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Dogs must think we only consider a couple rooms in the house our territory in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

huh

It's a pretty solarpunk fact that small, distributed wind turbines use steel more efficiently than big centralised ones in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Steel can be pretty easily recycled, so it’s not too bad all in all.

All in all, it is roughly 9% of greenhouse gas emissions

It's really weird the way American media lays on this 'Dark' stuff in such a try-hard way in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Northern loyalists fly Israeli flags in solidarity

Replace cars with velomobiles in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The oil industry didn't legally manipulate velomobiles into having a wide turning circle

It's really weird the way American media lays on this 'Dark' stuff in such a try-hard way in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

haha what a great comment

Replace cars with velomobiles in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

This comment is rational.

For those inter-city bike lanes like you see in some parts of France they would be great.

Replace cars with velomobiles in c/[email protected]
Replace cars with velomobiles in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I feel there's probably some reasons they haven't become popular.

  • Don't turn as nimbly as a bike

  • Can't put them on your shoulder and carry them indoors, onto a train, etc. like as a bike

  • Don't climb hills as well as a bike (source)

  • 20× the cost of a bike, maybe that could be brought down by economies of scale if they were more popular

I could imagine a velomobile being preferable if you're commuting from a satellite town to the city, and the journey consists of a long straight road.

I'd definitely say they're worse for getting around the city, and their comparative advantages are bought at the price of significant extra overhead.

It's really weird the way American media lays on this 'Dark' stuff in such a try-hard way in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Also, who the fuck is writing this? Well-fed guys in Hollywood who have toy poodles and use tanning salons?

Apple must pay Ireland €13bn in unpaid taxes, court rules in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It's around a twentieth of their yearly profit.

What were or are your thoughts on the US Pres. Debate? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 days ago

Couldn't care less.

not my circus not my monkeys

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Protestation (discuss.tchncs.de)
 
Sinn Féin's new housing plan in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

25min podcast on it here, for those of you who prefer audio form. The Irish Times is a bourgeois source. https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-the-news/explainer-could-sinn-feins-new-housing-plan-work/

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Sinn Féin's new housing plan (housing.sinnfein.ie)
 

PDF: https://housing.sinnfein.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AHomeOfYourOwn.pdf

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Northern Ireland records surge in race hate crimes (RT.com) (www.rt.com)
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Rare plant that does not depend on light rediscovered in Killarney for first time since 1896. Yellow bird’s-nest does not produce chlorophyll, instead getting its food from fungi and tree roots (www.irishtimes.com)
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Invoices confirm the USA funded almost seven tonnes of Israeli weaponry moved illegally through Irish airspace (www.ontheditch.com)
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Swiss Researchers May Have Solved Hydrogen Storage (hackaday.com)
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State building projects must now use low-carbon cement (www.irishtimes.com)
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Don't click this unless you want to read me go on about how much I hate Ralph Waldo emerson (lemmy.ml)
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Let's pick out a line from https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16643/16643-h/16643-h.htm to see what he has to say:

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."

That's a pretty typical line. Let's set aside for now the debate on whether nonconformity is good or bad: look at the tone of the writing. It is a moral lecture. It is saying: "This is how you should think, what you should believe, how you should be." The reading allows only one interpretation. It's just beating you about the head with serious truth-claims. Another line:

"Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken."

Each sentence is a bland assertion. Commanding the reader what to think. I am reading a list of opinions. That is all it is: a list of opinions. This is considered peak Usan culture. It is considered to be literature or philosophy. Another line –

"He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming."

This is not literature. This is a self-help book. It is downright bad, adolescent writing. It's relentlessly po-faced, and there isn't a whiff of creativity from the prose. I grew up on Irish writers. Irish writers say things like –

"Choosing his boot, the buttoned class, as a convenient example of inanation, he lifted it in the air"

Irish writers say things like –

"She opened the fridge for the ham, the butter, the can of Smithwick's. Happy as a duck she was"

These are just the first two lines before my eyes when I picked up the first two books by my elbow. Do you see the difference? Literature should have warmth, humanity, creativity. Writers should have the craic with language. The words should be buttered with character. Ralph Waldo Emerson's output has all the banality of ChatGPT's. Imagine living with this guy. Imagine trying to flirt with him and he just starts lecturing you like a charmless Anglican.

Edgar Allen Poe's pretty good though I'll give the yanks that.

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📚🇨🇳 Classic Chinese Novels - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
 

They include:

  • Romance of the Three Kingdoms

  • Water Margin

  • Journey to the West

  • The Plum in the Golden Vase (of the Ming dynasty)

  • Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone)

  • The Scholars (of the Qing dynasty).

The Chinese historian and literary theorist C. T. Hsia wrote that these six "remain the most beloved novels among the Chinese."[2]

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Piracy is LEGAL in Ireland (For Now) [video from 4 years ago, does anyone have updates?] (www.youtube.com)
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Don't believe what you read. Fmovies is absolutely fine. (lemmy.ml)
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The Guardian and other liars are reporting Fmovies is "shut down"

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Don't believe what you read. Fmovies is absolutely fine. (lemmy.ml)
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The Guardian and other liars are reporting Fmovies is "shut down"

verified up and working today

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