Holy shit. I had no idea who this was either. Then, like 5 seconds ago I open Spotify and in my search for eldritch horror music I say “hey why does that name seem familiar?” and then remember this post.
The song is pretty mid (and, while slightly eerie, it is not eldritch horror playlist worthy imo), but it’s just wild that it just showed up right after I saw his name for the first time in this post.
This is the fastest frequency illusion I think I’ve ever experienced.
It really is just funny that—not only is it an American flag—but it’s the “Earth” flag and it only shows the globe centered on America.
That view of the globe only shows like 20% of the world’s population since the majority of humanity lives outside of the American continents.
I’m not a physicist, but even if Astatine is being produced in minute quantities by decay, a half life of 8hrs should probably put it lower on the numbers than Americium.
Americium is produced anywhere you have lots of free neutrons. This may be rare on earth outside of nuclear power plants and bomb test sites, but not necessarily rare in the universe. Especially since it has a half life of 432years, so unlike astatine it can actually accumulate a bit and not just decay immediately.
Astatine basically doesn’t exist. The total amount in the entirety of earth’s crust at any given time is estimated to be less than a gram.
So I feel like the amounts should be flipped or at the very least closer in orders of magnitude.
Abbott: “So say you’re 40 and you like a girl that’s 10. Well you’re really too old for her because you’re 4x her age. So let’s say you wait 5years. Now you’re 45 and she’s 15, so you’re only 3x as old as her, but that’s still a bit much, so you wait another 15years and now you’re 60 and she’s 30. Only half your age now.
How long do you have to wait till you’re both the same age?”
Costello: “Well 4 then 3 then 2… at this rate she’d better be willing to wait for me too.”
Abbott: “what do you mean?”
Costello: “Going like this, eventually she’ll be older than me and she better wait for me to catch up.”
Abbott: “Why would she wait for you?”
Costello: “WELL I WAITED FOR HER!”
Sorry I couldn’t parse that first sentence could you rephrase?
Also, I actually have been on Weibo but it really seemed too like… pop culture obsessed? Not my thing, plus my Mandarin sucked even back then when I was still actively learning it
I have also seen c/manufacturingconsent.
Anyway, I’m guessing you brought up Weibo as a “people can talk bad about the government there so clearly they don’t censor anti China speech” but that’s really not an argument.
China is pretty open about its regulation of the media. I mean you’ve likely read the terms and conditions for some of their media platforms so you already know it’s against their policies to promote ideas contrary to the vision/interests of the CCP or create dissent or however they phrase it. I’m sure small comments slip through here and there because their impact is small and censorship takes effort, but major posts against the government are not staying up very long. (If you can find long standing / popular dissenting post on Weibo to prove me wrong I’ll change my mind on this)
As for bringing up manufacturing consent and “what the west is trying to do” guess what buddy, if lots of people/organizations are doing a fucked up thing, it’s still a fucked up thing.
To be fair, I think trying to ensure your citizens hear good news is actually a pretty good idea, but I’m not a big fan of censoring news in order to make that happen.
Want to make the good news I see outnumber the bad 10:1? Fine, but leave the bad news in there. And I definitely don’t think organizations should censor their failures/problems. Admitting when you’ve made a mistake shows you’re trying to improve; hiding your mistakes makes you seem much less trustworthy in general.
Not everywhere else, China bans speech that shows the party or the country in a negative light lol
Oh look it’s the creep who calls me a liar for not specifying I was a student in a single comment section where I’d previously mentioned I was a student.
I even apologized last time you made a comment like this (once I figured out that was the “lie” in my comments), and I edited that old comment for clarity just for you. Your reply to my apology ended up getting removed by the mods before I could see it, so I guess that didn’t help, and here you are again this time claiming I’m not even involved in research.
Idk what to say anymore man, just block me if my username pisses you off enough that you feel compelled to keep bringing this shit back up. It’s not healthy
A) that’s actually good meme haha
B) the space race ended when the US landed on the moon, if you run a 5k and get to 4.9k ahead of everyone but then don’t cross the finish line, you’ve still lost the race
Anyway the point of my comment wasn’t “the US beat the Soviets because they’re authoritarian” it was “the Soviets had everything they needed to absolutely dominate space travel but their authoritarianism hindered their scientific progress significantly”
On the spaceflight note, it’s rather sad that the Soviets harassed and imprisoned Yuri Kondratyuk since his work was vital in the moon landing and orbital mechanics in general.
If his work in space flight was supported and not repeatedly crushed by authorities, the USSR might’ve landed on the moon first. Instead, he was imprisoned by the NVKD for some of his engineering designs (for “sabotage” of not using nails, which is a dumb thing on its own).
And eventually, he gave all his aerospace notes to a friend to smuggle them out of the country because he feared the govt would accuse him of treason like they had Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (the guy who made Sputnik 1).
The Soviets could have won the space race, if it weren’t for the “authoritarianism” you’re trying to make light of
Authoritarian communism is when no funeral strippers:
(I couldn’t find the Lemmy post about it so here’s an article lol)
“Party’s Over: China authorities crack down on funeral stripping” - The Guardian
Yeah reading it without knowing basically any historical context or people is fun because you hear him mention names repeatedly and eventually you start going “yeah you tell him Lenin!” when you still have basically no idea who they are lol
Also just wanting to pack so much information into a single sentence to the point sentences are occasionally the size of paragraphs is very relatable.
