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New comment by poooka in "That Methyl Methacrylate Tank"

poooka — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:26:51 +0000

Whenever I read anything by this guy I just think of George Creel and his Committee on Public Information. He's a throwback.

New comment by poooka in "‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)"

poooka — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:51:05 +0000

One of our big exports. Germans were obsessed with American outlaws (Karl May). And I am of the opinion that this is what the Nazi's were thinking when they invaded Poland and Russia. They wanted to create and settle their own variation of the "wild west". Hard to explain to people in 2025 how captivating the American frontier was to a European in 1910.

New comment by poooka in "‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)"

poooka — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:40:03 +0000

There's a depth to what you're saying that I don't think you're truly aware of..."flooding the block" -- or the mass importation of immigrants to build a political machine -- has been part of my country's politics since the Tammany Hall days (political machines). Tale as old as time in the US and it's one of the reasons why there's so much skepticism. Like what you said here, we KNOW how this works because at some point we were the Irish\Italian\or Mexican that got shipped in. We're not blind to party politics and ginning up house delegates or patronage politics.

New comment by poooka in "Systems ideas that sound good but almost never work"

poooka — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:12:19 +0000

Disagree with plugin talk. I use plugin system that loads from submodules so I can have same architecture in multiple airgaped networks. Can have implementations load (for that environment) outside of main code base. Nothing wrong w that given complexities of maintaining complex ass configs if everything was shoved into the same artifact.