apelapan

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by apelapan 1y ago
I find some consoling symmetry in that I can run faster than the fastest swimmers and bike faster than the fastest runners. At least on some distances.
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by apelapan 1y ago
My favourite illustration of Olympic performance is not from a competition, but a warm-up during a training sessipn. Some jogging-hurdles by high-jumper Stefan Holm: https://youtu.be/L28NyIquzIQ?si=RMJhHnInEI0IFj0B
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by apelapan 2y ago
I wonder how much is the Tesla and how much is the phone. I used to have 98% success with just walking up to my Model Y, phone in pocket. These days it is more like 80% and sometimes it can take over a minute before the car accepts that a &
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by apelapan 2y ago
I loved how is was mentioned in passing (as I recall it, 30 years later), that Ijon Tichy was followed by an entourage of Tichiologists.
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by apelapan 2y ago
Things would have looked quite different in Iraq, if Saddam had focused his military spending on defense of civilians and civilian infrastructure! Not making excuses for all the wrongs done by US and allies before, during and after the inva
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by apelapan 2y ago
We need to spend a lot more and do defence very differently than Russia, because Europe values human life a lot higher than Russia. Russia can attack with ten million men armed with knifes and clubs. They will March on, kill and destroy, un
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by apelapan 2y ago
Not if your country suddenly finds itself on Donald Trump's naughty-list. Then you have nothing.
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by apelapan 2y ago
I think we agree, because I did mention the de-consecration as a crucial step. The Lutheran churches where I'm from do a similar thing.
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by apelapan 2y ago
It is probably true that in a majority of those land areas (Finland, Sweden, Norway) you are more than 45 minutes of driving from the next proper city. However, the proportion of people who live like that is not very high. People mostly liv
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by apelapan 2y ago
Catholics abandon and sell church buildings all the time. Once you've removed a small handful of sacred items and done the de-consecration-ritual, it is "just a building" to them too. There are vast numbers of repurposed chur
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by apelapan 2y ago
The Lidl-coffe is very cheap at $20/kg! That is my definition of what is currently the cost of low-end, budget-beans. Stepping to twice the price of the low-cost beans is my definition of premium. Like going from a 30k Fiat to a 60k
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by apelapan 2y ago
Keeping it in a local context: Lidl sells coffe beans for 200kr/kg. That is pretty cheap coffe and they probably have very high margins on it. Zoegas fairtrade beans are perhaps twice that price. That is premium coffe. (like Barilla is
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by apelapan 2y ago
I just want to chime back in and say that the post I replied to said "nice beans" at £1/cup and the post that was a reply to talked about the cost of beans for a "standard espresso". My intended angle was to say tha
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by apelapan 2y ago
In the general case I fully agree. It is ideal that the name of anything clearly indicates whatever is important about that thing. But who is the viewer of that name? How much context can they be assumed to have? The name of the class? The
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by apelapan 2y ago
I think you are using a very narrow definition of "nice beans". At one pound per cup in bean cost, you are doing some coffee equivalent of having a glass from a £500 champagne bottle or listening to music from a pair of £10k speak
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by apelapan 2y ago
SAMP/T exists and is allegedly better than Patriot. I don't think there are any particular weapon types for which there is no qualified European alternative. Very many systems are however designed around some amount of American co
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by apelapan 2y ago
Of course, everyone in Slovakia (or Hungary) are not firmly aligned with Russia. I hope the scales tip west-ward in the next elections.
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by apelapan 2y ago
The killing won't stop until Russia is firmly stopped. There is no peace without completely and permanently pacifying Russia. They will attack again and again until we render them unable to continue. The best time to do this is thirty
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by apelapan 2y ago
The EU member states have their own foreign policy and extensive veto rights within the federation. It is not so strange that the EU itself has been slow, if anything I think we have pulled together better than expected. Individual member c
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by apelapan 2y ago
I have never seen a number similar to that quoted anywhere before. Can you name a source? The BBC:s most recent rundown[1] has the strictly military support from the US accounting for a bit more than half of the total of the top-ten contrib
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by apelapan 2y ago
They are both (IRIS and SAMP) in Ukraine, doing an excellent job from what I read. I'm sure Ukraine are asking for them, as they are very expensive and it would be insane to gift the if not wanted. Many European countries chose Patriot
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by apelapan 2y ago
That is not impossible but it is far from certain. There are plenty of other possibilities and plenty of parties with plausible motive.
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by apelapan 2y ago
In most areas, this will simply show which restaurants are actively maintaining their Google Maps entry by having all negative reviews removed, which ones are putting some effort into fake reviews and which ones just don't care. I woul
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by apelapan 2y ago
When visiting the US, I time and time again started telling service staff about how my day was, because they seemed so sincerely happy to meet me and interested in how I was doing.
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by apelapan 2y ago
I was responding to your closing sentence, which is made up of two clearly false and one likely true statement. > Lockers are simply not even a thing in Europe because children are carrying less and they have standardized backpacks.
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by apelapan 2y ago
We had lockers in the European high school that I went to. As I recall it was not allowed to bring backpacks into the classroom, you were supposed to only bring the relevant items to each class and keep the rest in your locker. I don't
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by apelapan 2y ago
I'm curious if the breach is from the German core Cariad or the Swedish subsidiary/joint-venture, WirelessCar? Based on what sort of data was exposed, it seems plausible that it is one of the services from WirelessCar.
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by apelapan 2y ago
It packs a reasonable punch for sensible manoeuvres. Excellent 50-70kmh acceleration for a safe lane changes and decent enough when getting up to merge speed on an on-ramp.
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by apelapan 2y ago
Cars without backup camera tend to have good mirrors (exceptions exist). Once you put the camera there by default, the designers/engineers gets many extra degrees of freedom since they aren't constrained by visibility requirements
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by apelapan 2y ago
Nissan Leaves are supposedly notorious for having the worst battery longevitey of all EV:s, as they didn't include any thermal management at all in the first generation design. I was researching them for a second car some years ago, an

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