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yesman , to Ask Lemmy in What lessons should have been learned and implemented from the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in their ascension to power to prevent a recurrence of similar actors and ideological campaigns in future?

I'd warn against the idea that Hitler was somehow indispensable to the movement.

I think MAGA is instructive here. Do you think Trump is an evil genus, or just a lucky blow-hard carried by the worst impulses of the right? Fascism is popular, and we need to stop acquitting the societies that nurture it.

To answer your question, I'd ignore the fascist leader and the rabid followers. I'd find a scheme to impose social and financial costs on those who don't support fascism, but are wiling to tolerate it for their own interests.

yesman , to World News in Man busted for carrying Master Sword from Zelda in the street

2nd amendment of what? The Magna Carta?

yesman , to Technology in Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops say

unlimited access to porn? who could imagine?

yesman , to World News in Khamenei's Attempt to Legitimize the Islamic Republic Fails

I fed this article through google translate and it was just a picture of Netanyahu pointing and saying "hey look, over there"!

yesman , to No Stupid Questions in Is there a chat/dating app that isn't complete shit and pay wall restricted?

A better question is can a dating app be good?

Around 2010, every tech bro that's creaming shorts over AI today was trying to figure out how to make money behind the fact that everyone had smartphones. But it turned out, that smartphones can't solve every problem.

Dating I would argue, is just one of those things tech made worse. Never mind how often the damn thing fails, think about the conditions where it would function well. A dystopian world where everything is shallow and operating on incel-math.

And how could it be otherwise? Dating apps are just math people trying to solve for love. This is the plot to a comedy movie, not a business plan.

yesman , to Ask Lemmy in Who is a character you feel is overhated and despised too much ?

Thanos' reasoning is idiotic.

People are a resource. If you eliminated half the people, not only have you wasted all resources that went into those people, but you've wasted everything those people could produce. Minus half of agricultural workers would probably mean way less than half production. The post-snap world would be a place of austerity and starvation. You could recover sure, but it'd be time for another snap.

yesman , to Technology in Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web

Do people still pirate Windows? You can download the iso directly from Microsoft's website and you don't need a registration key anymore.

yesman , to memes in goddamnit

If you want to save a *.webp file, just change the extension to *.png. There is no need for a converter.

yesman , to Technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

Are you going to have to deal with a full-screen ad when you’re trying to open File Explorer eventually?

I was literally reading this sentence when the whole page grayed out and a window asking me to subscribe popped up.

yesman , to memes in Who, me?

There is a difference between possible and likely. I'm not going to provide a source on that.

yesman , to Technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

Is there any evidence of American rat-fuckery in the Bolivian coup attempt?

yesman , to memes in Who, me?

Headshots don't work like they do in video games/ movies. A person has a 42% chance of surviving a penetrative wound to the head.

And there are also plenty of cases where a fatal head-wound didn't prevent someone from completing complex tasks before expiring.

Most of these myths trace back to Gary Webb, a journalist who committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the head. Credulous people think the CIA killed him to prevent him from making their cocaine dealing public. Even though his article exposing the CIA was widely debunked and 20years old.

yesman , to Technology in NBC to use AI-generated version of Al Michaels' voice during Summer Olympics

There is a concept in post-modern philosophy called "hauntology". This theory posits that late-capitalist societies loose their ability to imagine different social orders; and cannot imagine the future except as high-tech versions of the current social order. To fill the void of novelty, the culture industry must constantly recycle and repackage old culture.

Anyway, this isn't a new phenomena, just a technology enabling us to resurrect live people instead of just fictional characters.

yesman , to World News in New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to exist

If Israel’s right to exist is a controversial topic, I‘m out.

Fuck me, they're arguing States rights. Is there a playbook for this atrocity denial or what?

yesman , to Technology in Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks in US over windshield wiper, exterior trim issues

The funniest thing about the Cybertruck is the windshield wiper. Not only does it ruin the science fiction ascetic by breaking up the flat surfaces, it breaks up the primary surface with a dumb squeegee arm. It's also a little reminder that not only were the first wipers invented in 1903, but that they were fitted to electric vehicles.

I think they used one huge wiper in an attempt to make it look innovative by just by virtue of being unusual.

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