Three guys are the ones who managed to track her down so she had to get rid of them.

What do you mean? You can throw a lighted match into a diesel tank and nothing will happen.

This was asked a few days ago: https://feddit.it/post/25239686

Does it even burn when it’s not under pressure? I know that diesel doesn’t.

My German father once went paragliding in France when it was still relatively new. They told him to just glide down and head to “la chapelle” after he had landed. A wind had caught him and accelerated him so much until he lost control and hit his head really hard on the landing. When he came to he only knew that he had to go to “la chapelle”. But he had no idea why he was thinking in French.

My late grandmother was the nicest and most tolerant person I know. She always had candy in her purse for the drug addicted punks in her area. She was friends with the gay couple next door. She was amused when the CSD parade was on the same day as her birthday (unlike her bigoted daughter who wouldn’t even abide a hotel room in the same city). She had friends of all nationalities all over the world.

And she used to be a card carrying member of the Nationalsocialist Party in Germany. I shouldn’t have been surprised because basically everyone her age was. But it was still strange but educating reading her memoirs where she plainly stated that she was pretty impressed by the military parades and Hitler back then. How they liked that finally someone was doing something against the evil communists.

Sure, the officers and such she met were idiots, but she chalked that up to the usually male posturing. And when she heard how bad the situation was in German occupied Minsk she went there, because talk is easy, she’d show them. And she really tried. She didn’t see the whole extent, but she got enough glimpses of the nearby concentration camp to know something was off. So when a friend of her got an audience with Hitler she asked her to tell him about how bad the prisoners had it. Surely the Führer would make things right. The answer she got back was that she shouldn’t listen to rumors, which irritated her because in this case she was the source of the rumors.

She didn’t have much time to think about this when soon afterwards Minsk was retaken by the Russians and she had to flee. And not much later the war was over and soon she would feel what it’s like to live in an occupied town. She was too proud to flee East Germany and she was also too proud to get rid of her Nazi ID. I think it’s sheer dumb luck she survived that. The Russians who came to occupy her town had asked every citizen if they had been a member. I guess they were too flabbergasted by someone being stupid enough to admit it. And when they calculated to how much money her monthly support of a few pennies amounted to they had a reason to leave her be.

And while she did burn her late husband’s officer uniform she wrote that she had kept the Nazi papers until her death. I have no idea what happened to them. I hope they went to a museum.

I’d really like to see her memoirs be publicly released but I think for most of her children it’s too shameful. But I think it’s an important document showing how you could have the best intentions and still support evil. And just seeing how life was like in Germany before during and after the Nazis is really interesting historical data.

Scientists just setting it to 1. 💪

I honestly eat most burgers and similar sandwiches without any sauces. They’re so much better when you can actually taste all the yummy ingredients.

This one might be it. No idea, it was so long ago. https://media.ccc.de/v/066_Bluetooth_Hacking

The olds are alright.

I love it! Seeing more interoperability makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Reminds me of the good old times at the same conference a few years back when the Bluetooth panel ended with everyone in the hall involuntarily having a new screensaver on their phone.

Hope our current car holds out long enough for those buttoned cars to arrive in the used car market.

Yes, let’s keep taking features away. 🙄

This is actually an accessibility issue. It’s often much easier for me to use middle click paste than other copy and paste methods. But as always those numbnuts just think about streamlining everything.

Probably easier to show how bad thing is if everything else is still kind of ok.

Maybe our cat could get a little more respect in the neighbourhood if she wore that.

The trouble with pictrs is that it sorts pictures into seemingly random folders.

The solution is to not proxy images. Might even be the default by now. That’s a huge resource hog. No idea what pictrs is doing but it’s still taking up a whole lotta space just for my own images.

Canceling all subscriptions would probably make Lemmy use almost no resources.

I run a single user instance and it’s horribly slow. Mostly because I only have HDDs and not enough RAM to compensate. I hope Lemmy 1.0 will increase database performance.

Piefed is supposedly much more performant. But I’m shying away from migrating because I don’t want to lose my post history and uploaded pictures.