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Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

What leaked screenshots?

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Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Idiots on Social Media: thank you for coming to me TEDtalk

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

A strange Goldblum vibe

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Why is the Black Sea a country here

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012


Ah yes the classic girl’s name “Root”

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012


He should spend a day at a hospital, being surrounded by abject misery, piles and piles of dead bodies, and heartbreaking stories of absolute human misery around every corner. My fiancé works at a COVID hospital, and the loving thing I hear, jesus. Why does he think these people are dancing?

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Idiots on Social Media: I am not a homosexual, as I am sexually attracted to females. however 2/?

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Arivia posted:

look, i am not able to start a new show unless i listen to all the previous episodes first

now how many does that nice Archers radio play have again

This is me and my life is hell.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Same boat. I think I got it maybe by the second book, but I are not smart.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

OwlFancier posted:

It's still baffling that a guy who wrote a life advice book and then promptly put himself in a beef benzo brain damage coma, still has a job.

Like I have managed to avoid doing that so I am already more qualified to make life decisions than he is.

I mean, technically he doesn’t have a job, his university kicked him out of his tenure. He is moving into the alt-right university grift zone though.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Honestly, I’m all for less industrialized agriculture, but 35 chickens is a lot. It’s like saying if everybody had 5 cows or 2 hectares of wheat.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

It’s a bit of a myth with the no exits highway. There were exits, because the traffic on the highway was mixed between east and west vehicles, and local cars would travel freely on and off the highway. The rest stops were clearly demarcated as east or west only.

Fun part was also that if you were NATO military personnel, and got stopped by the east german police, you were required to decline any conversation and demand a soviet officer’s presence, because technically the west never recognized east Germany.

The eastern original border crossing is still there as a museum with original buildings and a few guard towers. The western crossing, which was much smaller, is now reduced to a single building and the original open buildings where you’d enter initially, and its like a kilometer away from the eastern border crossing.

And a fun fact - the actual east-west border was a stripe of land, sometimes as wide as few hundred meters, stretching from the sea up north to Bavaria and then to the east, to the Czechoslovakian border. Since it was relatively free from human influence (ignoring the deforestation and land mines, natch), the entire 1400 km border is now a national park, and one of Europe’s largest.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Beartaco posted:

Like the others here, I assumed the border went north to south and Berlin just sat on it, the Berlin Wall being the part of the border that goes through Berlin. I never looked too closely at maps from the 80s other than to be like "whoa check out the soviet union lol".

poo poo I get lost and take the wrong exit on motorways all the time. The signage must have been pretty intense, how likely would it have been to misread it and accidentally end up defecting to the east?

https://youtu.be/QS1xvtLV8Xw

This video from 1988 has a rundown of all the roadsigns along the route. It was made for British forces transiting from West Germany to East Berlin

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

The wall was mostly on DDR Ground, so in some places on the west side you’d have a sidewalk and a strip of grass and then the wall, but the strip of grass was already in East Berlin. So you’d sometimes wait for your west german bus, and there’d be east german soldiers with guns next to you guarding workers who’d do maintenance job on the outer wall. Also, since the city rail tracks were laid before the split, some west Berlin subway trains would route through ghost stations in East Berlin, manned only by border guards. Conversely, East German subway trains running through West Berlin would have armed guards on board to stop passengers from getting silly ideas.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Beartaco posted:

The video also doesn't explain what happens if you go the wrong way on one of the 3 intersections which is still my big question. Do you pull a u-turn and risk breaking a law? Do you just keep going and accept that you're an East German now?

I don’t have concrete knowledge what happened in these cases, but I imagine the whole length of the route - it’s something like 200 km - was watched and every off ramp and intersection would have road patrols stationed. With East and West traffic mixing, you can easily imagine swapping things or people between cars, so the amount of surveillance must have been insane.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Philippe posted:

Good old Francis Fukuyama

The past already happened. And now history is over.

