According to Shirer, Hitler was furious with Goebbels about Kristallnacht. He wasn’t concerned with the injury to Jewish Germans of course, but with the destruction of their property which he planned to confiscate.

Oxygen tanks are not bombs. They won’t explode or shoot fire. The reason they’re painted green is because oxygen is non-flammable. (those red acetylene tanks however, are scary)

Now obviously any existing fire can be made much worse with oxygen, but it’s not enough on it’s own.

Why does it have to be a desert island? I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.

The only gross or surprising thing about censorship on TickTock is that it’s consensual. I think it’s ironic that neoliberals have conditioned Western “consumers” to to accept things getting worse as just “it is how it is”, and the CCP has swooped in to take advantage of us that way.

Uhhhhhhhh! The Nazis did this. anyone who disagreed, caused trouble, or eventually was Luke-warm to National Socialism was seen as “sick”, “degenerate”, or " deranged". This was a classification that meant death for some, exile for others, and terror for anyone who witnessed your fate.

It wasn’t a museum, or a living heritage site, it’s where southern debutantes threw antebellum themed weddings.

It needed to be destroyed for what it is as much as what it was.

This is an objective good. The only historical value was as a crime scene, not a goddamn wedding venue. How would we feel if skin-heads partied at Auschwitz, or the Saudi Royals threw shindigs at Ground Zero?

The heritage is hate.

the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.

Online debate is a waste of time. You can somewhat short-circuit the bad-faith stuff by arguing values instead of facts or policy.

For example, if you say that the State has no right to remove trans kids from their parents, you’ve made a legal argument that’s vulnerable to all the bad faith and you may even be technically wrong. However if you argue that you trust parents to decide what’s best over the State, there is nothing to argue about. Bonus, you might actually get some real talk out of reactionaries.

However, the company said it had found no evidence to date that its Azure platform and AI technologies were used to target or harm people in the Gaza Strip.

A lawyer wrote that statement. I read between the lines that M$ has a don’t ask, don’t tell policy in regards to war crimes.

That’s a big blow to Slovenia. I mean what other celebrates do they have? Slavoj Zizek?

I read that Ben-Hur. Will there be chariot races?

GIMP is not low effort. If you can ‘quickly assemble’ memes, it’s because of previous effort. (I’m studying to be someone who can quickly assemble memes in GIMP)

That program has a unique UI philosophy. Does it resemble Photoshop? I’ve never used that.

I love lemmy. To see that some of you can look at that picture and interpret it as a remote control instead of a detonator warms my cold dead heart.

I wish I could read complete Aeschylus plays, but the loss of the Library of Alexandria was only the terminus for great ideas, culture, and mathematics if you ignore the existence of ancient writings of the East. Some of the best ideas were absent from that library before it caught fire.

I think we’ve found our “lets go brandon”.

This wasn’t a “plantation” it was a work camp. And the thought of blonde debutantes holding wedding celebrations here is something so disgusting even wild dogs would disregard the bones.

This place is only fit for the Van der Linde gang.

You can find podcasts called “slow news” or something like that where they present the days news in the language your learning but take care to speak slowly and enunciate.

How do you explain the continued freedom of Kathy Griffith?

They blocked it because it wasn’t awful enough. yay

Even if you give Elmo the benefit of the doubt, whoever did it had accurate ideas about how to serve his boss.

Culture comes from the top. Executives get to keep everything except the responsibility.