Maruchan might just be the good stuff. I never tried them. I started at the bottom with Yum Yum. Mama was the next step up and I am satisfied with them, so I didn’t go further.
You can always mod the stuff. Roasted onions are cheap by the kilo online and have a pretty good shelf life too if not stored too hot. I add them to basically everything - including Mama instant noodles. Egg powder (vegan or real) also works well (just nuke the noodles thoroughly in the microwave to make sure it’s cooked properly). You can always add more herbs, spices, and chili. Seasoning is really cheap in bulk.

I recommend to either just be rich, or buy anything you can in bulk online and make it a habit to be schottisch when it comes to spending. Lowering expectations or even just giving the lesser options a try can bring costs down a lot.

I just bought 90 Mama instant ramen Duck flavored and 90 chicken flavored for 83.58 EUR including shipping. That’s 46.5 cents per instant ramen. I think that’s actually slightly cheaper than my Mama order a few years ago. I don’t think, the economy is going great in general.

Iran literally can’t hit the US mainland yet. That’s the sole reason for them constantly getting attacked in the first place - preferable while already in some sort of negotiations.

Just because you can open the can doesn’t mean it comes already open.
That some people can run Linux on a PS5 doesn’t make the PS5 open hardware.

Just don’t play Microsoft games. They crippled or outright destroyed all their former good game studios anyway. So it’s not like they will be making great games you can’t live without anyway.

Just the usual US fake-it-till-you-make-it culture.

Deutsche Autobauer wollen keine preiswerten E-Autos bauen. Gut, dann kaufen alle halt chinesische Autos.
Dass der Verbrenner als Massenprodukt langfristig tot ist, war ist seit zwei Jahrzehnten bekannt.

AI is indeed to blame - but not like you think.
Trump’s ChatGPT prompt after translation into natural language: I want to kill some sand people for fun and giggles. Which country did fight back the least in the past against aerial attacks?

“We don’t need our own backups. The cloud takes care of everything.”

Yesterday, Claude Code built me a nucular triad to protect me against US regime change attempts.

Honest advertising can fix the perception problem. Just outright tell people that it has crashes and/or other bugs and misses content right from the start. Provide a playable demo of the current state. Or relax the refund period to GOG’s 30 days-no-questions-asked.

Early Access is great for games which are already fun to play but unfinished. For that the game needs to be in alpha or beta.
Funding the alpha is what Kickstarter is for.

Can I tell it to replace the lead actress in all movies with Lucy Lawless?

Wundert mich eh, dass CDU und SPD das nicht einfach machen. Die verlieren so viele Wähler, dass sie in den vergessenen Bundesländern schon unter die Fünfprozenthürde zu fallen drohen. Die größte Konkurenz zu verbieten liegt nahe, solange man noch die Macht dazu hat.

Ethnische Säuberungen sind allerdings wirklich ne andere Liga als US-Style Abschiebungen. Möglicherweise will die AFD alle “Ausländer” umbringen, sobald sie an der Macht ist. Aber geworben wird nur mit Abschiebungen.

Können die nicht einfach die dort grade führende Partei bundesweit verbieten, um mehr Wählerstimmen zu bekommen?

WTF. But yeah, that’s how advertising should be.

It’s surprisingly hard for normal people to get a chat server running and maintained. It’s the same like with forums. We need something like Lemmy for persistent chat. The software isn’t really the problem - it’s literally just single-server chat with message persistence. Someone needs to host it free-to-use - that’s what made Discord successful.

Yeah, I am only in adult-themed channels. I guess, I’m safe. And if not, those channels will have to move off Discord anyway…

The formerly big parties discuss just outlawing the party. Actually tackling the problems of the people in the economically weak regions was sadly never seen as an option.

To be fair, there were decades to prevent this. The big parties just didn’t give any fucks. Now they are about to find out, how desperate the population actually is.