Idk how far left you currently are, but reading State and Revolution by Lenin is what kind of opened my eyes to the whole “the state exists solely to protect capital and the rich”
It’s relatively short (though Lenin writes like he’s ADHD and angry lol) and you can find free translated versions in a bunch of different formats online because well it’s not like marxist-leninists are going to charge you lol
I’m not a communist btw, but the book is still interesting
Or you’re in an .ml community which has a larger proportion of people who agree with the sentiment in this meme than lots of other instances.
Plus some people who don’t share those beliefs have probably blocked the instance, so there’s likely that bias too
You can imagine what you want but you’re wrong
Checked the link and it is an asshole telling a bad joke, so I’m actually right…?
And immediately jumps to defend the accused without any information?
Actually, I’ve been on here a while and heard several jokes about how if tragedy befell x country or some state in the US that nothing of value would be lost because x is bad. Your description sounded like a bad joke of that kind and it is, so my “jump” was a natural predictive response in noticing a similar situation. And hey, my intuition was correct.
Thank you for linking the content. I think the joke is bad both premise wise and just bad taste, but I disagree with your conclusion that this is evidence of Nazi sentiment and it definitely isn’t evidence that all of db0 is corrupt.
I know that this comment likely won’t change your mind since you think me making any comment like this is an admission of Nazi ideology, but before I disengage I want to say that your feelings of anger at the disregard this individual is showing towards the Soviet citizens killed by the Nazis are valid. Joking about people who died horrible deaths just because they didn’t have the same ideology as you is distasteful. But being rude/disrespectful and being a Nazi are not the same, and generalizing the actions of a single mod to the whole of db0 is not a fair assumption.
Anyway, since commenting makes me a Nazi, here’s a Nazi wishing you well. You seem kind of invested in this, and while your feelings are valid, getting worked up over internet community drama isn’t particularly healthy. So I’m sorry I brought up a touchy subject for you, and I hope your thoughts are able to move on from this quickly. I’ll stop commenting and let you enjoy the rest of your day/night without thinking about just some other asshole you met from db0 eh? Have a good one comrade
I’m an anarchist
My bad then ig
As for the incident you mentioned, do you have a link or archive link to the comment? While in very bad taste, I can imagine it was meant as a joke against communists not to garner support for the holocaust or fascism.
If an inappropriate joke about a tragedy being good because it killed some people you thought were bad makes an instance a “Nazi instance,” I’m pretty sure hexbear doesn’t pass that litmus test either.
Bro this isn’t that serious it’s just a shitty comment I made in two seconds while I was in the bathroom (funny coincidence lol) But seriously don’t worry about me mate, writing actually relaxes me. Much nicer to focus on dumb internet comments than hyperfixate on my anxieties about life lol
Anyway it’s hard to know when people are serious about generalizations or not. Thought I’d make a comment just in case you were serious, so you’d know there are actual anarchists out there.
And in a way I guess I was right since you seem to think an instance of anarchists is not an anarchy instance lol
Also, euro nationalist comm? Are you talking about c/europe ? The comm filled with news about corruption in Europe? Idk about you but I’m pretty sure no one is upvoting “French government is threatening developers of GrapheneOS for refusing to add a back door” because they support privacy violations or love the French government lol
Something tells me your definition of “genuine socialists” doesn’t include anarchists to begin with. Also as far as I know most of db0 is pretty anti-nationalist, very anti-hierarchy/govt. , and very anti-capitalist; hence all the piracy, and the socialist communities, and the free/open-source software communities, and all the anarchy communities, etc.
Hell there’s even a community now dedicated to Illegalism which is very much in the realm of “1925 anarchist”
But let me guess, you got in a fight with a user from db0 that called you a tankie or something, and now you think the entire instance is full of Nazis because some of the users don’t agree with you and no one who disagrees with you can be a “genuine socialist.” Am I right?
Anyway, if you do see any real nazi content from a db0 user, they’d be breaking instance rules so you can and should report them to the mods.
Bro, Idk what “anarchist” you may have some personal drama with but a) there are going to be idiots and assholes who say they identify with any group because people are dumb like that and b) if someone is being antagonistic in a community, exiling that person from the community is usually an anarchist option yes? And in online communities, only mods tend to have that power to ban users, so I feel like it’s not really a betrayal of anarchy to report people to an online moderator (though I will say that in some spaces mods act like cops/rulers/The-State™️, so if communities can’t oust their mods, then yeah that community in general isn’t very anarchic)
Anyway, I don’t know what happened between you and this person, but generalizing that all online anarchists are like this just because you met an asshole online doesn’t seem like the best way to handle the situation imo
I’m reasonably certain there are many many “1925 anarchists” in db0 alone and probably a lot more throughout the rest of Lemmy too
Hang on didn’t the Japanese government only like last year decide to stop using floppies?
This one is probably one of the better playlists I’ve found (though it’s called AMBIENT HORROR, not Eldritch Horror)