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submitted 35 minutes ago by zachimusprime44@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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submitted 1 hour ago by SpaceFox@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Has there ever been a case where someone convicted of three or more murders was released from prison?

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In reference of this post (TW disturbing) https://lemmy.ml/post/22541287 depicting a pile of corpses in front of a gas chamber.

I think the photo is fake. As I mention in my other comments:

I was under the impression that the Sonderkommando photographs were the only ones depicting the actual murders and cremation of the bodies. At least that is what Wikipedia says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando_photographs#cite_note-3 unless it refers to Auschwitz II specifically.

Someone responded that it is Dachau and precisely July 2nd, 1944, offering a link I decided not to follow.

But Dachau was not an extermination camp like Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanec and Chelmo. Although gas chambers were installed in Dachau and other concentration camps, they were to kill unfit prisoners, not murder en masse. Crematoria also were installed to dispose of the dead. This is nonetheless a typical picture of bodies being preparated for cremation in extermination camps. And post-Operation Reinhard the main extermination camp was Auschwitz II - Birkenau.

From Wikipedia

Over the 12 years of use as a concentration camp, the Dachau administration recorded the intake of 206,206 prisoners and deaths of 31,951. Crematoria were constructed to dispose of the deceased. Visitors may now walk through the buildings and view the ovens used to cremate bodies, which hid the evidence of many deaths. It is claimed that in 1942, more than 3,166 prisoners in weakened condition were transported to Hartheim Castle near Linz, and were executed by poison gas because they were deemed unfit.[19]: 137 [25]

The main reason this does not sit well with me is that I can't fathom how such a clear shot could even be possible, especially considering how difficult it was to produce and smuggle the Sonderkommando photographs. Additionally, the proportions of the pile in comparison to the building seems way off to me. Most of the imagery we have of the piles of corpses are from excavations of mass graves done after liberation, possibly from the footage used in "German Concentration Camps" a 1945 Ally film.

I have never heard of any such clear shot of the events that took place in and around the gas chambers. Of course I am not a historian and I have mostly learned through Wikipedia about the Holocaust, so please correct me if I am wrong.

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submitted 23 hours ago by moistclump@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I’m a 30 year old woman who’s only really played card and puzzle games on my phone. Im considering new hobbies. Is it worth trying to get into video games for the first time. Where would I even start.

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submitted 1 day ago by nnullzz@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Last night at about 6:15 pm, I noticed this super bright pink line in the sky. It was almost exactly N<->S. I’m in the Space Coast, Florida if that helps. I’ve never seen plane contrails look like this. Weird thing is that it almost looked like if the area in the center of the line was ionized, plasma-like. Unfortunately the camera didn’t pick up how vivid the line was. In another picture it almost seems like the line makes a 90 degree turn due east at the northern tip of it.

I thought maybe a meteor since there was that Taurid shower a few days but I don’t know if meteors fall N to S and if they ionize clouds like that. I don’t know if that actually is even ionization. We also have a lot of aerospace research companies here so who knows if it could be that?

Hoping someone can chime in with what it might be.

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My wife asked for a nice mahjong set for Christmas. What sort of features should I look for in a nice set? Where should or shouldn't I shop for one?

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submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Meme templates that are made from material that is licensed under creative commons or other copyleeft licenses?

Are there any communities or websites that collect/list them?

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I don't mean to distribute, but to scan for myself to read digitally, am I allowed to do that legally and ethically when I buy a physical book or would that be totally unethical and illegal?

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If anyone can find more pixels for me i would appreciate it.

Thanks y'all.

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submitted 2 days ago by NONE_dc@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

You may have heard of Shonnen Jump's "Big 3" back in the day. They were, if I'm not mistaken: Naruto, One Piece** and Bleach**. Three of the most successful Mangas of the magazine that were published simultaneously.

It's been a while since then, we are in a new era with new groundbreaking manga. Will there be an equivalent to the "Big 3" in the modern era?

For me there is no argument, two of the most artistically and narratively impressive manga currently on the air are Chainsaw Man and Dandadan. Mind you, they're not as "big" as Naruto was back in the day or One Piece is today, but their impact is undeniable.

So I thought I'd give them their own category: the "Weird," weird manga being published simultaneously and having a brutal impact.

**That said, I'm missing one more manga to be able to talk about the "Weird 3", so I wanted to know if any of you have a suggestion for the third spot.

Or if you have your own way of ranking the most famous, original and/or successful manga, I would like to read your opinions.

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submitted 2 days ago by lordnikon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Im looking for the internet equivalent of screaming into the void when stress gets to great and you are about to pop.

