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by danans 1y ago
Indeed, they had opposition. However, the way we have been taught history has been laundered to make us think that Nazi ideology never had a significant base of support outside of Germany, when the truth was that it was not only significan
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Though their genres and styles were completely different, the timing of his work, its reflections on the trauma of WW1, and then his conversion to conservative Catholicism reminds me more of Tolkien.
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Which was sadly not uncommon in those days. The Nazi party had a significant following in both the US and the UK at that time.
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Why would it drive wages down? The less desperately that workers need a job (due to universal basic income), the more they can demand, assuming they also have skills that fill the employer's need. The trick for this to work is that t
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> No man ever slides behind the wheel of the same Tercel twice. Pantercel Rhei
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> If it had been initially called Indo-Celtic or Indo-Romance and those names had stuck, it would be equally fine, but that's not what happened historically. Yes, and in English, the language of this discussion, Indo-European is the
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> Maybe the term has some weird connotations in English, but that's certainly not true everywhere and it's also not necessarily true in linguistic discourse because English only became relevant as a scientific language relative
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One wonders what the dial up ops department/team at AOL even looks like now. I wonder if it's anyone's full time job, or just something that occupies a fraction of their time.
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> A sibling comment says that indo-germanic remains a standard scientific term in German, there is no nationalist background. I replied to the sibling about why I think the English word has strong nationalist connections. I don't
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> I have no problem saying that Indo-European is a preferable term nowadays, but to claim that the term "indo-germanic" is ethno-nationalist is just absurd. It's not absurd because it was used ethno-nationalistically, by b
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by danans 1y ago
I'm curious where you learned the term. It's not a term most people know these days. I only know it from studying about how the Nazis appropriated and twisted the legitimate field of historical linguistics to support their object
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> Clickbaity title: In the text he analyses that Finnish has preserved loaned aspects that the indo-germanic languages have lost ages ago. So we indo-germanic speakers don't know them. "Indo-Germanic" is a dated and ethno-
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by danans 1y ago
> ... accounting isn't going anywhere. It has already been invented > But, if this our future, then humans remain relevant, so there is no concern about job loss or anything of that nature. Relevant as what? Serfs and accountants
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Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240M in Autopilot crash(npr.org)
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> Yes, I really am always shocked by the Joe Rogans et. al. who spout off about random fad pharmaceuticals like this Why shocked? It seems quite normal since we live in an age where there is no accountability for spouting that stuff, and
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by danans 1y ago
A lot of the supply will become second or third homes for the affluent, or short term rentals, not residentially leased property. That's already the case with a lot of properties in highly desirable locales whether high demand cities o
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> To what end was this done? Is a gay man a worse cop or bureaucrat? We seem to need an internal enemy to blame for our societies' problems, because it's easier than facing the reality that we all play a part in creating those
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> They're worth paying attention to, but not sounding the alarm bells over. That's because there is a default bad assumption that because they are so wealthy that no problems should exist, similar to how very rich people are se
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> This is an excellent way to solve the housing crisis in San Francisco: sarcasm fully intended. At least for new dwellings, building without gas piping is _cheaper_ than building with it. It's very cheap to run additional 240V&#x2
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> The next year, Edward II reaffirmed Hansa merchants’ freedom from taxes, travel, and arrest in exchange for £1,000 (which would have been three percent of the Crown’s total annual tax revenues). Remarkably, he even promised that neithe
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by danans 1y ago
Maybe they should have first done some market research on car buyers from Mars.
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> it's all an anti-competitive practice to keep people from experiencing true computing freedom That's pretty much the history of all non-free software products, nothing specific to OS's. It turns out there isn't muc
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by danans 1y ago
What system of reason are you using? To take the perspective of the oligarchs and plutocrats, if they can get away with it (avoiding the pitchforks), why isn't it rational? That doesn't make it fair or just, or sustainable for soc
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by danans 1y ago
Most people don't want to "install a distro" on their desktop computer. They buy desktop computers like they buy microwave ovens: hardware + OS without any sense of distinction between the two. Then they decide what to cook
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> Does the extra 3-6 miles factor in the need to now run the AC much more aggressively because the car will be hot from sitting in the sun all day? Most cars are already sitting in the sun all day.
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> It’s not straightforward though is it. Sure, there are many parameters to consider, but it's the kind of thing energy analysts do all the time.
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It can be quantified by comparing it to the cost of solar or wind plus storage.
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> Its the thin strip of real estate owners along the San Francisco to San Jose corridor who reap all the rewards They reap a lot, but hardly all the rewards. Per capita the majority goes to VCs and the C-suite, and their wall street comr
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> the fact that kids today can't even recognize "basic teen parties" and question whether they are some sort of made up fantasy While I agree there is a technology-driven loneliness epidemic, what is so sacred about thos
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> The "jobs" justification for these is a joke: datacenters create a couple dozen mediocre jobs in the area, and hundreds of well-paid ones way off in Silicon Valley. California reaps the rewards of you wrecking your own revenu

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