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Cake day: December 4th, 2025

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  • I know. It is traumatic, but you know now and I’m glad that you do.

    Well I for one, am not.

    The only bad thing about realizing this about pistachios is that I have personally struggled to eat them since, and they used to be one of my favourite snacks. Hopefully, you will be more resilient than me.

    You really didn’t have to share this and I would have gone on to continue enjoying them. Why? 😭

    Gonna go stand in traffic now and hope the concussion deletes this fact.














  • IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zipto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonedon't give up rule
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    3 days ago

    Oh I agree I was just trying to provide a contrast angle, to emphasize the point. Of course there were good, but clearly too many leaked through, and while the blanket answer is ‘corrupt power strives for power,’ I believe in a more nuanced kind of way.

    Obviously having Einstein was a boon, but what if he’d been the kinda shit we deal with today? White-Christian-nationalist Einstein sounds like a worst-case scenario.

    We got off lucky and that’s putting it nicely.


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    3 days ago

    Sorry, maybe I misspoke/misinterpreted my point. As I was taught in grade 9-10, about 20y ago, (being American myself), post WW2 US was snatching up nazi scientists like pedophiles on a playground, instead of having proper screening.

    As I understand it, the screening was minimal and vulnerable, and by that measure, it’s no surprise the US became the modern Nazi-Germany.