Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home <3 In the time honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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Okay so can we talk about literally anything on these?
I’ve been watching WW2 documentaries on Netflix with lunch, it’s interesting to see where bias and omissions and lies come into play with what little I already know about the war and all its facets. They’re not the worst bias-wise but there is a hint of “hey I mean a lot of Nazis were just honorable everyday people amiright? Now the communists on the other hand, well…” and “on this tragic, terrible, heart wrenching, horrific, fucked up piece of shit evil stain of a day in human history 4,251 brave epic hero American soldiers died valiantly. Oh and yeah the Soviets lost 3 million that one month but anyways” but it’s just a hint and tolerable enough compared to what I’m used to.
Also I know it’s libshit but goddamn most of the OG 20th century fascists are really not that incredibly different in demeanor and personality from most of the Trumpist American fascists. Like these depraved fragile-ego LARPers would be right at home in the suburbs with a blue-line Punisher skull sticker on their F150s. Just a nice reminder that the OG Nazis weren’t all that they projected.
Other than that I’ve been using this new information organization software called Obsidian that’s pretty neat after I pushed through the “I hate trying new things” phase.
I love Obsidian. Maybe it even will help me overcome procrastination but that’s yet to be seen. Right now I use it to archive articles that catch my attention and GitHub gists. But I’m planing on using it to write my masters thesis.
As an update I have essentially used it to make a Wikipedia-esque thing for a world me and my friend are making for a videogame. And it is very awesome. I used to love Microsoft Word and then Google Docs but this might be my new thing once I fully settle in and learn all the formatting and stuff (aliases were really hard for me to get to work for some reason). Good luck on your thesis, I know secondhand how insane those behemoths are!!!