Controversial posts made by WTFE

@Olsson How wonderfully quaint your old technology! I will be having an opportunity to turn the dial back twenty years myself when I go back to Canada this summer.

If I could downvote that a hundred times, I would.

Hell, if I could use my reputation of -17 to downvote you 17 times for that I would!

@TNP said:

Actually, it's incorrect to label it non-Western. The swastika appears on ancient Greek coins up to 2500 years ago.

And on Canadian hockey jerseys in the 20th century.

And on American branding and marketing.

And on American military vehicles.

(It was particularly popular among aviators for some reason.)

Used in greeting cards too.

And in good luck charms.

Contrary to @Thenomain's assumption, I am sniggering here. (See what I did there?) I'm laughing at the complete ignorance people have of their own country's history to the point that you make shit up like "clockwise bad, counter-clockwise good ... or is it the other way around?" The total erasure of culture and history entertains me to no end. The swastika was literally everywhere in the west: Germany, England, France, Canada, the USA until it suddenly vanished from the public eye and was seemingly systematically erased out of embarrassment.

Or at least put into hiding.

Now the erasure makes sense. If you're German. The Hakenkreuz should be a huge mental scar on the German psyche for generations to come. And I can also see how European Jews would think that perhaps the original meaning has been lost for them.

Despite their own history with the symbol.

But for the erasure to be so complete (without any kind of legal enforcement no less!) in a country as far removed from the Hakenkreuz as the USA both astonishes me and delights me. And this is further enhanced as I watch mythology (like the "lefty-laid back, righty tighty" one for how the direction changes between good and evil) created (admittedly in slow motion) before my very eyes. Not in my lifetime, but in the lifetime of my parents, the swastika went from a popular emblem of good luck (to the point that Coca Cola was sold using it!) to something nobody knows anything at all about except that "The swastika is evil, m'kay?" Where "educated" people will "understand" that it was/is different in "the East" (albeit with the bullshit mythology of lefty-laid back, righty tighty) but where those very same educated people don't know that there's a very good chance their parents (or grandparents) had swastikas on their playing cards, their clothing, around their necks, on their buildings, etc.

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I know that Google Wave, when it was still up, was used for roleplaying because it was like a combination of wiki, collaborative writing, and chat. I really wish they would bring that back.

Were it not for the long-standing policy I have of never, ever, in a million fucking years, aiding and abetting a *channer in anything I could point you to where a Wave-like site run.

Sadly this policy interferes because I don't like helping sociopaths along.

@AmishRakeFight said:

The symbols inclusion into a certain horrifying ideology often negates its far more innocent origin.

You understand, don't you, that it is still used in that innocent (indeed meritorious) meaning? That people who view the swastika as a symbol of health, good fortune, moral uprightness, etc. outnumber the people who view it as Nazi by about 3:1?

My son took the rubbing that's at the base of that sketch from a temple's adornments. A temple that may have originated centuries ago, but whose current buildings are younger than I am.

It's fun watching people "solve" problems that have been solved since the '90s.

If you want a tip on how to do hot-swapping of code, take a look at Erlang and its OTP library. You'll probably be able to kit-bash something that kinda-sorta works based on that model.

Aw, it's so CUTE when Americans are given a taste of their own treatment of the rest of the world!

Don't worry. MUSHing is well on the way to being the greatest, most secure thing ever.

Actress Betty White, 92, Dyes Peacefully In Her Los Angeles Home