Oh no, my tastes tell me I am all four on the bottom right, so, basically chaotic evil and neighbours 🤔

Luckily for us, that seems to be some piss-weak nearly-water coffee.

My brain is telling me, the bottom right picture has to be the fluffiest thing to possibly exist fluffily in the universe

Could that be the common ground for the India-Pakistan conflict to come to an end?

This made me check on how pixelfed has been faring, since I remember them going through a huge boom recently - and to my joy, they still have a very large (for fediverse standards) community, they even rebounded a bit from the initial drop of people leaving after trying it out!

As just a personal thing, the original mute watching was so surreal and unique, I enjoyed it more - solving the mystery of what is happening from what’s shown visually alone (and some subdued music) - but that is a deeply subjective thing.

you should also get back together with that girlfriend and be on the phone with her while you watch it.

Oh no, I couldn’t do that to her, she definitely deserved better.

Done and done - it was about time I got an account there anyway.

That is a possible explanation, although I think it was weirder than that, because I remember checking some “obvious” settings like that afterwards. I also re-encoded the file with VLC media player out of curiosity, where it should have just re-encoded whatever audio track it had, without adjusting it to a specific output device, and the resulting file then also had the same issue when played in SMPLayer (whereas the original worked in SMPlayer).

I might still have both files laying around on my NAS, but I myself at least don’t really have the energy right now to go into a rabbit hole again years after the fact, and sharing them would be non-trivial.

So, I once watched The Lighthouse together with my then girlfriend remotely, being in a long distance relationship at the time. We used the same file, started at the same time and were in chat together.

The audio codec of this (of course 100% legal) file for some reason did not work with my VLC player properly. There were no voices. But it also wasn’t just complete silence, some music and subtle, surreal sound effects came through. None of this was happening for my ex, btw, even though we had the same file.

Talking about the movie in chat and afterwards was fascinating, I only then realised it was, in fact, not a masterful, purposeful, stylistic choice: A major production not just in black and white, but as a silent movie. I also was able to get the essential things that happened and the important plot points, so that is also another point very much in favour of the film.

You are right, and thank you.

Still, I have to add one small thing, quickly, because I did indeed not communicate what I meant well for that point: My point there was about Himmler having (superstitiously) thought of some “pure” Roma people potentially being essentially a worthy “Aryan precursor race” - that belief also being connected to his expeditions to Tibet/India. That was the point I maintain would have been completely unthinkable for Nazis to even entertain for Jewish people, whom they deemed as fundamentally, irredeemably evil and without worth. And while, yes, things like the Madagascar plan (essentially a less direct form of genocide) were discussed, I maintain, that the implementation of finding, registering and exterminating of Jewish people after it was decided upon as a “solution” was more “urgent” to the Nazi state.

NOTE: I only after already writing all this noticed you weren’t OP poking me with a second comment, which sort of sent me into a bit of an emotionally laden wall-of-text, because truth be told, I am not all that well at the moment. I will still leave the text as-is, but of course, some of the points or the overall tone is not fair as being directed towards you. I do agree, more broadly, that the Porajmos is underappreciated. I do still maintain, that antisemitism was much more central to Nazi ideology, and their attempts to eliminate Jews were much more driven and fanatical, however.

I really do not want to get into this much further, I have an easier day today, but I am definitely not stress resistant enough at the moment to go into large and long-lasting internet arguments about a topic like this - but I think you are missing why people were disagreeing with you. I can cherry-pick facts from articles too. From the same you posted, which I reviewed before posting my original comment:

For the Jews it was total and everyone knew this—from bankers to pawnbrokers. For the Roma it was selective and not comprehensive. The Roma were only exterminated in a few parts of Europe such as Poland, the Netherlands, Germany and France. In Romania and much of the Balkans, only nomadic Roma and social outcast Roma were deported. This matters and influences the Roma mentality.

