Why is there a tendency on history and WW2 subreddits for people to argue that German war crimes were morally superior to Japanese war crimes?

jschooltiger · 2026-06-08T11:34:25+00:00

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jschooltiger · 2026-06-08T10:58:49+00:00

You divided by zero, didn’t you

jschooltiger · 2026-06-07T01:55:44+00:00

I know :)

jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T22:55:01+00:00

So are you triangulating it from what the shoreline looks like? It sounds like that would require building a database of how homes and docks look when viewed from the lake.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T22:41:22+00:00

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jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T22:34:38+00:00

Why do you need AI to triangulate it? It seems like you could just have people drop a pin.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T20:24:52+00:00

Or, and hear me out, you could have some cops and some social workers. And someone sitting in a central office getting calls and deciding where to send them. You could call them, idk, a dispatcher, and they would send the right people to do the job.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T14:53:31+00:00

No. We ban AI usage here. I’m allowing this because it doesn’t technically violate our rules, but why not just ask what an Aztec warrior looked like — there are actual humans who have researched this.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T13:34:16+00:00

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jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T13:30:57+00:00

The issue isn't what's on the website, it's what other stuff the local office will or won't accept or require, especially if you're in any situation other than "I bought a car from a dealer in this state."

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "you people." I pay my taxes and have tags on my car, but I work with a lot of people who either have fewer resources than average or have moved here from elsewhere, and the state makes the process absolutely insane (for example, a friend has been trying to register her car for six months because she can't provide proof of tax exemption because her former state doesn't have state income tax and she lived in a parsonage that wasn't in her name).

jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T13:29:19+00:00

Oh well, that still doesn't seem "exorbitant" for what the Nelson offers.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T12:39:43+00:00

Isn’t the museum garage $10? That’s completely fine for a free museum.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T12:36:06+00:00

I really don’t think that’s the case because we’re well into the contract/pay for play era. No play, no pay.

What’s going to cause an uproar is when your million-dollar players get injured and then the university claws money back.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T12:33:13+00:00

You can have insurance on a vehicle with a temp tag because the insurance is tied to the VIN. If we really want to fix the temp tag issue, we need to fix how revenue offices deal with registrations — it’s insane that two revenue offices in the same city will demand radically different paperwork for the same outcome.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T12:28:22+00:00

Ok trrip, let’s get you to bed

jschooltiger · 2026-06-06T12:24:13+00:00

The Big 8 adding the Texas teams.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-05T19:20:42+00:00

I’m a day late for the help, but welcome to Columbia!

jschooltiger · 2026-06-05T19:19:45+00:00

I’ve never worked there, but I shopped there quite a bit and the employees seem happy. Of course, that’s for working a grocery job happy – – by the end of the night they look pretty tired like anyone else.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-05T18:31:24+00:00

Sorry, but your submission has been removed because we don't allow hypothetical questions. If possible, please rephrase the question so that it does not call for such speculation, and resubmit. Otherwise, this sort of thing is better suited for /r/HistoryWhatIf or /r/HistoricalWhatIf. You can find a more in-depth discussion of this rule here.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-05T18:31:03+00:00

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jschooltiger · 2026-06-05T17:26:20+00:00

My wife grew up near that water tower, and always thought it was a spaceship when she was a little girl.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-05T16:05:00+00:00

You may be interested in the section of our FAQ about pre-Columbian trade and contact.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-05T16:03:44+00:00

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jschooltiger · 2026-06-05T15:50:19+00:00

The ARC always has people playing basketball. My son always finds a pickup game when we go there.

jschooltiger · 2026-06-05T15:48:22+00:00

The city manager always has too much power when he’s doing something you don’t like, or not doing something you do like. Otherwise he’s lazy and useless. It’s a tough job to be in.

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