bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 14 hours ago:
Whelp, guess that means we can be sure to find out about mass killings in El Salvador or Alligator Alcatraz or wherever right away because it will be so obvious.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 15 hours ago:
But she did not pretend it didn’t happen. Where are you getting that from? She just never saw it, or at least the full extent. She did see starved prisoners. She saw the furniture at the opera. Just because the killings happened in a part of the city she wasn’t allowed to visit doesn’t mean they didn’t happen.
And propaganda was trying their darnedest to keep it that way for most people. Even high ranking officers were boasting about how they were just about to beat the Sowjets the day before they retook the city.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 15 hours ago:
I just re-read that. The official story they got was that they were from a Sowjet prison. Not even a German one.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 15 hours ago:
She lived in the non-Jewish parts outside of the proper city and worked in an ex-Sowjet party building. When she arrived it still had Trotzki, Lenin and Stalin statues. And even then she couldn’t move freely and had to give the correct passwords when moving from one part of the city to another.
And still life went on in Minsk. Most people there just had to keep on living. Farmers still regularly brought wares. Even theatres and cinemas were still working even when good food was scarce and expensive.
She did mention seeing fires at night in the distance. That was officially attributed to the rebels. That was easy to believe for her since some of her colleagues died from hidden bombs.
The closest she came to the actual crimes was when she got a new bed from the storage where all the furniture from the murdered people were stored. Though back then those were from “defeated Russians”.
With the way she didn’t shy away from describing atrocities she did see (before the Nazis, from family members and of course during the war) I believe that she did not know what was happening in the ghetto. The way she wrote she didn’t even know when she wrote it that these people were killed right in the city. She (and me before you showed me) thought there was a camp near the city. But not a whole part of the city itself.
I’d honestly like to see an editorialised edition of her memoirs published that showed what really happened around her. To put it all into perspective.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 17 hours ago:
She did not call them rapists and murderers. That’s what they told her. That’s the lie they told people outside of the camps to justify any cruelty. In this instance the extended lie was that they were coming from some other “normal” prison and not from the camp.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 17 hours ago:
She was naive. She asked a friend who was about to have an audience with Hitler to tell him about how undersupplied the camp in Minsk is. Because in her mind surely the Führer wouldn’t let these people needlessly suffer. Hitler told the friend not to listen to “those rumors”.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 20 hours ago:
My grandma worked for the Nazis near a bad concentration camp near the end of WW2. She knew that it was “bad” in the camp. And when she got some really malnourished “rapists and murderers” to help with moving some furniture she didn’t associate them with the camp.
The worst she experienced was a Jewish secretary being murdered by her boss because he “lost his temper”. Happened while she was away so she didn’t know more.
And by her account most of the guys were huge idiots. And still she only found out about the real extent of the camps after the war.
- Comment on Hey, how you doin' lil mama, let me whisper in your ear... 20 hours ago:
Can I get a mnemonic for that like Luigiana? Along with the cook frying Kentucky that would make four states I can remember.
- Comment on Even their fish are fucked up 1 day ago:
Isn’t just about every banknote contaminated with cocaine?
- Comment on I sometimes worry that most of my posts from lemmy.dbzer0.com have been sorta doomeristic. Does anyone have any good Lemmy communities that would act as palate cleansers? 2 days ago:
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- Comment on What is the definitive way to play certain games? 2 days ago:
XWVM to play X-Wing and TIE Fighter.
- Comment on What is the definitive way to play certain games? 2 days ago:
Of course, if you don’t look up any builds a first playthrough of BG3 will be indistinguishable from one with a loot randomizer.
Obligatory, if you do want a roguelike BG3 you can get that with the Trials of Tav mod.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 4 days ago:
Yeah, I don’t know exactly what it is but I always feel like I don’t have enough overview in those. Like I can’t really make out the enemies. Apart from that I don’t really like the gem system. I think PoE 2 had something new but PoE2 is too hard on my brain unfortunately.
D2 exactly hits that sweet spot of simplicity and new mechanics for me. Although nothing beats the atmosphere of D1.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 4 days ago:
D2R even dropped LAN play and backwards compatibility with classic D2. Those had both been promised during development.
And I would also like to play D4. The atmosphere in the beginning is great, really felt like Diablo 1. But apparently the rest of the game is more like D3 again so I’m not that salty that I can’t play.
There are a lot of games I simply don’t have the brainpower or energy for because of !myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone. I have started Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Mass Effect. But they’re too wordy for me. And I can’t bring myself to play them in a way where I don’t fully exhaust every conversation.
I hope I will be able to stomach the Gothic Remake. The original is one of my favourite games ever.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 4 days ago:
Baldur’s Gate 3
- Comment on 'PETTY THIEF: DEADLY SHADOWS #1' - Civvie11 4 days ago:
I’m so glad he still does those even though they aren’t as popular as his usual stuff. Can’t wait for the cradle episode.
- Comment on Anyone? 5 days ago:
We’re having quite a fabulous time overe here!
- Comment on Anyone? 5 days ago:
I’m lying naked in bed with my admin and all other instance users right now.
- Comment on Humour never changes 6 days ago:
I can’t upvote.
- Comment on Duke Nukem 3D 30th Anniversary Tribute | The Voice, Creators, and Legends Behind the King 6 days ago:
What I loved about Duke Nukem, especially in contrast to Doom, was the interactivity and that all the places actually looked like places. Doom’s levels just looked like video game levels. In Duke Nukem 3D you were in real cities with real shops. And the cinema worked, the billiard table worked, he’d comment when you tried to use the arcade machines, the toilets worked, electrical outlets gave you a shock, etc.
- Comment on Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective 6 days ago:
Isn’t Cachy a more general distribution?
But luckily everything they do is in the open and can be utilised by everyone.
- Comment on Correlation equals causation 1 week ago:
Drugs are good.
They make you do the things you know you not should.
And when you take them your friends think you’re cool! - Comment on A matter of patience 1 week ago:
It’s basically a disagreement on the expansion rate of the universe. Depending on how we measure it we get two vastly different numbers. And either our understanding of how the universe evolved after the Big Bang is wrong or we interpreted data from our telescopes incorrectly.
The hope with the launch lf JWST was that it would go away with better data. But it seems to be getting worse.
So that makes it more and more likely that our universe formation theories are wrong. This does not mean that there wasn’t a Big Bang. But it means that what we thought happened between the Big Bang and now isn’t quite right.
So we can expect some great new theories in the next decades.
- Comment on A matter of patience 1 week ago:
Don’t agree. There is so mucb interesting stuff happening in astrophysics. It’s hard to choose one.
Vera Rubin going online is already giving us a huge boost to detecting near earth objects.
And neutrino astronomy is pretty much still in its infancy. There is still a lot to learn.
We’re finding older and older objects every month. A potential bio signature has been found on Mars. We discovered our third Interstellar visitor. The next stage of the moon mission is about to launch people around the moon in the next few months. The crisis in cosmology is getting bigger and bigger.
Astrophysics is in a great shape.
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Truth hurts! 1 week ago:
I just printed out paper tokens and laminated them.
- Comment on Absolutely all of it 1 week ago:
That’s still much better than not doing any exercise.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 1 week ago:
A few years ago I created a small pen & paper roleplaying game for my kids to play as dinosaurs. They very much wanted their dinosaurs to be feathered. The kids are alright.
My daughter’s young T-Rex:
- Comment on 5/7 with rice 1 week ago:
That’s for fried rice the next day!
- Comment on 5/7 with rice 1 week ago:
Strange, that’s exactly how much rice I always make.
