stepintomydojo

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[–] stepintomydojo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This particular strain (Andes) is capable of human to human transmission.

If I'm not mistaken this part of the trail is also pretty steep, more so than it looks in the picture. The views are amazing when the weather is clearer.

As the other responder pointed out, this is not a simple issue (also at some point we switched from Slovenia to Czechia). There are at least two ways the east/central/west distinction applies. The first is geographical - every point that claims to be the middle of Europe is in or to the east of Czechia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe), so geographically it's pretty clearly not eastern (which again, the original Wikipedia link also says - pretty sure they're not all Nazis).

Politically it's a more complex thing. A common American interpretation is "part of the Soviet bloc". By that definition, yes, eastern Europe. But, there's also a not uncommon perception that this means it's a not well off country that is behind because of communism (see the movie Eurotrip for an example in pop culture). People who are in those countries would like to not have this association, so "central" is a way to avoid the Cold War era east/west split.

[–] stepintomydojo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Universally by whom? Have you asked the Czechs? Wikipedia has it in central Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic

Power plant and bridge days sound like it's infrastructure week again.

[–] stepintomydojo@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 months ago

Do you have to provide it explicitly, or is the algorithm inferring it from all of your habits (which you "provide" in the form of clicks and views)?

[–] stepintomydojo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

My objection is to using the phrase "20k' above Mt. Everest" when that's an altitude above sea level.

[–] stepintomydojo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

where a helicopter took her 20,945 feet above Mount Everest. After strapping in to her board and freefalling for several minutes, she landed on a flat runway at 12,356 feet

This makes no sense. That puts the starting height at 29029+20945=~50k feet. The Guinness record for highest helicopter flight is 40,820'.

This article says 20945 was the starting height. Saying this is "over" Mt. Everest is rather misleading.

[–] stepintomydojo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You should try dehydrating your boiling water so it's quicker when you need it, instead of having to wait for it to defrost.

[–] stepintomydojo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

"Let’s talk about health again for the 25th time,” he said at the start of the interview. “My health is perfect,” he added.

Quick, bring out the conspiracy theorists - he's admitting there have been conversations about the 25th amendment!

[–] stepintomydojo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They need it for safety from that rogue lion on the left.

[–] stepintomydojo@sh.itjust.works 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's broken, searching for "Epstein" has no results.

The contact list is fun, Trump has a box around his name (page 80).

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