bob_lemon
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- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 1 week ago:
The Taliban hated women long before being funded by the US, and hating women was not why they are funded. Same for the fundamentalist Iranian Muslims.
Them being in power (and the subsequent suffering of women) can be attributed to the US, but not them hating women per se.
I like hating on the US as much as anyone, but let’s not pretend they’re the source of all evil (only lots).
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 1 week ago:
There are a lot of people that are capable of suppressing women without the US just fine. Just have q quick look at the Arabic peninsula, or the Taliban.
- Comment on It slaps tho 1 week ago:
I’ve never seen it served with toast. Always some sort of white bread roll (Schrippe, Kaiser, etc.)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ü is fairly simple to “construct”. The tongue position is like in “ee” (like in geese), but the lips are pointed like in “oo” (like goose).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Adding to the drink recommendations: Flötzinger Spezi. Spezi is a German staple soda, and that’s one of the best ones.
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 weeks ago:
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It’s an epic movie about a Spartan holding holding his ground against no Persians at all.
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 weeks ago:
The Lord of the Ring: The Fellow of the Ring
- Comment on Especially the Ø... 4 weeks ago:
The position of the umlaut keys are also identical to the German layout. That’s probably why there’s no switch for those.
Incidentally, the German layout uses such switches for diacritics, but only those used commonly in French, bit also not all of them. ë and ï are impossible, for example, as is ç. And diacritics on consonants are also right out, because fuck the Slavs, I guess.
- Comment on Elite Specialization Developer Livestream: Troubadour, Galeshot, Luminary 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I completely forgot about the live stream. Thanks for the reminder
- Comment on New expansion "Visions of Eternity" announced! 1 month ago:
Legendary aquabreather let’s go.
I mean, I don’t exactly need it, but since everything else is purple already, I might as well get it.
- Comment on we are creators 1 month ago:
Even within Europe, there was significant scientific progress during said dark ages. It’s extremely obvious by just looking at a 9th century building to those from the 14th century (especially churches). The latter require profund knowledge of mathematics/civil engineering. We went from tiny windows in 2m thick brick walls to vast, airy Gothic cathedrals (although those did take a couple of centuries to actually finish).
Although to be fair, that knowledge did largely come to Europe from the scholars of the Arabic world.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 1 month ago:
Those popups were so prolific that all browser developers responded by implementing popup blockers.
Which kind of led to the absolute mess of banner ads (and the adblockers created in response) that we still have today. I dare you to deactivate your adblocker on any of the major (commercial) news sites.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 1 month ago:
Amazon offering free shipping is a large part of why the parcel industry became a hellhole of semi-illegal subcontractors even here in Germany where labour laws exist.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 1 month ago:
Amazon redirecting you to the front page after you decline cookies is just amazingly stupid design.
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 1 month ago:
When a poor kid gets flattened by an SUV, the only reasonable response is to sigh, feel sad for a moment, and then move on.
Not true. You could also call into question why the kid was outside in the vicinity of motor vehicles! Surely the parents can be blamed as well.
- Comment on Dragon Bash 2025 Begins Today! 2 months ago:
The Sacred Raven Weapons are one of the best sets released in a long time IMO.
Dragon Bash is my least favourite of the festival (and the only one I’m not capped on daily AP yet), but I’ll actually be doing the weekly for those weapon boxes.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 2 months ago:
I disagree. Some of them are actually bad.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
The code can only be written in VB.Net.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 3 months ago:
You don’t need an LLM to autoreject someone that lists “Vibecoding” on his resume.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 3 months ago:
Yeah, I have a CD with some x rays lying around here somewhere.
Although the MRT images I got done recently were accessed via QR code (+password) on an online portal, so yay progress.
- Comment on French culture 3 months ago:
English needs a major spelling reform, but there’s no way to actually implement one. In order to match spelling to pronunciation, you would be to have a well-defined “high English” pronunciation.
But any semblance of uniform pronunciation doesn’t even exist within the UK (or even just England), much less across the entire English-speaking world, including places like Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, Australia, New Zealand, India, and many, many more countries.
And even if you somehow manage to create something (this is basically how “high German” was created, after all), good luck getting all the different governments to adopt the reformed spelling.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 3 months ago:
MRT machines are much larger than the devices shown here.
- Comment on Why didn't *I* think of that? 4 months ago:
Not quite. Boats need to be registered with the environmental agency, there’s mooring fees, and licenses from the canals and rivers trust (the is the UK after all), and probably some more I haven’t found yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
One of them was in Springer Nature’s Environmental Science and Pollution Research, but it has since been retracted.
The other journals seem less impactful (I cannot truly judge the merit of journals spanning several research fields)
- Comment on Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way" 5 months ago:
I also like
/wiki ezdwhich opens a page telling you how to quickly do the daily and weekly objectives. - Comment on Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way" 5 months ago:
It’s still a wiki, I.e. user/community written content.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way" 5 months ago:
The Guild Wars 2 (and 1) wiki is also hosted directly by the devs. It’s even accessible via chat command.
- Comment on 🐸 time 5 months ago:
Heat tolerance will also not help against the increases in storms, floods and wildfires that are directly caused by the heat increases.
Summer being 110°F is not even in the top 10 of why climate change is bad.
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 5 months ago:
No, but at what point would you start calling it bolognese then? It’s every meat/wine stew from Bologna bolognese?
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 5 months ago:
The poison apple thing is based on works of Galen, who, seeing how he lived in Europe in the 3rd century, has never seen a tomato, nor spoken to anyone who has. But he did describe a poisonous “wolf peach” that happened to match a tomato, so obviously that must be it.