When you drop it.

Not very fast, and they ran into some issues.

Actually, the intended target cities had been deliberately spared conventional bombing raids in order to better assess and evaluate the then yet unknown (or, just vaguely known, after the Trinity test) damage potential of nuclear weapons.

Do you taste metal?

To nitpick some more, at least one of the nukes really was just a very odd kind of gun.

Actually, the OSS (The CIA’s precursor) did set a spy upon Werner Heisenberg, the head of Nazi Germany’s nuclear research programme, with the mission to assassinate him if there was any indication the Nazis were close to building a nuclear weapon.

He found out that the Nazis were nowhere close, so Heisenberg got to live.

The server:

It’s the nuclear option in self hosting.

Maybe a few catholics with an actual spine and a conscience stood up to the Nazis, but the catholic church as such supported them. Guess who played a major part in organising the “rat lines” for smuggling wanted Nazi war criminals into South America after WW2?

are you in Deutschland?

I am.

curious what the perspective is like on the ground after all the back and forth.

From the Ground it looks like virtually every other relevant political party is trying to steal Votes from the Nazis by copying their rhetoric and agenda, while failing to cooperate with each other against the Nazi scum, and also failing (or not even trying) to improve the lives of the majority of the population. They can’t even agree to finally ban the AfD, even though there is plenty of evidence for them striving to overthrow the constitutional order.

Especially the sucking up to Nazi voters is pretty much only working in favour of the Nazis, because it is legitimising them, and people who like that sort of thing prefer to have the real deal over voting for a cheap, half arsed copy.

The media are giving the AfD Nazi scum a platform by inviting their representatives to talk shows and interviews as if they were a normal party, and are allowing them to set the narrative.

If things keep going like they are right now, the current government coalition, like its predecessor, won’t make it to the end of their term, meanwhile, the Nazis are gaining votes. If things keep going like that, we’re looking at Nazis in government within the next 4 years.

Just lean back and watch the AfD scum catch up in no time thanks to the rest of the political system cosplaying late stage Weimar Republic.

I know. But that statue isn’t one of a horse, neither was an invasion force concealed inside of it.

I think after that incident with that wooden horse, horse sculptures aren’t very popular as gifts anymore.

“sneezing”, sure. Why is the water coming out of its mouth and nose then?

This must be a monument to the legendarily rare occurrence of someone seeing horses vomit.

Most likely the IT guy thought you were either lying, or are too stupid to actually turn your computer off and on again. Because both is pretty typical for end users. Working in IT with direct contact to “non technical” end users will make you lose your faith in humanity very quickly, because you get to look straight into the deepest abyss of human malice and stupidity all day every day.

That’s UI design, a dark art mere mortals like you and me won’t ever understand.

Everyone phalanx till they hit TRIPLEX ACIES

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May I introduce you to the concept of Gleichschaltung

Basically, the Nazis went through great lengths to install loyal followers in all aspects of life, including the publishing sector.

They did also change the organisational structure of pretty much everything they could lay their hands on according to the Führerprinzip

It’s a timeless classic.