If your grandmother had wheels, she would be a bicycle.
If your mother had wheels, she’d be the city bus in Beijing.
not this argument again.
how the fuck do you know she won’t be a motorcycle? Do you need a motor thats not your heart? Why doesn’t she become a tire demon or a stool with wheels for sests?
Also: if I had three balls I’d be a pinball
And Berlin would be in fucking Utah… as someone who lives in Berlin, I strongly resent this notion.
Utah is actually one of the most beautiful states in the US! The people are a little odd, but very nice. Which was actually my experience in Germany as well, so maybe it’s not far off ha
The people are a little odd, but very nice
you have not actually lived there, have you. The people are very odd, not nice at all, violent if you upset them slightly, and the only beautiful parts are where the people aren’t.
I’m sure they’re nice if you’re a white cishet Christian male.
And I am one of those 👍
Yes I’ve only visited, and every interaction I had was pleasant, but that’s obviously a case study of 1. Didn’t know Utah was such a violent place!
London being San Francisco is rather apt
Ah, it’s basically the same cultural niche. Haven’t you heard of Salt Lake City’s 24 hour club?
Sorry if I’m mistaken or failing to detect your irony, but isn’t Utah this highly conservative state, with a vast majority of the population being white (or Hispanic, which to me counts as “white but speaking Spanish”) and where most people follow a crackpot religion which basically views fun things like sex, drugs, alcohol and homosexuality as a sin?
Comparing that to Berlin, a permissive, irreligious, hedonistic, multi-ethnic place, brimming with culture and open-minded people, seems rather far-fetched to me.
It was sarcasm, yes. There’s definitely no 24 hour club in SLC
Sorry, I kinda suspected it was sarcasm but wasn’t 100% sure.
No worries, text makes it difficult and if you’re not sure on the culture of SLC, I can see it being unclear
Utah is, salt lake is the one spot of relative normalcy
At least put Bordeaux where LA is.
Can you host images somewhere else than reddit? It’s blocked(?) by some instances, I can’t even see them without going to lemmy.world, or following the link to reddit. On reddit you can’t open images in full size, literally the worst image host I can imagine.
Reuploaded to lemmy.zip:
(I won’t comment on how much work was to create this screenshot. Classic r/mapporn)
Ngl, you have me curious how much work it took to make that screenshot.
- Go to this website or one of its clones: https://thetruesize.com/ If you search for “true size map” there a lot of similar websites
- Eyeball the countries
- Screenshot
- Post
It’s like 5 minutes max, with some practice I think you can lower that to less than half minutes.
Or, as it’s from reddit, I suspect its a repost bot, so just find the last time it was posted
Recreated something similar now:
Ohhh, it was easy. I thought it was going to be a long story. I was ready to get comfy!
the avif format doesnt seems to work on lemmy
No, lemmy.zip converts it to avif, the original is jpg, this is the link of the image you posted:
https://i.redd.it/sg3ssz188iig1.jpegI don’t know if the problem is on lemmy’s side, or reddit rate limits us or something. But we shouldn’t give clicks to reddit anyway.
Also if the post will be deleted on reddit it will stop working here as well, so it’s more future proof if you mirror it to here or somewhere else.
the problem is that the avif format, is not embedded. When I post it, you have to go outside of lemmy to see it. Or do I miss something?
Why do you want to post it in avif? My problem was you just linked it from reddit, and haven’t uploaded it somewhere else. I can’t open it because it’s linked from reddit, not because it’s not avif. There are countless image hosts, a lot people use https://catbox.moe/ for example, and it won’t convert it to any other format.
For posts you are right, the default webui wants to open them as links, but in Voyager they are embedded correctly. This is temporary, as support for avif was already added in January, it will work in the future, I guess in the next release: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3738
In comments avif already works everywhere.
a picture hosted on reddit use their bandwidth, without giving them any real benefit? No real user see anything from reddit from my post. Or am I missing something?
Because , that a lot of extra step for no real benefit to host a reddit image somewhere else. Sometimes reddit img might get deleted, but usually it is just because of a repost, so might as well be deleted here
This is a good reminder to those who keep asking “why don’t people in the US do anything about this regime?” Well because people who voted against all this (including their representatives) live thousands of miles away from the asshole who did. Should I go burn down my representatives offices even though they voted aligned with my choices?
I think a better argument is that a lot of people ARE doing what they can, and that the regime is making it difficult to do so. Also, if being immersed in the River Styx of Online Discourse for the last ten years taught me anything, it’s that trying to call someone out for (percieved or actual) inaction or mistakes does not work.
“My country is really big therefore it’s not my fault if nothing gets done about the regime that’s fucking up my country.”
“my country is really big and I do not have the physical ability, means, or resources to travel to where the problem is to effectively impose change”
Your comment is literally proving it’s right, you’re too stupid, ignorant, or stubborn to consider anything other than what allows you to continue spewing nonsense
And your comment proves you are ok with doing nothing. Fucks sake.
Utter utter fucking BULLSHIT. It’s all just trying to justify doing pretty much fuck all about the orange paedo and his goons. Fucking embarrassing.
At no point did I say travel to the whitehouse and punch the kiddie fiddler in the face. Which is impossible. But where’s the mass protests? No fucking where.
Where’s the general strikes? {tumbleweed}
Where’s, well, any decent effort at all? “Oh well, it’s a big country so I’ll just wait for someone else to do it”.
FUCK OFF with your “but it’s miles away” CRAP. You guys live in a world where communication is almost instant yet there’s hardly any protests. And yet in decades gone by people could protest without the internet. Why haven’t you guys? Because most of you are ok with a child abusing, failed reality TV star, rapist dictator running things.
