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58008@lemmy.worldto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that the first victims of The Holocaust were murdered at the Dachau concentration camp in 1933, and the Bavarian Justice Ministry tried to prosecute the SS for the murders.English78·10 days agoI’ve been reading about the Holocaust a fair bit of late, and it’s interesting to see the debate around the functionalist/intentionalist view of how it happened. OP’s story seems to lend credence to the former version, in that the Nazi state was a patchwork of warring factions that were each trying to take power for themselves and in an effort to do so, tried a little too hard to do what they imagined Hitler wanted of them, namely more and more murder and ruthlessness and general mayhem, eventually culminating in plans for wholesale extermination. This is the functionalist view, where things happened almost in a bottom-up fashion, whereas the intentionalist idea is one where Hitler planned the Holocaust from day one in a top-down approach. I personally think it’s more likely to be the former though, at least from what I’ve read about it anyway.
Growing up in the '80s and '90s, I never really learned much about the Holocaust aspect of WWII. I knew the broad strokes, of course, but the finer details of the Nazi state’s operations are where the true horror lies. Even without WWII or the Holocaust, it was one of the purest examples of a nightmarish dystopia run by corrupt, amoral, incompetent, petty, narcissistic lunatics and sociopaths. The parallels with certain modern governments is terrifying…
58008@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If nudity was more widely accepted, tattoos would be more popular.English4·14 days agoI bet it’d also cause a huge comeback for those rub-on tattoos you used to get with bubblegum.
58008@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Tell me a must see movie/series I have not seen!English3·15 days agoThe film and its follow-up set of miniseries:
- This is England (2006) (The film)
- This is England '86 (2010)
- This is England '88 (2011)
- This is England '90 (2015)
From the same writer/director (Shane Meadows), I also recommend The Virtues (2019) miniseries.
Both projects are semiautobiographical. They can be a tough watch in certain episodes, so check doesthedogdie.com for possible triggers.
One of Shane Meadows’ earlier films is often recommended, so it’s probably one you’ve already seen, but Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) is worth a look if it’s new to you.
58008@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you think is the biggest issue with Lemmy?English2·20 days agoNot just Lemmy, but all Fediverse frontends: it’s confusing and cumbersome. I’ve been here for 2 years and I still find that it’s very much lacking in the “user experience” department. I have add-ons and scripts to ‘patch’ things that ought not to need patching. I don’t know if it’s possible for this to happen given the nature of Fedi, but it should be the case that a new user would find it works more or less the same as non-Fedi software and not have to juggle instances and type hideous and long URLs into the search bar. Instance names and stuff like that should be available to people who want to see them, but by default there’s little reason to frighten new users with it. Make it be under-the-hood type stuff. One follow button that works for your home instance regardless of where you are on the Fediverse would be a nice start.
Also, privacy needs to be handled better. Again, not sure if that’s possible because of the nature of Fedi, but Lemmy should make users feel more secure than reddit or Twitter, not less. Like, it’s bizarre that reddit protects my privacy more than Lemmy does, given that reddit doesn’t really protect my privacy much at all.
58008@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the longest you've gone without a shower/bath. Why?English12·21 days agoA little over 3 months is my record. Mental health issues, naturally! 🥳 🎂 🎉
58008@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why am I having back pain nowadays after peeing??English1·26 days agoThe pee-secreting gland that moves the pee into the kidney to be washed and warmed up before being passed into the bladder - a little dime-sized gland call the “Penguinal Class Action Monitor” - can sometimes become overactive and try to secrete too much urea at once, faster than the kidney can accept it. This causes something of a backlog, the medical term being “St. Bartholomew’s Lump Reversal”. It causes the gland to swell up with pee, something it’s not really equipped for given that it’s a gland and not a hollow chamber like the bladder, all while the kidney simply refuses to take even the normal a mount of pee because it’s guarding against possible infection upstream. The term for this is the “Immune Raster Verifier Cadence”, and this is likely the cause of the back pain you mentioned.
I am, in fact, a doctor. I have a degree in Major Arterial Anaphylaxis from the University of Chechetchistserster in England. The professor who taught me said I was the best student he’d ever had. Keep in mind, though, that he also once taught a little-known scientist by the name of Isaac Newton. Sooooooo… 🤷
Treatment: drink lots of alcohol and eat lots of cheese while watching copious amounts of pornography. It’s important you don’t move around too much by, say, going to work or doing chores, because the alcohol needs to be able to settle around your glands to cure them.
Either that or kidney stones.
If you say it in the same tone of voice that Muhammad Ali used to tell Joe Frazier to sit down during that television chat show altercation, and while slowly unzipping your trousers in a manner similar to when a cop places his hand on his holstered Glock, it works pretty well.