rumschlumpel

@ rumschlumpel @feddit.org

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2 yr. ago

6h ago

recommendation rule
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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 6h ago

Damn, TIL.

7h ago

rule

If you want me to open up, sit me in front a PC with a messaging client (I type a lot slower on phones, and that does make a difference for this).

7h ago

Imagine making Patton look progressive 😬

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 7h ago

Reminds me of the time Hitler, and the Nazi regime in general, treated black US athletes better in the 1936 Olympics than their own country. He was famously racist obviously, yet somehow managed to keep up the appearance of not being a madman (which he definitely was) for long enough to milk the obvious PR benefits of hosting the Olympic games. We'd call it "sportswashing" nowadays.

Though it seems contemporary accounts are divided on whether he snubbed black medalists or not, and how much; he apparently didn't shake hands, but e.g. Jesse Owens said that wasn't actually a big deal, and that Hitler waived at him in a friendly manner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens#1936_Berlin_Summer_Olympics). Though either way, we have to remember that "better than the US at the time" was a really low bar. Owens never met the US president, got invited into the White House or anything like that, despite being a multi-gold medalist.

7h ago

Imagine making Patton look progressive 😬

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 7h ago

You live there, I don’t.

The user you replied to is on a German server, it's very unlikely that they're from the US or live there. Who is doing US-defaultism now?

As a general rule, Lemmy is not nearly as USian as Reddit, if you always assume that a user is USian until they say otherwise in the thread or their server has an obviously non-US URL ending you're going to be wrong a lot.

7h ago

i'm with the spaniards on this one

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 7h ago

More Dakka!

7h ago

recommendation rule

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 7h ago

Real.

7h ago

recommendation rule

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 7h ago

+STR -CHA ... it's a choice

7h ago

recommendation rule

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 7h ago

... do trans girls get periods nowadays?

18h ago

Oh Yeah

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 18h ago

I'd say we're still at the 1930s Germany stage, considering World War 3 hasn't started yet.

18h ago

The constant is drugs

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 18h ago

What documentary was it? It's the first I've about high casualty rates due to amphetamine use, and El-Alamein was supposed to be a fairly successful battle for the Allies.

18h ago

AWAY DOWN SOUTH IN THE LAND OF TRAITORS

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 18h ago

Wouldn't that imply that his songs are good or at least memorable?

19h ago

My based boomer friend rule

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 19h ago

Why would FBI and CIA want to launder Russian crime money?

1d ago

Can I oil wood with cooking oil?

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 1d ago

You seem very adverse to online shopping, is there a specific reason for this? AFAIK purpose-made (or at least purpose-labeled) instrument oil isn't all that expensive.

2d ago

I'm the whale game devs never expected or wanted

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 2d ago

So funny yet so satisfying in some games. Villains do their grand monologue and you just curbstomp them like common bandits. Gets really annoying if the game decides to wreck your shit with scripted encounters, though (e.g. teleporting long distance fighters into melee, or boss enemies suddenly gaining immunities to your abilities).

2d ago

been both sides of that counter

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 2d ago

The grocery stores in my country are all closed on holidays ...

2d ago

ich_iel

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 2d ago

Kühle Scheiße!

2d ago

truleffle ball gag

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 2d ago

There's also truffle dogs! They have the advantage of being less likely to eat the truffles.

2d ago

truleffle ball gag

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 2d ago

From the Wikipedia article:

The name derives from the chocolate truffle's similarity in appearance to truffles, a tuber fungus.[2]

Looking at the truffles (the mushroom) page, they do look similar, especially to some of the powdered styles of chocolate truffles. I imagine that confectioners also like the name because it implies high quality, high prices and a difficult process to make it, and chocolate truffles are indeed quite expensive compared to a chocolate bar.

2d ago

Who banned and why?

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rumschlumpel @feddit.org 2d ago

I dont think it should have anything to do with either the username or what they were posting.

If you post content that isn't allowed, being banned is exactly what you should expect.

Lemmy is very confusing this way, because this is an instance wide ban, without a ‘reason’, i.e. I cant see which post or comment warranted such sweeping use of instance admin power.

While I agree this isn't great, especially for other people who just want to verify that the mods/admins aren't just powertrippin', the nature of spam posting is that you don't usually get banned because of any one post, but because you keep doing it repeatedly.

And in my community this shows up as if the mod removed it, but it was the instance admin (cant see which one either), and not the mod of the community.

AFAIK you would get more information as a Piefed user. Seems like Lemmy is intentionally obfuscating this kind of thing, because the tankies who develop Lemmy don't like having their authority questioned.