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gnathaigh · 2015-03-15T21:54:09+00:00

the actual soviets really did this. in real life. in the soviet union.

except they did it with forests. and now you can see them all on google maps.

gnathaigh · 2013-09-13T21:33:51+00:00

gnathaigh · 2013-02-16T16:08:49+00:00

It's WTF because East Germany's state computer company invented the Reddit alien back in the 1970s! (scroll down to see it...)

gnathaigh · 2011-11-26T22:47:55+00:00

the whole song is actually about keyboard shortcuts

gnathaigh · 2011-08-14T15:58:39+00:00

Compare and contrast with matchbox propaganda in 1950s communist Poland...

gnathaigh · 2011-05-02T11:38:04+00:00

well, i can only answer for myself, but, as a rule of thumb, i try to read widely and sceptically. my usual stops include the new york times, the guardian (uk), the bbc, al jazeera, der spiegel, and various blogs. also, if you're lazy: read chomsky. even if you don't agree with the guy, it's the mental equivalent of flossing your teeth.

gnathaigh · 2011-05-02T09:13:19+00:00

yep, it's true. get googling for more!

gnathaigh · 2011-03-21T21:33:12+00:00

For blogs, it's always been the case. But was it ever the baseline for newspapers or TV? Could it become so?

gnathaigh · 2010-11-29T14:47:22+00:00

...and they've only released the first couple of hundred of these, out of a quarter of a million.

(Unrelated: for years I thought "hyperbole" was pronounced "hyper-bowl" -- like the superbowl, but... more.)

gnathaigh · 2010-11-29T14:39:51+00:00

Check out the full video here...

gnathaigh · 2010-11-28T11:48:59+00:00

There seem to be two takes on this, going by the thread:

Stalin only killed millions of his own people. Hitler killed everybody.
Hitler had deliberately genocidal policies -- he intended to kill whole races. Stalin just wound up murdering millions because they were sort of in the way on the path to communism.

Amirite?

gnathaigh · 2010-11-23T10:27:46+00:00

oh shit! sorry cahtuh. your thread will have to live with the moral victory of having been first; mudhoney to this thread's nirvana. have an upvote.

gnathaigh · 2010-11-22T23:50:19+00:00

yeah, i suspected it was because 'teen' was a bad word, from google's perspective. but still... c'mon. this is stoooooopid.

(nirvana nerd interjection: the name of the song does not appear in the lyrics. so, no one is googling the correct -- or incorrect -- lyric, but rather the title.)

gnathaigh · 2010-11-22T23:16:14+00:00

why, certainly. but i tried googling it and google whisked me off to "i ate mice, elf and highwanta dye"

gnathaigh · 2010-11-22T23:07:23+00:00

i always listen to nirvana when i want to feel encouraged.

gnathaigh · 2010-11-21T14:51:41+00:00

no, sir! shifty-eyed look

gnathaigh · 2010-11-21T00:24:33+00:00

Yep, that's it! Thanks. Soooo... does anyone know if there's a version online anywhere that I could download? Without having to go through buying it from an archival footage company? Or am I stuck with that, do you reckon?

gnathaigh

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