rumschlumpel

@rumschlumpel@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could've had it all!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Even without weed, they still had Bob Marley and reggea in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could've had it all!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Rastafari isn’t actually that cool, especially not when it comes to gay people. They are also strongly opposed to oral and anal in heterosexual couples and are generally quite patriarchal. Have a read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari

  Also, afrocentrism is one of its core ideas, which makes it pretty weird when white people convert to it (e.g. Gentleman, a German reggea singer).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's exactly what you'd expect.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked up ephedrine, as far as I could tell the side effects were quite heavy compared to caffein or cocaine (though cocaine makes up for it by being very addictive).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's exactly what you'd expect.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL classical Europe had cocoa and synthetic amphetamines

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's exactly what you'd expect.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, which of these are actually stimulants (i.e. substances that increase alertness)? The ones I know seem to be depressants, painkillers and hallucinogens, which seem less useful immediately before battle than stimulants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's exactly what you'd expect.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I want to know what kinds of stimulants were available to Roman-era Germanic people!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you describe a power-lifter-type physique specifically?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stocky, stout, barrel-chested? I’d say “buff” would fit, too, it definitely allows more leeway for bodyfat content than words like “athletic” or “ripped”. Also just the good old “very strong”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  century-long legacy

  At least millenia, might be epochs (million years) …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mitochondria⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It would probably make more sense to ask the bio teacher for sex ed than economics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're beautiful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As Mythbusters proved, you can polish a turd!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being a dinosaur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  aggressive cluck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People feel that their quality of life is going downhill and the propagandists presented an easy scapegoat to distract from the rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨morons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “white” is an increbibly malleable category, anyway. At one point, the Irish (who are generally even lighter-skinned than the English) were considered non-white. Nowadays, most people would consider Italians and Spaniards white, and there’s quite a few hispanic people who both look white and consider themselves white (due to being descended from European immigrants). There’s a similar dynamic in India, southern Indians are often darker than ‘black’ americans while many north Indians could pass as southern europeans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet, every October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose we have pumpkins, too. At least this holiday is pretty fun, even if no one actually celebrates it here (there’s little chance it gets adoption here, where I live we even have a hard time getting into carnival, even though that holiday has native tradition).

  Anyway, late August christmas sweets are way better than any Halloween-themed food or drink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t expect people even in border villages of Czechia, Slovakia or Hungary to speak German

  German is actually a fairly popular foreign language in countries east of Germany: ec.europa.eu/eurostat/…/index.php?title=Foreign_l…

  Though learning a second or third language in school is probably not quite what OP envisions here, and there’s a big difference between getting language lessons in school and actually being able to speak that language (shoutout to my Spanish lessons in school, you were pretty useless).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or is it more if you lived even like 500 meters of a border do you learn the language of the country your in?

  That tends to be how it’s done. States tend to be rather protective of their official language, and it’s generally impractical to send your children to school in a different country. Being proficient in the other country’s language is quite common, but to truly be bilingual you pretty much need to be some kind of ethnic or religious minority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the scariest games you've played?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t work that well when the way is constantly twisting and splitting. Cave layout can be extremely confusing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the scariest games you've played?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Minecraft probably. I avoid legitimate horror games (and movies) and the fact that you don’t have saves can get a little stressful when you’re down in a cave, don’t know how to find your way back (and thus probably won’t find your body) and then basically get jumpscared by dangerous enemies or holes in the ground.