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@deprecated_ii Reminds me of the HOA where I used to live. You couldn't build fences that extended any closer to the street than the back of the house, but many houses did anyway. Turns out those houses simply didn't seek approval and knew when the HOA patrolled the neighborhood.

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@shortstories @sardonicsmile i only use barbell in commercial gyms because the dumbbels i need aren't available. at home though i use dumbbells.

A few days ago I bought a Germans children's book because I liked the illustrations in it (I don't speak German, though maybe I'll learn someday). Stuck to the first page was a piece of paper with some text on it. If I understand it, even a children's book needed approval from the US government to be published and sold.

There are lots of little bits of information I've picked up over the years, stuff that doesn't get taught in most history classes, about the insane conditions imposed on Germany after WWII.

I had a teacher who was the daughter of a US general during WWII, who lived in Germany in the aftermath of the war. She told a story about how the Germans would take her dog and threaten to eat it unless they got chocolate. Now she didn't speak German either (as far as I know). I think it wasn't chocolate they wanted, but food, and her father told her something else to shield her from what was going on.

This lines up with a British film I saw some years ago, which talked about how they deliberately starved the people, while blasting air raid sirens randomly.

I think most people here know about how the people were told, and sometimes blamed, for war crimes. Some famous examples include stories of children in the Hitler Youth setting barns filled with people on fire, or people being shown displays of shrunken heads and bars of soap (while being told they were Jews), gas chambers that didn't exist till the Americans arrived, etc. These people were often punished, as a group, for a crime that, at best, they had no knowledge of, and at worst, never occurred, or was even perpetrated by the other side.

Meanwhile, high ranking individuals were forced to undergo prolonged struggle sessions to reenter society.

Probably less known is how the Allies made nearly every patent public (this is why there were so many Leica clones from this period, which is how I learned of this). Someone will probably squabble on this, but their counter is usually something like "Well there were some patents that were made secret" and "the Germans burned some, so those couldn't have ALL been made public". This deliberately misses the point. The point is that the whole of the nation was looted, in a way that I don't really think had ever occurred in history (or not since the Romans stole Pizza and Cheese cake).

When you line a lot of this up, it starts to match, 1 to 1, what cults do to "program" individuals (depriving them of all their valuables, sensory deprivation and overload, social isolation, nutritional deprivation, control over everything they can say, think, and do). Of course, they'll tell you they were "deprogramming them".

All of this reminds me of the phrase "history gets written by the victor". I think it gets said so much that most people don't really think about what it means. Probably, a better way to say it is "the victor chooses which history to write and which history to burn".

Anyway, I've written a lot of this before, but I wanted to compile it again after this new find.

This isn’t Seattle.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jTzFf23Bu5k

Silver price surge outpaces gold amid high demand as global risk persists.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202507/1338814.shtml

Police officer shines flashlight to block camera

There was a court trial over this somewhere else according to the narrator

Flashlight wars

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BeuDX-Kc2aU

Gentlemen: NO one is coming to save you. You are alone in this Life.
Look at how the guy in the mask just watches and slinks away.
The others seemed more interested in putting the weights away than resuscitating him.
Learn first aid, guys.

Chinese families are keeping their college kids home. Washington is shutting off everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6joYF5GKog

You need to do more than protest by mobile phone.

One problem with protesting by phone is that you are being wiretapped.

Americans need to get out into the streets, pass out flyers, drop out, stop paying taxes, and start paying visits to the offices of politicians.

"How to Live Off the Grid Like a Mountain Man" by George Larrick is an exceptional nonfiction book. It’s a hard-to-put-down, quick read that offers invaluable insights. Truly the best book on self-sufficient living, inspiring adventurers and anyone eager to embrace the mountain lifestyle.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/lapd-arrested-for-fatal-dui-on-christmas-eve

Two Israeli citizens arrested in Belgium and questioned over war crimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dcltBJIy1A