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giorgosts commented on Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)   fakehistoryhunter.net/202... · Posted by u/nixass
dlkmp · 7 months ago
Did you read the article? It was a real world practice, but long gone already at that time (in the mentioned parts of Europe at least).
giorgosts · 7 months ago
Why would the filmmakers make the re-enactment though? For social media? For clicks over the interwebs?

For context, by the late '20 programs were running for the elimination of Gypsies and disabled children inside concentration camps. Pieces of burned clothing were found on rooftops. Even Britain had a eugenics program against inferior races.

Not likely therefore made to cause outrage over children's rights, rather to depict established practices.

giorgosts commented on Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)   fakehistoryhunter.net/202... · Posted by u/nixass
giorgosts · 7 months ago
So it is a re-enactment but nevertheless, it is depicting real world practices prevalent at the time.
giorgosts commented on Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything   smithsonianmag.com/innova... · Posted by u/Hooke
giorgosts · 10 months ago
What about the use of lead in car batteries? Even if there are requirements for recycling, it is still a burden for the environment and the people that have to deal with the material is its various stages.
giorgosts commented on How America traded systematic improvement for quick wins–and lost both   population.fyi/p/process-... · Posted by u/klooney
metalman · 10 months ago
at the mention of clintoon, I disregarded and dissmissed this as auto babble navel gazing. our current situation is unprecidented in human affairs,in many ways, the ratio of those with unlimited power to those with no choices would make a pharoe blush, the loss of personal space and time, with the absolute personal responsiblity to take initiative, is gone, swamped under an endless stream of media inputs into every last vestage of the process of self identity and expression, millions every day signing up to take the biege pill and invoking clintoon, the bro from pedo island, is absolute proof of a total incomprehension of where we are now
giorgosts · 10 months ago
The one making the current reforms the article is talking about, is also a convicted sex offender and a bro on the same island.

History though, as a very distinguished philosopher once said, is the actions of men (and women) in pursuit of their ends.

giorgosts commented on Toyota rethinks its bet on hydrogen   ft.com/content/69422656-7... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
giorgosts · a year ago
Hydrogen as done by Toyota was a sales an lobbying tactic. By setting an undoable target (or a target too far in the future), they could push for more gasoline cars and less strict emission regulations in the meantime.

Now this tactic has run its course and they are considering of what to do next.

giorgosts commented on Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]   gwern.net/doc/psychology/... · Posted by u/hardmaru
giorgosts · 2 years ago
False dichotomy. Of course language is for communication like in all other animals, but where would man be without the invention of the language of mathematics? Probably not in the space and nuclear age. So the linguistic tools can push the boundaries of human cognition.

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giorgosts commented on The Format Dialog in Windows NT   twitter.com/davepl1968/st... · Posted by u/develatio
asveikau · 2 years ago
The mkfs or newfs tools on any Linux or *BSD don't have the limit. The Windows kernel also does fine on larger volumes formatted on a free OS.

I do this all the time for SD cards. (Because who wants exfat?)

giorgosts · 2 years ago
does fat32 support larger files than 4GB, common for video files shared with USB or SD cards?
giorgosts commented on The Meaning of Liberalism (1938)   roberthjackson.org/speech... · Posted by u/johntfella
gehwartzen · 2 years ago
I mean in most economic theory ultimately the interests align with those who owns the means of production. In capitalism that is the individual (ideally) and in socialism it’s society (ideally) so not sure what’s wrong with GPs definition. The interest of those who own comes first in either case; that seems self evident.
giorgosts · 2 years ago
In capitalism the capital has a life and a mind of its own, independently from the people who own it or serve it as professionals. It wants to grow and accumulate.

Only a mixture of capitalism with socialist policies can be beneficial to man, if you go with absolutes it brings misfortune to most people.

giorgosts commented on The Meaning of Liberalism (1938)   roberthjackson.org/speech... · Posted by u/johntfella
giorgosts · 2 years ago
"But our acceptance of those property rights is subject to the important qualification that the interests of men and of society come first and that warns us both the misunderstanding and the hostility of conservatives."

That's how socialism is defined, that the interests of society come first.

u/giorgosts

KarmaCake day67June 26, 2013View Original