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- Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power. 4 hours ago:
You mean like the Mossad?
- Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power. 4 hours ago:
East Germany, in contrast, declared everyone that opposed the state to be a ‘nazi’ and had them imprisoned.
Even before denazification was officially abandoned in West Germany, East German propaganda frequently portrayed itself as the only true anti-fascist state, and argued that the West German state was simply a continuation of the Nazi regime, employing the same officials that had administered the government during the Nazi dictatorship. From the 1950s, the reasoning for these accusations focused on the fact that many former functionaries of the Nazi regime were employed in positions in the West German government. However, East German propaganda also attempted to denounce as Nazis even politicians such as Kurt Schumacher, who had been imprisoned by the Nazi regime himself.[34] Such allegations appeared frequently in the official Socialist Unity Party of Germany newspaper, the Neues Deutschland. The East German uprising of 1953 in Berlin was officially blamed on Nazi agents provocateurs from West Berlin, who the Neues Deutschland alleged were then working in collaboration with the Western government with the ultimate aim of restoring Nazi rule throughout Germany. The Berlin Wall was officially called the Anti-Fascist Security Wall (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) by the East German government
Yeah that’s right, I can quote wikipedia too.
- Comment on Trump admits that he trusts Putin more than US’s European allies 15 hours ago:
Yeah, we know, he loves the weak leaders.
- Comment on French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure 1 day ago:
why don’t ships at sea simply disguise themselves as a rock or shrubbery?
- Comment on TIL that in 1996 they made a USS-Defiant CD player 2 days ago:
“up to”.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 days ago:
We can ask some russian citizens if they’re available.
This guy has some pretty good cartoon shorts on Russian nostalgia:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQGQT9b9jeI
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 days ago:
I live in Canada, the general vibe we get through our culture and education is that Hitler was #1 worst guy in history, everyone else was a close second.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 6 days ago:
It’s not as bad as that time they permanently deleted user documents and photos.
See they had this trick where if you didn’t have enough space on your drive to unpack an update, they’d just move your shit to OneDrive temporarily, then move it back when the update was done. Only they forgot to move it back, and lost it. Oops.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
Yeah I’m not buying the “proactively destroying the planet” angle. I’d imagine there’s a lot of misinformation around AI, given that the products surrounding it are mostly Western, like vaccines…
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
It’s like having an idiot employee that works for free. Depending on how you manage them, that employee can either do work to benefit you or just get in your way.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
I create custom embedded devices with displays and I’ve found it very useful for laying things out. Like asking it to take secondly wind speed and direction updates and build a Wind Rose out of it, with colored sections in each petal denoting the speed… it makes mistakes but then you just go back and reiterate on those mistakes. I’m able to do so much more, so much faster.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
Whether or not my game manager was built using LLM assistance is pretty near the bottom on my list of concerns at the moment.
Considering how useful tools like Claude are to coding, and how easy it is to hide the fact that you’ve used it, I just assume any and all new software I interact with was built using LLM tools.
- Comment on so cozy 🐟 1 week ago:
well maybe he shouldn’t have jammed his thumb up its butthole
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
I don’t take uber or taxis. But I’ve had random women come up to me in public places and grab my private parts, or say sexually suggestive things, and it makes me feel kinda paralyzed, like a deer in headlights, cause what am I gonna do, be the guy that yells at a woman for sexual assault? And then I just never go back in that store for a few months.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
However it is objectively true that women deal with this problem in much higher quantities than men do.
How do you know that it is objectively true, if you also know these statistics are based around a culture that discourages men from reporting this problem?
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
You ever tried taking a little girl to the park when you identified as a man?
It gets really weird when complete strangers go up to her and ask her if she knows you.
They don’t do that when you present as a woman.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
The amount of males being falsely accused of sexual assault is much lower than the amount of females being exposed to sexual assault.
And you know this because… vibes?
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
it’s disingenuous as hell to pretend that men being weird or sexual towards women isn’t the most common by a colossal margin.
I’m not convinced. Every guy I know has a story about women being creeps to them, but ask them if they reported it, every single one of them will say no.
And for the very few that do try to report it? They’re usually laughed out of the room. My own mother said “oh but it’s cute when older women do it to younger guys”. That’s not a rare opinion, that’s the default in our culture.
So we don’t show up in any official statistics, because our culture discourages us from reporting, and is less likely to take us seriously if we do.
So no, I’m not convinced that men being weird to women is the most common by any margin. We haven’t even asked men.
- Comment on Russia targets Signal and WhatsApp accounts in cyber campaign | AIVD 1 week ago:
Does being a Marxist mean being contrarian to every accusation of wrong-doing against a country that America historically doesn’t like?
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 weeks ago:
conversations? on geocities? telnet on geocities? wtf is this?
- Comment on Forget cereal bars, what's your flavor of drug in the morning? 2 weeks ago:
Always with the “extract every ounce of yourself for us”, never with the “take care of yourself to maximize your potential for us”.
- Comment on Forget cereal bars, what's your flavor of drug in the morning? 2 weeks ago:
Almost all of it is tobacco-derived, which is why I always found the “tobacco companies are trying to get vapes banned” idea ridiculous. They’re the ones making the stuff that goes in the vapes.
I think the point of the distinction is regarding cancer. Tobacco on the gums causes mouth cancer, nicotine maybe maybe not.
- Comment on That's why I say hey man, nice shot 2 weeks ago:
Same thing corrupt cops do when they’re caught, they off themselves and make it look like they went out a hero.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 2 weeks ago:
My snow tires didn’t come with TPMS sensors.
Because they’re not mandated.
Just like LIDAR wasn’t mandated on your car when you bought it.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 2 weeks ago:
Do you drive without a LIDAR? Why, do you like to live dangerously?
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 2 weeks ago:
It’s definitely the only country with an MK Ultra, Operation Northwoods, Operation Paperclip (wait why am I supposed to have a problem with Operation Paperclip), etc etc problem.
Because their government isn’t very democratic, they rank pretty much last in the list of countries that actually call themselves “democracies” on the democracy index.
Which is why countries with more functioning democracies have less corruption.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 2 weeks ago:
I live in Canada and my snow tires haven’t had functioning TPMS in years. I do have a tire pressure light on forever, and they’re not mandated.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like an American problem.
- Comment on The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed 2 weeks ago:
It’s all fun and games until you say that China is wearing socialism as a cloak the same way America wears Christianity or Israel wears anti-semitism.
- Comment on The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed 2 weeks ago:
Yeah the problem is that these people are deciding that “I am a nazi and I think white people are the supreme race and I want to install a fascist state” and “I don’t think China is actually socialist” are both nazi, fascist, bigoted speech, and then people like you are saying “no that doesn’t happen they only go after the bad stuff every single time and never get anything wrong”.