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For me it is the "fall of the Berlin wall" and the celebrations after the border openings.

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[–] Mickey7@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When hitler killed himself in the bunker. I would have been fascinated to witness how a guy responsible for millions of deaths somehow considered himself the victim and was forced to commit suicide. He was an evil bastard and a coward unwilling to face the consequences of his actions.

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Take his bullets and poison away. Let the Russians deal with him.

[–] Dragster39@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'd actually prefer to witness a fair trial. Just because I'd actually like to know how he'd try to defend and explain what he did. It might have given us the chance to study him and what led to him becoming that way.

I'm pro studying people like psychopaths and sociopaths to better understand what it takes to be or become one to prevent horrible outcomes.

We should spend way more time on studying and understanding murderers and the source of their actions.

[–] Ddub@lemmy.ca 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Seeing the first person to spell subtle with a b

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

English got fucked... hard... because so many of the spellings came from people that had weird goals.

Consider phial. Why do we spell it that way? Because some jackass decided that english needed to be more latiny and ph is more latiny than v. (or maybe it was greek? I don't remember the exact etymology)

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Anglish is an attempt to reverse that, and remove Latin, Greek, and French words from English.

[–] Goudewup@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago

Hah that's interesting, a lot of this wiki is quite easy to decipher as a Dutch and English speaker

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] merari42@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Because it wasn't that long ago.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But it's still considered a major historic event. The Berlin wall falling was even more recent and definitely historic.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Non sequitor here but both of these things happened during pablo picassos lifetime

As a great name in the artworld i was always surprised that lived in the modern era and not a previous one like many other "everyone knows these names" artists

[–] Turun@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

In science, especially math, all the famous scientists lived long ago. Newton, Euler, etc.

In computer science only the very pioneers are dead already. A lot of groundbreaking work was done by people who are still alive, or even still in working age.

It's so weird!

[–] outrageousmatter@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

Julius Caesar declaring himself an emperor, the celebration and seeing the man that essentially turned rome from a powerful republic to the most powerful empire with a military that dominated majority of europe.