rumschlumpel
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- Comment on What is your best isekai anime? 2 weeks ago:
I liked Grimgar a lot.
- Comment on morons 3 weeks ago:
“white” is an increbibly malleable category, anyway. At one point, the Irish (who are generally even lighter-skinned than the English) were considered non-white. Nowadays, most people would consider Italians and Spaniards white, and there’s quite a few hispanic people who both look white and consider themselves white (due to being descended from European immigrants). There’s a similar dynamic in India, southern Indians are often darker than ‘black’ americans while many north Indians could pass as southern europeans.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. We definitely got a lot of social progress from technology, but it’s plain to see that social media gets massively abused for reactionary propaganda (not entirely unlike radio and print have been abused to further authoritarian ideologies in early 20th century). IME, in recent years people have been getting MORE cold and brutal, more willing to assault random people for being the wrong sexual orientation, they started assaulting EMTs, firefighters and train employees in significant numbers, and people have been outright murdered for telling them that they should wear a mask.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, and the amish aren’t exactly a positive example in terms of personal freedom, especially for women and queer people. Though those were never their goals anyway, so a more modern luddite community might be nicer to live in.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 4 weeks ago:
Cyberpunk authors have been introducing progress-hostile/‘go back to the past’ movements and factions since the 80s, arguably it’s older than cyberpunk-style technology itself (cyberpunk-style technology definitely being a thing that already exists, arguably since the www-internet but nowadays with VR, AI and electronically enhanced prostetics we’re definitely getting into the flashier stuff).
And e.g. the amish rejected the industrial revolution.
- Comment on How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border. 1 month ago:
I don’t expect people even in border villages of Czechia, Slovakia or Hungary to speak German
German is actually a fairly popular foreign language in countries east of Germany: ec.europa.eu/eurostat/…/index.php?title=Foreign_l…
Though learning a second or third language in school is probably not quite what OP envisions here, and there’s a big difference between getting language lessons in school and actually being able to speak that language (shoutout to my Spanish lessons in school, you were pretty useless).
- Comment on How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border. 1 month ago:
Or is it more if you lived even like 500 meters of a border do you learn the language of the country your in?
That tends to be how it’s done. States tend to be rather protective of their official language, and it’s generally impractical to send your children to school in a different country. Being proficient in the other country’s language is quite common, but to truly be bilingual you pretty much need to be some kind of ethnic or religious minority.
- Comment on Meet DAVE: Discord’s New End-to-End Encryption for Audio & Video 2 months ago:
Vivec?
- Comment on Meet DAVE: Discord’s New End-to-End Encryption for Audio & Video 2 months ago:
Don’t most people have Whatsapp? It’s certainly harder to spy on the content of your messages, it’s just a matter of how much issue you have with giving Meta your metadata.
- Comment on CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed 3 months ago:
and even Microsoft
(x) doubt
They had decades to consider Microsoft a liability. Why start doing something about it now?