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  • Oh, I know. As I said, partly due to the cold war. To be clear, not Jewish, but my grandmother spent time in Dachau. So she was arguably one of the victims who were partly ignored.

    My point is that the extravagant anecdotes, like human skin lamp shades, or stories about the SS throwing sweets at children as they were buried alive, have become tropes. The kind of stuff does tend to grab your attention, so much so that people are likely to lose sight of the bigger picture, or worry about which proportion of a pile of emaciated corpses was or wasn't Jewish.

    Anyway, if you haven't watched Come and See, I recommend it. Obviously, it's not a fun watch, but it gives you an idea of how gruesome the eastern front was and some of what they went through at the hand of the nazis.

    Not your comment, obviously - you're right to point out that that Jews weren't the only or majority of victims of the holocaust - but to be clear for those reading and as the relative of a holocaust survivor, even though I'm not Jewish I'm obviously not going to go along with any narrative that suggest the Jews exagerated their treatment during the holocaust. That's a particularly deplorable but common narrative among the far right, especially in Russia, which they've partially been using to justify their war crimes in Ukraine. Hence why they see no irony in suggesting Zelenskyy is a Nazi, because they claim slavs were the true victims of the holocaust, with some even going so far as to suggest the Jews orchestrated the holocaust. Here's a relevant article on that:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin-ukraine-attack-antisemitism-denazify

  • Partly due to the cold war, I suspect. Also because if you're making a list of atrocities, the particularly gruesome stuff does tend to attract the audience's attention.

    I 'recommend' Come and See for those wondering what the Eastern Front was like. Almost certainly the best war movie ever made. The only reason it doesn't rank higher in the best movies ever made, is because it's not great repeat viewing.

    Here it is on the official Mosfilm youtube channel, with subtitles.

  • Oh hi! Mine was also in Dachau. Died years ago, though. You're right they're often forgotten.

    She was also a 'partizan'. Although in her case, she was a teenaged girl who according to her was handed a pamphlet then arrested as she walked around the corner reading it. Given we're talking about the nazis and nazi collaborators, I doubt entrapment is the worst of the crimes, so seems plausible.

    The thing with Dachau, and AFAIK other concentration camps, is that they weren't actually one concentration camp but an entire complex. Each Konzentrationslager comprised a Stammlager (the main camp), Aussenlager(outside camp), Nebenlager(subcamp), and Arbeitslager(work camp).

    So it's likely that like my grandma, yours will have been sent to a subcamp, after being sorted in Dachau itself. That's one of the reasons there's less information about them. The 'main attraction' is so horrible, we forgot about all the subcamps where 'only' half of the prisoners died. She was probably the right age to do hard labour. Mine was almost certainly experimented on. Obviously she didn't talk about it much, there was that time grandma tried to jump out of the car when we tried to take her to the hospital, ah childhood memories.

    Covid was a bit weird though. Everyone was stockpiling, and it reminded me of my grandma showing me her secret stash of sunlight soap in the upstairs cupboard. As a kid, it seemed innocent, but in retrospect it was pretty obvious she was always prepared for the worst to happen again.

    It's interesting how trauma goes through the generations. Probably also explains some of the health issues we have as a family, given we now know that the children of holocaust survivors inherited epigenetic damage. Trauma's basically passed on through the children's genes.

    Interesting how this has affected my view of the world, too.

    Sorry, this was an overly long comment. I don't usually get to talk about this at dinner parties. It's a bit much and unrelateable for most people.

  • Inevitable, but still better than vox.

    Same thing happened a while here in Belgium, with the right wing NVA winning votes from the far-right Vlaams Belang.

    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I wouldn't count the far right out. They're harder to get rid of than cockroaches.

  • TBF you can turn on an ICE car and let it warm up a bit before you drive it. Some ICE cars also allow you to remotely pre-start or there are after market options so you can use an app to do exactly that. Hell, Russian far east they simply leave the car on for the cold months.

    It's just that it's incredibly wasteful/polluting.

