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- Comment on is the romantic period due, in any part, to the high alcohol content of their food ? 11 hours ago:
Let me introduce you to the healthy medieval childrens breakfast, consisting of old bread dipped in beer soup served with generous amounts of diluted beer!
Apart from that, the Romantic era started around 1800, though…
- Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 12 hours ago:
Yeah, that makes some sense then!
I remember SMS still being a hot topic in the US from the (for me as an outsider) amusing blue(?) and green(?) text message bubble discussions. - Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 12 hours ago:
I’m not in the US either…
“US defaultism refers to the tendency for people, particularly those in the United States, to assume that the US is the default or only relevant context when discussing various topics.”
…and so the circle is closed! ;-)
- Comment on is the romantic period due, in any part, to the high alcohol content of their food ? 21 hours ago:
I am not aware of especially high alcohol content during that period.
Apart from that, the Romanticists I know of were much to earnest and somewhat boring to likely be under heavy influence of intoxicating substances. - Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 21 hours ago:
@davidgro@lemmy.world pointed out to you that OP might not be an US citizen, so suspected you to be one, ignorant of the fact that other people outside the US exist.
And you then replying to that with the US defaultism quote is funny.
- Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 21 hours ago:
Whenever SMS comes up on the Internet usual people mention it being a US thing almost exclusively. You are sure? Never experienced it that way.
After all, SMS is originally an European cellular standard and has been huge thing there for decades. - Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 22 hours ago:
Funnily enough @davidgro@lemmy.world suspected you of having been displaying US defaultism ;-)
- Comment on Weirdest one I got 23 hours ago:
Did a little search on youtube and found a documentary with English narration about the first months after the war in the rubble of Berlin.
Consist entirely of remastered and colorized original film material and is quite good and held in a neutral tone (a concerning amount of the other stuff I found was more or less obvious recent right wing propaganda…), so you might want to have a look:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKJ_PPg9aVE&t=585s - Comment on Weirdest one I got 1 day ago:
Well, regarding the able bodied people left over…:
Women. The building up again was largely done by women. Most men either were dead, maimed or still in war imprisonment.
There is a recognized German word for these women and the hard work they did: “Trümmerfrauen” (rubble women).But apart from the very hard early years, I think the transition back to “normal” went surprisingly fast.
After all, the core of Germany still was the remains of the probably most industrialized nation on Earth at the time, and a lot of the infrastructure was outside of the devastated main city centers and could be reactivated again rather quickly.Also, with the cold war starting, the winning powers (mainly the US on the one side and the USSR on the other side) took a huge interest in bringing the parts of Germany situated in their respective regions of influence back to some decent level of economic and industrial standard (as opposed to forcing the whole country to become a de-industrial agrarian country, which had been one of the proposals before).
I unfortunately don’t have any readily available links to material about the time, but I suspect that there must be a lot available.
The “Wiederaufbau” (“reconstruction”) and “Wirtschaftswunder” (“economic miracle”) time and the whole early cold war in Europe with the two Germanys and Iron curtain is fascinating time period after all… - Comment on Weirdest one I got 1 day ago:
So, some background from a German to give you an idea:
“Ramma Damma” is an expression in Bavarian Dialect which means “We are now tidying up!” and became popular sometime after WW2 when there was a lot of broken down stuff (whole cities being bombed to stone heaps) to move away and build something new out of it.
The disc cover is from a single released in 1975 by a band of the same name and probably is as cringy as it looks :-)
Just found it on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVpmAPbCAfs&list=RDcVpmAP…And it is even worse than I expected… 😆
- Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 1 day ago:
SMS riding signalling side-channels is stuff from the old 2G days.
Current 4G and 5G connections just use normal IP protocol to handle it, no re-use of protocol bits any more.
So it’s not a scarce resource at all by now…
Also, MMS is also increasingly a thing of the past. Most operators have already switched it off by now where I live. - Comment on Why are the SMS limits orders of magnitude smaller than data limits bandwidth-wise? 1 day ago:
(*Insert confused guy meme here*)
“You guys have SMS limits?”And also: Call time limits? Never have seen those since forever, as it is all just some form of VoIP nowadays anyway…
- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 1 day ago:
Yes, after thinking about it for a few seconds it becomes clear what they are trying to say.
