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I needed a QR Code generator for a document. After long wandering on the web without finding a QR Code generator that doesn't use a proprietary URL shortener, I discovered that you can easily do it inside LibreOffice.

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Author Len Deighton has passed away, and his obituary on the BBC mentioned his novel SS-GB (1977) (I read it in the 80s, and saw the miniseries maybe 8~9 years ago) predated fellow alternate history Fatherland (by Robert Harris, 1992) by multiple years.

I thought "surely The Man in the High Castle (1962) and The Iron Dream (1972) preceded both" and started wondering when was the first alternate history with a Nazi victory.

Turns out it was in 1937! The book was Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin (although she used the pen name Murray Constantine & the author's true identity was only uncovered in the mid-1980s).

It has been described as "the most original of all the many anti-fascist dystopias of the late 1930s" and contains many elements seen a decade later in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: the past has been destroyed and history is rewritten, language is distorted, few books exist apart from propaganda, and a secret book is the only witness to the past.

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Also, Daniel Craig, Karl Urban, N sync, and George Lucas have had cameos in various films of the series.

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You take the blue pill, you wake up on your bed, and believe whatever you want to believe.

You take the red pill, you take a big step back, and literally FUCK YOUR OWN FACE.

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"Mercury’s liquid state results almost entirely from relativistic effects, said Peter Schwerdtfeger, a quantum physicist at Massey University in New Zealand. Toward the bottom of the periodic table, the electrons in the heaviest elements experience such strong attraction to the atomic nucleus that they move close to the speed of light. At this point, they no longer obey the laws of classical physics, and the resulting quantum phenomena — known as relativistic effects — lead to surprising physical properties. How these manifest depends on the element..."

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