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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I don’t think Hitler has a single place that is a permanent grave.

    After he shot himself, his Nazi friends buried him and his wife in about 1 foot of dirt in the garden outside the bunker. (This is the place that is today a parking lot for an apartment block). The Soviet Red Army exhumed that grave within a few days and cremated the bodies and scattered them so as to not create any single place that could become a focal point for future neo-nazi movements.


  • The site of Adolf Hitler’s death, and of his first grave, is now a non-descript parking lot for a non-descript apartment block. This was done for exactly the opposite reason: To prevent any site from becoming a locus of commemoration.

    But I certainly see your reasoning for Mr. Trump. I wonder how many people are actually there for Trump himself? How many would stick with him when he doesn’t have the power to get them something?



  • If an American moves to Europe and doesn’t attempt to learn the local language, then by a few months to a year in with zero effort people will say they’re in the wrong for not making an effort to integrate and expecting everyone to speak English for them.

    My American cousin lived and worked in France as an engineer for several years. This is absolutely not true. He did make an effort to learn some French, but it wasn’t because of any pressure. He just wanted to.





  • Apparently TF2 added a “community-generated” map last week that was not only broken itself, it broke other maps too, causing game crashes.

    The issue was a model of a row boat that was added to the official game in 2009. cp_premuda was added to the official game in July, 2026. But Premuda is a lot older than that, and it references a version of the row boat model that is older than what was added to the game in 2009.


  • The $5 million is earning interest at the “judicial interest rate”. Which is 4% (and tied to t-bonds) instead of 100%. That’s how the $5 million became $5.8 million during the appeal.

    Trump was also probably required to post an appeal bond in cash or other security to cover the entire amount of the judgement plus expected interest. So when Caroll does finally get her money, the check is probably going to come from an escrow service or similar, not from Trump directly.





  • There had to be a balance in editorial content

    This rule was was the Fairness Doctrine, and it was in effect from 1949 to 1987. So it’s fair to say that Reagan got rid of it.

    if the station supported Candidate A, Candidate B had to be allowed equal time.

    This is a different rule called the Equal Time Rule, and it’s still in effect today.

    Recently this rule was in the news when Stephen Colbert interviewed Senate candidate James Talarico on his (now concluded) show, without offering the same interview time to Talarico’s primary opponent Jasmine Crockett. I believe in the end the interview was cut from the over-the-air broadcast to comply with the rule. (The interview segment was published on YouTube, which is not subject to the rule.)