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here for a good time, not and a long time 😎



this winter in the alps was the snow-less-nest i’ve ever experienced, basically only the highest resorts had enough snow for proper skiing, and there was an enormous amount of people there, because everyone who typically goes to their local place, had to go to one of the handful 2500m+ places :(



i think you underestimate the effect of car size on cities


i vaguely recall this really cool documentary with pretty interesting visuals about stuff raf did on youtube, but i can’t find it now for some reason 😭😔

prolly got deleted or smth, anyone lemme know if you know that one or you find it…


ye, i guess you’re right, that is kind of insensitive, but my point was largely to point out how distant the immense dangers of amerikan cities feel to most foreigners… 🤷‍♀️



i really like this one, it’s kinda expensive tho, might be out of your price range 😉


oh yeah? but at what cost?! 😤😤





all of these guys just need to move out of the US or areas affected by it if they can tbh, otherwise it doesn’t end well most of the time…









i forgot 😔 it was a long time ago


carnivore just means they can’t synthesise certain stuff and need to get it from eating other animals, but if there are ways to artificially synthesise or somehow otherwise get those elements, why would that be a problem then?


iirc @dessalines mentioned smth about how it’s possible to have vegan cats some time ago, can’t remember specifics tho


curious about the massive “Unknown” spikes 🤔

does this just mean that the place the where they collected data about OS usage couldn’t get access to the info about that person’s OS, or does that mean that they literally have no idea what OS that is? 🤔


i’ve seen a lot of such footage where conductors spend like 30 seconds trying to forcefully pack in a entire train carriage in order for the doors to close and i’ve always found it to be so weird

like, if your metro is so busy, i’m assuming you have trains running every 60-90 seconds, which translates roughly to the minimum safe distance between trains, therefore they literally just spent like half the time they’d have to wait for another train to come simply trying to shove in one passenger, delaying not only everyone on that train, but also everyone is subsequent trains

where is the logic?



no, refuse to elaborate

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idk, i’ve never heard ppl say these things about brutalism 🤔

maybe a somewhat similar sentiment in protest of high-rise and boring social housing, which happened to have a somewhat brutalist style, but never brutalism itself

if anything, some of the most interesting brutalist works are located in western countries such as england and japan


phone keyboards are so small, that, in my experience, however good they are, it’s basically impossible to type quickly without mistakes, so i always have autocorrect turned on on my phone

however, i compensate for the diminishing knowledge of spelling by turning off autocorrect on my computer, works fine 🤷‍♀️


i don’t understand

is the implication that brutalism does take inspiration from random objects and people dislike it because of that?


well, i hope you’re right in the sense that this entire thing is actually a negotiating tactic, however, i can’t help but still remain pretty worried

i guess we’ll just see what happens, bc we will probably have a relatively certain answer soon 🤷‍♀️


russia is a country with the most number of nuclear weapons in the world, being extremely sensitive about any border disputes, fueled by an unfortunate self-perpetuating symbiosis of a large portion of the population being nationalistic being catered to by an equally nationalistic autocrat…

no sensible country would touch such an explosive combination country with a long pole, let alone try to invade, which would virtually guarantee mutual destruction with nuclear weapons…


massive accumulation of russian troops, weapons, hospitals and other supplies along the border with ukraine, 2014 annexation of crimea, withdrawal of russian diplomats from ukraine…

look, i’d be the first person to want this whole thing to be some kind of massive misinformation event/a scaring/negotiating tactic/whatever, bc i have ukranian friends who are likely to get drafted, some of my closest friends in russia could get drafted, i myself could get drafted

i’d be very happy if in a few months i can go back to this comment and laugh at it, seeing how dumb this whole thing was, but right now it’s a tangible fear for all of us

whatever your position is on this, you’ll never fail to be surprised what kind of fucked up shit a crazy ultranationalistic autocrat with zero oversight catering to a nationalistic population can end up doing…


guys about to be invaded by russia and they’re protesting nato/us imperialism? priorities??

