Reside: Vancouver. Biased because I mostly grew up here and am lucky enough to still live here but I really do think it’s something special.

Vacation: Probably Qing Huang Dao. Gorgeous Chinese beach city that I’ve only ever been to twice in my childhood, but it’s also really nostalgic for that reason.

Party (hardest one for me because I don’t party): Wanted to say New York or Vegas because nothing in Canada really compares to those, but with current events and my skin colour I’m going with Toronto instead. Like to not end up at a concentration camp while partying, but more generally because I know the laws of my own country better than somewhere else which I feel is a benefit if you want to party.

Then that’s not Lemmy. That’s Voat or any of the other first wave Reddit alternatives.

Not trying to say you don’t belong here, but that the cross reference stuff are the foundational principles Lemmy is built on.

I don’t drive so it has more to do with the quality and reliability of transit going to a place than how many traveling minutes it is. Taking a train cross region feels faster than taking a bus cross town even if they take the same time because the train is more frequent, much more reliable, and generally has a lower mental barrier and therefore lower perceived distance.

Transfers also add significant perceived distance even if they don’t add much actual travel time, because it’s more annoying than just sitting or standing there. The timing of your next bus is also another thing that can go wrong and significantly delay your trip. I often find myself choosing physically longer routes that have fewer transfers.

Generally, if I’m near the train system, everywhere on the current line is “close” because it’s a one seat ride away on the highest quality transit mode. If not, I’d say 10 stops in either direction on the bus lines that directly serve the street I’m on is similarly “close.” Relatively, I consider one train stop to have the same “closeness” as two or three bus stops regardless of distance, but only because I would just walk if it was one or two bus stops away.

Also, because I’m walking for my last mile transport, everything feels significantly closer when the weather is favourable. Rain adds some distance but I live in Vancouver so I’ve mostly stopped caring. If it snows though, everything outside my house isn’t “close” anymore because of the gauntlet of death Vancouver streets turn into when snow or ice is involved.

Why would they need to ask Ukraine for them when Taiwan has much more mature electronics manufacturing sectors than Ukraine?

Ah so the same regions the US and Australia regularly have drills in under the guise of “freedom of navigation.” Surely they wouldn’t be hypocrites about that would they?

I think the ethnicities behind the crime are why it’s been so widely covered and propagandized, more than the crime itself. I don’t think it would be hard to imagine how the media would have treated it had it been all white people. This would have been a one and done story at the national level, if not completely relegated to local news.

I don’t think it’s contradictory to both condemn the crime itself while also calling out the media’s fixation on this specific crime while conveniently ignoring many others. The crime itself is fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things, especially considering how much tax money gets embezzled by much more powerful (and white dominated) organizations and government agencies every single day, but the media fixation because they’re sCaRy FoReIgNeRs is systemic and much more of a threat.

“The Blitzkrieg of Poland wasn’t a war because the German parliament didn’t approve.”

I mean, at least they’re doing it to their own country.

Assuming the personality or attitude of someone based on their resting facial expression. I know it’s wrong but I don’t know how to turn it off. Especially in a professional setting where everyone has to be polite all the time so its meaning as a social cue of how annoyed they are with you diminishes.

Not helped by the fact that I know I can be annoying to other people without realizing it.

but we are all buddies with Russia now

Russia’s capitalist as it gets now. No one is pretending they’re still in any way socialist or even leftist. The US oligarchy loves them because Russia is now ideologically aligned with them. Cuba’s actually still socialist.

Also interesting how capitalist Russia is more tyrannical and war happy than the USSR ever was eh? While having a lower productive output than the USSR.

He killed himself because of what he thought communism would do to him. (To be fair he was probably right)

Communism lived rent free in his head.

岁 “sui” in Mandarin. The word itself is a quantity, so you put the number before it, like 二十二岁 for 22 years old. When you’re describing the age of a person, that person is, not has, that quantity. So “I am 22” would be 我是二十二岁 (“wo shi er shi er sui”).

Destabilizes the dragon population and props up the most violent, extremist dragons against the rest of dragonkind so they can be more easily exploited.

Is surprised when that most violent, extremist dragon chooses to retaliate against you as soon as you stop propping them up.

But how about Molotov-Ribbentrop pact? You know that Soviet and Nazi empires were working closely betwen 1939 and 1941?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FRmflmnTkc

The landlord is not “as” rich as a health insurance CEO so they’re seen as “one of us” by liberals. They literally only see how much money someone has when determining good or evil, any kind of class theory is totally lost on them. It’s also why they think there are “good” police officers just because they don’t kill people for sport, or that “mom and pop” small business owners exploiting minimum wage labour is somehow different from corporations doing it.

Yes it has. It was so shitty that all the capitalist countries had to introduce bandages like welfare and social safety nets to avoid collapsing from just how bad of an idea capitalism is.

Russian planes would have been told to turn around and GTFO at the very least, no way they would have been allowed to pass through EU airspace even if their destination is not the EU. Why aren’t they even doing that?

Apple tried it and iFixit had a custom screwdriver within a year.

what a good christian