Alcoholicorn
@Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 1 day ago:
I hope youre prepared for what managing bamboo entails.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 1 day ago:
Other measure for mosquitoes when you have stagnant water you cant put fish in or remove, such as the water that pools in banana plants and bird baths’ mosquito bits. They’re like small rocks carrying a spore that kills mosquito larva, and it seems harmless, at least it is to frogs.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 2 days ago:
A country competing with Japan for the highest suicide rate cant be described as working for a lot of its inhabitants.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
There are countries where that is absolutely true, look at any major construction project in the gulf states, and counties where that is much less true.
At least during my time in China, I saw more workers wearing PPE and taking measures such as using water to stop particulate matter from getting into the air than in Korea and way more than Vietnam and other developing countries. I understand it was very different 20 years ago.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
I’d be more interested in see if they were able to continue this kind of buildout in 30 years
The Beijing subway opened in 1971, when they had less than half the current population. All I can say is that it felt slow, like 2 hours to get what looked like 3-4 blocks on a map
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
Very recent, non-peer reviewed research, n=1. It makes me very happy to be able to nap on a subway/night bus or safely ride a bicycle or somewhat less safely ride a motorbike. My productivity is the same because I work remotely.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
Digging tunnels is dangerous. Especially if you dont have a century of experience to build off of.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
lmao do you think china has an industry of mustache-twirling villains whose job it is to threaten peoples families if they dont work for free? Presumably they work for free to keep their families alive too.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
The main difference here seems to be that the US can compell property owners to accept what they determine is a fair market rate, but another poster informed me that in some cases the chinese can compell people to sell too.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
?Its very typical at sit-down restaurants, they bring you the check, you write the amount you want to pay (tip), sign, and leave your card on the tray, they bring back your card and a copy of the check.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Nobody will care, but a lot of places, including all public transit only take cash.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
I’m sure the developers offered “fair compensation”, you need to demand lot before fucking up the highway design is more economical.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
Huh, if the government has that power, why don’t they use it for stuck nail houses? I talked to a few people in shenzhen who made significant sums selling land to developers.
Different type of ownership due to your family purchasing the land vs inheriting it? Different provinces?
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
Do you have any clues why privatization was so much more destructive in the UK than Japan? The JNR breakup increased ticket prices, decreased service, and made the system overall much more inefficient (Nagoya has subway, rail, elevated rail, bus, elevated bus, ferry, gondola, run by 16 different companies), but regulation and infinite loans stemmed the bleeding.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
Don’t compare struggling to make rent to the prisoners picking cotton by hand in Lousiana.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
China has stronger property laws than the US, look up stuck nail houses. If the US ants your property, they can eminent domain your shit. In China, developers have literally had to swerve highways around property or build shopping centers around that one person who wont sell
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
I’ve been to urumqi, theres no slave labor, its normal industrial farms. Unless youre suggesting the guys driving the combine harvesters or running the factories are secretly enslaved.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 days ago:
I cant find statistics on total occupancy rates, but I never saw a high speed train in China that wasnt mostly full, and they mosty sell out days beforehand, so Im pretty sure that’s just someone making shit up. As far as domestic debt due to infrastructure spending, apply your model to Japan.
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 6 days ago:
The Jewish Water Gun.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 1 week ago:
That price doesnt include any data, and seems to be way more expensive than getting local esims. They seem to massively upcharge for the networks they use too. Here its 11USD for 30 days@10GB/day, but the silent charges 5.50/GB on the same network.
- Comment on im frend :( 1 week ago:
Maybe to limit account theft. One account with 10,000 friends gets compromised and thats 10,000 people who can get phished, each if whom might have thousands of friends
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 1 week ago:
people who are worried about this stuff as racists or xenophobes
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 1 week ago:
Millennial are in their 30s and 40s, half the time theyre on the receiving end of OK Boomer.
IMO its great to be able to say “your lack of experience with the world as it exists now, and not 20+ years ago has left you unable and unwilling to understand. I am giving up trying to help you learn” in just 2 words
- Comment on we are creators 1 week ago:
Technical development in non-capitalist societies is suppressed by war. Kalashnikov wanted to design farm equipment. Instead he designed weapons. Ask any scientist if they’re working so they can develop X before <insert adversary>, let alone as part of a war effort, 99% of them will say no. Ask the politicians why they are funding that research, and you will get a very different answer.
- Comment on we are creators 1 week ago:
War is the great driver of technological leaps
Maybe for capitalist countries because an external threat is the only motive that will get the bourgeois to fund science instead of consolidating power, but the USSR and Chinas rise were during peaceful times.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
Weird. I mean tomato sauce jars are too, at least once. Was it a pickle or jam jar? Ive had those break just placing them on the counter.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
And it still shattered?
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 weeks ago:
I guess it depends on the temperature of the oil, I pour when its still liquid, but less than boiling.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 weeks ago:
Just putting oil in a few dozen times won’t shatter it. A few hundred cooling cycles might, but you change jars by then.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 weeks ago:
Modern pyrex isnt any more heat resistant than any other soda glass, they switched in like the 90s. But regular glass is fine for grease, I use an old pasta sauce jar.
