>opinionated
I'm intrigued. What do you mean?
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I'm intrigued. What do you mean?
Half of the eastern EU countries have no ID requirements.
Not to say they're not moving towards it, but it's not that dire yet.
"the post that killed /new/" comes to mind
They were regular goggles with a sheet of lead bent over them.
Oxygen solubility in water is inversely correlated with temperature and salinity.
The speed limit signs are LEDs. In real life they are much brighter than they appear in photos ('cause LED). https://maps.app.goo.gl/29Mg7HaqFeAi2L639
>Why is it ever different between winter and summer?
Because doing 120kph on an icy road or in heavy rain is a recipe for disaster. Northern Europe isn't California. The temperature ranges from +30C to -30C during the year.
> I as a human would ignore the signage
Why?
Which is also a bit funny seeing as Oppenheimer was opposed to the H-bomb and the whole nuclear arms race.
I want the pressure of socioeconomic change to guide me, forcing the city to adapt to previous choices.
Bam. Highways, utilities, concrete.
I'd like to go from dirt tracks and outhouses to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
If only it were so.
On a serious note, while the eID/digital gov system is great and all it does have some jankiness. The address search system everyone uses has been a PITA for a while and the tax system still keels over for a day or so when the possibility of submitting returns opens. Then we had the case of one dude scraping several hundred thousand ID card pictures [0].
Also the broadband part is so-so. Estonian internet is notoriously expensive and slow compared to our near peers [1].
[0] https://news.err.ee/1608291072/hacker-downloads-close-to-300...
[1] https://news.postimees.ee/7635673/estonia-s-home-internet-sp...
- Livonia, ARMA III: Contact: https://en.mapy.cz/zakladni?m3d=1&height=4952&yaw=-27&pitch=...
In my view this is just a symptom of the wider populace gaining access to internet forums and the cultural shift mass internet usage brought. As in, there have always been darker corners of the internet, just that the people who frequented them had to have some level of nerdiness/geekiness and {nerds}∩{violent racists} is smaller than {whole population}∩{violent racists}.
If you meant neutralized in the military sense (combat ineffective) I agree.
If you meant politically (seeing as you wrote 'friendly' for Belarus): Ah yes, when I get kicked in the teeth I tend to be quite neutral about it afterwards.
>Russia has a legitimate gripe against NATO expansion.
The successor to the occupying CCCP, that did wildly shady stuff all over the Caucasus, invaded Georgia, supported a rebellion in Donbas, annexed Crimea and invaded a corrupt but nonetheless somewhat democratic Ukraine using GRAD strikes against cities has a legitimate gripe over countries WILLINGLY joining a defensive pact.
Don't get me wrong, NATOs involvement in MENA was/is pointless and counterproductive, even criminal, but it's a voluntary alliance.
e: How NASA brought the monstrous F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the...)
That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24919710
That's Facebook though. And in my anecdotal experience the only reason most of my friends group has ever used Facebook is to post in private groups and events and use messenger. Scarcely any wall posts, very few posts in public groups. No opinions or politics whatsoever. Maybe the odd activist sharing some "wear a mask" message.
Those who engage in public discourse under their own names on the platform are by and large kind of ... strange.
Using your actual name for everything would be an amazing tool for building up a profile on you. Either you lay out your hobbies, interests and political standings for the whole world to see or you stop participating in those communities and discussions. And the profile won't be about only you, but your employer as well. If a load of engineers at X start posting more about tech Y or methodology Z you can deduce internal workings from that.