Sand from Sahara in Africa is sometimes carried by wind and rains down in Scandinavia and even South America.
Fish eggs have landed in tree tops in the Amazon and what not.
I’m sure a mosquito or their eggs could ride the wind to Iceland as well.
Honestly, the bamboo “forest” isn’t worth a visit. I wonder if they post this news just to attract more tourists. The same story has been posted year after year.
It’s just a place where someone once planted a lot of bamboo thinking they’d need it as a ressource. They didn’t need it so they just left it there.
It dates back about a thousand years, so I guess it’s “natural” now, but it’s basically the remains of a human made plantation, albeit old.
The famous path through it is about a hundred meters long and a great spot to take that photo. I didn’t feel immersed in the forest at all, because the entry and exit is visible through the entire “attraction”.
There’s a nice temple with an impressive garden close by and some random rich rock star dude also build a mansion with a garden on top of the mountain next to the forest, and that’s it.
The whole thing felt like the kind of place that you only want to go if you’re a tourist with nothing better to do.
Kyoto is still worth visiting as a whole. The thousand gates on mt. Inari is a much better use of your time.
The G is silent in English words starting with gn. Gnarly gnats is pronounced narly nats.
There’s not a lot of those words anyway
Gnu and gnome are exceptions only when used to describe the software. The gnu animal and the mythical gnome creature are pronounced with silent gs.
I know it’s completely off-topic, but anyway. No, I’m fine with the rake. That’s what’s makes it funny.
It’s the drawing of the skater that is too good, and that doesn’t add up with the other details being wrong. Someone who can draw a skater that good wouldn’t make the other things that wrong or even random.
The rake is drawn as doing a frontside shove-it, popped from mid-air and failing because of gravity suddenly changing in the middle of the sequence. The skater is “obviously” doing a varial heelflip instead of a frontside shove-it.
So that’s the clue to why I thought it was drawn off an actual picture. That the background is also a copy of the original only reaffirms my theory.
In hindsight I can also see that the skater is obviously Andrew Reynolds. The tuck and landing is his signature style.
The last picture in the meme always bothered me, because the sequence doesn’t make any sense physically. (Popping the rake from mid air and doing the wrong flip and such)
So, I went on to find the sequence that I believe it was drawn from.
Not officially. It was removed in 2023.
That’s the background for the story: Russia sent their convicts to war in trade of a “get out of jail”-card.
The guy was in jail for killing his wife. He took the deal and was sent to war. He got shot, got sent home as a free man, and immediately started killing people again.
It’s not a single case. It’s likely that convicts are taking the deal, not just to get out of jail, but also so they can go back and get revenge over those that put them in jail in the first place.
Yes, sure, and I’m not trying to defend or downplay the story. I’m just sharing the info that is otherwise only available in Danish.
The past was indeed a horrible time. Social experiments like these happened in many places worldwide. Similar things have happened in America, Russia, China, Brazil, France, Germany. All of which were done because people thought it was a great idea at the time.
Although the damage cannot be undone, at least these women will now receive an apology and some kind of compensation for the wrong-doing.
I do find the timing of the stories very peculiar in light of America’s desire to take control of Greenland.
Earlier this year we had the story about displacement of children, now this, and I predict that next you’ll probably hear about the racist hiring practices in the military, which also occured in the past on Greenland.
All of these happened almost half a century ago or more. There has been plenty of time to bring it up. I am happy that they do bring it up, so it can be redeemed as best as possible, but I do find the timing very convenient for certain people outside the kingdom who is currently interested in sowing division.
I agree it was wrong, and it was probably also illegal at the time happened.
For context:
It was done to avoid an explosive population increase which happened in the 60s.
At the time, Greenland had the worlds highest birth rate, despite having access to free contraceptives like condoms and pills, of which information campaigns had obviously failed. A lot of the births were given by teenagers aged 15-20 outside of marriage. Infant mortality also hit records with about 1/3 of the total number of deaths on Greenland being infants. I should note though that Greenland does not have a much higher statistics of inbreeding than elsewhere, despite rumours.
However, something had to be done to lower the number of unwanted pregnancies. The humanitary organization Mødrehjælpen (mothers help) did a test run with volunteers and it gave a positive result.
At the moment it is unclear who or why it was decided to roll out the forced spirals. An investigation of that is happening currently.
Well, that was fucking waste of time for everyone.
Now I gotta know the tactical reason for the 2 key to also have the 2 symbol?
Very old heaters used to contain lots of asbestos. It might have worked well.
It should be optional for free at least.
Forced ads should be illegal. It’s quite literally wasting peoples lives and a lot resources.
Suburbs are fine for district heating, but it’s a massive long term investment.
For UK in particular, I also think proper insulation and triple/quadruple window panes are much needed to curb with the increasingly scorching summers and freezing winters. I was surprised to see soo many houses with single paned windows in London.
The sand storage is used for district heating. It’s not much of a substitute for single homes that have electrical heating or are off-grid.
It’s a great way to balance both the electrical and the heating grids so that more electricity from renewables can be used to offset other means of heat production, but it needs to be done by the district heating supplier. I doubt it makes sense for individual houses.
The key is: Not fucking dying.
Did she ever “learn” Windows?
I’ve been using Windows since 95 and I can’t find shit in Windows.
I just puked a little.
I’ve tried a few different distributions and yeah, it varies.
It seems logical to get Ubuntu Studio for audio, but in my personal opinion it’s kinda bloated. I’ve tried most of the included software at some point and decided that I’m not going to use it.
I’d rather have a clean simple distro and then just install Reaper for all my audio needs.
That has worked out great on both Mint and Puppy. I don’t know about Ubuntu, because it’s been several years since I tried that.
I did also install a few games on Mint, but nothing like AAA games, because the PC doesn’t have a graphics card. I just play Minecraft and Sauerbraten. No issues with those.
Maybe I’m lucky, or maybe it’s because it’s old hardware or pretty standard laptops, but I’m also not trying much, so I also expect it to work.
Keep it simple. I think that might be the key, because I have seriously not had a single issue with anything, nor have I typed a single line in the terminal.
If I needed a multipurpose PC, I’d probably go with Mint as of now. I’d install one app at a time and figure out what I actual need instead of trying to make everything work at once.
That’s what I’m doing with my DAW right now. One plugin at a time. If something doesn’t behave, then I don’t need it. When I turn on the PC to make music, I don’t want to waste time fixing stuff. I’m totally over trying to fit a square block into a round hole. I’ve already tried that for too many years using Windows.
I’m not really scared of AI becoming more intelligent. I’m more concerned about stupid people giving control to stupid AI. It’s plenty capable of fucking things up as it is provided it is given access to do so.