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  • The NSDAP was wiped out in 1945 but denazification was woefully incomplete and individual Nazis held positions of power in institutions like NATO, NASA, West German intelligence, etc, well after the 50s. That's just direct members of the NSDAP and not all the neo-nazi splinter parties which West Germany and United Germany by their own admissions never wiped out. Add onto that various explicitly neo-Nazi groups in other countries and active militant Nazi-adjacent groups overseas and I don't think it's accurate or productive to say that Nazism has been "largely wiped out".

  • 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, 4 weeks a month works out to 288 hours, so yeah that sounds about right for some of these places.

    Not uncommon for a first year associate to bill out enough to cover their entire yearly salary in the first quarter and the rest of the year is just profit for the firm.

  • I know accountant/lawyer/engineer types who have to live with room mates and are struggling to save up deposits for buying housing even though they make good money.

    Even in these previously prestigious positions junior employees get paid shit and get worked to the bone in exchange for the promise of big (like $10k+ a year) raises. Over recent years the starting salaries have not kept up with inflation and even the raises are getting smaller and smaller. In theory you're supposed to be financially comfortable "mid career" but that used to be 5 years in and now appears more like 10 or even 15 years in.

    Doctors, bankers, top tier lawyers and consultants may be exceptions to this trend, but then again those are jobs where people literally drop dead from overwork so that's a different type of hell.

  • It's almost as if cutting yourself off from your biggest energy supplier while needlessly antagonizing one of your biggest customers at the same time has bad consequences.

    Too bad you can't eat smug moral superiority or heat your home with European Values.

  • English speaking pro-China Twitter has been going nuts with Michael Jordan level dunks on Westoid China Watchers who claimed China would never have a chip industry.

    I think the current western cope is "the chip is 2 or 3 years behind the latest snapdragon". Well yeah, that'd be a great point if time stops and China stops advancing. They just built a chip industry from scratch in 5 years and they're only 2 or 3 years behind the state of the art. At this rate of advancement what will they have in another 5 or 10 years?