Which, as far as I’m concerned, is tantamount to you condoning what he’s done.
FUCK OFF
Why aren’t those Russians stopping Putin? They’ve had like 20 years.
Because they didn’t stop him 20 years ago.
Proper shitamericanssay material.
Fucking bingo.
If my grandparents (and many others) had the thought process of “Hitler, pffft. He’s in a few countries away, what can I do about it?”, billions of people would be speaking German today.They fucking voted, or enabled, the obese child raping dictator to be president (TWICE) and now most won’t do fuck all about it.
This is a real problem though. Democracy is a fuck-based system. Uneducated people fuck without protection more ofthen than educated people, which gives them more voting power. Minorities (mental or otherwise) are only protected if the big-fuckers want it, since by design majority wins.
I… what?
Every person (who is not deemed invalid, criminals cannot vote haha what if they change the law right?) gets to vote + Everyone’s vote counts the same = If you have one child your family has 3 votes, if your neighbor has 4 children they have 6 votes. In a democratic event, if they can come to an agreement, they choose what happens without your input.
Maybe in the next generation your children will out-procreate their children, then you get to decide without your neighbor’s input. How isn’t it fuck-based?
Probably, at this stage.
Secede. Also if the dems choices align with yours you’re part of the problem.
“I declare secede!” There, I did it. Happy?
seppos when their sanctions hurt foreigners: They should rise against their authoritarian government
seppos when asked to rise against their authoritarian government: it’s complicated sweatyAmericans are not a monolith, and I doubt a lot of people believe these two things. And those that do need to be approached with kindness and understanding if we wish to change their minds.
Why aren’t those Russians stopping Putin? They’ve had like 20 years.
5 hours ago
https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/38369249/19125521
Like just open their user profile, they did the thing within hours of me posting about them doing the thing.
Oof. Aight, it’s not a Goomba fallacy this time.
Let’s see how USians approach the other side with kindness and understanding:
“Send back their citizens. Especially oligarchs kids.”
“11. Russian astronauts are ejected from the ISS into space.”
“Wish we could just put a huge bubble over russia and never have to worry about them again”
“If I have to hear “oh but it’s not all Russians” one more time I’m gonna explode. Fuck Russians.”
“They should force all the Russians in Europe to watch this 24/7”
“They should be kicked back to their country.”
“Moscow should not continue existing.”
“This is all Russia is and ever was”
“russia can never be part of the civilized world again”
“When was this “before shit” time? Russia was, is and always will be a shithole.”
Americans are not a monolith
Proceeds to act as if America only has one view on Russia
Man you people are really fucking dumb
Uh… I think you accidentally read my comment (monolith) and [object Object]'s one together.
Just to check, are you also on Reddit arguing with these people that their view is wrong?
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If Paris were Los Angeles, the war in Ukraine would be near Memphis
not really. Kansas too would be under fire.
Like Dallas also would be
Ah shit… did an assault start from Transnistria side?
In the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the city faced some Russian bombing attacks. On 23 April 2022, Russian troops bombarded Odesa with cruise missiles. They destroyed both the city’s military infrastructure and residential buildings, killing eight people and wounding another eighteen people. In addition, the Russian military destroyed more than 1,000 m2 of the territory of the cemetery. The city suffered further aerial attacks on regional infrastructure facilities in October 2022, cutting off power to 10,500 households and injuring three people.
☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OdesaUnable to get near Ukraine’s main port, Moscow is pounding the city from afar with missiles and drones
☞ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/28/odesa-russia-crosshairs-war-pivots-back-to-black-sea
Huh, I always thought the UK was much smaller.
It’s not the size, it’s how you use it.
Just for reference, the largest company that has existed so far was the Dutch East India Company. Didn’t come from a very large country either, but that company had its own navy and it even negotiated treaties with countries just like a sovereign nation would.
It’s hard to beat the power:area ratio of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Now we’re cooking! That’s more like the kind of edge cases we need to prove a point. Exactly 0 km^2 of area to protect, but you still have 13 500 knights. 😄
The important bits are pretty densely packed.
That’s what I keep telling her.
If my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bicycle.
And if my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bicycle.
you’ll be glad to know that 2 others users made the exact same comment, hours after yours. Fist time I see a comment copied so many times, and as no- US folk, first time I heard of this so popular saying
Can’t speak for granny but I heard your mom was the town bicycle.
That’s such an insult to my mom, she’s way more of a train gal.
Can confirm, their mom carried me to school often, and only required infrequent lubrication. Wasn’t great up hills though
Mom, no!
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted lol
It’s perfectly fitting here, and also made me think of this clip
They’re downvoted because it’s nonsense.
The point of that phrase is to point out the ridiculousness of relating two completely unrelated items.
In this case, land mass on top of land mass is a relevant comparison, to help people who understand American geography to visualise European geography. To relate it to their own experience, and grasp why European powers see the invasion of Ukraine as a threat to themselves as well. So the phrase doesn’t work. It’s nonsense. Therefore, not constructive to the discussion and being downvoted.
Lighten up, Clarence.
I’m helium, just explaining because you said you’re “not sure why”
Yeah I don’t know. I was just making a joke. I don’t really care either. I’ve come to terms with the fact that text on the internet doesn’t always translate very well.
Also there’s a lot of people here who lack a sense of humor and are very into trains.
Hey! Whoa! Uncool! That’s totally not fair at all! I like trains, but I also like riding your grandma, all over town!
honks the bicycle horn
I like your jokes. I like you.
I would have made a joke about riding a train on your grandma though.
