rumschlumpel
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yeah, that’s fair. They certainly don’t make it easy to vote in USA, which is deliberate to some extent. Easy to forget (like I just did).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I think it was the votes of less than a third of eligible voters that made Trump 2.0 a reality, roughly another third just behind it, with the remainder not bothering to vote at all. I would say the often fantasized silent majority is actually not pro Trump.
That means that a third didn’t bother, though. The exact reason is up to debate, but it doesn’t say any good things about them or the political system.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Anti-intellectualism has a certain tradition in the USA, it’s kind of well-known.
A German perspective: I think Germans have always been this stupid, they’re mostly just more willing to say the quiet part out loud than they were between 1970 and 2014 (rough estimate). The difference is that the far right extremists have a popular platform now, and the mainstream parties refuse to ban either the far right party or all the media (X, Facebook, local tabloid press etc.) that’s pushing them. If this party had been around in 1960, it would definitely have been banned.
- Comment on Avowed game director say romance is more romantic when it isn't a system 2 weeks ago:
I really enjoyed being Parvati’s wingman in The Outer Worlds, which was also made by Avowed’s devs (Obsidian).
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 mod for Stardew Valley is out now 2 weeks ago:
Astarion is a sexy vampire, of course people who are into men are going to love him.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH gets a smaller download on Steam Deck 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that shit is getting absurd.
Comparing a fresh download between my Steam Deck and Desktop Linux, the Steam Deck download for it is now 88.1GB whereas on Desktop it’s showing as 144.2GB.
88 GB is already kind of annoying, especially when you have slow internet, but 144 GB (much of that probably 4k textures, uncompressed audio and similar stuff) just fucking sucks.
- Comment on Why don't people going to college get HUD, Food Stamps, and free Medicare/Medicaid while enrolled? Instead of the parents footing the bill or the student working 3 jobs and school? 3 weeks ago:
They do it like that in Europe.
- Comment on I ❤️ birbs 3 weeks ago:
English :D
- Comment on How does one go about curing a pill hangover? Never had one but a patient of me asked me this and I had no answer. I know how to get over alcohol hangover but not a pill hangover? 3 weeks ago:
Hydration is probably still a good start. Helps your organs (including kidneys) do their jobs.
- Comment on Please answer. 3 weeks ago:
laughs in alcohol
- Comment on to the moon 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 3 weeks ago:
Anyone played The Outer Worlds? I expect that’s about what would happen if you joined Musk in colonizing another planet.
- Comment on modern psychiatry be like 3 weeks ago:
I’d assume coal miners and starving peasants just had different psychological issues (mostly, I bet some got depressed anyway, especially as a result of the other issues). Like PTSD, anxiety and the like.
- Comment on modern psychiatry be like 3 weeks ago:
Is psychiatrists who talk about an “autism epidemic”, or certain journalists and activists?
- Comment on What’s the difference between pansexuality and bisexuality? 3 weeks ago:
I believe that gender is a spectrum and there’s more than two of them
Many bisexuals read “bi” as “homosexual + heterosexual”, where heterosexual includes all genders other than your own.
- Comment on What’s the difference between pansexuality and bisexuality? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen some pansexuals make that distinction, but most bisexuals are not any less inclusive than pansexuals.
- Comment on What’s the difference between pansexuality and bisexuality? 3 weeks ago:
In practical terms, the biggest difference is the flag.
- Comment on nets 3 weeks ago:
I never made any claims concerning effects.
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 3 weeks ago:
Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll.[9] Instead of generating food using the energy from sunlight, it is parasitic, and more specifically a mycoheterotroph. Its hosts are in the Russulaceae family.[9] Most fungi are mycorrhizal, meaning that they grow symbiotically in association with tree roots. Through the fungal web of mycorrhizae, the M. uniflora roots ultimately sap food from where the host fungi are connected to the photosynthetic trees.
Sick. Note that plants generally fall on a spectrum between food-generating from sunlight and parasitism through their roots; though generally, plants don’t just steal nutrients from fungi, they exchange nutrients with them, i.e. it’s a mutualistic relationship.
- Comment on nets 3 weeks ago:
Car tyres are also significant contributors to terrestial microplastics and particulate matter!
- Comment on tetrapods 4 weeks ago:
Never even tried any of them, because I have yet to see one that isn’t just fat (mammal cheese has fat and protein). But I don’t like Harzer Roller (a stinky soft cheese), either, and yet most people insist on calling it “cheese”.
- Comment on tetrapods 4 weeks ago:
Hm, fair.
- Comment on tetrapods 4 weeks ago:
There’s plant-based cheese …
- Comment on HASTE: Broken Worlds is a speedrunning Sonic-like platformer from Landfall with a demo up now 4 weeks ago:
no vsync …
- Comment on I have an entire cabinet currently storing empty jars... 4 weeks ago:
Weirdly, I do the opposite - I collect bottles that are simple, lightweight and a practical shape (i.e. cylindrical instead of bulbous, not to too tall, not too squat) and there’s a decent chance that I’ll decant liquor that comes in an extravagant bottle (though the bottles I’m most likely to decant are those that are too tall for my shelves or contain 1l - that’s just a lot of weight when you want to pour exactly 20 ml).
- Comment on I have an entire cabinet currently storing empty jars... 4 weeks ago:
To real. Pretty good chance that when I do want to write something (e.g. birthday cards), my pen is dried up and it’s a whole thing to make it write well again …
- Comment on I have an entire cabinet currently storing empty jars... 4 weeks ago:
Man, I gotta make the trip to our local unpackaged goods store. One of these days …
- Comment on I have an entire cabinet currently storing empty jars... 4 weeks ago:
Oof. I also have a couple of really good bottles … I sometimes use them for premade cocktails or when I buy a bottle of spirit or wine that really needs a better container.
- Comment on Meow 4 weeks ago:
The resemblance to baby vocalizations can be rather unsettling with some cats. I suppose it’s somewhat natural since they’re about the same size as a newborn human, but specifically adopting somewhat human-like (and thus baby-like, because that’s the one they can imitate the best) vocalization doesn’t seem that far-fetched.
- Comment on [Discussion] Whats a movie you thought would be terrible but you ended up liking? 4 weeks ago:
Rambo 1, probably. I kind of expected a campy, thoughtless action movie, but it actually had a pretty deep story which social issues front and center.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
In many fictional universes, they do move your particles from one spot to the next, though. And even if you want to think of it as a new entity, it’s a 1:1 copy including the body, which is IMO a critical difference to recreating a human brain in digital space.