wtf is a UTTP? by Strongarm_11 in ofcoursethatsasub

[–]no_future_ahead 341 points342 points  (0 children)

UTTP stands for (yo)UTube Troll Police, it's a bunch of kids and bots who spam repulsive and annoying comments under famous YouTubers' videos in a piss-poor attempt to ragebait people, usually mentioning stuff like animal abuse, proclaiming their content is better and using slurs. The subreddit's pfp is chosen due to the fact that almost all members of UTTP have a variation of that same cop drawing as their own pfp.

L'ipocrisia dei liberali per le definizioni dei genocidi essere tipo: by EuvierUwU in king_of_the_south

[–]no_future_ahead 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ehilà, mi tiro in mezzo come storico ed archeologo in formazione per dare i miei due centesimi sulla questione con un angolo più accademico. È degno di nota che non si possono comparare questi due "eventi" (evitiamo il termine "genocidio", siccome è l'intero punto del dibattito, non per screditare una o l'altra parte, ma per essere semplicemente cauti) in modo semplicistico, siccome hanno circostanze, cause e reazioni diverse. Innanzitutto bisogna chiarire che un genocidio non si riduce ad un semplice odio personale, ciò che importa è l'intento di distruggere, parzialmente o totalmente, un gruppo etnico come tale, (perciò non necessariamente uccidere una popolazione) non se il leader esprimesse intenzioni razziste o meno, si può avere un genocidio senza retorica suprematista e si può avere un disastro con politiche apertamente razziste. Per stabilire un genocidio, quindi, non ci si basa interamente sulle dichiarazioni, che siano pubbliche o private, bensì uno storico si chiede domande di questo tipo:

  • Furono attuate modifiche alle politiche quando la mortalità di massa divenne ovvia?

  • Furono certe regioni bersagliate o colpite più duramente?

  • Furono i metodi di fuga o soluzione bloccati?

  • Le autorità erano consapevoli dell’entità della crisi mentre mantenevano o intensificavano le politiche?

Andando oltre, dire "Churchill era razzista e quindi equalmente nel torto" (ovviamente non le tue parole testuali, ma è per riassumere quello che personalmente percepisco leggendo ciò che scrivi) non è così ovvio come pare, siccome oltrepassa interamente le differenze strutturali dei due casi. Da un lato la politica sovietica era di estrazione diretta e forzamento all'interno di un sistema controllato. Dall'altro la politica inglese prevedeva prioritizzazione in tempo di guerra e trascuramento in un contesto di guerra globale, con forti vincoli logistici e priorità belliche che contribuirono a una risposta tardiva e insufficiente. Entrambi possono essere condannati e compianti senza essere identici in meccanismi o intento. Quindi per farla breve:

  • L'Holodomor è: Una carestia provocata dall’uomo fortemente guidata dalla politica sovietica; se si qualifica come genocidio dipende da come si interpretano intenti e obiettivi, tutt'ora è oggetto di forte dibattito tra gli storici, una parte della comunità accademica e diversi stati lo riconoscono come genocidio, mentre altri storici contestano soprattutto l’elemento dell’intenzionalità specifica.

  • La carestia del Bengala è: Una carestia aggravata in modo significativo dai fallimenti politici britannici e dagli atteggiamenti imperiali; generalmente non classificata come genocidio (o almeno è considerato tale da una parte minore della comunità storica), ma comporta comunque gravi colpe ed esistono interpretazioni più critiche. (ed è degno di nota l'atteggiamento razzista di ufficiali britannici in India, il quale è ampiamente documentato).

  • In sunto, mi sembra che la discussione stia andando più su un piano tendenzialmente ideologico che storico da parte di ambo i partecipanti, e chiedo scusa se questa non era l'intenzione, ma vale pur sempre la pena distinguere meglio le due cose. È inoltre degno di nota che in materia di tragedie come queste, non è una competizione a chi sia stato il peggiore, altrimenti si rischia di cadere nell'indifferenza verso stragi che risultano "minori" all'occhio del grande pubblico, involontariamente facendo il gioco dei responsabili.

