rumschlumpel
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- Comment on What if the USA decided to use another language as its *de facto* national language at it's founding? How would it affect the world? 11 hours ago:
Sure, French was itself something of a lingua franca in centuries past, and Spanish is already a great candidate because it has, right now, more native speakers than English. I learned Spanish in school as a third language just because (we had to choose between Spanish, French and Latin) - didn’t stick, though, listening comprehension for Spanish is very hard and there wasn’t enough incentive for me.
English’s hegemony as a lingua franca is to a very large degree because of the US, especially after the UK lost almost all of their colonies after WW2. That said, English would probably still be a minor lingua franca in northern Europe, because it’s a lot easier to learn than a romance language if your native language is germanic.
- Comment on Anon scares the neighbors 3 days ago:
And how many non-fatal but intentional gun injuries?
- Comment on LE TITS NOW 3 days ago:
Looks like a derpy fish in the thumbnail, but weirdly I only see tits when I open the full image.
- Comment on I hate when I see ads 4 days ago:
Once in a while I see small banner ads that probably still work because they’re directly embedded in the site, instead of loading from some third-party ad syndication server. I usually think “that’s how you do advertising!”, especially if it’s a still image instead of something that moves.
- Comment on Anon time travels 4 days ago:
IMO, you can totally run a Linux desktop on 4 GB RAM, but a webbrowser on top of any OS? That’s going to become a pain in the ass.
- Comment on Anon time travels 4 days ago:
That’s literally what it means, though. Going from 1.5% to 3% is damned impressive (though I’m not quite sure what exactly the other commenter is referring to, it took about 2 years to get there).
- Comment on Anon time travels 4 days ago:
Narrator: Haha, no.
- Comment on Anon recaps the DCEU 5 days ago:
Bunch of movies that are trying too hard, yet can’t commit to anything.
- Comment on Anon recaps the DCEU 5 days ago:
I found them both a tad too serious for how dumb they are. Neither can quite decide whether they’re dumb, goofy fun or serious action movies.
- Comment on Anon recaps the DCEU 6 days ago:
Detective Comics Extended Universe
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Dinosaurs had tons of different sizes and niches. We didn’t extinct literally all megafauna, bears, elk, ostriches (literal dinosaur!) still exist and are so common that they’re often nuisances.
- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 1 week ago:
Ah yes, a reasonable and well-thought out reply to my comment.
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- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 1 week ago:
I have no reason to believe that Israel even has the ability to hit a target that is anywhere near the US, so the US cannot be in the flight path of whatever target they hit with missiles. And who would they even want to hit where the US is on a potential flight path? Canada and Mexico?
Either way, if that’s our standard for “Israel bad because nuclear weapons”, every other nuclear power is an asshole to Israel, too, including the US.
- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 1 week ago:
Yeah sorry, I did not, in fact, recall correctly. Bill Clinton was definitely involved with Epstein, though.
What’s your answer to OP’s question then, if the “both parties are involved” explanation is supposedly fake? There’s a distinct lack of comments who offer an alternative explanation.
- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 1 week ago:
You claimed specifically that Israel has nuclear weapons pointed at America, but when I asked you about it you only linked me an article that said that they have nuclear weapons. Considering how far away they are, “pointed at America” isn’t really plausible.
- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 1 week ago:
So the point isn’t that Israel can actually hit targets in the US, but that they have nuclear weapons in general?
- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 1 week ago:
Weird how the same people who apparently cared a lot about Clinton’s adultery don’t seem to care at all about the adultery and worse of Trump.
And AFAIK his politics were pretty bad, too.
- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 1 week ago:
they literally have nuclear arms pointed at America
First time I heard of that, what’s that about?
- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 1 week ago:
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There were also democrat politicians implicated; IIRC Hilary Clinton divorced Bill after it became known that he was there.
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Important party donors were probably involved (of both parties).
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Epstein most likely had connections to the Israeli secret service and was definitely part of Israeli lobbying efforts. Both parties are heavily involved with Israel lobbying groups like AIPAC.
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- Comment on Randezvous 📅 1 week ago:
Also before the English fixed their spelling in like 1500, and then did 500 years of sound shifting. It needs a spelling reform, desperately.
- Comment on What do all the subgenres of music mean? How does anyone make sense of them? 1 week ago:
Your parents have much better taste in music than my grandparents or the oldie stations in my area.
- Comment on What do all the subgenres of music mean? How does anyone make sense of them? 1 week ago:
What makes Death Metal different than Black Metal? They sound the same.
Nah. I’m not even a big metal fan and unless a band is blending the genres (“blackened death” etc.) they’re pretty distinct, the vocal style in particular should be pretty easy to tell apart. As a rule of thumb, Black Metal vocalists croak, Death Metal vocalists growl.
- Comment on What do all the subgenres of music mean? How does anyone make sense of them? 1 week ago:
Trust me, I’m not talking about tracks that could reasonably be called “pop rock”. They were already playing pop rock all the time anyway.
- Comment on What do all the subgenres of music mean? How does anyone make sense of them? 1 week ago:
Does it play on the rock station? Then it’s rock.
My local rock station started playing what is clearly pop music a couple of years ago. I think they still call themselves a rock station.
- Comment on What do all the subgenres of music mean? How does anyone make sense of them? 1 week ago:
They tend to be distinct styles, similar to how bands within a genre can sound really different to each other. Now imagine that a couple of other bands says that one band’s style is the bee’s knees and starts doing similar music.
It does get a bit too opaque and subtle at times, but I still think it’s usually helpful. e.g. “increasing level of angriness and decreasing level of clarity” is a big deal, many people don’t like listening to the extremely aggressive/unclear stuff and thus might say something like “I don’t like death metal, but power metal is great”.
- Comment on Anon wants to be fit 1 week ago:
literally genetics
- Comment on Annon was an oracle 1 week ago:
It’s like anon adapted the plot of a black mirror episode. Had to look it up, Black Mirror started airing in 2011, so yeah - anon was probably inspired by it, but it’s good work.
- Comment on Anon tells a true story 1 week ago:
The idea that people must partner is nonsense.
True, which is why I never wrote that. But many people really want to be with a partner and suffer if they aren’t, and thus if they have very limited options they are “beggars” in the context of that situation using the language of that saying.
You are also inferring that my preferred sexual orientation as asexual is invalid.
No, the issue is that you take your preference/situation as universal. Just because it’s true for you doesn’t mean it’s also true for anon, or that’s it’s not even worth the risk to find out.
- Comment on Anon tells a true story 1 week ago:
Hey, that makes two of us! That doesn’t change the argument, either.