To paraphrase an old Nietzsche joke:

History has ended - Fukuyama
Fukuyama has ended - History

(Though he’s alive and well afaik)

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

It’s not exactly always dubbing - in western Europe you’d get and still do proper dubbing, meaning every character gets a unique voice, usually from a unique actor (sometimes they’d do multiple voices, for an old and young character, for example).

What you get in eastern Europe is voice-over translation - there’s a single person reading the lines (in some countries you get a male and female voice). There’s no effort to match mouth movements and you hear the original audio track underneath. The voice people doing this by are actually really great professionals.

Voice-over translation, unless you’ve grown up with it, seems absolutely horrid, but honestly, it gets the job done cheaply and I have fond memories of it. It comes from the time when TV channels wouldn’t have time, budget or technology for subtitles.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Mierenneuker posted:

Although somewhat off-putting when only one person is dubbing the pornography in a stilted manner. Things got weird sometimes when people were still ripping from VHS tapes...

I actually forgot about that. In the early 90s you’d often find some horrible sheisseporn being dubbed by the same guy dubbing over your saturday morning cartoons.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Great man thirty king, I always aubergine

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

I was recently reading the first issues of Spider Woman and it felt like jerk off material.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Air_Sweden_Flight_294

As we say in Eastern Europe: such is life

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012


I might be not online enough or suffering from a stroke but I’m not understanding any of this tweet

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Don’t sign your…….?

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Hey how is comic cat lady doing, still trying to post through getting kicked off the convention board?

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Zero_Grade posted:

Reminder that Dennis Prager wrote a long two-part article about women not wanting to have sex due to not being in the mood.

On another note that I'm sure is completely unrelated, he's on his third marriage.

Just learned his Prager U partner Adam Corolla is getting divorced after 30 years or something.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Skwirl posted:

Fry's most famous role is butler to an upper class twit.

I saw Fry’s special which seemed to be him trying to prove to the audience that he’s so smart he speaks English AND German, and to that end, he’s going to say an anecdote in both languages. His German was poo poo. Dunno, maybe that was a bit now that I think about it.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Skwirl posted:

I was talking about him playing Jeeves in the tv show Jeeves and Wooster.

I know, I know, just remarking about the man, he can be off sometimes.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012


TF is a Hadera network, I don’t want to google that poo poo and get it all over my algorithm

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Is this the F1 thread

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012


I love this. The community leader us like “welp, see you loosers! Also, being an incel sucks and I never wanted to be one lolol”

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Didn’t we do this with millenials for the past 20 years? Fuckin olds are really unleashing the hate on anyone young.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

RillAkBea posted:

I randomly found this guy making a serious reply to fesshole of all things.

https://twitter.com/CalvinMcnuggets/status/1649457419490131990

Professional magician, full-time gentleman, part-time bad poet... probably a goon.

Post the modern way
Don’t show your face
Tweet with keyboard
Post
Blue tick 8 bucks
Burma-Shave

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Love it when this thread auto-fuels itself.

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012


Somebody ask him if he’s ok

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

The billionaire spaceships to Mars will also be built below regulation and implode the moment they leave the atmosphere

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

I remember reading some late 70s/early 80s Marvel stuff some time ago and the moment you see Spider Woman, you’re immediately like “oh yeah, that’s defo traced porn”

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

Dabir posted:

You're a giant baby?

Hell who isn’t

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

PurpleXVI posted:

Everything that lives in the ocean should stay in the ocean and we should not interact with it.

Do inland salmon farms count because I need my philadelphia rolls

Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

steinrokkan posted:

So "white girl channeling Mein Kampf while playing twee melodies on guitar / ukulele" is going to be a whole genre now, huh

Tradwife material

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Mokotow
Apr 16, 2012

OwlFancier posted:

She does the rounds of all the manosphere/incel podcasts basically going "yeah totally you're so right about all that"

Oh word I had no idea. Seinfeld had her on his show, and considering the allegations about both if them, just lol. Wonder how he feels about promoting a Rogan-adjacent shitheel.

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