DandomRude
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- Comment on Gold 2 weeks ago:
If it were possible, the most greedy would still pounce on it: This was already the case in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Spanish, in particular, imported so much silver from “the New World” that prices in Europe plummeted, leading to massive inflation due to higher prices for goods. Throughout history, there are many, many more examples
But hey, with gold in vast quantities, many goods would become significantly cheaper, because unlike cryptocurrencies, the material has many, very important uses.
- Comment on Crazy 2 weeks ago:
The thing is, he didn’t rape aliens - he raped children.
- Comment on Nigel Farage bought £1.4m property after receiving £5m gift from British crypto billionaire 2 weeks ago:
In a world worth living in, there would be no billionaires - let alone crypto billionaires.
- Comment on Crazy 2 weeks ago:
Why pay any attention to the ramblings of a pedophile and violent criminal?
If you don’t do that, all that remains are his actions - and that is what we should be talking about.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 3 weeks ago:
Yep, unfortunately: A shocking number of people that I meet seem to think that jumping on every trend - no matter how ridiculous - is what sets them apart. But of course, that only applies to those who don’t have a clue about anything. It seems especially important to them to appear “modern,” and unfortunately, they don’t even realize how ridiculous that is. You probably know the type: the kind of people who post the most superficial nonsense on LinkedIn day in and day out.
I unfortunately have to deal with people like that a lot; it’s especially widespread among executives and so-called decision-makers. They see some tech trend and get so excited about it that they think they’re the most innovative geniuses of all, just because they can type a prompt into an LLM.
It’s a real shame that so many are so unreflective. At any rate, that’s often my impression when interacting with my clients.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 3 weeks ago:
I very much doubt that the spines are even legible (even if they were, there would be nothing to hide).
It’s just that people in the field I work in mostly think books are outdated, which is of course complete nonsense, but somehow that’s how they define themselves.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 3 weeks ago:
I have bookshelves behind my desk. When I’m on video calls from my home office, I’ve gotten into the habit of using Blur or some other background filter, because people always give me that weird look when they see books in the background. And I’m not even that old….
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The name suggests as much, but given recent events, you might want to play it safe and go see a doctor to get tested for the hentai virus - you never know; could be a symptom…
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- Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself? 1 month ago:
Hey, we’ve got social media and all that now. The memes and all the valuable info from whoever will surely take care of it.
- Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself? 1 month ago:
I’m afraid there is no business model that can finance quality journalism. We are currently seeing the consequences of this.
- Comment on Finally an explanation that makes sense 1 month ago:
Man, I only watched that for thirty seconds and had to stop right away because the orange one is such a moron:
Many, many, many years ago - hundreds of millions of years ago - people were doing business and they traded in rocks and stones and other things…
Nope, I’m out…
- Comment on Full circle. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Beautiful 1 month ago:
Another perspective of presumably the same event by Josh Kirby…
- Comment on we're cooked 1 month ago:
I couldn’t agree more, especially since, for anyone not from the US, even the most moderate White House posts are so utterly absurd that these days it’s really hard to tell the difference between satire and real-life clown show.
I can assure you that everyone is trying their best to adjust somehow, but it’s really hard given this level of absurdity.
- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 1 month ago:
It’s kind of interesting that most people here seem to assume that attending college is synonymous with education or knowledge. It would be nice if that were the case.
However, there are also quite a few people who went to college but didn’t learn a thing there - especially in countries like the U.S. or England, where a college degree costs an absurd amount of money, this happens all the time. It’s especially common there to find children of wealthy people who are as dumb as a box of rocks, yet still manage to buy their way into high society with a college degree - they’re guaranteed to get it, regardless of whether they learn even the slightest thing at university.
The current U.S. president is a good example…
- Comment on What jobs do people from very upper-class wealthy families get? Or don't they have jobs and live off their families' wealth? 1 month ago:
I recently attended the wedding of a friend who married into nobility. Most of the bride’s friends, who all attended Eton, were, in one way or another, property managers.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m sure they can read. The store is in Germany and the text is in English, but I’m sure they realized that this is complete nonsense. I think they just ordered some cheap wrap material from somewhere and didn’t pay much attention to what was written on it.
They probably just don’t want to throw it away - which is fine. I just found it somewhat amusing and maybe a little infuriating, which is why I posted it here.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yes, that could be the case. My guess was that templates like this were collected by image-generation models, which then turn them into complete nonsense on demand. But OCR could also be a good explanation, of course.
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- Comment on 1 month ago:
That could certainly be the case, but it seems like a lot of effort to me to produce something like that.
Either way: Apparently, the people at the kebab shop didn’t notice what was written on it when they placed the order. They may have saved a little money on quality, but it doesn’t strike me as particularly flattering, especially since they actually pride themselves on homemade food, which tastes great.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s probably because of the “bunec for spreading.”
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That could very well be the case. I hope that I’ll never find out, though…
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- Comment on This is what ignoring experts looks like. 2 months ago:
The US has never recognized the ICC - for precisely this reason: anyone who commits war crimes themselves naturally does not want to be prosecuted for them.
- Comment on whats the political message of Spongebob? 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s true: Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob, and his team certainly had some socially critical intent when they created the show and its characters - after all, there are often deliberately exaggerated everyday situations and the like which address social issues in a humorous way.
But also yeah, exactly: I added /s because, while the underlying message is at least somewhat recognizable, I presented it in such a pretentious way. I was just lazing around in bed and thought I’d have a little fun with some kind of pseudo-intellectual silliness.
So /s - mainly so no one here thinks I’m some completely out-of-touch political theorist or something who actually takes this exaggerated view all too seriously :)
- Comment on whats the political message of Spongebob? 2 months ago:
Mr. Krabs’s relentless emphasis on profit -expressed through wage suppression, obsessive cost-cutting, and the conversion of social relations into transactions -renders him a concentrated embodiment of profit-driven logic. SpongeBob’s boundless cheerfulness and dutiful labor on the other hand present the idealized worker who performs emotional compliance as part of his job; his behavior makes visible the moral contradiction at the heart of an economy that prizes surplus extraction over workers’ wellbeing. The Krusty Krab’s daily rhythms - timed shifts, commodified leisure, scripted upselling, and constant attention to margins - show how extraction becomes normalized through routine rather than force.
The rivalry between Mr. Krabs and Sheldon J. Plankton further highlights the system’s subtly coercive nature: their ceaseless competition is less about innovation than about maintaining status atop the same extractive order, a ruthless free market theater in which two capitalists conserve and contest power while workers absorb the costs. The comedy works because it literalizes these dynamics - affection as account entry, friendship as transaction - so that the satirical clarity of the show forces viewers, even while amused, to recognize how profit as an organizing principle reshapes everyday life and renders cheerfulness itself a technique of compliance.
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- Comment on COWARDS! 2 months ago:
It would be great if that were the case, but unfortunately, I’m afraid it won’t last long. Gun lobbyists are already scrambling to strike deals that will sooner or later sway corrupt politicians. The fact that Western countries have still not imposed any sanctions - neither against the U.S. for its blatant violation of international law, nor against Israel for the same offense and, additionally, genocide - shows that this is a thoroughly realistic assessment.
- Comment on Shit 2 months ago:
Thanks, that’s a shame to hear. I’d read about his case some time ago, but now that he’s so openly siding with those responsible for precisely this kind of ridiculous abuse of the legal system, I’ve immediately lost interest - it’s inexcusable to me, because I firmly reject everything this criminal regime stands for. Besides, as I said: calling Afroman a musician would really be an exaggeration - no matter what standard you apply.
- Comment on Shit 2 months ago:
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