witness@lemmygrad.mltoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why IBM got a reputation of destroying everything they touch?
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1 year agoThe numbers on forearms used to keep track of holocaust prisoners used by the nazis… was a proprietary system developed by IBM for the nazis. Does that count?
I have a random fun fact about beelzebub…
There’s some dispute, but Baal zebub seems to have been a derogatory term used by ancient israelites against the philistine deity, Ba’al (lord), calling him baal zebub, or the lord of flies.
Occult circles have demonized the figure over time, but yea. Ancient racists who thought of the philistines as pests, and blatantly insulted their religion by renaming their lord to ‘lord of the flies’.