CalipherJones

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[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Lots of old people in Japan. When I went I found an entire floor of a department store dedicated to brand new fax machines.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Instagram reels and TikTok are filled to the brim with medical misinformation.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I played wow during almost all of my online courses

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Losing all of my memories, and therefore proof that I've lived, to hereditary dementia.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well the ideal end result depends on the person, doesn't it?

I'm sure Karl Marx and Stalin had very different ideas of what the ideal end result of communism would be.

From my understanding; Marx envisioned a worker's utopia, while Stalin instead used communism to garner as much power for himself as possible.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

When I'm on my deathbed, I'm absolutely sure I won't be thinking about work.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

History classes in the US are patriot washed to convince soon to be laborers that they're living in the greatest country to ever possibly exist.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The more I study history, the more I see the great wheel of humanity. Communists now, Jews in the 40s, Muslims in the early middles ages, the barbaric Gauls before Christ was even born. It never stops. The people with wisdom die off leaving remnants of their culture and ideas while the next generations tries to piece it all together.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get it in the past because the information was simply not accessible for most people. Nowadays there is no excuse for ignorance. It takes a 5 minute google search to get a taste of the inhumanity of history. Everyone should be willing to put in at least 5 minutes man.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Almost all of the WW2 vets are gone man. I worry that the far right resurgence around the world is being allowed to happen because people are simply ignorant to the horror of WW2. I remember talking to someone younger than me about Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. He didn't seem to think much of the Holocaust which I found disturbing. I started bringing up the numbers and I could see the shock in his face. He genuinely didn't seem to grasp just how many people were murdered because of fascism.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I had a Scottish chick in Edinburgh tell me that I was the only American she enjoyed talking to. I didn't realize just how poorly we were viewed overseas until I went myself.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Luigi is an American hero. Whether he did it or not is irrelevant. It's what he stands for.

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