I didn’t realize PBF was posting again. I remember it from an older age of the internet where catching the newest xkcd, SMBC, or PBF was something I looked forward to. Now I suppose going to individual sites for content has been supplanted by the Reddit feed.
I’m not the only one who gets a chill down their spine when they hear this, right?
I hate to invoke Godwin's law on the very first comment on a post, but the industrialization of deportations seems to have alarming parallels to the mass murder Jews and other minority groups in 1930’s and 40’s Europe. I read “Ordinary Men” by Christopher Browning a couple months ago and the thing that stuck out to me is that when the Nazi’s started killing people, they didn’t immediately jump to death camps. The initial steps of the holocaust began as a “deportation” scheme and it was a continual ramping up of the scale of murder.
> I hate to invoke Godwin's law on the very first comment on a post, but the industrialization of deportations seems to have alarming parallels to the mass murder Jews and other minority groups in 1930’s and 40’s Europe.
Godwins law does not apply when the people you're talking about are literal Nazis. I count people into that who say they adore Hitler and do Nazi salutes on stages.
Maybe not enough people have made the experience that (A) people following a genoicidal ideology still exist and (B) they try their best to wear the sheeps fur of populism while they try to get into power.
I grew up in an Austrian province with one of my grandfathers in the Wehrmacht, Nazis are weak idiots that always look elsewhere when there is a problem instead of fixing it at home. With 14 I met my first neo-nazis that were admiring their Nazi-grandfathers. All incredibly insecure people, who thought a violent ideology was the only way how they could make their environment perceive them as powerful and manly.
I said in the beginning of Trumps first presidential campaign that the guy is a fascist and got swamped with criticism, of how I could know that. I know that, because I grew up with the type that would love him and under the devastating governance of one Jörg Haider, one of the first "Neue Rechte" poltical heads in Europe. He famously had ties to the likes of Gaddafi before be died in self-inflicted car accident with two bottles of vodka in him.
Trump is still a fascist only this time he is also surrounded by fascists. Needless to say, historically that form of despotic governance didn't really last and lead to the worst atrocities in human history.
We're finally getting an answer to "how could such a thing happen". The answer is pretty simple: We think of history distinctly different than current events, ourselves as more enlightened and of our peers as more capable of calling it. And besides, it'd be really inconvenient if we actually had fascism, so why not ignore it until it's on the news or something.
In the 1930s, Germans (and their European neighbours) considered themselves to be more enlightened and culturally sophisticated – despite the political instability and economic turmoil that plagued the Weimar republic (war reparation debt, hyper-inflation, Great Depression).
There are contemporary people who said the country in most danger of falling for communism is Germany, while Russia was seen to be in danger of turning fascist.
History has this weird thing of becoming invisible to many of the actors within it. I guess it takes a certain kind of mind (or is it just education?) to be the lobster that noticing the water becoming warmer. Without any frame of reference it could be train moving, or the landscape — those with some degree of historic education have some absolute frame of reference at least.
This is the wildest thing about all of this. This is not a problem to begin with. The "solution" is the actual problem, and the problem—people who want to live and work in the US—benefits US society.
There has to be extra context here. There is no way we’re getting the full picture. If it really is just as simple as including “question” in the title of a paper then there is some serious mismanagement occurring.
The article clearly has gaps simply by not being an hour long read on the Atlantic, one obvious gap is that it doesn't seem to have a statement from the person removed after they were removed.
> one obvious gap is that it doesn't seem to have a statement from the person removed after they were removed.
I think the article is written by the person that was removed. It is lacking any statement of the standard foundation who removed him. No such statement exists, even on the internal committee mailing list it is just an "fyi, that person is no longer on the committee" without any reasons.
I can piece something together from his previous behavior on the committee mailing list, but that information is not public and I'm not at liberty to share.
Hey! First I loved PA. It was such a great game. Second, I’m curious how you simulated combat. Was it simply every every server tick you updated all units or was it something smarter?
IIRC the server simulation ran at 10Hz. I think the goal was to update every unit every tick. But there may have been some round robin style updates as you get to late game. Pathfinding may have had some limits and deferred requests.
Nothing particularly clever that I can recall. But it’s been quite a few years!
If this really is the start of a run-away greenhouse effect, realistically how does someone ride out the worst of the coming horrors without being a billionaire with a bunker.
Iirc, One of the articles has a diagram with four dark matter less galaxies in a sweeping curve. But if you look at the diagram, there's no less than two other dark matter less galaxies off the curve so one must wonder if it's just a coincidence
Stealing from a self checkout is a cheap and easy thrill if you’re rich enough to pay for legal representation. For a poor person it represents a much larger threat and most lower paying jobs are much less tolerant of needing to take time off for things like a court date.
Thanks for the the dose of nostalgia :)