Shiggles

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[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

You can literally just go to the episode and read the sources for yourself if you hate fun dude

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The list of “American Presidents that weren’t deeply problematic as individuals” is a very short one, and I think the only one I’ve heard a good argument for is ole Jimmy Carter.

But Trump is still magnitudes more problematic than any of the other individuals listed, and it’s whataboutism like yours that led us here.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I strongly recommend anyone that thinks Gates has redeeming qualities listen to the Behind the Bastards on the man.

Spoiler: there are no redeeming qualities about any billionaires.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

After finishing the game and giving it the detailed look it deserves

I never thought it was possible to concentrate so much middle school english teacher energy into a single sentence, but here we are.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

You might like the various works of David Hone, a very talented and well spoken paleontologist who talks in depth about how they know what they do know, and gives several examples of poor paleontology and what they’re doing wrong.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Famed totalitarian regimes like checks notes their own country? They’ve killed a fair number of their own journalists.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

long term

If you can remember THACO, tabletop games have survived needing to change a few systems in the past

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Data labeling is a real and useful task that adds value.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It makes sense for a public figure trying to reach people. It won’t work because of the algorithm ™, but I can understand still wanting to try.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That sounds like the landlord’s now just never going to get anything fixed

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

.ml is the commies, .world is predominantly liberal with a strong left bend(at least compared to US politics). You also have anarchist spaces and the odd conservative hideyhole.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago

It took me longer than it should have to notice all the shitty people I used to be friends with had a love of the worst parts of martial arts as a shared hobby.

 

One of the most interesting details about the Nuremberg trials, which I only learned from the ever excellent Robert Evans on a podcast, is the controversy over how many of the crimes Nazis were executed weren’t really “crimes” - international law wasn’t really a thing, and they weren’t really illegal under German law.

Yet we hung the Nazis anyways, because they were the fuckin’ Nazis. I find this a comforting thought in these times.

If you’re in need of additional fortification, the article on John Clarence Woods might help, the hangman who very incompetently and thus painfully executed nazi leadership - there is also a Behind the Bastards on him, possibly the one that discusses the trials iirc.

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