[-] yesman@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

The Anglos, Saxons, and Jutes were all tribes from what we'd call Germany. The Romans paved the first roads of London, and taught the Pagans about Jesus. And Rome was cosmopolitan, so it was a lot more than Italians in that army. England has also suffered under Danish/Scandinavian conquests small and large. The King Cnut was not a misspelling. His nephew, William is a Scandinavian settled in France.

So... as far as "blood and soil" goes, Britain, and her people, were always more of a group project.

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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 81 points 6 days ago

The Germans did have hand grenades without a stick. Their doctrine was the stick type was for offensive operations, and the little one was favored for defense.

I assume this has something to do with the distance you can throw them.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Well, don't be hasty. How much in grants does he pull in?

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I've always been told that Hitler was a masterful public speaker; that his support can largely be explained by his compelling, if not mesmerizing hold on crowds. This narrative is not common, it's universal.

Sometimes I think this is emphasized over how much the crowds approved of the content of his speech.

How do native German speakers feel when they view footage of Hitler? Do you think the reputation is earned?

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I use a box fan to help dry the dishes in the dishwasher. Recently I mistakenly pointed the fan away from the dishes instead of toward them. This appears to be faster and more effective than my normal method. Why?

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 235 points 1 month ago

Yea. Not only that, when you hear about "dead people voting", this is often the explanation.

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Internet culture loves nothing more than adopting half-understood academic jargon. And more and more I'm seeing the phrase "media literacy" to mean: being smart enough to come to the correct interpretation, or even worse: being able to decipher authorial intent.

I'm a 'death of the author' kind of guy, but we all should agree that any text will have multiple valid interpretations, so long as you can back it up with the text.

I wanna stress that I'm not gatekeeping the phrase, I just want to promote the idea of media education over the smug notion that one person reads books better than another.

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Dishwashers won't clean these gaskets if they're washed while installed. Oh, and those silicone straws can come out of the dishwasher nasty too.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 203 points 1 month ago

There is nothing more tech-bro libertarian than taking free public data, wrapping it in a slick package, and selling it.

I used to think that TV weather people were obsolete, but now I'm nostalgic for the public service that survived in the old capitalistic ad based broadcast TV era.

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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 121 points 2 months ago

He's so transparent. The internal polling must be showing him getting murdered among women, prob worse than the national polling shows.

That or he's just stung by the implications of being unpopular with women.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 179 points 2 months ago

Every game executive and investor wants a Fortnight. That's why no matter how many times gamers reject it live service games will continue to be developed. Because AAA games are made for investors not players.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 124 points 2 months ago

ended up dead in Nazi concentration camps

Anybody familiar with young children will recognize this use of passive voice as the phase where the child admits that something bad happened, but is not comfortable assigning responsibility yet. "The lamp got broken".

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 229 points 4 months ago

I saw a post criticizing Harris (from the left) immediately after the announcement. Clicked on OP's account and saw that up until just then, they had been very concerned about Biden's age. Oh, and before that, unwilling to vote genocideJoe.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 140 points 7 months ago

OJ's trial goes beyond his innocence or guilt. His trial was racially charged and cannot be understood outside this context. I don't think those who celebrated his acquittal believed in his innocence as much as they saw it a victory that a black man used his privilege and resources to escape justice the way so many white criminals had in the past. Not justice, but equality, American style.

For white America, it came as quite a shock that a rich black celebrity could leverage race tensions to escape accountability. This was such a singular event it resonates 30years later. If you're black, you don't need a long memory to see justice betrayed behind some racist bullshit.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 145 points 11 months ago

Elmo says the goal is to make Grock "politically neutral". Politically neutral is code for "politics that are inoffensive to chuds".

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 251 points 1 year ago

What scares me shitless is the idea that Trump is what the US is and what the US has earned. Who's ready for that conversation?

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