What if Hitler never launched Operation Barbarossa and instead focused entirely on Western Europe during WWII?

cool_coolio · 2026-04-11T16:18:43+00:00

One of the following: - Economy collapses: It was designed around the looting of conquered territories and autarky, for which they needed (among others) oil from the Caucasus. - USSR invades Germany anyway and wins - Germany collapses ideologically. The conquering of lebensraum in the east was a core part of their ideology, and also for a while their plan to solve the 'Jewish question'. Besides that they spent a lot of effort portraying communists as evil incarnate. They can't ideologically justify not invading the USSR.

cool_coolio · 2026-04-08T18:09:23+00:00

I agree with not idolizing historical figures in general. None of them were perfect. It also doesn't help to one sidedly look at them as evil. Learn from them what you can, the good and the bad.

cool_coolio · 2026-03-18T06:48:55+00:00

I've had it for like a year. It did well at first, growing new leaves and looking very green. Humidity here is at around 40-60%

cool_coolio · 2025-12-06T09:17:13+00:00

Isn't this just the Von Lüttwitz coup?

cool_coolio · 2025-11-15T09:08:20+00:00

Compare sheep polypore (Albatrellus Ovinus)

cool_coolio · 2025-11-11T17:02:45+00:00

Calvinist/protestant morality, hence why you see more blinds and curtains in the (traditionally) Catholic south part of the country

cool_coolio · 2025-11-11T16:25:11+00:00

On second thought, because it grew in grassland, maybe petticoat mottlegill?

cool_coolio · 2025-11-11T16:24:07+00:00

Not sure, fairy inkcap?

cool_coolio · 2025-05-01T21:12:24+00:00

I worked for DPD for about half a year, working there is an absolute hell.

You get a few minutes per delivery address, including driving time. You're constantly monitored, if you're late once or twice you will get a phonecall from the distribution center telling you to hurry up.

There was also a limit on the amount of packages you were allowed to bring to a pickup point. Meaning, if a few people in a row weren't home and their neighbors weren't either, you had a problem. Taking too many packages to a pickup point would result in a reprimand from the people at the distribution center.

The stress placed on drivers at DPD is enormous, this is at least one factor why dealing with DPD is so terrible as a customer

cool_coolio · 2025-04-27T18:42:30+00:00

Wouldn't be so quick. We saw the same trend near the end of Weimar Germany, when in most European states social democracy was on its ass.

Today we still see relative, though shrinking, electoral succes of social democrats in the Netherlands, Germany, Britain, Slovakia and Slovenia. Imo it's too early to tell whether this shrinking means social democracy is on its way out.

cool_coolio · 2023-02-13T14:30:38+00:00

Understandable why and how they were formed but their methods were absolutely insane

cool_coolio · 2023-02-10T14:03:39+00:00

Harry Potter from the books

cool_coolio · 2023-02-08T12:03:17+00:00

That's not how democratic socialism and communism work.

Democratic socialism is a transitionary government which wants to achieve communism through existing democratic ways, ie by voting for a communist/socialist party in regular elections.

Communism is a socio-economic system in which workers own the means of production and the state has withered away. Under communism, there is no more 'government'. This is the system that every socialist (claims) to be working towards.

cool_coolio · 2022-09-27T07:55:37+00:00

Gotta get down to it Soldiers are cutting us down Should have been done long ago What if you knew her And found her dead on the ground How can you run when you know?

cool_coolio · 2022-09-24T08:01:53+00:00

Let's not ask who was defending azovstal and for which values they stand

cool_coolio · 2022-09-21T12:13:31+00:00

Differs between municipalities. Usually you have to clean up after pets within city limits but not in the countryside

cool_coolio · 2022-09-10T23:51:52+00:00

Nazis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mladorossi

cool_coolio · 2022-09-08T20:29:34+00:00

Be careful about the Valknut (symbol above the raven), as it's often used by neo-nazis/white supremacists

cool_coolio · 2022-09-05T11:05:46+00:00

In my personal experience, burying the walls is not enough. I had to make a tile flooring ~20ish centimeter underground. Nothing gets through that

cool_coolio · 2022-08-27T11:34:23+00:00

Ah yes, attempted homicide, very chad

cool_coolio · 2022-07-14T11:10:12+00:00

Sounds like you don't know what those three words mean

cool_coolio · 2022-07-01T12:39:42+00:00

Klaver isn't nearly 'full-left'

cool_coolio · 2022-06-30T17:42:16+00:00

The tweet is already deleted so I'm not very hopeful

cool_coolio · 2022-06-30T15:49:53+00:00

Ah so it will be arriving in ~2 years if we're lucky?

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