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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 11, 2022

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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Personally I just have zero tolerance for arguments that go: "'how dare you,' she explained. 'How dare you,' she elaborated"

Last time I asked if anyone knew good English language sources for modern Holocaust scholarship, the only response was echos. I'd like to learn more, but for how emotionally invested people are there's very little effort to dredge up sources or make effort posts compared to every other topic discussed here.

Last time I asked if anyone knew good English language sources for modern Holocaust scholarship, the only response was echos. I'd like to learn more, but for how emotionally invested people are there's very little effort to dredge up sources or make effort posts compared to every other topic discussed here.

Want respectable and impeccable mainstream sources?

Just start with the source of all knowledge, and follow up the works cited.

Want the other kind of scholarship?

Whole library of 50 "Holocaust Handboooks" in PDF available at your fingertips completely for free, in one comfy 572 MB file.

The fact that you cited Wikipedia as the source of all knowledge makes me question what you think of as respectable and impeccable.

obvious humor

Always and forever: sarcastic jokes work in person because of the added sardonic tone. In text it doesn't works because we can't hear the intended tone. So it gets read literally. And given that your "obviously" joke statement is many people's actual dumb opinion, we doubly could never get the joke.

The internet is full of sarcasm. Many people can sense it and find it funny. It works well enough. Having to distinguish between srs and hehe was a joke is a good test, both for one to improve, and for others watching.

That said, 'the source of all knowledge' isn't even a joke, just hyperbole about something accurate. this is neat! this is interesting. Even if wikipedia takes the harvard line, harvard's right about a lot.

Too many people actually say that for it to be detected as sarcasm.

My bad.