VinegarChunks
@VinegarChunks@lemmus.org
- 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. 2 weeks ago:
Assuming for the moment that all these criticisms are completely correct and valid, “Provides no new information” or “documentation is methodologically unacceptable” or “selective bias” or “took license” do not mean that a book should therefore be characterized as fictional.
- 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. 2 weeks ago:
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation is a three-volume nonfiction series . . .< - 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. 2 weeks ago:
That’s a very large conclusion to reach from one person’s completely undetailed single statement.
- 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. 2 weeks ago:
I had probably 10 times as many educational hours dedicated to Hitler and the Holocaust as I did learning about Stalin.
- 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. 2 weeks ago:
As older generations with direct knowledge die off, the younger generations are forgetting.
- 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. 2 weeks ago:
Not too long ago I started listening to the audiobook of The Gulag Archipelago, and I had to stop a few chapters in because it was negatively affecting my mental health.
You may have heard about the Soviet Union being bad in the 70s and 80s, but that was an absolute cakewalk compared to the Stalin era.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The UN budget for 2025 was $3.7 billion.
ungeneva.org/…/general-assembly-approves-372-bill…
For comparison, global chewing gum sales in 2025 were $48.68 billion
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on public service 3 weeks ago:
Posts on it are mostly garbage, but it still seems the best place to find jobs, at least in my own engineering experience.
- Comment on Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases 3 weeks ago:
I find it very unlikely the US could keep a lid on 200 deaths and saying it’s six. Not for more than a week or so. People’s families are going to wonder where their loved ones are. Hospital workers, morgue workers, life insurance companies, people are going to talk, and share pictures.
- Comment on whos your favorite borg? mine is localhost 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I was told it would be a cultural experience 3 weeks ago:
They have German-style stall doors where even your feet are not visible from outside
- Comment on A product of his environment 4 weeks ago:
A camera was put up explicitly for the purpose of seeing who is moving the bins, and the guy can’t see who is moving the bins, and the guy never thinks to reposition his camera?
No, that’s AI slop.
- Comment on A product of his environment 4 weeks ago:
A LLM that does not understand that you can’t avoid being seen by a ring camera by ‘approaching from a different side. ‘
- Comment on Let Trump cook... 4 weeks ago:
Meme feels like
- Steal underpants. . .
- Profit!
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 5 weeks ago:
I have heard this almost exclusively for Florida and not any of the surrounding states.
- Comment on The meaning of life? 5 weeks ago:
I’m a 43 year old engineer in an auto plant and I really enjoy my work.
- Comment on YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows 5 weeks ago:
I remember health class around 1993 we were watching a filmstrip from the 70s or early 80s, and the filmstrip told us to do the back blows before performing the Heimlich maneuver. Our health teacher then paused the video and told us NOT to do the back blows, because new research had found that back blows are more likely to push the obstruction further inwards.
I’m glad they had it right in the filmstrip!
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 5 weeks ago:
I deleted Facebook maybe two years ago. One of the last things I saw was a very obviously AI generated image of six or seven soldiers that had lost the same leg and all had it replaced with a prosthetic at exactly the same point, with some caption about “let’s get some likes for our wounded warriors!” Followed by dozens of comments in support, I assume all were bots.
