

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
6d 19m ago in technology from arstechnica.comTLDR:
a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews.
I'm getting pretty sick of these bots posting links to news articles without anything other than a clickbait title.
8 arrested in FBI raids related to pro-Palestine advocacy at University of Michigan
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TIL out of all gemstones, diamonds are the most common
7d 20h ago in til from www.gemsociety.orgI'm wearing a watch with a sapphire lens right now! From what I understand, the tradeoff between different watch faces are how easy/hard they are to scratch vs shatter, with sapphire being the most scratch proof and a plastic polymer (I don't remember which) being the most shatter resistant.
They are very hard to scratch, but also probably easier to crack. I'd hate to drop a phone with a sapphire screen.
Swastika-waving neo-Nazi group disrupts Georgia LGBTQ+ Pride celebration
8d 12m ago in politics from www.advocate.comI see what you're saying. Using the rhetoric of "There’s no such thing as murdering a [...]" is the same shit the Nazi said about Jews. I would rather take a nonviolent approach to this kind of thing, but as another person commented the paradox of tolerance can become a problem. I don't want to deal with Nazis. I don't want them in my community. They know they aren't welcome, so they hide, and only show their faces when they have strength to intimidate. But they're still here and they still teach hate wherever they go.
One of the things they did to indoctrinate people into Nazi ideology was to brainwash them as children. The Hitler Youth was a big driving part of his power. I think the first step to combat Nazi hate is to teach empathy first. There's a reason a lot of tattoo artists will do free cover-ups of hate symbols. People change; I want to believe people are inherently good. But until a Nazi sees how evil their beliefs are, they won't listen to reason and need to be treated as such: an evil bastard.
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10d 12h ago in lemmyshitpost from discuss.onlinePlease explain how knowing about the Elder Futhark is defending Nazis?
No I understand that. The S rune on its own has its place in cultural history with all the other Runes, while putting two of them next to each other can only be seen as a Nazi symbol, much like the Swastika. In the modern practice of Heathenry and Paganism (which I practice) it is a very important distinction because the Nazis appropriated so much from European history for their symbolism. For example, the Swastika is the symbol for the Sunwheel, but I outright refuse to use it for anything because fuck Nazis. You can find it in ancient Buddhist temples that long predate Nazi Germany, and it has its own separate meaning for them, but for 99% of people it screams Nazi.
Another lesser known symbol appropriated by Nazis is the "Winged Othala" symbol. The regular Othala Rune is one thing, but adding those little "Wings" on the bottom makes it 100% a Nazi symbol.
I guess one of the points I'm trying to make is to know what is and isn't some Nazi bs, and that some of those symbols are irredeemable after such strong Nazi usage, but others are just simply mistaken for Nazi symbols when they aren't. I specifically avoid using anything in my religious practice that has Nazi association, and am ready to explain anything else that people might mistake otherwise.
I'm not disagreeing with that, but to say the Nazi shite invented runes is wrong. I thought it was pretty well known that the Nazis appropriated many of their symbols from historical findings.
The Elder Futhark predates Nazi Germany by well over 1,000 years. Wikipedia says it was used between the 2nd to 8th centuries.
Edit: dang are people getting upset over a fact check? I never said it was okay to use symbols appropriated by Nazis.
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10d 22h ago in me_irl from lemmy.todayI worked for Home Depot for a while. Same thing there. Old stock gets discounted a few times, and if it doesn't sell, it literally goes into their trash compactor (if it fits). When I first started, I spent an entire shift just breaking apart material to fit in the compactor. (That doesn't happen often but usually it's just smaller clearance items that don't sell.)
Cuckoo - Autobahn Kidnapping
1y 5mon ago in gardengrooves@walledgarden.xyz from tidal.comSold my Genesis as a kid for Smash Bros. Now I have one again to replay my childhood games.
1y 6mon ago in segagenesisMost people are selling old TVs for $100-$200+, but I found this one for $25.
1y 7mon ago in crtgamingHappy Solstice to those on Lemmy! What traditions do you hold on this night?
2y 5mon ago in heathenry@lemmy.ml






