ah, maybe it only defaults to it on web

i honestly really like dymaxion because it’s a nice aspect ratio and keeping the landmasses all together just feels right.

And it doesn’t even look strange if you just remove the ocean

except that continents quite plainly aren’t just about landmasses, they’re defined by culture as well. Hence why most people these days consider “oceania” a continent, and why india and the middle east don’t really fit smoothly into any standard continent.

i mean, i’d say the lack of tube lines is the bigger issue

what? google maps absolutely has a globe view when you zoom out

chiming in as another person running KDE on wayland with no more issues than i’ve had on any other software

and the kernel repo on github is a mirror, for those who don’t know

and i would argue there are way more, because grouping all of africa and europe and asia together is kind of utterly pointless.

What makes sense to me is groupings very much like europe in size and cultural cohesion, something roughly like this:

(I can’t intuitively figure out where to draw lines in america, aside from the fact that the northern part of the landmass is basically unpopulated and vastly more similar to greenland than it is to the populated parts)

i find this misleading, both because some countries have renter’s rights laws that mean renting is perfectly reliable, and because housing co-ops and municipal landlords exist and living in those places is i would argue better than owning a house.

to counter the “gotta appease normies”, think of how good firefox could be for accessibility if they put all the effort spent on llm integration and whatnot into making the useful AI features even better

like firefox is obviously not going to win in the normie department, but it could be so hilariously superior for disabled users that no one in that demographic even considers using chrome any more, and i think that would be quite effective at getting firefox onto public service computers.

18:00? try fucking 16:50

i genuinely view christmas decorations (especially lights) as life saving measures, because the darkness up here noticably drives people to kill themselves

i mean, “this goes against thousands of years of evidence, including observations you can make yourself” is a pretty good one

i have very fond memories of sitting with windows computers and them just… ignoring the internet connection, the fuck does “unidentified network” mean? Do you fucking see the connection or not you silicon garbage heap?

if you want to see the change in rail networks over time across the world, check out https://openrailwaymap.app/

on the other hand the population as a whole has skyrocketed though, and a big part of why people move into cities is because rural areas lose amenities like good public transport.

reducing driver costs is precisely why public transport organizations try to run trains instead of buses lmfao

staff costs are HUGE in the west

sorry sir but your insurance doesn’t cover dying here, you’ll have to go somewhere else if you want to pass on. That’ll be $5000 sir.

it’s a wonderful metric because i can look at a graph and weep at sweden being basically the only country where hours worked per year has very noticably gone up for a pretty long time now…