This is a gross misrepresentation. The nazi debts were accumulated to build up a war economy in order to go to war. The plan probably always was to pay it off (or at least maintain it) through looting, but they did not take on the debt to appease the people. Exactly none of it went into improving people’s lifes.
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From what you hear it’s that they have bills to pay. If a publisher doesn’t know your name, they’re not going to assume it’s an automatic best-seller so they’re less likely to actually look at your work to see if it’s worth it.
Also, to pay your bills before the publisher actually prints the book, you have to find one way ahead of you finishing the book, meaning that you have to send them an unfinished manuscript, further hurting your chances - but if they like it you get that money before it’s done, with the caveat that they’re gonna sue if you don’t deliver.
konju376to World News@lemmy.world•The UK says it conducted a 'groundbreaking' trial of a laser beam weapon that can neutralize targets for $0.12 a shotEnglish3·1 year agoSo let’s not invent a shield that can stop any fast incoming forces using arcane physical effects… Heard that turns out badly
konju376to Linux@lemmy.ml•Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited3·1 year agoZero-cost abstractions!
To expand on this: mutations between generations happen exactly there, between generations. So the parents of the “first” chicken (if you draw the line somewhere on the evolutionary scale) were not chicken; the egg however was a chicken egg, as it contained a chicken.
konju376to Steam@lemmy.ml•Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?'2·1 year agoBut social media is an essential industry in how opinions are formed.
What is that map though
Small niche subs are the only reason I’m still using reddit. Not the main subs, again bots are the problem, but small niches are unfortunately slow to migrate to an entirely new platform because it’s not guaranteed that the community comes with it (unlike large generic subs like memes, which has a very general audience)
Why did I have to scroll down so far for le hidden gem?
konju376to tumblr@lemmy.world•Sometimes the simplest answer is the correct one. Sometimes you're just stupid.12·2 years agoBut there were? Just off the top of my head you have Deir al-Medina, which is the village were the workers assigned to the tombs in the valley of kings were assigned to (not exactly the pyramids, but similar enough). We have records of how they complained about bad working conditions and missing supplies, which were usually promptly dealt with because of the importance of the tombs to royal ideology.
Also: what about the texts literally in the pyramids that describe how they were being built and by whom (at least by whom further up in the hierarchy)? It’s not like those aren’t texts because they’re not written in the Latin alphabet. Archaeologists did not, in fact, make up how pyramids/tombs were constructed.
Sure they are different, but if somehow someone finds out just one password of yours, all others are broken too, right?
This looks like an early internet “hey look at my cool blog” page
konju376toMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•"What if everything was X?" but with computersEnglish12·2 years agoC: What if everything was an integer?
C++: What if everything was an integer but we pretend like we’re better than that?
Soft and hard pronunciation i guess (at least if that’s what it’s called)