rumschlumpel
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- Comment on How much has the ratio of accidental vs intentional pregnancies changed over time? 15 hours 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 15 hours 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? 2 days ago:
That’s not how science fiction works.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 2 days 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 days ago:
Weird how soap never got it included in the supernatural remedy arsenal. Maybe too mundane …
- Comment on Unholy curses 3 days 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? 4 days 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? 4 days ago:
It’s still high tech if it’s vastly beyond our current technological ability.
- Comment on 🪰 ❤️ 🪰 4 days ago:
I mean, 17 years seems like a pretty long time to live for an insect, larval stage or no …
- Comment on On trees... 4 days 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? 4 days 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? 5 days 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. 5 days ago:
You know, I can see male doctors not getting it, but wtf is the excuse of female doctors here?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
While that’s true, the wrong meaning might absolutely be the intended one.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days 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.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Depends on context. In the context of an informal conversation about a specific kind of law it’s fine IMO. It’s also fine if it’s obviously not that serious, like e.g. different styles of toilets that are both found in the ‘developed world’. When you’re talking about a topic where overwhelmingly, richer countries do it one way and poorer countries do it another way, that’s where calling the poorer countries ‘uncivilized’ starts sounding racist (or maybe just classist, considering countries like Belarus which are poor, authoritarian and underdeveloped but not inhabited by any brown people).
- Comment on Hey Randy, I'm not sure if saying that a "real fan" will figure out how to pay $80 for Borderlands 4 is a good look 1 week ago:
Nicolas Cage outfits? Like a suit?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you can moderate, it isn’t really an addiction. At least, not by the strict definition. If you use it more colloquially, sure.
I think that doesn’t really work for physical addictions. Even if you can easily stop using because your mind just works that way, if you used an addictive substance for long enough you’ll get withdrawal symptoms.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think that depends a lot on the specific addictions and which circumstances make you want to give into it more. e.g. physical addictions like to highly addictive drugs are typically harder to moderate that non-physical addictions.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 week ago:
No longsleeves? A tshirt doesn’t cut it in winter.
- Comment on Has the use of a comma instead of the word "and" in English news headlines always been a thing? 1 week ago:
Weirdly, as a non-native speaker I find UK headlines even harder to read.
- Comment on The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son 1 week ago:
Who took over Europe? The German nazis didn’t use the 14 words.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Influencing their subjects (especially other aristocrats) through their economic power was always important for monarchs, though. The medieval period had lots of weak kings who had substantial trouble bringing the aristocrats under them in line, a lot of the time they weren’t even able to collect taxes at the kingdom-level (in part because you kind of need a money-based economy for that, which was not a given).
- Comment on The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son 1 week ago:
1488 is not a well-known Nazi thing in e.g. Germany.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You’re telling me the tourists would stop looking at British castles etc. if the UK became a republic?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Which king?
- Comment on The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son 2 weeks ago:
And yet it is, and making fun of them without explaining anything doesn’t help with that.
- Comment on The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunate price.
- Comment on The Overwatch developer team has unionized 2 weeks ago:
Good for them. I suspect Overwatch is going to get shut down earlier than planned …