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til some people walk around with shoes ON in their houses, wtf? 🤔🤦‍♀️


first pic: damn they’re so close to discovering a tram lol

in all seriousness though, this looks great, the british isles is not a place often mentioned in the context of great human-centric infrastructure, but here we are 🤷‍♀️👍


this is the ostankino-medvedkovo tram line in moscow, completely separated from any car traffic, goes primarily through parks and forests, absolutely beautiful as you can see from the pics, and it’s also the most popular tram route in moscow

if you ever visit, definitely a recommended ride :)



one interesting thing i noticed from seeing pics of car-free american streets here and on reddit is that although they’re rare, when they are made, they’re usually of surprisingly high quality 🤔





The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality | Che Guevara
found this quote on a competitive typing website, and for some reason it really resonated with me, thought i'd share it :)
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/> tin t4 /> cost about 100 usd /> sound amazing for the price, better than a lot of 300-400 usd headphones /> comes with beautiful high quality case (synthetic leather) /> headphones themselves made out of stunning machined aluminium /> standardized detachable replaceable mmcx cable /> cable itself pretty nice /> 3.5 mm connector so rigid you could kill somebody with it /> never need to be charged /> will prolly last so long they'll outlive you /> neutral/warm-ish sound, relatively accurate /> relatively unknown, but of much better value than the vast majority of "known" brands
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If you could introduce a few obscure/minor laws to your country, which ones would you choose that would make the most positive or interesting impact?
i'd probably pick - cartoon tv series can't have more than 3 seasons - avocados should have most subsidies of any food - electron apps are now illegal - normal tv series can't have more than 5 seasons - protruding doorsteps are now illegal
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hey guys, so i have this slave-run plantation, and i'm extremely concerned about climate change, so here's a 200 page meta analysis to try to figure out whether using slaves is environmentally friendly 🤗
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/88733 > i just can't get over how great this scene is, its really a masterpiece of how to compose an action sequence, the editing, and especially the song track 🥵 > > when the the hero tries to hide in the cafe at around 1 minute mark and the waiter starts loudly yelling at him, which attracts the attention of the chasers? a little bit of a cliche of the main protagonist attempting to hide, when another character loudly starts confronting him, inevitably drawing the attention of the people looking for the protagonist... like why would the waiter start shouting at him, when he simply wanted a coffee > > well, turns out that the waiter is actually another customer whose seat he sat taken, meaning the escalating voice and irritatin on his side are completely explainable > > nolan doesn't have his own ***style*** per se, like a visual or compositional style like that of wes anderson or edgar wright, but nolan's work differentiate themselves by taking at first glance primite sequences and filming them so masterfully that a simple run-down-the-alley creates more tension and anticipation than all superhero movies ever released
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Do you think there’s a viable solution to Wirth’s law?
from wikipedia: > Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster hardware doesn't degrade, yet a lot of devices, that felt very snappy in the beginning, that are merely 5 years old feel outdated and slow, because if a trillion dollar corporation can't be bothered to write a native application, and graces us with a control bar widget that's an entire chromium browser, whose only purpose is to push two buttons, then very few others will be on mobile, because developers are practically forced to write an app for absolutely everything, and there are easy to use tools available that will take your js and compile it into native components (like reactnative and nativescript), otherwise your app will be crippled, it is less pronounced on mobile in my opinion on desktop, because you can write applications however you want, every bloody thing is in electron: chat apps, text editors, IDEs and even terminals and browsers (lol), it's a complete disaster in my opinion, even a person like me, who wages holy war against electron apps, is forced to use a couple electron applications (looking angrily at you discord and zoom 😡) the problem is that most people start with (and never go on from) javascript as their first (and final language), which is an interpreted language, made to be run in a browser, that was designed in like two weeks, and the expectations are sky-high (apps that utilize native components across five operating systems and two processor architectures), and the unfortunate result of these requirements is electron there are some emerging solutions like extremely cross-platform flutter (but it's not js) and there are now native macOS and windows targets for react native, but it's rarely used it seems like unless there will emerge some framework, that would magically sip out the project from the developer's mind in js and transform it into native apps for ios, android, linux, macOS and windows, with zero modifications required from the developer, we have little hope, and such a framework would not only be a silly project, but also an effort of astronomical proportions so we're stuck with either iron grip control of corporations over mobile platforms that force everyone to write an app for everything, or with the freedom of the desktop, but we end up running 15 instances of chromium, not to mention the fragility of the web standards nowadays what do you think?
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