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This is how your email finds me

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Ideal gaming rig

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Oh I love this shit, you see it a lot on old minicomputer hardware from back when it was still discrete transistor architecture or TTL logic chips on the card modules that DEC liked to use. Hell of a lot nicer to build and maintain than wire-wrap, and hand-drawn circuit traces like that are actually not *thaaat* difficult to do yourself

Oh wait it says univac right there I'm dumb

spaghetti style

SPAGHETTI-STYLE: see the shape of the solder tracks

univac circuit board, cred: vintchip.com

electro harmonix bad stone circuit board, cred: homewrecker.com

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how dare the item of clothing i developed a weird attachment to and have worn almost every single day since i bought it start to show signs of wear

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fucked up tbh

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linus takes a trip to the nether. birthday gift to my sister

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Lately, given the political environment that we're living in, I've been reflecting on what Holocaust education is actually useful for. I actually didn't realize it was Holocaust remembrance day until today, so I figured I'd finally share what's been rattling around in my head about it.

Most of the time people say that it's to make sure that people learn from the past to avoid making the same mistakes and committing the same atrocities, but this has clearly failed to work. That's just simply not the actual impact it's had. People at this point are knowingly eager to repeat the atrocities of the past, masking with a condescending, dismissive attitude about it right up to the point that they swing the gates open and the pretense is dropped. Decades of "It could never happen here" has all but guaranteed that it will, and the cycle continues.

No, I think that, at this point, the practical importance of Holocaust education is that it informs the parts of society that it targeted- Jews, the disabled, queer people, communists and political dissidents, racial minorities, everyone- what the lead-up to a Holocaust looks like and what the signs are. It teaches us how the how dehumanizing rhetoric propagates, and what it looks like when it's about to shift from marginalization to expulsion to extermination. It teaches us the sorts of behaviors people adopt when fascism rears its head, informing on the vulnerable and collaborating with fascists to cling on as part of the in-group, no matter the human cost.

The real utility of Holocaust education is that it teaches us how to recognize when it's about to happen again and what, if anything, we can do to survive and stay safe. If Holocaust education can't prevent it from happening again, it can at least protect us by teaching us when and how to save ourselves when no one else will save us.

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this oedipal ain't shit

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All I can say is that I'm glad I saw the writing on the wall with January 6th

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found on reddit

and the artist's tumblr: @nullxface

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Well fucks? Get to it!

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We live in one of those magical times in history like the 1930s in Europe where the phrase "It couldn't possibly get worse" ceases to be optimism and instead becomes a denial of reality that can and will get people killed.

Starting tomorrow we will be living in a political climate that will enable human rights abuses on a scale that will be hard to comprehend. The rules will mean nothing. Fascists will be completely unconstrained and blood will be spilled.

Please, for the love of God, do anything you can to get yourself out of the way of what's coming. Please. I'm begging you. Do whatever it takes to get out or go into hiding or whatever you need to do to keep yourself alive. If you can spare the resources, do anything you can to help as many other vulnerable people get out of the United States as possible.

Please, please just survive. I want to have a community to come home to when it's all over.