I know how history works. I don’t need a time machine to know that a country in economic dire straits will find someone to blame. I just need to look at contemporary US politics. If you’re ever in doubt start a war, preferably somewhere in poverty so you don’t get your asses handed to you, inevitably miscalculate, and get said ass handed to you. Wait 20 years and then do the same thing all over again.

We kind of do know though. Hitler latched onto a movement that already existed he didn’t create it, the world is full of potential leaders they just need a cause. I’m so someone would have been found.

That’s what I mean really. Having one group of people be the enemy is what been a racist is all about. I’m not sure how you have one without the other.

I suppose the question then becomes how much can you change Nazi ideology before it essentially becomes something different. If an alteration to history can make the Nazi movement not racist and not so genocide focused isn’t it really just a different political movement now?

It’s the temporal ship of Theseus, how much can I change history before it ceases to be my history?

Yeah this is the Hollywood version of time travel but in the real world that’s not how things work.

Adolf Hitler didn’t invent Nazism, any more than Donald Trump invented MAGA, they were just two individuals who were the right moment in history to take the opportunity, have they never existed someone else would have done it, possibly later on, but it would still happened.

Nazism for example came out of frustrations with the rest of Europe over the treaty of Versailles. If you want to prevent World War 2 it isn’t enough to kill Hitler, you have to first prevent World War 1, in order to prevent World War 1 you really have to prevent all the stupid little wars that predated it. The number of people you would have to kill in order to prevent Nazis is enormous, probably in the thousands. It’s not one easily removable Nexus point

That’s because they’re back end devs. There is one way to do things, you learn the one way to do the thing, you do it that way, you’re done.

The fun is in front end, there is 15 different ways of doing things, but you don’t like any of them, so you develop a 16th way, eventually you get bored of the 16th way so come up with a 17th way. Eventually you get sick of all of this and go back to SSGs as God intended.

I think it’s only France where it’s explicitly banned. Mostly because otherwise CCTV cameras are legally complicated.

They don’t even seem to be aiming in the air, it’s like they’re trying to attack the tops of the trees.

That guy is extremely lucky to still be alive, it should not be possible to be beheaded by an AA gun, but for some reason they appear to be aiming at an angle 45°

I always want to ask these people how chemtrails work. Because aircraft have been flying around for nearly a century now and they don’t appear to radically change anything. What exactly is it that the chemtrails are supposed to have done?

But also, how do chemicals make it hot? That’s a new one.

The vantablack thing is a bit complicated because while it’s utterly ridiculous he’s the only artist allowed to use the substance (and is an utter prick about it, which is honestly the larger issue).

It has to be a somewhat controlled substance because it’s ridiculously carcinogenic, obviously that doesn’t mean you can’t sell it to other people it just has to be dolled out carefully and with instruction.

The pink is amazing though, I saw some in a museum once and it honestly looks like it’s lit up, cameras absolutely do not capture it. It just looks normal on cameras. It’s worth going and having a look if you ever have the opportunity.

Yeah they sent me an email to basically say no. The randomised list has apparently put me too far down so now I’m not going to get one.

No time frame or anything just no.

Book the product only got released a few weeks ago?

Everyone hates working for American companies when they try and push American customer service onto anyone else.

I don’t want to be told thank you for calling the company, I’m calling because there’s a problem because I want something not to have a chat. It’s so cringe-worthy.

That first explosion was huge, then there was some smaller explosions which could have been high calibre rounds and then later on stuff that was definitely just gunfire. I’m wondering if the first explosion was an RPG.

I was wondering why you had to turn the air conditioning off just to be able to drive past someone.

They are deliberately misinterpreting that law. This law only applies for data that they no longer have a legitimate reason to retain. It’s not just a rolling 3-year counter that starts every time you log out and gets reset every time you log in.

I haven’t logged into Facebook in well more than 3 years they haven’t deleted my data and that isn’t a violation, I haven’t deleted my account (I can’t I’ve forgotten the password and no longer have access to the original email, it’s my problem).

It’s only for things now lapsed gym memberships, or car dealerships keeping your data after you purchase a vehicle from them. They can keep that data for 3 years and then they have to delete it.

That’s a mental hang up on your part. How do you prove the lack of something?

I never got the talk about Santa. I think my parents just assumed that I was intelligent enough to be able to work it out on my own, which I was. I’m sure at some point I did believe in Santa but I can’t remember ever believing, I knew it was just my dad, but I got presents so I didn’t care.

Kids can be quite pragmatic.

Of course there’s also the group that are probably intelligent enough to understand that other people think differently to them, but don’t care because they are narcissists.

Which is how you get conservatives.

That’s not atheism, that’s nihilism which is different.

Atheists don’t believe in God, largely because religion doesn’t really answer any of the big questions. No particular mode of behaviour is required of an atheist. You certainly don’t need to go around being destructive of quasi religious icons (Christmas trees aren’t even related to Christianity it’s a corporate thing).

Nihilism is just the people who are having a midlife crisis, or are just play acting at depression in order to get attention. It’s not a philosophical position. It’s just been whiny.