Or:

Initially, there was disagreement within the Nazi circles about how to solve the “Gypsy Question”. In late 1939 and early 1940, Hans Frank, the General Governor of occupied Poland, refused to accept the 30,000 German and Austrian Roma which were to be deported to his territory. Heinrich Himmler “lobbied to save a handful of pure-blooded Roma”, whom he believed to be an ancient Aryan people for his “ethnic reservation”, but was opposed by Martin Bormann, who favored deportation for all Roma.

Such a discussion and disagreement all the way up to Himmler would have been completely unthinkable to Nazi ideology to have with Jewish people in the same way. Just imagine Himmler saying, some select Jews should be preserved for their worth as a race. Antisemitism dripped from every facet of Nazi ideology, it was absolutely central, and their efforts to exterminate Jews were going above and beyond all rationality. Them just being in the same category (as I said, both “rootless” and “parasitic”, thusly seen as incompatible with nation states) does not mean they were viewed in the exact same way in practice.

You are also missing the point on where you are crossing lines. This is not about antiziganism not being a more pressing issue in many European countries concerning their present politics, it absolutely is, especially but not only in many Easter European states - and it has definitely been addressed in a worse way, the pitiful and late reparations given are a good indication for that.

This is not about that issue not being a fact, it is about you using that to downplay antisemitism and antisemitic structures, which are also still very much alive, and downplaying their absolutely essential and central role in Nazi ideology historically. That is the issue. Even if you did not intend to do it, you reproduced antisemitic dog-whistling and whataboutism.

And even though in some countries it is less than antiziganism for sure (even though - sidenote, a very numbing part of reality is, that antisemitism has been reduced more thoroughly from parts of Europe, because Jews where wiped out and displaced more thoroughly by the Nazis, so there were none left to reproduce the old stereotypes against in everyday live afterwards), and some organisations have wrongly utilised the term “antisemitism” to try and silence opposition - writing out “anti-semitism” in quotes, essentially doing a “but #alllivesmatter” thing about races. That is classic downplaying behaviour.

Antisemitic crimes are well and alive, I know only the statistics for Germany, and not off the top of my head, and I don’t have the strength to look those up now, too - but even just casual shit like swastikas spray painted on historical Jewish graveyards (is a regular occurrence around where I live) or videos going viral of some dude off the street saying “I am against Nazis, but I think Hitler did some stuff right concerning some people, you know which ones I mean.” - things like that still happen. Hell, Jewish spaces here in Germany are often ridiculously in need of security and high walls, and that is not all just their paranoia - there have been terrorist attacks on them, e.g. in Halle not too long ago for one attack that made bigger news. There have been people wearing the Kippa attacked in the street. That all happens.

Also: Analysing how fascist elements are active in Israel, and some structures have fascist characteristics is completely okay. Resolutely claiming them to be “Nazis” is at best blind towards history and Nazism, and how it actually played out and what its ideological foundations were/are - and at worst, an actual antisemitic dogwhistle you have, I hope accidentally, reproduced.

And again: This is part of a century old history, reproduced from generation to generation, and cause of one of the most horrid crimes committed against humanity - which is why the things you said are indistuingishable from dog whistles and concern trolling and, yes, antisemitism. I truly believe you did not want to communicate it like this, but you did reproduce the same arguments. And it is possible to try and bring across those points without crossing those lines.

I really can’t invest much more energy into this, but it seems you are still emotionally invested in your comments getting removed, hence me getting poked with a stick after your first answer. Which is why I did not want to write anything at first, but I hope, even though I must admit, I was getting a bit dismissively emotional there, I could still bring across better what the actual problem was. I don’t think I will have another answer in me, especially since probably no one but us two will be reading it anyway days after the fact.

Ja, das ist auch nicht weiter verwunderlich - Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund machen aus strukturellen Gründen einen großen Anteil im Niedriglohnsektor aus, wo oft aufgestockt werden muss - und gerade Namen aus dem orthodox-slawischen Bereich sind zB hier stark repräsentiert - nicht verwunderlich, bei den strukturellen Problemen für eine gerade erst vor kurzem als große Gruppe hierher geflohene.

