Souvenir

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[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 minute ago

Fun fact: a tarot deck has 72 different cards. That means there's 72! combinations, which is a number that is roughly 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000​ larger than the amount of atoms in the observable universe.

[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Billy Bunter(that's where some of the fat-phobia comes from, I think), Naughtiest Girl, but also later shows/books like the Worst Witch which has a bullying raven haired potions teacher.

But also the Earth Sea novels and Pratchett's Discworld series which also has a school of Wizardry.

[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Sorry to tell you this, but my father is not a medical doctor.

[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Almost 50 years ago...

When's your next prostate check?

[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 15 hours ago (4 children)
[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

It was also called piracy back then too. It was incredibly common on the Commodore 64 starting in the 80s . They'd often call themselves crackers, because you needed to crack the piracy protection to be able to copy disks.

Those disks and even cassettes would then be shared from person to person or sold in shops or on second hand markets. AFAIK this is also when 1337/leet became popularised, to avoid censorship on BBSes, where file sharing was also possible.

For example, a magazine from 1991:

Note the group is called Elite productions and they call themselves pirates. There's also mention of crackers, specific events, and I especially enjoy that a piracy/cracking group felt it necessary to add a copyright logo next to the name of their piracy group which was called Elite Productions.

[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It's a shame we never got another season of Enterprise. IRC they were working on a Romulan story arc. That and the whole Romulan T'Pol thing.

They also really should have worked out the broader strokes to properly unify the canon. It got especially messy with Picard and the later movies. Especially if you played some Star Trek online.

[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The meme is about never compromising with fascists.

You can argue that both Stalin/Molotov and Chamberlain had good reasons to sign a (temporary) compromise with fascist Germany. Which means you believe you should sometimes compromise with fascists.

Or you can argue that Stalin and Chamberlain were wrong to compromise with fascists. Which means you agree with the meme that you should never compromise with fascists.

But this meme was originally posted on lemmy.ml, where a lot of users will reflexively defend Stalin for compromising with fascist Germany (they're also here) but then post memes which say it's never ok to compromise with fascists. Which is double think. You either think it's sometimes acceptable, or you think it's never acceptable to compromise with fascists.

Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort people feel when their beliefs conflict with each other. People often react in weird ways when they're suffering from it. You can witness plenty of it in this comment section.

[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Pure whataboutism.

Meme: Don't compromise with fascists!

Me: Remember that time Stalin compromised with fascists?

You: That's a distraction!

[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Don't tell lemmy.ml. Some of their users might realise they're not genuinely left wing.

[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Hush now.

I think you'll find that when Stalin compromised with fascists, that was a very good thing, that's why despite being very proud of making this supposedly necessary compromise, discussing the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was taboo in the Soviet Union till 1989. They simply didn't want to make a big thing of it, because Stalin was such a modest and down to earth guy.

LOL

Always funny watching the tankies tie themselves in knots defending it.

[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

That's just what the woke media want you to believe! Also, did you know licking dog turds cures the common cold?

 

Anyone have any clue what this is about?

Apparently someone banned me from "Fuck AI Alcoholic Psychos@sh.itjust.works" a couple of weeks ago.

Just looking through the modlog on lemmy.world out of interest. 21 pages of me being banned. Never even noticed until now.

If this is someone vulnerable, I'll be happy to delete this post.

TLDR: Don't even want anything done about it. Just confused and wondering what happened.

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