The great Troll Assault of 2016 was a collective pain in the @SS , the mods and membership handled it with professionalism .
Thankfully we gained David as a new member and his presents makes up for many a Troll banning .
The great Troll Assault of 2016 was a collective pain in the @SS , the mods and membership handled it with professionalism .
Thankfully we gained David as a new member and his presents makes up for many a Troll banning .
How right you are. We salute our new friend and thank the moderators for their glacial patience.
You can call me a skeptic about technology, and part of the reason for my skepticism is how the digital sphere has damaged civility.
Culture and civilization are fragile, and when these things are gone, the result is pretty appalling and the reconstruction of what centuries have aspired to build can
be heart breaking.
The whole "is it fake" thing takes on a dynamic which is often very unhelpful. The question "what is it?" and "why is it?" and "who is it?" are more rewarding.
But the study of the past is hardly comprised in tweets, and the facts that underlie all of this often too complex for a single post, or, even, twenty posts.
Here is what I mean as concerns what the savants have never shown us. This is an analysis of the impact of progress in metallurgy and metal working in the uniform
accessories trade and industry ca. 1940. It is an article about.....buttons, what could be more subtle. It describes the transition to new metals associated with the Uniformeffketen, i.e. buttons, but it could just as well be insignia, and the issues associated with this evolution. Read and reflect.
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