rumschlumpel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead on with the first point, but do these fucks even have enough morality to genuinely believe at some point that they are the good guys? Seems like it’s pure egoism from start to finish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH now that tech fascism is a big thing IRL, I’ve kinda lost my taste for Cyberpunk. Hits a little too close to home…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Transhumanism is a big theme in Cyberpunk, it just doesn’t necessarily mean that Cyberpunk is correct about how common voluntary cybernetic augmentations are going to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wind speeds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think tornados are actually that uncommon. North America’s tornado alley is special, but even Germany has roof-destroying tornados every year - they just aren’t as big or as frequent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves GOG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering that Valve is headquartered in the US and not known for being especially antifascistic, I’d be rather surprised if that’s not also true for Valve/Steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard Out There For A Woman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mixing those up would certainly be embarassing, though :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My IBS doesn’t agree with hot chili, so it’s Japanese for me. They have wasabi, but it’s optional and it’s an essential oils (? IDK, I’m ESL)-based hotness, so it’s less hard on the digestive tract.

  Also, AFAIK regular Japanese food is also vegetable-centric, that’s just not usually what’s served as fast food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon experiences a glitch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anesthetics is super trippy like that. Wish falling asleep was like that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me after realizing Crown is a Canadian product....⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean Diageo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard Out There For A Woman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, false friends (loan words that don’t mean what they mean in the other language) are super common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slash.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some slash fics are still epic stories in their own right! Good luck finding a good one that gets finished, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess you prefer the bad behavior to continue. Cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Fediverse genre of Guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  no true scotsman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you want people to change their behavior in positive ways or not?

  Also, lots of people use drugs as self-medication (though usually counterproductive), which I find it hard to blame them for, given the lack of access to healthcare, social services, workers rights and other things you need to live a good life. e.g. Prince didn’t take the drugs he died from because he wanted to party, but because he was in pain and couldn’t get pain medication through proper channels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon sees an opportunity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Really depends on the camera person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon identifies a trope⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If OP’s characterization is accurate, you could argue for anti-hero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fucking douchebag firefighters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  3 feet away is insane, I’d expect at minimum a clearly visible marking on the street. Where I live, the hydrants aren’t even visible, just small iron plates in the ground; never heard about any issues with firetrucks accessing water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we learn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need a circumcision to enjoy lube…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fucking douchebag firefighters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “near”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's class fails expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, duckduckgoing it, there are quite a few sources that still claim that the British Empire wasn’t profitable for the government in Britain, or regular British people, e.g.:

  www.jstor.org/stable/2598015

  iea.org.uk/…/empire-and-slavery-did-not-make-brit…

  (I’m not that knowledgable about the quality of these particular sources, just demonstrating that the claim isn’t rare)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's class fails expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong. If you could be reasonably certain that you’re 1. going to win the war and 2. win the war without too much damage to your own country, it would be a sound investment. The Nazis probably had enough overconfidence to believe both of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's class fails expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH the “Economy of the British Empire” article is poorly sourced, especially for the claim that Britain profited from its colonies - the linked source is a Fortune article (even if it has help from an economic historian from Stanford), with only one paragraph on the British empire, and the relevant sentance seems to be this:

  “At the height of the British Empire, about 6% of its total output came from its colonies, more than any other Western power.”

  I don’t really understand what this is supposed to mean, since according to the table in the Wikipedia article, British India’s GDP was higher than the UK’s. 6% certainly doesn’t sound impressive. But even then, GDP =/= profit, and being the worldwide dominant power is not really a status that most colonial powers can hope to achieve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's class fails expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, Nazi Germany basically attacked Poland to do settler colonialism (or at least that was the regime’s justification). Main difference is that the Poles were more developed that e.g. the Native Americans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's class fails expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  After industrialization, selling industrial products was frequently far more profitable than the expensive and uncertain spoils of war. And there wasn’t really a likely reality where Nazi Germany fought their war in a way that was actually winnable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's class fails expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They were also extremely competent early on, it wasn’t until Hitler was in full on drug psychosis that things started going down hill.

  In a lot of ways, it’s not that they were competent, it’s that the more popular parts of their policies (e.g. public spending, job creation programs) were running on borrowed time - the government kind of strong-armed the banks into funding them, and if they were ever going to pay them back, it was through spoils of war. I guess it takes some kind of competency to put that plan into action…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you think more of a President or Leader, if they did something bad, then said yea I screwed up but we are going to fix it, then fixed it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s fixable it can’t be that bad anyway. You can’t fix rape, and it’s pretty hard to fix a major corruption case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crappy Meal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The feet kind work as a flared base. I’m more concerned about the general size, if that’s literally your first buttplug you’re gonna get anal fissures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But why are those not interesting for their data? It kinda feels like the question they want to answer is “how many teenager are sinners having premarital sex” rather than the average age of first sex. Which would also mean that lots of teenagers would feel encouraged to claim that they’re virgins when they actually aren’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who cleans the toilets in Gault's Gulch?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought is that that kind of location also makes invading harder. For thousands of years, armies had to acquire most of their provisions on the road because logistics are hard when you’re marching thousands of people on foot, and “acquire” usually meant “steal” even on home territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat. Why specifically “never-married”, though?