That’s exactly how most Germans did respond to it back then too.

Pretend it wasn’t happening. Pretend they didn’t know about it. Until they get slapped in the face with reality when the allies show up and force march them to dig the graves at the concentration camps.

It’s a “block party”! </dadjoke>

I’ll show myself out.

Thanks for this. I need to create a mental health list to stop my habit of doomscrolling.

If it was on film, then you had the fidelity to spare to upscale it in HD the normal way (by re-digitizing it)

Yep. It’s the reason The Original Series and The Next Generation got HD remasters, but Voyager and DS9 didn’t. The latter two were shot on digital and so it wasn’t possible, while the first two were shot on film.

Can I be nit-picky here for a second?

If you’re genetically modifying an elephant for cold tolerance and fur growth, you’re not “bring a mammoth back from extinction”, you’re creating a furry elephant. It may look somewhat like a mammoth, but genetically it’s not a mammoth at all.

It’s like saying you can genetically modify a homo-sapien to have a pronounced brow ridge and a hairier back and say that you’ve brought the neandertal back from extinction. No you haven’t, you’ve just designed a human who looks different.

I don’t know about that, to be honest.

I don’t have any hard data to back me up, but anecdotally I find that most FOSS software I use is headquartered in Europe. Quite often Germany. There are many maintainers from all over the world, but I feel like (again…in my experience) Europe has always been bigger into starting such projects.

It was Benito Mussolini’s headquarters in Rome during WW2

So…America…you guys really are about a step-and-a-half away from this?

Get your shit together. Christ.

On a brighter note, I’m pretty sure Katy Perry’s boobs would look absolutely fantastic in zero gravity.

I agree with you.

However…there’s an argument to be made that the post itself is a form of criticism and falls under the free speech rules where it regards political figures. In many ways, it’s not any different than the drawings of Musk holding Trump’s puppet strings, or Putin and Trump riding a horse together. One is drawn and the other is animated, but they’re the same basic concept.

I understand however that that sets a disturbing precedent for what can and cannot be acceptable. But I don’t know where to draw that line. I just know that it has to be drawn somewhere.

I think…and this is my opinion…political figures are fair game for this, while there should be protections in place for private citizens, since political figures by their very ambition put themselves in the public sphere whereas private individuals do not.

I don’t expect it. I just hope for it because it would be the most big-dick-energy move Zelensky can pull on Trusk.

I desperately desperately desperately want to read a headline that says “Ukraine signs rare mineral agreement with the European Union. Ukraine becomes a member of the EU and the EU gets large resources of rare minerals to supercharge their own homegrown tech industry and divest it from the United States of Trump”

Do I count as an avgeek if one of my hobbies is creating 3D models for X-Plane?

Will Bluesky eventually enshittify? Probably.

Should people come to Mastodon instead? Of course.

Are there far bigger concerns at the moment? Absolutely.

Whatever Bluesky may or may not turn out to be, the important thing right now is to get people off of X, which we already know is a nazi controlled space. We don’t sabotage that goal by being high and mighty and telling people they’re not leaving to the right place.

One battle at a time.

Found the Spartan warrior.

Everything from wife-killers, toenail-eaters, to geniuses

Stop spying on me please.

If you think your Apple phone isn’t listening to you, I have some seaside real estate I’d like to sell you in Montana.

I can’t help but think that there’s a Broadway musical first act closing song somewhere in there…

Yes…that’s why we call them “Freedom Fries”… riiiight…

The idiot president of one country can call it whatever he wants. But it doesn’t make it internationally recognized.

That’s a very fair point. But it’s still annoying.