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  • punksnotdead@slrpnk.nettoWorld News@lemmy.world•Zelenskyy Says JD Vance Is ‘Somehow Justifying’ Putin’s War In UkraineEnglish
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    14 days ago

    On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns—after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces—at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.

    There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.

    • 1984, George Orwell

    In my eyes a mandatory read for anybody opposed to authoritarianism.

    Available here: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html

  • punksnotdead@slrpnk.nettoTechnology@lemmy.world•EU considers tariffs on digital services Big TechEnglish
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    25 days ago

    I think you’re forgetting the power of consumers. At work you might not be able to replace Photoshop or Microsoft but at home you certainly can. The more people that become familiar with alternative software the more likely professional environments are to adopt it.

    Why would a company want to pay Adobe or Microsoft if their employees are more adept with free alternatives? Especially if those alternatives gain feature parity with the paid services while the paid services lock parts behind paywalls and subscriptions.

    Don’t let perfect get in the way of good!

  • punksnotdead@slrpnk.nettoNews@lemmy.world•White House Correspondents’ Association cancels plans to have a comedian headline annual dinnerEnglish
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    30 days ago

    Germany’s military industry was also trash at the time. Buying time for Britain’s defence also bought time for Germany’s offence.

    If France, Britain, etc did something sooner rather than later a lot of bloodshed would have been avoided.

    The World At War is an incredible documentary that covers it quite well.

    https://youtu.be/4AA0lWwTXNc

    “Since the French spurned any notion of taking the offensive, the Maginot Line ironically protected Germany better than it protected France.” Narrator, 8:10

    “A few French divisions advanced 5 miles. But they didn’t even try to penetrate the Siegfried Line, at that time still unfinished. And while Poland fought on, there were no German tanks at all on the Western Front.” Narrator, 12:40

    “If ze French Army would have attacked in beginning of September wiz zere very strong superiority in division in armoured cars well act all armoured cars in ze Western Front at zat time. In artillery, in air force, we ze German forces in the so called Western Front could stand no more than 1 or 2 weeks.” General Siegfried Westphal, Staff Officer Western Front, 14:05