rumschlumpel

@rumschlumpel@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does putting clothes in the closet protect them from dust, or is the dust in there too?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It gets there too, but not as much. The dust comes from outside the closet, not inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anon describes conservatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t think most conservatives would become anti-car for even a second, even if they got run over but a giant truck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It has also been done in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (the one where Harry was smart). Unfortunately for Harry, Voldemort was also smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon crunches some numbers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I could totally see an antiquity-level society that’s built on wood and paper. Cultures are weird, the Celts seemed to be fairly advanced for their time (apparently they invented a number of fairly intricate and important technologies) but left practically no writing for religious reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon crunches some numbers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The hunter-gatherer cultures we see today actually seem to have a lot of free time. Seems like technological and cultural progress has different mechanics.

  I’d say agriculture’s influence is that it’s a big incentive for people to stay in one place and develop relative dense communities, that density is what is actually speeding up progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a diet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like smooching or oral sex would take care of the urge …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon updates GNU/linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Word. Updates are annoying, I hate it when things start working differently and I have to problemsolve it into working my way.

  • typed from my unsupported LTS distro
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon updates GNU/linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a certain period where a lot of people really had a PC, and they learned because the PC had what they wanted. Nowadays there’s relatively little incentive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon updates GNU/linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This shit is how you turn into Voldemort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

  I just downloaded the pdf. Only 2005 pages! I genuinely love it when fanfiction projects get into insane wordcounts. Let’s see if the prose is something I actually want to read for 2005 pages …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I cast Mundane Missile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That would have been the first thing I’d check … seems standard practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since when does yellow journalism care about the environment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that they’re destroying the environment on purpose for some nefarious purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get sum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In what direction does the DNC try to radicalize people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get sum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We also have more room to fail individually today. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not proposing that we get back to where western societies were in the 50s, but there are definitely downsides to our current societies that need to be dealt with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get sum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d assume that there’s actually more virgins between 18-30 nowadays, though. Loneliness might not be a specifically male epidemic, but it certainly is a societal epidemic in most western countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's a keeper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m sure most people use oral condoms / dental dams when they’re going down on casual flicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's a keeper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wife in a healthy relationship, looking at her sweatpantsed husband: heavy breathing Oh my!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vitamins are good but idk....⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Smell it … if you dare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I thought it made more sense this way. Bit of a bad habit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ‘edited’ indicator on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you Australian or just that freaky?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s winter sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You sleep with short or no sleeves in winter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You people sleep in tshirts instead of longsleeves?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wisdom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most land animals are crustaceans, actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually have a good time with isometric fantasy rpgs in the vein of Baldur’s Gate. They don’t really have grind, the world is generally well-filled with a relatively dense story and interesting quests (denser than Skyrim at least), and if the game becomes too hard you can turn down the difficulty. Though you do need to actually be interested in the combat mechanics (which are much more complicated than e.g. in Elder Scrolls games) to really enjoy these games, IMO. One downside is that these types of games are usually really long; I’ve dropped a couple of them halfway because they overstayed their welcome.

  Some examples:

  • Baldur’s Gate 3 (don’t really need to have played 1+2 to enjoy this one, though they’re still very good)

  • Divinity: Original Sin 1+2

  • Pillars of Eternity 1+2 (2 has much better combat, but the first one is pretty important to understand the world)

  • Tyranny (this is a relatively short one)

  • Pathfinder: Kingmaker 1+2

  For more Skyrim-style games, I really enjoyed the Gothic series. I think their level of grind is about the same as Skyrim (probably a little less, but it’s been a while), and if you can get past the outdated graphics of the early titles they’re quite fun. The dialogues are pretty fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  said one user on X.

  The irony.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But I am mighty!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you actually avoid vitamin d production if you stay long enough in the sun that you need sunscreen to avoid sunburns?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But I am mighty!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF are those prices. I’d start looking into importing from abroad …