rumschlumpel
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- Comment on Why can countries recognise both... 3 days ago:
Because China is a lot more powerful than either Korea.
- Comment on If we ask 100 random ppl to describe their ideal society, which real/fictional countries would the answers resemble the most? 3 days ago:
AFAIK, even rightwingers often hold many beliefs that are more traditionally leftwing, especially if they’re poor/working class. They’re just easily duped into blaming immigrants, LGBT etc. instead of the white billionaires who are actually responsible, and sometimes they even blame billionaires and still vote rightwing - rightwing propaganda is often very misleading about their actual economic policies.
Therefore, the ideal country (if we’re asking about policy items and not ‘like country x, y etc.’) might very well resemble one of the Nordic countries the most.
- Comment on Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report 1 week ago:
It might not be a problem in itself, but it’s certainly a symptom.
- Comment on Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report 1 week ago:
I think “money” falls short as an explanation (though it’s certainly part of it). Countries like Sweden have substantially better state support for parents that the standard and the Swedish population isn’t exactly poor in general, either, yet they aren’t really getting that many more children than poorer countries with less support for parents.
- Comment on Special sampling opportunity 1 week 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 frienemies 2 weeks ago:
If only all enemies had such ethical standards.
- Comment on submissive 2 weeks ago:
I bet it is! Gotta be comfy if you can wear this in those climates without passing out.
- Comment on submissive 2 weeks ago:
If nothing else, the clothes are fire! Bring back classic-style tunics and robes for men.
- Comment on submissive 2 weeks ago:
ancient romans and greeks be like “look at this uncivilized oaf with his ridiculously huge dick, what a tool”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
How is this a “shitpost”?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Which country?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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 [deleted] 2 weeks 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 [deleted] 2 weeks 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 glupi jebeni bot 2 weeks ago:
“objective distribution” yeah right
- Comment on How much has the ratio of accidental vs intentional pregnancies changed over time? 3 weeks 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 Anon discovers cigarettes 3 weeks ago:
Tobacco is generally a pretty lame drug, but some forms of it at least smell somewhat good (e.g. waterpipes (though I think a lot of the ‘smells good’ is additives), or the old-fashioned smoking pipes).
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 3 weeks ago:
That’s not how science fiction works.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Weird how soap never got it included in the supernatural remedy arsenal. Maybe too mundane …
- Comment on Unholy curses 3 weeks ago:
IIRC rabies has quite a few similarities to various vampire myths (e.g. aversion to water, aversion to strong smells, aggression).
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 3 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? 3 weeks ago:
It’s still high tech if it’s vastly beyond our current technological ability.
- Comment on 🪰 ❤️ 🪰 3 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... 3 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? 3 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? 3 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. 3 weeks ago:
You know, I can see male doctors not getting it, but wtf is the excuse of female doctors here?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
While that’s true, the wrong meaning might absolutely be the intended one.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 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.