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JJLiautaud said:
So basically there was someone being stabbed in the back but it was Austria by Hungary.
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Yes, roughly. Hungary grossly miscalculated what would happen if the Double Crown would collapse after having successfully managed to bully the Habsburgs for a good half century, believing they would find themselves fully autonomous and in control of their entire pre-war territory (a territory often without significant Hungarian majorities).

So they got Trianon'ed and they're seething about it for a century. Imagine the national trauma of being the constituent of one of the premiere European Great Powers (even with all the problems of AH) and being reduced in five years to a useless rump state that's going to be at best a puppet state for whoever passes by.

Fucking Hungarians.
 
Thoughts on Ceramic? I like the way he edits his videos a lot, it's as if you were watching a video from 10+ years ago but made now, he also always cites easily-digestible sources on his description, which I like
 
Dumb question for anyone here: Who would win in a hypothetical war from the 1980s, NATO or the Warsaw pact? No Nukes involved. No China stepping in and no uprisings in the soviet territory
 
Professor Donger said:
Dumb question for anyone here: Who would win in a hypothetical war from the 1980s, NATO or the Warsaw pact? No Nukes involved. No China stepping in and no uprisings in the soviet territory
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I guess it depends on two assumptions: whether you think NATO could rapidly reinforce Germany before the Warsaw Pact gained significant ground, and whether you think the NATO advantage in technology and training could offset the Warsaw Pact's ~2:1 advantage in numbers.

Anytime before the 80s, I'd say the Warsaw Pact would likely have won a strictly conventional war.

Interesting old documentary which is fairly relevant to the question:
 
grump said:
Tempted to block 'Sleepless Historian' because I detest the unnerving AI thumbnails. Why can't he use the images he does in the actual videos? Or I suppose it gets attention.
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Decided to actually look into the 'Sleepless Historian' channels instead of just being annoyed by the thumbnails. Theres several of them under slightly different names uploading the same content and it looks like its not just the thumbnails are AI. The entire channel from the voice to the scripts are. Judging by the comments the majority seem unaware although a few of the commenters seem to be bots too. I could definitely see someone being fooled though since its not immediately that obvious except for the thumbnail. A lot of people might just think its just a guy who AI generated the thumbnails but made regular videos.

Its pretty clever targeting not immediately obvious slop as sleep content. With what might be an almost completely automated pipeline dude is pulling tens of thousands to sometimes even millions of views per video on the daily with several videos uploaded per day. A pretty penny for not much effort.

I looked for a way to report the channels, which deserve it for the thumbnails if nothing else. But surprisingly or maybe not that surprisingly Youtube still doesn't seem to offer an obvious way to flag deceptive AI slop despite all the recent controversy over it. Which means for all their rhetoric Google approves of this shit.
 
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New Extra History shorts talks about the failed Business Plot attempt against FDR then goes into "Muh Trump is a dictator" mode at the end.
 
Amerikaner Teddybär said:
New Extra History shorts talks about the failed Business Plot attempt against FDR then goes into "Muh Trump is a dictator" mode at the end.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DdyVGSbRavU
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Elon Musk is on the outs with Trump and part of his butthurt is that it's now blatantly obvious that Trump didn't actually give him the authority he thought he deserved. Forcing in your seethe about Trump that is at least accurate is one thing, forcing in outdated seethe about Musk puppeting Trump is another thing entirely.
 
HeyYou said:
Elon Musk is on the outs with Trump and part of his butthurt is that it's now blatantly obvious that Trump didn't actually give him the authority he thought he deserved. Forcing in your seethe about Trump that is at least accurate is one thing, forcing in outdated seethe about Musk puppeting Trump is another thing entirely.
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The seething about January 6th was even more ludicrous. Last time I checked, none of the protesters were armed and mostly just walked around the Capitol for a few hours.
 
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