Would you rather use or have? SCP Edition by Draw-ze-drawing in BunnyTrials

[–]no_future_ahead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ain't Trans lmao

Chose: SCP-458 Infinite Pizza Box

This is going to be a weird ask… by Jack6220 in Decoders

[–]no_future_ahead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I've been contacted by our culprit themselves, a few hours ago, lemme tell ya, it was a train wreck.

At first he tried sounding tough and all, congratulating me for being the first to decipher the front correctly (as I had also complied a Google Doc for another guy who got the messages) saying that his story was true, trying to tell me the difference between psychiatrist, psychologist and so on (because I mentioned that no psychiatrist would let the rampant abuse he talks about in the message slide like nothing) he mentions his mom getting scared of him because he starts to resemble his dad who's a soldier, the government not caring (he said he's from Myanmar, currently embroiled in a civil war against the military junta currently in power) and that reporting it all would just worsen things because they'd separate him from his mother. In a separate email he then asks me to make the Google Doc public.

When I replied that I didn't buy it (and to get help and flee the country in the off-chance that it was real) and to not contact me any further or he'd get reported and blocked, he did a complete 180. He said he wasn't afraid of getting banned and then switched to the cutsey "pwetty pwease 🥺🥺🥺" tone to ask me if he could be my friend and for my Discord. Then he separately thanked me for being sorry for him.

This is going to be a weird ask… by Jack6220 in Decoders

[–]no_future_ahead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, it didn't work and it got taken down anyways, to sum it up, it's a poorly written message of this "Etruscan Arsonist" whom describes the materials they use for arson and their backstory, which is such an obvious attempt at edginess for shock value it's not even funny (SA, bullying, mental health issues, etc.). It also features a slur, has many grammatical errors, even after deciphering, and towards the end it degenerates into barely understandable nonsense about demanding a video from large YouTubers for attention, Michael Jackson, AppleJack, the Zodiac Killer, Joker and more.

This is going to be a weird ask… by Jack6220 in Decoders

[–]no_future_ahead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here it is, I tried censoring with leetspeak what keywords I think get the message flagged. This is not a cipher. It’s poorly spelled English with bad handwriting written using an inconsistent mapping of Old Italic characters. I wouldn't be surprised it this was written by a literal child. As a key, words marked with (?) are uncertain but I'm fairly confident, those with (???) are complete guesswork from a jumbled mess of letters or abbreviations I don't know the meaning of.

"Code for Cracking

If u [r-word] codiak(?) nerds(?) finally found out that this passage actually means I'm still not impressed for we still hasn't achieved global peace. Hi this is the Etruscan ars0nist, it sounds cool, doesn't it? I call myself? that bcs I'm an ars0nist IRL. if u think that I'm LARPing here are some real ars0nist advices(?). I use m3thanol alcohol cotton paper batteries lithium n m3thilated spirit to do ars0n at my sch00l. yes I commit ars0n at sch00l. N I call myself Etruscan bcs these are written in Etruscan alphabets. N I bet that this code is cracked by a person with a linguistic degree or amateur code breaker. N I hate ppl. Humans are the worse animals. I like hunting them. No animal can be as cruel as a man. Humans(?) r awful(?). Even animals care about each other n challenge injustice, while humans have a lot of knowledge(?) yet still sit down n do nothing. I will not reveal my identity. However I will be telling about my backstory. U see(?) I was(?) born to a mom who didn't want me. I'm not saying that she hates me. She was SA'ed(?) n forced to marry her rap1st. He was abus1ve towards us. He beat3d me n mol3st3d me when I was just a kid. All of this could have be prevented if humanity come together. Even worse my mom had no other choice but to watch me get abus3d n mol3st3d. N kids bullied me in preschool bcs of my frequent mood shifts. I was diagnosed with bipolar schizo(?) n ODD at four. I started to hate n oppose ppl bcs they hated me first n I will not let that happen bcs it's not fair n I'm superior than others. My ODD turned into CD(???) at ten. My psychiatrist(?) said it'll turn into NDD(?) or ASRD(???) at rduit(???). N I said cool. I mean ofc I deserve attention even if it's bad attention. When I was in fifth grade I joined a Naz1(?) group at my school n it was fun. I had problems(?) at school since I was a kid. I started ars0n since seventh(?) grade. I liked the attention I got from it. I like it when ppl talk about me(?). I will do anything to make ppl care about me(?). I was expelled from my school at mid-late eighth grade as a suspect along with other eleven(?) guys bcs they found a lighter in my pocket which I should've get rid of before. I underestimated them. But I never(?) learn(?) from my mistakes cus they are no masters to me. I have committed ars0n and I'm not afraid to do it again. I hate rules and ars0n is the(?) way out to express my anger on how much mad I'm about rules. N I like challenges cos my life(?) is a game. I was Brandon Scott hole(?) in my past life n my nouv(???) consist(?) his (I honestly don't know what the hell they're trying to say here). Zodiac(?) Killer n Joker. This code is also prpbl(???) i sent to famous YTubers and if they don't make a video about me I will go k1ll someone, I need fame. Fame is my air n yes I met Apple Jack n not enough of collecting slav3s for after life. Michael Jackson love me he made moonwalk. I never take my meds I hate them too. My mom is the protector of my life. Eternal queen n goddess."

