It might happen here, which is why Dachau would be the more apt comparison in my opinion.

But right now, it’s certainly not anything like Auschwitz. The Japanese Internment Camps you had some decades ago weren’t Auschwitzes either.

Dachau? No, it never became an extermination camp. Hell, I visited the memorial site and know about its history to some extent (though certainly far less than actual historians).

It killed tens of thousands still, especially in the later parts of WW2. But its purpose was still to concentrate enemies of the state and not to exterminate them.

I mean, yeah? An extermination camps is arguably several magnitudes worse than a concentration camp, isn’t it?

That doesn’t detract from both being horrific.

Hyperbole and analogies are just two conflicting figures of speech. The overall message is weakened than if either is used by itself.

Auschwitz was an extermination camp, not just a concentration camp though.

For now, it’s much more like Alligator Dachau. That was the nazi’s first and flagship concentration camp used for propaganda.

paru is written in Rust, yay in Go.

That’s pretty much the only difference. Since Rust is objectively superior to Go (I have never worked with either language so my opinion is as unbiased as can be) paru is clearly better.

How do you install kindness and affection? They’re not on the AUR:

[yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ~]$ paru -S kindness affection
:: Resolving dependencies...
error: could not find all required packages:
    kindness (target)
    affection (target)

I have, somehow, found love packaged though. But it’s not true love. It’s LÖVE (a 2d game engine) spelled with an ASCII typeset so I’m pretty sure I have installed the wrong dependency.

It will make things significantly better in the short term.

Their entire infrastructure would immediately crumble. Nothing could be re-used. All successor parties would be banned automatically.

This means basically all their high ranking members are permanently banned from joining or collaborating with any future political party.

I don’t think I need to elaborate why this would set far right organizations back significantly.

It’s pretty lenient for a cruelty system masquerading as “justice”.

Genuinely wouldn’t have been surprised if they would’ve sentenced him to 20 years for each of the 190 instances.

True. We need more Margaret Thatchers alongside the Trumps of this world.

They didn’t care at first. The only reason they began destructively scanning books is because they started to care about copyright law:

Anthropic first chose to amass digitized versions of pirated books to avoid what CEO Dario Amodei called “legal/practice/business slog”—the complex licensing negotiations with publishers. But by 2024, Anthropic had become “not so gung ho about” using pirated ebooks “for legal reasons” and needed a safer source.

Copyright law doesn’t allow them to sell the books. It’s almost certainly a violation to scan books for their content and then sell them.

I just use RED. The user collages are pretty nice to find new albums.

Insurance companies rarely go bankrupt as it requires insane incompetency to achieve this.

Insurance companies work like casinos: Develop a probabilistic model to determine the average amount of claims per customer per region and then charge more.

That’s why they are exiting regions where the expected yearly damages exceed what they are allowed to charge. Insurances are the first to exit a sinking ship.

For anyone else wondering what a “MENSA” member is:

Mensa International is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world.[3][4][5] It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test.

I was already questioning why school/university cafeteria staff should get any benefits that aren’t present in other jobs.

Literally every single government on this planet classifies and restricts weapons based on potential of danger/lethality.

Anything from knife types/blade lengths to gun caliber is regulated everywhere. The same applies to chemicals with which explosives/poisons can be manufactured. You can’t order them in any country without filling out forms.

It’s literally the most basic type of risk assessment possible and by far the most effective way to reduce harm.

My point is there is clearly a limit to how many people a weapon can kill before no sane person would allow people to possess it.

Apparently, for you this number is greater than 61 deaths per weapon, seeing as this is the number of people killed in the Las Vegas Mass Shooting.

So, which is it? 100? 1000? 1 million? When is a weapon too dangerous to be available commonplace in your opinion?

Should we every single person this planet access to nuclear weapons? Mutually Assured Destruction has kept us save from nuclear war thus far. Clearly this applies not just on the state but on the individual level as well.

Technically speaking Beethoven was born in Austria. Austrian Netherlands that is (current day Belgium), owned by the Habsburgs.

Or even more generally, he was born in the Holy Roman Empire of Germanic Nations (today Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, parts of France, parts of Poland, Austria, Czechia, Germany) and died in the Austrian Empire.

They also have decent records of relevant political figures which are in no doubt in the hands of the US.

Seriously, the nazis were able to compile lists of political enemies (suspected to be) in Brtiain 85 years ago.

It’s not a stretch to suggest the US knows exactly who is relevant to keeping the regime alive, whom to imprison and whom to kill.

Collapsing a nation is far easier than establishing a new one after all.

Nah, the Polish resistance was slaughtered by the Soviets anyways:

Most soldiers of the Home Army (including those who took part in the Warsaw Uprising) were persecuted after the war; captured by the NKVD or UB political police. They were interrogated and imprisoned on various charges, such as that of fascism.[226][227] Many of them were sent to Gulags, executed or disappeared.

Wikipedia

Poland remained occupied for 45 years after WW2 and was forcibly “shifted” to the West causing millions of Polish people to be deported from their homes in the East.

The best decision any Pole could have made for themselves, their family and even their country was to flee. You won’t do anything for Poland if you die as a slave in Siberia.