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by riffraff 3mo ago
Are figs rare in central europe climates? I live in Hungary and they seem to be relatively widespread, if not as much as in southern Europe.
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by riffraff 3mo ago
People/companies are already testing avocado, banana, and coffee plantations in Italy at scale. Climate change really is insane.
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by riffraff 3mo ago
This is true with basically every place and a proper guide. I understand why people don't usually hire a person to walk then around when they're traveling solo or with their family, but if you're a mildly curious person it&#x
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by riffraff 3mo ago
Competitors run out of money and shut down, perhaps. Although I don't see how that happens for anyone but Google.
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by riffraff 3mo ago
I used to unthinkingly put icons everywhere. Then, once, a designer friend was doing some UI and I suggested using icons instead of edit/view text or something like that, and he replied "I don't believe in the thaumaturgic po
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by riffraff 3mo ago
But this is about poetry, would Twain qualify as a poet? My vote would go to Edgar Lee Masters because the spoon river anthology is one of the few poetry books I actually read, and it exemplifies a lot of the American spirit, IMVHO.
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by riffraff 3mo ago
Musk and Trump had a pretty public break up, I think this is one fuckup where we shouldn't blame him.
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by riffraff 3mo ago
I think that's changing too, my son got some cheap radio controlled boat a few weeks ago, the remote uses AA and the boat has USB-C as input (interestingly enough, it has a weird USB-C cable with a built in light to signal when chargin
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by riffraff 3mo ago
but with interrail the "useful" thing was to travel overnight, because that saves you one night of $$ for loding, so slow is actually fine. I don't think fast trains (TGV, Frecciarossa etc) were ever covered by the interrail
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by riffraff 3mo ago
I don't think so, I lived the peak of budget airlines in the 00s and interrail was still quite popular. I think young kids have just moved on culturally, I tried to convince a couple relatives to make use of the 18yo free trains opport
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by riffraff 3mo ago
Is Dredd considered cyberpunk? I know the definition is fluid but I wouldn't think so. OTOH, robocop is ok on the list, so probably it should be there too.
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by riffraff 3mo ago
In Italy (and sometimes abroad, I recall dark horse translated it in English at some point) Nathan Never has been publishing as a monthly comic for a few decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Never Not all stor
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by riffraff 3mo ago
Never used it, but I've seen some praise for Snac as an easy to deploy activitypub server https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
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by riffraff 3mo ago
On the European side of the pond, single packaged industrial ice cream is also gone to shit. A Magnum or Cornetto used to be a well sized very tasty snack. In Italy the "cucciolone" (an ice cream sandwich) was literally marketed a
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by riffraff 3mo ago
I think it's also worth noting that China today is not China from twenty years ago. The communist party ran the country but there was some form of "internal quasi democracy" and leadership changes happened, with term limits.
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by riffraff 3mo ago
I read the book and that's not the first thing that comes to mind. What comes to mind is whole towns made of dockworkers which disappeared, and some places like Manchester lost their port and their industry died too, and it took them d
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by riffraff 3mo ago
To paraphrase the science/funerals quip, one might say "Society advances one failed institution at a time".
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by riffraff 3mo ago
With the rise of pre-print archives is this still a problem?
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by riffraff 3mo ago
I play dungeon crawl stone soup (think nethack,but with web tiles), and most of the servers are struggling because of AI crawlers downloading the morgues. Real users are already suffering. If (big if) the AI labs can be made to pay for the
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by riffraff 3mo ago
Yes, It is also sold in every supermarket in soluble form, there's a Nestle owned brand (orzoro) and a few smaller ones (orzobimbo) which are quite popular. I should avoid caffeine for health reasons and I usually drink milk with barle
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by riffraff 4mo ago
I can assure you the situation in Italy is just as bad. We do have an independent telecommunications authority, but it's been subservient to the Serie A (rather, the companies who own the broadcasting /streaming rights) diktat alm
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by riffraff 4mo ago
If the server can trust the device, then you don't need the parent, you can use a digital-enabled id card or passport. This is in fact the EU age verification app https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news&#x
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by riffraff 4mo ago
> These "age verification" laws are - by design - identity attribution systems. They attribute digital identities (accounts) to physical identities (SSN, ID, etc.. No, they don't. The proposed EU verification system provid
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by riffraff 4mo ago
But the point is the movie industry has been trying to tell us that it is stealing. "You wouldn't still a car" etc etc..
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by riffraff 4mo ago
But people are not voluntarily philanthropists. There's a reason we had to introduce work regulations so you don't have children working 13 hours shifts in coal mines. It's way better if my children study by themselves, but i
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by riffraff 4mo ago
FWIW, some fast growing non-native trees now grow trivially in central Europe too. Ailanthus[0] is invasive as heck and Paulownia[1] grows everywhere too. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus_altissima [1] http
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by riffraff 4mo ago
@steerpike on HN coined the "time to sheep" metric, a measure of how long you have to travel before you're surrounded by sheep[0], which correlates reasonably well with quality of living. Alas, doesn't work very well out
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by riffraff 4mo ago
The good thing is bridgy fed/a new social exists, and you can trivially bridge atmosphere and fediverse today. The east-west schism took way longer to allow some reconciliation :)
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by riffraff 4mo ago
No, it didn't. The first iphone looked incredible and expensive. People complained it didn't have apps and didn't support java, but it was very cool. Also, it cost $500.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
It's way more creepy than a phone. I can see you holding up a phone to snap a picture, I cannot tell if you're recording me while looking at me. Also, in the country where I live, it's illegal to record passers-by, so this is

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