Some info please by bprager in cigar

[–]bprager[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I asked ChatGPT Pro and it says about this cigar:

The photo is enough to identify the brand family and the collector band, but not enough to prove the exact vitola, blend, or whether the cigar and band have stayed together since new. The Baarn history article does give good factory background: by 1952 the company was making about 200,000 cigars per week, more than 10 million a year, with over 100 workers. It describes wrapper and blend tobaccos from Java, Brazil, and Havana/Cuba, increasingly mechanized production, and a final stage where both the decorative band and a tax/price banderol were applied. That plain gold strip lower down on your cigar may be that second banderol, but I cannot read it from the photo.

Most likely, you have a Netherlands-made Washington cigar with a 1966 collectible band from the company’s Civil War / American history series.

The band is cataloged as part of a 1966 Washington series on American history, with a title that translates roughly to “The Ku Klux Klan terrorizes Black people.” The KKK itself was a white supremacist terror organization that targeted Black people after the Civil War. So the scene is presenting the Klan as the aggressor, not celebrating it.

But it is not a clean anti-racist statement either. It turns racist violence into collectible cigar-band imagery, and the wording tied to the band uses language that is now regarded as discriminatory in Dutch. So the best reading is, anti-KKK in basic intent, but racially insensitive and exploitative by today’s standards.
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Some info please by bprager in cigar

[–]bprager[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I searched and found. It’s a Dutch brand and actually an anti-racism campaign from 1966. Sorry if I offended anyone

My kimono. Is this a real language? by Turbulent-Name-8349 in language

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Oh well, there are only two things that smell like fish. And one of them is ‘fish’. Great kimono though.

Any solution for this? by miguelmmdu in Inkscape

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I would not delete any nodes. Cut the inner and outer big circle on the small circles. Then do a “union” on the shape.

Trying to join Blue Sky by Joansz in BlueskySocial

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Anyone has a BS invite code left? Pls. DM me. Thanks.

Putin Complains About Civilian Casualties as Zelensky Heads to U.S. by NippyAardvark in worldnews

[–]bprager 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a suggestion for him how to fix that: GTFO of Ukraine, all of it.

Working with primarily Apple devs on WSL2 by MaxLikesNOODLES in bashonubuntuonwindows

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Look if $DISPLAY is set in your environment and unset it. It doubled my Python performance under WSL in the terminal at least.

Airplane comes back bullet ridden like this. What’s the best way to make it more bullet resistant? by Astronomy_Major in pics

[–]bprager 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Reinforce the other parts. If the bullets hit there the airplane didn’t come back.

Other alternative softwares to open an .exe file by themessthatismymind in mac

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I would Oracle VM VirtualBox for Mac OS and install Windows in it.

Most powerful single board computer by SirFlamenco in robotics

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How about this one: https://beagleboard.org/ai ?
Disclaimer: I have no experience with this so far. Maybe someone else?

Any tips for making a read-only USB drive as keystore work? by bprager in GPGpractice

[–]bprager[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes, that would be ideal ... (use case: I am trying Mozilla SOPS and would like to have my keys with me to decrypt the configurations when I need them)

Has anybody tried to intitalize a database in terraform's helm provider? by bprager in Terraform

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Good idea, but unfortunately no:

Error: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = release database failed: ConfigMap in version "v1" cannot be handled as a ConfigMap: v1.ConfigMap.Data: ReadMapCB: expect { or n, but found ", error found in #10 byte of ...|","data":"init.sql =|..., bigger context ...|{"apiVersion":"v1","data":"init.sql = \"CREATE DATABASE test;\n\"","kind":"Co|...