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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 16-08-2016

Aug 16, 2016 12:00

Watership Down and the power of not-quite-appropriate children's books. (tags: books writing children rabbits ) So you want to write video games (tags: games writing advice ) Empty Porn Sets (tags: art porn photography ) Is the British government about to ban the Bat'leth? (tags: uk weaponry ) Daenerys Cosplayer gets mistaken for Elsa (tags: ( Read more... )

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gonzo21 August 16 2016, 11:11:00 UTC

The Boris story would be funny if not for the fact it sounds horrifyingly prophetic.

sandy666 August 16 2016, 11:24:36 UTC

Olivia Coleman as Jessica Rabbit. Ok, a man can dream, can't he?

bart_calendar August 16 2016, 11:34:58 UTC

I totally believe her that she didn't know anything. I suspect that probably 99 percent of people in Germany at the time had no clue what was going on.

You don't let on that you are killing 6 million people to the general population. It would have been much harder to put jews, roma and gays into trains if anyone knew where they were going and what would happen to them. And it would be super hard to get soldiers to fight in favor of that shit.

You'd want to keep the number who knew down to the bare minimum - high up party officials, guards at the camps and grave diggers. And you probably wouldn't let the guard and grave diggers go into town and talk to people.

lilchiva August 16 2016, 16:21:36 UTC

I generally agree with you. I would also add that there were large numbers of young women and men who were assigned to work the camps, as part of a German workfare scheme. And, the ones who protested were beaten, killed, and thrown into the same camps as traitors to the state. Now, I don't know about you personally, but most people, when faced with certain death and torture for objecting to the same, generally figure out fairly quickly how to tow the line. We know now that this is a main component in how every institutional evil perpetuates itself.

PS The number is like 11-18 million, depending on how you count Poland.

Fifth force of nature? Light particle may be key [...] drdoug August 16 2016, 11:40:53 UTC

'"If true, it's revolutionary," said Jonathan Feng'

I agree entirely, and would bet a pint that it's not true.

Re: Fifth force of nature? Light particle may be key [...] andrewducker August 17 2016, 09:00:25 UTC

Almost certainly worth betting a pint against anything which is revolutionary if true.

You either get a scientific revolution or a pint, so either way you're coming out ahead!

(I agree, by the way.)

asher63 August 16 2016, 14:08:46 UTC

I saw the title "Empty Porn Sets" and thought it referred to a list of non-existent entities in the porn world.

But that would violate Rule 34.

khoth August 16 2016, 14:40:54 UTC

Tune into tomorrow's link post for "Porn Sets Which Do Not Contain Themselves"

a_pawson August 16 2016, 16:46:40 UTC

Is there porn that in fact contains no porn?

Would that violate rule 34?

Would the universe explode?

octopoid_horror August 16 2016, 18:49:16 UTC

I guess a particularly jaded pornography enthusiast might well suggest that softcore porn or "tease" type videos without nudity or sometimes even without overtly sexual content do not contain porn.

And there's always this

Which I guess isn't really NSFW but you might get some rather funny looks unless you work at the AA or RAC, I guess...