilets that are both found in the ‘developed world’. When you’re talking about a topic where overwhelmingly, richer countries do it one way and poorer countries do it another way, that’s where calling the poorer countries ‘uncivilized’ starts sounding racist (or maybe just classist, considering countries like Belarus which are poor, authoritarian and underdeveloped but not inhabited by any brown people).
- Comment on Watching "They Live!" has opened my eyes to how often the movie is referenced, as if I put on the same sunglasses 2 weeks ago:
Listened to Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” today for the first time to a very similar effect.
- Comment on Maybe Facebook, Spotify, Twitter and the like are scamming Advertisers about interaction stats thanks to AI-powered Bots. 2 weeks ago:
I really don’t understand how so many people just put up with it. I actually helped an older relative with it a couple of months ago, he isn’t even the tech-illiterate type. Mere weeks after that, he’s back to using YouTube with ads.