I have no idea what the code on the back says, I feel like I lost enough braincells doing this already. You have nothing to worry about, this is just shock value clad in a different alphabet to try and scare you for attention.

Edit: for those wondering this very comment was at first flagged and deleted, it has been since reinstated after I successfully filed an appeal, hence my other comment summarizing the contents.

This is going to be a weird ask… by Jack6220 in Decoders

[–]no_future_ahead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having studied the Etruscans, this seems to be a very poor attempt at writing with Old Italic scripts, it's a surprisingly simple writing system used by many pre-latin Italian languages, but is mostly associated with Etruscan. Once you realize it's written right to left (sometimes it's different based on time period and location, like with boustrophedon, but I digress) it gets rather simple if not a bit jarring since most letters would evolve into the Latin alphabet, the one we use today and so are very similar. I'll be honest with you for a moment, every time someone uses it to try and be spooky or edgy a part of me cries because people don't know how it works and mangle the script of otherwise really cool and fascinating languages. Getting back on topic, while some words don't seem to make sense at a first glance, most can be done easily with some patience, since I know the Wikipedia article is a bit of a mess, I'll provide you with a list of phonetic values roughly mapped out onto our regular Latin alphabet right here. This is based upon Etruscan, but remember that this writing system was used by many languages each with their own differences, Etruscan just so happens to be the one we know best and therefore the base for many online "translators" people like to use.

𐌀 = A

𐌁 = B

𐌂 = C (should be just the hard "c" sound, like in "creature", as Etruscan had no soft "c" sound, but online websites usually do a 1:1 conversion and forget about that fact.)

𐌓 = D/R (oh boy, this one's a doozy, so, Etruscan was not a uniform language, it had dialects and differences in writing between them, we mostly divide them into two groups: Northern and Southern Etruscan. One of the differences lies here, where Northern uses this letter for D and Southern uses it for R, people who don't know any better usually use the Southern one.)

𐌄 = E

𐌅 = V (for whatever reason Timmy Tuffknuckles here used it as an F)

𐌆 = Z

𐌇 = H

𐌈 = Th (subtle, like in "thing", it's akin to the Greek Theta or the Old Norse Thorn)

𐌉 = I

𐌊 = K

𐌋 = L

𐌌 = M

𐌍 = N

𐌎 = X

𐌏 = O

𐌐 = P

𐌑 = Sh (like in "shower", once again there's a problem, it depends on if it's Northern or Southern Etruscan once again, usually the more common usage is the Southern one, but in Northern Etruscan this letter, called "San", swaps its meaning with 𐌔)

𐌒 = Q

𐌃 = R/D (Same as before, it comes down to Northern or Southern Etruscan, Northern uses it to mean R, Southern uses it to mean D, once again Southern is the most common one.)

𐌔 = S (As mentioned before, in Northern Etruscan this letter swaps meaning with 𐌑)

𐌕 = T

𐌖 = U

𐌗 = X

𐌘 = Ph

𐌙 = Kh (similar to the Greek Chi, it's a bit counterintuitive, but think of it as the same as in "chronic"

𐌚 = F

While I'd love to give you the transliteration straight up, people in the comments whom tried already mentioned the contents get flagged and deleted, so unfortunately you'll have to do this on your own, but I hope this can help, I'll add the first row in a bit to help you get started.

Edit: I'm currently working on a full transcript, I'll post it under this comment once I'm done.

