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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk alone; you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.” Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, “everyone” is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, “It’s not so bad” or “You’re seeing things” or “You’re an alarmist.”

And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions, would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the “German Firm” stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all of the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying “Jewish swine,” collapses it all at once, and you see that everything has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early morning meetings of your department when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.

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Hi everyone, it's Lily. I need to share something very personal today. Lately, I've been going through a really tough time because I’m being bullied and harassed just for being Muslim. It hurts a lot to know that so many people target me simply for following my faith.

At school, I’m constantly bombarded with hateful comments because I wear my hijab. For me, wearing the hijab isn’t just about following a rule—it's a deep part of my identity, my tradition, and my commitment to my religion. When a Muslim girl turns 18, it's traditional to start wearing the hijab to cover her hair, and that's something I take pride in.

But this simple act has made me a target. I've experienced more than just hurtful words—I've been physically pushed around, had my bag snatched and tossed aside, and even been hit while people shouted mean things at me. These actions have left me feeling not just hurt, but really alone and overwhelmed. It's even more painful when I compare it to what my cousin Nicholas went through; this is something else entirely.

I’ve tried my best to ignore the comments and actions, hoping that they would stop, but things have only gotten worse. So, I’m putting this post out here to let you all know how I'm feeling and to share my experience with you. I believe that by speaking up, I can help raise awareness about this kind of discrimination and maybe even spark some positive changes.

Thank you for taking the time to listen to my story. Your support means the world to me.

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隔壁組同事又亂拜托我做事了,還要是替他上司拿「散水餅」(香港職場慣例,離職要請全公司吃茶點,粵語「散水」有「離開」的意思,因為多半是吃西式糕點之類,所以又稱散水餅

而且他職級嚴格來說比我還低耶,是覺得我很閒嗎
整天都沒有點開他訊息

明天要想個辦法婉拒…

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Welcome to Japan,@vivllainous.
Trans people in Japan are also concerned about the exclusion of trans people in the United States.

イーロン・マスクのトランスジェンダー娘が東京に留学中 - FRONTROW https://front-row.jp/_ct/17756176

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"How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To"
wired.com/story/trump-era-digi

"Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know."

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I did some changes to my wife's computer and there was no more room for the old Intel 2200 PCIe wireless card, but there was an M.2 slot still available. I've bought an M.2 M-key to A/E-key adapter plus a bracket and two high-gain antennas from Fenvi, and plopped in an Intel AC 9260 card I had salvaged from a dead laptop. So now she's got a better wireless card plus BT 4.0 support.

Total price: 9,81€ including shipping.

A photo of a Fenvi NGFF to M.2 adapter with an Intel Wireless-AC 9260 card mounted on it. The adapter has a black PCB and a small cable plugged on the left side, close to the M.2 connector, this is the USB cable used for Bluetooth functionality. Two small black antenna cables extend from the wifi card on the right. My fingers are visible, holding the card.
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💪 Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union
@Engadget

「 There’s now an industry-wide union for video game workers in the US and Canada. The United Videogame Workers-CWA (UVW-CWA) has a mission to bring together "artists, writers, designers, QA testers, programmers, freelancers and beyond to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status." 」

engadget.com/big-tech/video-ga

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"How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To"
wired.com/story/trump-era-digi

"Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know."

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Contrary to popular belief, "grep" doesn't actually stand for "global regular expression print." It's an acronym for "Galactic Retrieval and Extraction Protocol," originally developed by a secret group of Unix hackers to search for extraterrestrial signals hidden within log files cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-use-gr

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I remember in first grade when my teacher told me it was time to learn multiplication. Addition and Subtraction were great, there were simple rules on how to do it, it was easy to understand. So, I ask her, What's the trick, how do you figure multiplication? You have to memorize it, I felt so betrayed! Now I know, you can count it out of you really want to, but that's really not how it's done, you just need to know that 5×6=30. I still don't like this, and probably no one else experienced this quite how I did, but it was incredibly irritating to me.

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興味かな

ちなみにバックアップを取らずに動かしてたせいで何度か
:explosion:​してるけど今はちゃんと取ってるので大丈夫 (フラグ)

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