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  • Waffelmeister@lemmy.worldtoMap Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•The lesser seen Allied occupation zones of Austria after WW2
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    12 hours ago

    I didn’t mean to correct you, just adding some context.

    Spoiler

    The river Enns goes from south from the mountains to north and flows into Danube. Upper Austria is on the west of river Enns and Lower Austria on the east. Danube goes trough both. North of Danube is a plateau which makes it (in the plateau area) hard to say Lower Austria is lower. But if you compare two cities on the boarder between Upper and Lower, the one in Lower Austria is 10m lower. Which makes sense, since the Danube flows in this direction. So again, I am not trying to correct you.

  • Waffelmeister@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump, hoping to salvage midterms, makes dubious pledge to give every US adult $5,000 if GOP wins
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    19 days ago

    A Republican mind always oscillates between “he’s just kidding” and “he tells it like it is”.

    It's pure doublethink

    To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink

    • 1984, George Orwell