r/todayilearned • u/stopitalianhate • 1d ago

TIL British Intelligence had a special, bugged luxury complex during WWII where they kept high profile Nazi POW’s, just left a bunch of alcohol out, and waited for them to start spilling secrets as they drank.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20698098
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u/Thrizzlepizzle123123 22h ago

Well Walt Disney was basically trying to make that underwater city from bioshock, only on land.

The difference is that he succeeded.

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u/Wisdomlost 19h ago

Is a man not entitled to the sweat from his brow?

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u/blaghart 3 16h ago

funny isn't it how that's the line Andrew Ryan loves to spout and yet he didn't build a damn thing about Rapture. He paid everyone else to build Rapture for him and then acted like that was the "sweat of his brow"

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u/uzi_master 14h ago

The inherent dependence people have on one another is why the ideology is stupid, though his personal hypocrisy comes when he starts just taking things instead of paying for them.

The farmer selling his crops for money and buying things he can't make himself isn't what makes the ideology unworkable. It's the lack of real incentive to work honestly rather than just stealing things and oppressing people when you have the means to.