The direct translation 1-to-1 translation to German is just really bad and funny sounding :-) - Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 1 day ago:
Yes, looks effective!
When young, I had a blowpipe shooting sucker cup darts.
Most effective mosquito hunting device I ever owned. But left a mess of the target and was slightly cross to re-use the darts ;-)I will give translating a try, but guess some of the silly punch will get lost in translation: "Will the salt squirt [on] the beetle?
“No, the beetle stays complete for an easy cleaning” (Where “bespritzen” may also be used as a colloquial term for ejaculating on someone or something) - Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 1 day ago:
- Comment on Don't covet thy neighbors corn 1 day ago:
So why would the Baptist’s corn behave different?
/forward => comparisons-that-make-no-sense-at-all
- Comment on "you should come to…" 🤚you're obviously already in hell 5 weeks ago:
I feel slightly offended! As if I would not be c…
*fingersnip* - Comment on Is there a way I can get someone or some company to get me books that are illegal in the US? And if so how would I go about it without losing half or all my money? 1 month ago:
Now I am interested, what book would that be?
Wikipedia banned books list shows me nothing currently still banned?
I see a bunch of expected ones for my home country Germany, mainly Holocaust Denials, which is illegal here, but that’s not the case in the US. - Comment on "you should come to…" 🤚you're obviously already in hell 1 month ago:
“This is the Bad Place!”
- Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 1 month ago:
Shetland Pony has entered the chat.
But then again, Shetties are not stupid… - Comment on As a small farm owner, no image has ever been more accurate 1 month ago:
I would argue the horses not being sorted in the “stupid” row…
- Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 1 month ago:
While I am not that pessimistic, I guess you have a point (Looking at the Skyblivion release, that has been delayed…)
But meanwhile I am playing some Tamriel Rebuild content and feel slightly more optimistic again ;-) - Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 1 month ago:
Anyone else think porting a 25 year old game to a 15 year old game engine is kinda funny?
I’m not quite sure I would call it “funny”.
“Surprising” or “confusing” perhaps.
And when you know a a bit more, a little “sad” might also come to the mix.
There are reason after all, those people don’t have switched their attention to newer games by now… - Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 2 months ago:
It will still be some time until release, though.
But I am fine with it, most of Tamriel Rebuild is still waiting and I also expect Skyblivion to be there before it :-) - Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 2 months ago:
My son also started with Morrowind, as my GOG version has a German localization.
But recently he switched to Oblivion, which is totally fine with me. Levels up his somewhat mediocre English skill ;-) - Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 2 months ago:
That seems to be more like a technical POC, if we are talking about the same guy.
While this is impressive by itself, the gritty time- and resource-consuming process of creating all the content for an actual remake just begins after that… - Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 50 comments
- Comment on What was the last physical retail store game purchase you've made? 2 months ago:
Must have been Half Life.
(without the “2” - yes, I am that old).Had a 20 year gaming pause some time after that and when starting again, everything was online…
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 months ago:
Buyer fees are unfortunately quite high in Germany, can be up to ~10% of the property price. Add to that the fact that houses or flats are generally more expensive than in the States, you quickly have additional costs of 50000€ or more (would be roughly the same in $) which you can not cover by the credit, but have to pay in liquid cash.
This is a major hurdle for many and a likely part of the reason why so many people live in rented apartments here instead of buying. - Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 months ago:
Coming from a country where even the streetview pictures have to be blurred if the people living there wish so, this uncompromising publication of people’s home information is totally fascinating!
And also I am wondering now, what a half and a 3/4 bath is… ;-)
BTW: While it is true, that the kitchen is not part of a German house or flat, it nonetheless typically is also firmly attached (big screws into our rather firm brick walls).
And contrary to exaggerating Youtube-clips, in most cases it stays and is privately and quietly sold by one tenant to the next, out of obvious practical considerations.
Also because of the “does not belong to the building” rule, when buying a home, it is a good idea to estimate the value of an existing kitchen at the upper end and reduce the official price for the rest of the home price accordingly, thereby reducing the estate sales tax by a few bucks. (Sales tax is only for the building, and the kitchen does not belong to the building, so…)
