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  • That happened to me once in my life, but waking up from a dreamless sleep with a new idea is fairly normal for me (to the point where I consider sleeping a part of my problem-solving strategy).

    When my subconscious is working on a problem, I have this pleasant lazy feeling similar to the feeling I get after finishing productive physical labor. It makes me want to relax and daydream. Do you get something like that?


  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.worldru >:l e
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    This is August Landmesser. He had been engaged to a Jewish woman, Irma Eckler, but the Nazi Nuremberg Laws of 1935 prevented him from marrying her; nonetheless they went on to have two daughters. Tragically, Irma later died in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Landmesser was also imprisoned, charged with ‘dishonouring the race’, sent to a concentration camp and, after his release and forced conscription, died on the Eastern Front.

    Source.








  • The article is interesting but it just adds to the long list of erratic, megalomaniacal behavior by Musk that I assume most people here are already familiar with.

    My uneducated guess is that he’s mentally ill. Some sort of chronic mania or psychosis, perhaps as a result of bad luck but perhaps as a result of drug use or severe, long-term sleep deprivation. Then even in his lucid moments, he’s the bad kind of perfectionist (the kind that can’t bear to have flaws) and too proud to recognize that he has a problem or that he made a mistake.



  • Yeah. I’m not sure why, from a narrative perspective, Tolkien choose to have Melkor destroy the world’s source of light (the lamps) and then have Melkor destroy the world’s source of light (the trees this time) again. I think it’s already clear that he’s the Dark Lord after the first time he does it, but maybe there’s some additional symbolism that I missed.