While Volvo is majority Chinese owned these days, many (most?) of their models are still manufactured in Sweden. I was curious as to where mine was made, and it was built in Gøteborg. And I am very satisfied with it, so I would recommend.

Philips is Dutch, isn’t it?

During that time when the LOTR movies were first coming to cinemas, people were camping outside to get premiere tickets. While we were all in the target demographic for said movies, having read rhe book and all, we found it a bit laughable considering how important it was to some people to see the movies on the premiere rather than just waiting a day or two…

Well, a couple of friends and I decided to ensure we got premiere tickets as well, so we brought sleeping bags and beer for our overnight adventure.

Except we weren’t there for LOTR. We got premiere tickets for Shrek 2, just because why not. We were the only ones there. 10/10, would recommend.

This, but with much longer hair, twice as scruffy, and haven’t shaved in a week.

I have nothing I want to put on display. Who’s more suspicious, the one keeping his curtains closed, or the ones insisting I keep them open so they can peek in.

Also, during a more philosophical discussion on a similar topic, I found myself saying that I cannot guarantee that any legal stuff I do today will stay legal, and I don’t trust any government to not retroactively criminalize something they have me on the logs for.

This is to a degree already a problem. Not because of AI, but because of stagnating wages and an increasing wealth gap.

It used to be that a company designing and selling was limited by funding, but now we’re increasingly seeing companies with all the money in the world who are seeing sales going down due to the simple fact that people cannot afford to buy what they’re selling. The supply is there, but modern corporate effectively eradicate their own market.

Whenever there’s an engine available that is basically the space equivalent of a high-bypass turbo fan. Oh, and it’ll have to be powerful enough support single-stage-to-orbit.

In other words: Whenever travel from the surface of the earth and to mars is cheap enough that a couple of hundred middle class people can fund the transit cost. Meaning, not any time soon.

OK, I’ll bite one last time:
For starters, you don’t even know what my position is, as evident in you attacking US history, as if I have any interest in defending it.
Secondly, if the USSR population weren’t de facto serfs, why was travel so restricted? Why was the wall built? Why are there so few accounts of people fleeing to the soviet union? Are you really claiming that some dairy farmer in Turkmenistan could decide one day that he instead would like to serve borscht in Moscow for a living, and then just get up and do so?

I think OP pointed out Stalin because there’s a disturbing amount of Stalinism coming from there. I think you’d have to search very long to find someone on Lemmy as a whole who actually disagrees broadly with the philosophy of Marx. However, when it comes to turning this philosophy into an actual political system, that’s when things get a lot more iffy.

Most of those are fair points in a vacuum, but they all collapse when looking at the rest of the world: These weren’t Stalins improvements. Said improvements happened in many (most?) other countries too, as the industrialization of early 1900s improved life for basically everyone. The only real difference is the repression involved.

Anyway, we’re not going to change each other’s mind, so I see no point in continuing this conversation. Live long and prosper, provided that the state apparatus approves of you doing so.

Why is it only western imperialism that is bad, though? I hate to indulge in whataboutism, but it’s frankly naive and highly revisionist to believe that imperialism is all of the west and only in the west.

So, since you claim to study history, how well do those quotes align with his actual actions? Or are you simply glossing over how the USSR leadership lived in luxury while the population were little more than mere serfs?

As for starvation, I’m sure you have an interesting take on the Holodomor and how the definition of “Kulak” meant basically anyone with a potato patch, and how the quotas that caused a genocide were totally reasonable.

Extracting big words from famous speeches is easy. Squaring propaganda with actual events and behaviors not so much.

Yes, Stalin, famous believer in justice and human dignity.

EDIT: You do understand that it’s possible to be a believer in those principles without becoming a revisionist who starts brown nosing autocrats?

Tankies gonna tank. And those two instances constitute two thirds of the tankie triad.

“US bad, so every enemy of US must be good”

Basically it’s a lot of that, plus a bunch of authoritarian and contrarian bootlickers who think they’re leftists.

The brick coloring looks more vivid than I’m used to, that might be why my uncanny valley of construction is triggered.

Also, the smoke results in something that might seem like details are blurred, the latter of which is a common aigen artifact.

Not so sure about that. I think Europe was already on the road to war, and he was just an excuse.

At the time, war was still seen as something romantic that could be ended relatively easily with few consequences for the ones in charge. Nobody making the decisions anticipated the industrial scale slaughter that modern tech enabled.

My dad. Fuck cancer.

Are you able to isolate the vocals? If so, invert the phase, and then subtract the result from the original recording.

As for isolating the vocals, I’d wager that it is panned to the center, so if you manage to isolate anything with a perfect 50/50 left/right split, what you’ll have should be the vocals. Use that as a subtractor, and the end result should be most of the music. Yes, the music probably also has something panned to the center, which you would lose in this process, but maybe it’s good enough for someone to recognize the track.

Norwegian train car designation shorthand (incomplete).

B: Class B (which is the only class these days. So, meaning passenger seats)
M: Motorized (implies S. See below)
S: Steering capability
L: cargo space (“Lasterom”)
C: Special capability of some sort, such as wheelchair ramp.
MU: Motorized car without driver capability (As in M without S)
P: Car with a pantagraph
R: Restaurant/bistro

So, for example, type 92 is a small set consisting of only two cars: A BM and a BS. Both cars have seating, the train can be controlled from both ends, but only one of them has a motor.

T93 is similar in layout.

T74 and T75 are both five-car trains, and I don’t remember all of the cars, but I remember the middle of them is called BCMU or something like that.

The older T3 trains (now retired, I think), has a car designated LCR (or a different order), which means cargo space, food service, and some sort of special amenities that I never figured out. This train type also had class A with seating of a higher comfort level.

All of these types are printed on the side, usually next to a number, which is an internal serial number. So a 9214BM* means “Type 92, number 14, motor carriage (with passenger seating)”.

*: I don’t remember the exact syntax, but it’s something like that.

EDIT: Un-fun fact I just realized long after using 9214 as an example above: It doesn’texist anymore.

For managing to avoid Walmart? That’s easy: Just be born in Europe.

My only Walmart visits have been during work trips. Most of them to Houston, coincidentally. So yes, I’ve also been severely hungover in TX.