Even in direct comparison Paperclip comes out looking a lot more :sus-deep: than the Soviet equivalent. The Soviets grabbed middle managers and working engineers, while the Americans grabbed the people in charge and whoever came along with them. The Soviets put German scientists on teams headed by Soviet scientists, the Americans put high profile "former" Nazis in charge of American military programs. When the work was done, the Soviet German scientists were sent back to the Germany of their choice with a paycheck and anonymity, while America gave their German scientists fame by centering them in propaganda and publicly excusing their crimes. There's a reason Nazis did everything they could to surrender to America, meanwhile in order to get their scientists the Soviets showed up in the middle of the night with guns.
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Soon all artists will be expected to use AI generation as a part of their process. Art will be so devalued that it will be the only way to make enough volume of work to make a living off of it. Resist all you might, but capitalism beat the luddites and it beat the communes and it will beat freelance artists too.
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Yeah I've heard about that, for certain applications they were a super cheap super computer. That's why I wish the official other OS support had been maintained - after it got dropped, support for it stopped getting worked on by the Linux community, imagine the wacky things they would have been able to do with it if support had never been dropped.
Sony tried to market the PS3 as a multimedia entertainment hub - in hindsight it was an idea ahead of its time, since that's what basically all Smart TVs are now - but the $700 price tag made it unattainable during the critical first year of sales.
it also launched with "install other OS" as a feature, which they removed later via an update.
The original X-Men trilogy was pretty good slop. It was before all of the personality had been sandblasted off of superhero films and you could cold open with a scene at a Nazi concentration camp.
The first X-Men movie literally starts with a scene of Magneto being separated from his parents at Dachau, which in hindsight makes his willingness to violently resist the fascist rumblings of the US government in that film completely justified and turns the X-men into the fucking Freikorps.
Professor X killed Rosa.
I was really hoping we would just... not post this one.
That first link is infuriating.
He then began to enjoy the good life just like the Tsars as illustrated by this photo taken at the May Day Red Army Parade in Moscow 1918!
Dude was a well documented workaholic to the detriment of his own health because of his commitment to the Revolution, but yeah this one photo of him being driven in a May Day parade proves that he just wanted to take toys from rich people and live it up.
donated millions to charity
The motherfucker was the Head of State, he could have ended the need for charity.
(like the Soviets did, for a time :ussr-cry: )
I can't shake the nagging feeling that this is fake like every :reddit-logo: story, but I want to believe that we're niche enough that we haven't attracted that kind of attention.
different beliefs about ownership
This concept was fairly fleshed out in the seventh HP book. Potterverse Goblins believe that ownership is established by creation of an object, which lead to a historic misunderstanding where Godric Griffindor believed that his sword was "sold" to him and the Goblin who made it believed it had only been rented.
You might think that this was set up so that the hero could resolve an old tension between the two groups and make justice, but actually the plot thread was left unresolved. A Goblin tried to steal the sword back as soon as Harry's back was turned, but then later it got re-summoned to Hogwarts by a spell that had been placed on it.
can we dwell for a moment on how obscenely good that drummer/keyboardist is? god damn.