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by prototype_g2@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I's heard news that BlueSky has been growing a lot as Xitter becomes worse and worse, but why do people seem to prefer BlueSky? This confuses me because BlueSky does not have any federalization technologies built into it, meaning it's just another centralized platform, and thus vulnerable to the same things that make modern social media so horrible.

And so, in the hopes of having a better understanding, I've come here to ask what problems Mastodon has that keep people from migrating to it and what is BlueSky doing so right that it attracts so many people.

This question is directed to those who have used all three platforms, although others are free to put out their own thoughts.

(To be clear, I've never used Xitter, BlueSky or Mastodon. I'm asking specifically so that I don't have to make an account on each to find out by myself.)


Edit:

Edit2: (changed the wording a bit on the last part of point 1 to make my point clearer.)

From reading the comments, here are what seems to be the main reasons:

  1. Federation is hard

The concept of federation seems to be harder to grasp than tech people expected. As one user pointed out, tech literacy is much less prevalent than tech folk might expect.

On Mastodon, you must pick an instance, for some weird "federation" tech reason, whatever that means; and thanks to that "federation" there are some post you cannot see (due to defederalization). To someone who barely understands what a server is, the complex network of federalization is to much to bare.

BlueSky, on the other hand, is simple: just go to this website, creating an account and Ta Da! Done! No need to understand anything else.

~~The federalized nature of Mastodon seems to be its biggest flaw.~~

The unfamiliar and more complex nature of Mastodon's federalization technology seems to be its biggest obstacle towards achieving mass adoption.

  1. No Algorithm

Mastodon has no algorithm to surface relevant posts, it is just a chronological timeline. Although some prefer this, others don't and would rather have an algorithm serving them good quality post instead of spending 10h+ curating a subscription feed.

  1. UI and UX

People say that Mastodon (and Lemmy) have HORRIBLE UX, which will surely drive many away from Mastodon. Also, some pointed out that BlueSky's overall design more closely follows that of Twitter, so BlueSky quite literally looks more like pre-Musk Xitter.

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I have fully transitioned to using Lemmy and Mastodon right when third party apps weren't allowed on Spez's place anymore, so I don't know how it is over there anymore.

What do you use? Are you still switching between the two, essentially dualbooting?

What other social media do you use? How do you feel about Fediverse social media platforms in general?

(I'm sorry if I'm the 100th person to ask this on here...)

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I'm temporarily taking a break from political activism, and it is tiring seeing everything right now. I have been politically active for 5 years now, and I desperately need a break. Voyager for Lemmy, at least for me, pushes political content like crazy.

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A lot of people has been questioning why so many go to BlueSky, and I think convenience and familiar look to Twitter in the official web UI and mobile app, not having to choose an instance by having one pre-selected (although can be changed) and I was wondering if Mastodon ever had such approach, would any instance be able to handle a huge traffic and mass migration to the instance? Or perhaps shuffle by checking instances health, but then would that even be worse instead?

For those who don't know, BlueSky is open-source, can be partially self-hosted and has API usage available free of charge, also can be bridged with the Fediverse. Which comes a long way better than Twitter and easier to reach from the Fediverse. However, it does have some questionable connections. Not possible to have investments and control them? Weird, for anyone who has heard of LadyBird (web browser) which takes a whole different approach when it comes to investment and still managed to get heavily funded.

Most of the people in the Fediverse who joined having privacy as a firat concern is well-aware and hear often privacy comes at the price of convenience, I doubt people who waited this long to leave Twitter (not even YouTube calls it X, only has the logo X) was because of privacy concern. But even if Mastodon were more convenient to those people in such way, would it even somehow be able to receive 100-150+ thousands people per day?

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This is not a conversation about guns. This is a conversation about items that have withstood abuse that are near unbreakable.

Some items I have heard referenced as AK47 of:

Gerber MP600: It's a multi tool

Old Thinkpad Laptops

Mag lights

Toyota Hilux

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submitted 1 day ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

philosophically speaking

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by 13esq@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

My dad always likes to tell us about the Christmas when my uncle bought my aunt a tin opener (a good one!) for Christmas, she was apparently rather unimpressed but the story has given years worth of good laughs.

I also remember when my dad bought a holiday in New York for my mum and himself for Christmas, but the tickets were in a small envelope right at the bottom of a HUGE box filled with packing peanuts.

What terrible/joke presents can you think of that would be a good laugh on Christmas day?

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submitted 2 days ago by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Films and TV shows and more often have subtitles, which are helpful for enjoying muted video, translation, people with hearing impairment, people struggling to understand accents, checking fast unclear dialogue and other reasons. They are important, and sometimes it's clear when they do something right or wrong.

Maybe we can't expect them all to be works of art, but there are certainly some easy wins even in the industrial media environment. What do you think?

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