Eine Überrepresentation sagt halt an sich wenig aus ohne weitere Analyse, und Bürgergeld empfangen bedeutet nicht gleich nicht arbeiten. (Und zusätzlich, weil ich das zu oft vergessen sehe: Nicht arbeiten bedeutet auch nicht automatisch, nichts zur Gemeinschaft beitragen, z.B. durch anderweitiges Engagement sowohl offiziell in Vereinen und co, als auch inoffiziell, in Freundschaften, Familien, Nachbarschaften, etc.)

That has been my impression of present dynamics and historical data, too - boom-bust-cycles of either some other platform fucking up or there being curiosity from some synergetic effect, then the initial wave breaking over time - but usually also leaving behind at least more (genuinely active) users than before the wave. For Lemmy, one can definitely see some reduction in activity, I think - not dramatically, but I do think it’s noticeable if you spend a lot of time here. E.g. unlike during the last Exodus, I see more of “the same users” than before. There’s still enough content, it does not feel dead by a long shot, and who knows when the next wave may hit.

That wave-like character makes it hard to estimate organic growth too, at times. The mass influx of users dying off over weeks will give shrinking numbers there, even if some users from organic growth who are more likely to stay and be active than “mass exodus users” may still join there. Also, users moving in between MBin/PieFed/Lemmy will fudge numbers, but they are essentially in the same ecosystem.

Link to the VOD on PeerTube here

Ah, I know what you are getting at, traditional Chinese medicine was indeed seen as a tool that could be applied without having to immediately import know how from abroad, and it did indeed create a basic, professional network of care that wasn’t there in that way before. I was more thinking of how practices like Feng Shui or the broad umbrella of “traditional Chinese folk religion” and associated beliefs were treated during the cultural revolution, which got some form of “rehabilitation” afterwards, often in a newly interpreted/sanctioned way.

Okay, I really don’t have the energy or health capacity for getting into an argument, so I hate myself for doing this, but since no one else speaks up:

No, Nazis did not target Roma in the same way as Jewish people. While both were seen as “rootless” and “parasitic”, Jews were seen as evil, behind every misfortune, infiltrators, conspirators, actively behind every great crime in history. Eliminating Jews symbollically and materially was absolutely central to Nazi ideology, eliminating Roma was not.

This was also not an invention by the Nazis, but has had a long tradition in Europe (e.g. the myth of Jews killing Jesus making them a force of genuine evil in the eyes of many Christian thinkers) and, yes, also the Arab world, where it really took off with the rise of nationalism, similarily to how it was in Europe.

The claim of the second comment, of “but what about Roma [or Poles, or Slavs more broadly]” is used all too frequently to distract from the totality of extermination that was planned and carried out. Not “just” colonialist genocide, not “just” eliminating “unworthy life”, but a genuine belief in eradicating evil, that characterised the Holocaust, targeting Jews specifically, as the “architects of evil.”

And the claim that now, Jewish people have simply moved into the “Übermensch” category, as in the second comment shown, is precisely prescribing those attributes to them - as a people that now plots to destroy other ethnicities for being unworthy. That is way beyond criticising the genocide in Palestine as a colonial-paranoid genocide. Without knowing more of the context, its hard to say how heated things got, and what your underlying idea was, but you did cross lines here. It is possible to oppose genocide and settler violence without crossing those lines.

Oh, woah, that link got mangled somehow - should be fixed now

But did he manage 3 days without going?

There are definitely similarities, but China has its own fascinating history there, with a lot of traditional beliefs resurfacing as weird, sanctioned versions of themselves after the cultural revolution had mostly suppressed them. I think on average, the administration in China will probably have less “true believers” and more “stuff like this is necessary to maintain societal peace and harmony” opportunists.

But that is mostly speculation on my part and hard to gauge without looking into peoples’ heads.

Sort of, they also had weird currents of esoteric nonsense, like “Welteislehre” for example. Or Himmlers expeditions to Tibet to find the origins of the master race and evidence of supetnatural abilities. They believed themselves to be secular and anticlerical, but they had their own cult with superstitions.

And they absolutely hated some scientists, relativity was a thorn in their eyes, for example, as “Jewish Science”.