[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 15 points 3 months ago

It's a bit more complicated than that. This specific SS boss had already been assassinated by Dutch resistance in 1943.

What likely happened is that after the Jewish owner of the portrait died in May 1940, his collection was placed in possession of Göring. He then sold many of the works in October 1940, and presumably this is when Seyffardt purchased it (we don't know for certain). After he died in 1943, the painting presumably passed through his son and ended up with his granddaughter.

The case only came to light now because another family member discovered that he was family of Seyffardt, which he didn't know because the Seyffardts changed their name to avoid association with the Nazi collaborator.

So since there was no knowledge or record that this painting was ever in possession of Seyffardt, and he had already been busy being dead for 2 years when the war ended, the trail just ran cold.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 15 points 11 months ago

Err, the law requiring social media to register also has very broad provisions for government mandated removal of content from these social media. So it's not exactly unlikely that that would have been the next step after the registration deadline had passed.

You are completely right that social media needs some form of regulation to avoid their nasty sides btw. But that's not what this law was seemingly intent on doing.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago

They can, it's harmless to the wildlife.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago

Meh, those are just the programmers that are remembered.

They did lots of dumb shit too. Mario 64 was a super-innovative game at the time with its free 3D platforming. There's also tons of weird code in there, and the developers also fucked up by shipping a debug build of the game, costing a not insignificant amount of performance.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago

It'd be hilarious if Peru deports him back to the US.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago

You can degoogle on Android you know. Takes some effort, but the end result is better than moving into a walled garden.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago

Trump is way too much of a wuss to cut himself, nor is he dextrous enough to professionally hide himself doing it.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago

Netherlands actually didn't change much. PVV got +5, but FvD (a worse PVV) lost 4. And the VVD (where Wilders came from originally) also lost 1, so it kinda cancels out. Same goes for the left parties which went from 9 to 8, but that seat went to a progressive center party.

Overall very little has shifted here. And it seems at the European level the same coalition will continue too.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago

It's happened in the past and is easier than you might think.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago

The internet is supposed to be a safe haven

I don't know who gave you that idea, but it's definitely not true.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago

Last I saw was that the incident is real, but the image and associated text are not real. But can't remember where I read about this.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago

I'm not so sure this is so terrible. Preventing further Catalonian separatist sentiment would require some level of reconciliation, and this seems like a good first step. Having Puigdemont as some kind of martyr in Brussels is not a good look for Spain and has only really emboldened the pro-independence parties.

This deal gives Sanchez an excellent angle to force some reconciliatory concessions from the separatists as well. It's basically killed any chance at a further referendum.

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