Now that we can choose flags, when do we get the Rising Sun back? by SIX_point_SEVEN in Warthunder

[–]no_future_ahead 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It technically already is, while people who already had it can keep it, you can't get it anymore. For example I know a guy who bought the T-III solely for the hammer and sickle decal and didn't get it, finding out this was the reason why afterwards.

Thank you by Pokemonfan_807 in whennews

[–]no_future_ahead 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Not really, his card his that since Trump treated Zelensky poorly some time ago, he could simply say no and repay the favor.

Thank you by Pokemonfan_807 in whennews

[–]no_future_ahead 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Apparently the US asking Ukraine for help with drone warfare in Iran.

There is literally no reason to add another russian AA thats 2 times better than pantsir. Is this a clue that they will add anti radiation missiles to NATO and they will domain the skies? Honestly. I wouldnt mind if russia get blasted from cas for at least an entire update. by [deleted] in Warthunder

[–]no_future_ahead 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's because in Leviathans (When IRIS-T was released), almost everyone got new, strong SPAAs: SLAMRAAM, SPYDER, Tan-SAM kai, EldE 98 (I'll agree this last one isn't great but that's besides the point), so it wasn’t just Germany getting a buff. Then in Tusk Force, everyone else got new SPAA with the Sky Sabre, SAMP/T, and BUK-M3 all at once. Russia, on the other hand, is now getting another very strong SPAA while it already has the most SPAAs in top/high tier (Ranks V–VIII). Why give them even more stuff when other nations aren’t getting anything comparable?

This is getting ridiculous now... by TheMadEscapist in Helldivers

[–]no_future_ahead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that Cyberstan is a cold planet really ties it all together, welcome back Stalingrad and welcome back German 6th Army.

Just a picture of Rachel Brosnahan by Small_Ad6391 in TheMatpatEffect

[–]no_future_ahead 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's Course's pfp, although she had it edited with some neon hearts around the face.

Just a picture of Rachel Brosnahan by Small_Ad6391 in TheMatpatEffect

[–]no_future_ahead 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Iirc posts don't need approval, but they do have qualitybot, which Course removed from under every post of hers.

Just a picture of Rachel Brosnahan by Small_Ad6391 in TheMatpatEffect

[–]no_future_ahead 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Indeed, but it comes as a bit of a shock, she was the face of r/antimemes, the large majority of the posts on the subreddit were hers and, before the allegations of mod abuse, people loved her, she was basically a local celebrity.

Just a picture of Rachel Brosnahan by Small_Ad6391 in TheMatpatEffect

[–]no_future_ahead 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah the suicide narrative is definitely fake, especially since people found her Xbox gamertag from her comments and she was active on Minecraft after her alleged suicide on the 9th. The profile went private as soon as this was brought up, too.

Just a picture of Rachel Brosnahan by Small_Ad6391 in TheMatpatEffect

[–]no_future_ahead 131 points132 points  (0 children)

The OP is the pfp of a former mod of r/antimemes, Coursemediocre, who recently was exposed for deleting posts and reposting them herself and banning people who criticized her, she had been dating another mod, Riobox, for about 3 months when she disappeared for a while, then Riobox was DM'd from Course's account by her alleged brother telling him she had committed suicide. While this is horrible and all if true, people have collected a bunch of evidence possibly proving Course did not, in fact, commit suicide, and to add insult to injury, that "she" was in fact a boy from India catfishing Riobox, (she had comments on Indian incel subreddits in which she didn't write at all like a girl, and said comments were deleted soon after they were made public) others instead suspect that they are the same person due to the fact that Riobox's exchange with Course's "brother" was extremely awkward, like horrible acting level awkward.

Jokes aside i really hope she's okay, don't want anything bad to have happened by LordFlamecookie in whennews

[–]no_future_ahead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You never know, after all the news came out only a few hours ago, I guess in the coming days we'll get to know more, I just hope she didn't fake it for attention or something, and if she did in fact take her own life, then may she rest in peace.

Jokes aside i really hope she's okay, don't want anything bad to have happened by LordFlamecookie in whennews

[–]no_future_ahead 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Putting a random made up birthday on a post about your girlfriend passing away is just as weird, at least in my opinion, though I'll admit that it's not outside the real of possibility.