rumschlumpel
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- Comment on How Come Latin Didn't Spread in the Middle East as Much as it did in Europe? 1 day ago:
If we replace Latin with Greek, I’d say that the european areas were either just never conquered for long enough periods by people with different languages, or the conquerors weren’t enough (or not brutal enough) to enforce the spread of their own language (e.g. the Franks conquered vulgar latin-speaking France, but they adopted the latin-based language instead of making everyone else speak a Germanic language). Closely related to that is that Europe was almost fully christianized, which is heavily based on the Latin and Greek languages, while the middle east was almost fully (muslimized? islamized? there’s got to be a word for that).
So Latin spread pretty well across Europe, being the basis of almost every language there
At best half, by population. Germanic and slavic languages are a thing, they aren’t based on latin even if they use many latin loan words.
- Comment on Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron 1 day ago:
ouch
- Comment on Why do we see Oil as always being here for humans? Isn't drilling like taking water out of a swimming pool? Sooner or later your going to run out of water. 2 days ago:
Oil is kinda already obsolete nowadays, so it doesn’t really matter if we’d run out in 50 or 100 years - if we’re still consuming oil at the current pace in that time, half the people who might be upset about oil availability are going to be climate refugees of some sort. Space is going to get tight in a lot of places if people need to move hundreds of km inland to flee rising sea levels.
- Comment on It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post) 3 days ago:
Personally I don’t have an issue with not allowing children on social media, but with how it’s going to get enforced. Do you trust your government with ID data that’s immediately linked to everything you say or do on a social media website? And I’d be surprised if the social media companies don’t get access to that ID data, too. You could implement age checks in a privacy-friendly way (I mean one that actually works, not just “click yes if you’re 18”), but they’re not going to.
- Comment on Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron 4 days ago:
Kann that Bubble pop real soon, pretty please? Even SD-Cards tripled in price since March 2025 …
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
X is literally a propaganda tool of the extreme right, what Twitter has been is dead. The same is mostly true for Reddit, though even if it the people calling the shots for Reddit were truly only interested in profit instead of politics, it’s not profitable to criticize a manchild wannabe-dictator and his cronies.
- Comment on Bit harsh? 1 week ago:
IIRC it’s like that in most european countries with more than one official language, too. Ironically it’s usually the native French speakers who don’t want to learn a different language.
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 1 week ago:
Arguably an engineering (hardware) or systems programming issue, too. How many IT people (even the highly competent ones) could design a router, wifi chip etc.?
- Comment on They don't cover nuclear war? Pass. 2 weeks ago:
Clearly neglect!
- Comment on Anon buys cigarettes 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure they aren’t supposed to talk you out of your expensive and addictive purchases.
- Comment on They don't cover nuclear war? Pass. 2 weeks ago:
What do they actually cover?
- Comment on If Sodom and Gomorrah were real. How bad were they that god had to come down and smite them? Are they any comparison to today's society? 2 weeks ago:
Do we assume that God is a reasonable person who only punishes people for good reason and in appropriate measure? Because the bible doesn’t quite paint that picture to me.
- Comment on How does code that's meant to fix one bug break other features? 2 weeks ago:
The different parts of software are (maybe) meant to be independent, encapsulated from each other, but in practice it’s hard to actually do that. So if you change the behavior of one part, the other parts often need to be changed as well, and certain types of issues are easy to miss, especially when you aren’t targeting a homogenous hardware platform like a game console.
- Comment on Why do you never talk about what you're reading? Me: 2 weeks ago:
It’s just mostly self-help and DIY stuff.
Most of what I read is lemmy comments and blog posts, I think your reading list makes for better conversation. Also, most of the content I read is in a language that I don’t use in face-to-face conversations, which makes it a bit awkward to talk about it.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s pretty different if what the weird cult claims could be true, i.e. gods and evil demons do exist in general. In the real world, you pretty much know that’s it’s all fake, the only remaining question is whether the person you’re talking to believes it or is in on the grift.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 3 weeks ago:
The thing with RPG worlds is, when the characters are saying these kinds of things there’s a good chance that this is actually and demonstrably how that RPG world works and they’re not just a bunch of grifters.
- Comment on Anon makes games 3 weeks ago:
I think the fundamental issue is that people who like FO4 or Skyrim typically don’t want to play an MMORPG in the first place. But maybe I’m extrapolating too much from myself.
- Comment on Anon makes games 3 weeks ago:
What does “fail” even mean? I do have a great distaste for “AAA” titles roughly post-Skyrim, but AFAIK most AAA games succeed financially. Even Fallout76, widely regarded as a flop in terms of critical reception and player sentiment, performed reasonably well, even if not quite as well as previous Fallout titles.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
AFAIK USA. But I’d assume that lemmy.world users aren’t the only ones who see and comment on your posts. e.g. I have insomnia, I might comment at literally any time.
- Comment on Prediction vs Reality 4 weeks ago:
Right now, yes, but for the vast majority of history it wasn’t even close. Your link shows that China only met the EU’s per capita emissions in 2013, when climate change was already pretty far along.
- Comment on Prediction vs Reality 4 weeks ago:
Europe (alongside the USA) has been releasing disgusting amounts of climate change-inducing gases since the 18th century, and they (alongside the USA) were the main profiteers of climate pollution until the latter half of the 21st century. Arguably still are, though China etc. also play a part now.
Granted, this treats nations as monoliths, it’s not like the population of most countries really had a choice for the most part.
- Comment on Prediction vs Reality 4 weeks ago:
Helps that Europe is warming faster than the global average. Karma, I guess.
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 4 weeks ago:
Behold: mander.xyz/comment/27919524
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 4 weeks ago:
No one except a few communists calls extreme rightwing chuds “liberal” anywhere outside of the US, either.
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 4 weeks ago:
> post made by 4chan user
> lib
Pick one.
- Comment on Sound of silence 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like it’s a complete non-issue if you’re not consciously trying to blast your ears clean through …
- Comment on Sound of silence 4 weeks ago:
Shure SE215 Pro CL. Common features of musician’s in-ears are that the cables are supposed to go around the ear instead of straight down, and many of them have detachable cables. They’re also tuned a little different differently and I think they tend to be louder than standard in-ears.
in-ears, since they are significantly correlated with hearing loss
What makes them so hearing-loss inducing? I always thought they were more ear-friendly compared to standard ear-buds or compact overear headphones, because they isolate outside noise better.
- Comment on Sound of silence 4 weeks ago:
Glasses+overear headphones is something I struggle with. I generally use in-ear headphones on the go, but those come with their own issues; I actually got a set of in-ear headphones for musicians recently, they have replacable cables but there’s even more cable noise (amplified sound from walking, clothes rubbing against the cable etc.) than for standard consumer in-ears, plus I don’t really like their sound.
What model of OneOdio headphones do you use? I assume they don’t all have the exact same level of comfort.
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 4 weeks ago:
What kind of reflective material do you use? My blinds use reflective material and it does jack shit.
- Comment on Sound of silence 4 weeks ago:
I’ve always done it that way, doesn’t help much. IDK how this keeps happening, I’m also breaking phone and laptop headphone jacks.