  • From the article:

    this data doesn’t adjust for the age of the vehicles. Older gas-powered cars fail at a higher rate than the new ones and electric vehicles are obviously much more recent on average.

    Their data and the article's title are highly misleading. No shit a year old tesla is going to be more reliable than a 20 year old toyota corolla. You need to compare cars of a similar age, before you can come to a firm conclusion.

  • Fuck I can’t remember even diesel engines falling because of glow plugs.

    Fun fact/anecdote:

    I remember reading an old timey engineer/designer being told not to never route wiring or fuel under the diesel engine of a vehicle. The reason is that in colder climates, if it gets really cold and the diesel turns to syrup, people will/would sometimes light a small fire under the engine to heat the block and diesel up.

    Obviously, nowadays there are electic engine heaters for that, but that doesn't help much if you're in the middle of the Siberian wilderness.

  • Here's an actually insane life. Tura Satana from cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

    Satana was born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan. Her father was a Japanese silent movie actor of Filipino descent, and her mother was a circus performer of Native American (Cheyenne) and Ulster-Scots background ... a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California ... just before her 10th birthday, she was reportedly gang raped by five men. According to Satana, her attackers were never prosecuted, and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off ... Over the next 15 years, Satana tracked down each rapist and exacted revenge. "I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them," she said years later. "They never knew who I was until I told them." ... Around this time, she formed a gang, "the Angeles," with Italian, Jewish, and Polish girls from her neighborhood. ... Because of frequent delinquency, she was sent to reform school. When she was 13, her parents arranged her marriage to 17-year-old John Satana in Hernando, Mississippi, which lasted nine months. ... using fake identification to hide the fact she was a minor, began burlesque dancing. ... became a photographic model for, among others, silent screen comic Harold Lloyd, ... She claimed that after singer Elvis Presley saw Satana perform at Chicago's Follies Theater, the two began a romantic relationship that some reports say ended in a marriage proposal she declined ... although she kept the ring. ... Satana then starred as "Varla" in the 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ... created by Russ Meyer ... Meyer said Satana was "extremely capable. She knew how to handle herself. Don't fuck with her! And if you have to fuck her, do it well! She might turn on you!" ...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TuraSatana

  • You have a point. Helps increase engagement, like making a spelling mistake or rage bait.

    Tiresome, but common.

  • The younger generation is less tech savvy than the millenial generation who were forced to figure stuff out themselves and didn't have smartphones.

    I get the idea that a lot of people who emigrated to the fediverse are older and also more tech literate given all the linux memes.

  • /r/videos used to be a default and supposedly has millions of subscribers, but when I was still on reddit you'd regularly see content with 100 upvotes reach the top of the subreddit and maybe 10 comments. Often this was on bot reposts.

    Their numbers should be take with a huge grain of salt.

  • Feel free to scrape your sagging scrotum along the floor, or hell bend over at the worst possible moment and show us all your grey squirrel roadkill anus, but for the love of the gods please put a towel down before you go sit on stuff.

    People who don't put a towel down should be shot.

  • Yep.

    Messing with shipping is an act of war, plain and simple. The US had no choice but to respond. What are they supposed to do? Allow people to take pot shots? That sets a very bad precedent.

    This being said, the Saudis have been bombing Yemen for almost a decade. The US really isn't going to achieve anything significant with a limited amount of bombings. And they obviously know that. This is simply a proportional and primarily symbolic response, mainly meant to warn others that there's a cost to fucking with the US.

  • Cosplay communists.

    No one who's an actual communist would support Yeltsin and the Oligarchs' friend Putin.

  • Or without US help the death toll would have been even higher.

  • He wants to split the 50 billion in 4 installments, so they can cause trouble once a year.

    All this for the equivalent of €10.6 per European in grants per year for four years, money we will make back ten fold in savings by avoiding the need for increased defense spending if Ukraine loses.

    Tiresome.

    The EU needs to be reformed ASAP. We need a European military and proper Europe wide defence industry cooperation ASAP.