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  • toofpic@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    19 hours ago

    Never have been near a data center, but walked under windmills: from about 100 meters you hear the “whoom-whoom-whoom” sound, and if you walk right under, it gets uncomfortable because of added vibrations. But it’s nothing terrible and neither it can be heard from a big distance - the noise didn’t make us regret our walk under the windmills - we talked normally under them, etc


  • Putin and his friends absolutely deserve to die. I’m not really killing anyone, but I can say that (well, outside of Russia, because freedom of speech doesn’t work there). Freedom of speech allows me to say how exactly I don’t like him and his gang.
    Also, from reading about cases where people were jailed for something they have said - if it’s allowed to prosecute people for anything, somebody might try to mess with your words to make you look guilty. For example, the law regarding “rehabilitating nazism” was used to prosecute people who were saying something about USSR working with nazi Germany in the beginning of WW2, or similar. Examples (sorry, too long to type so It’s llm summaries:

    • A person in Perm was fined 200,000 rubles for sharing an article that mentioned the “joint attack on Poland by the USSR and Germany” in 1939, which the authorities portrayed as “rehabilitating Nazism.”
    • A woman in Smolensk was fined for posting a historical photo of her home under Nazi occupation, where a Wehrmacht flag and soldiers appeared in the background.

    So if you make a word or a concept “bad”, someone will try to use it maliciously, at some point. It doesn’t help when court is not independent, that opens up a road to charging many people you don’t like on daily basis.



  • toofpic@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldCar lights
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    22 days ago

    I live in a country with a lot of newer cars (not bragging, it is what it is), and the growing amount of led lights really made it more manageable. My car ( Kia Ceed SW 2022) also lights up the road really good, but if you are above the light rays, it’s not blinding at all. So I would say the problem existed mostly for cars between 2010 and 2020. So this meme got kinda old











  • I know three languages:
    Russian - Native
    English - Shitty fluent (learned on the internet)
    Danish - Basic. I have a B2 cert, but it’s not B2
    My system is in English, I work in English, my browser is set to English, and I prefer to translate Danish to English, because the two germanic languages have alot of direct analogs and loans.
    Firefox, in right click menu: “I can translate that Danish thing to Russian!” WHY?
    I mean, I have Russian keyboard layout, one of three, but why does it look at that.
    I love the browser, but this just infuriates me on daily basis