Comment on East Asia
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoI have a mongolian friend, he said it was a choice between a dystopian city or the vast empty nature. I guess if you like nature it could be good but the density is sooooo low there are places where you wont see civilization for hundreds of kilometers.
I watched a heartwarming short of a guy getting stopped by the police in Mongolia for using a wind sail powered horizontal bike thingy.
2 locals also showed up on a moped
Top comment:
“It’s nice to see all 5 people Mongolia to meet up and see how OP’s bike works”
Oulan-Bator looks like your first SimCity game when you had 10yo and just put random coal plant there and there.
Kinda like Shadowrun.
The winters are super hardcore though. I forget numbers, but it gets really really cold, worse than the upper midwest of the US and central canada in temperature, although I think they get less snow than many of us.
Yeah i live in sweden and every time i complain about the weather he just shows me ulaanbaatar and its either like -35c during winter or +35c during summer
How extreme is it for you? Because it gets -30°C in the winter here, and 30°C in the summer here, in my part of Canada.
Yeah sweden is really mild cause of the gulf stream so even tho i live arround latitude 58(kodiak for reference, or kuujjuaq is a canadian example i found) winters usually dont drop below minus 15-20C and summers at best go up to 30C.
i thought where i lived in Tasmania was bad, it gets to 1c in winter and up to 28c in Summer in the part where i live
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
There are places like that in the usa. It’s about everywhere actually.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
driving through iowa for hours is honestly probably more dangerous than driving drunk. you get so bored you just fall asleep at the wheel because there is NOTHING but road
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Imagine thinking the US is just Bakersfield.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I meant the lack of civilization ^^
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I said Bakersfield. I got you.