because norway is in the single market/EEA and the uk isn’t.
Liberite 🔶 🇪🇺@brownliberite
Why does the UK pay more than Norway for Erasmus when both are not in the EU, yet Britain’s more top 100 unis than Europe combined?
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@Milk413213 @CeraGibson oh no i agree w/ op that unfettered capitalism sucks, all of this should obviously be funded and encouraged by the taxpayer
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@krisowe @CeraGibson Yeah I'm sure the competition wouldn't be suffocating or anything lol
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A sustainable global population is around 2-4 billion. We are well beyond that and currently speed running our extinction.
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@Milk413213 @CeraGibson you could well have a neighborhood the size of the entire city of new york (or even bigger) just for painters and artists, or musicians, or writers, or moviepeople. or woodworkers, or brewers. it would be fucking amazing
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@Milk413213 @CeraGibson pretty much anybody who wants to live in a place like new york or tokyo would want to live in a megacity, because there's even more to do. the bigger the city, the more people with any particular interest, the bigger the local events
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@Milk413213 @CeraGibson dude it's not 1846 we now how to mitigate pretty much all of this (also no building shown above is tall?) the reason there's no light in the above picture is that northern france gets fuck all on sun hours.
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@krisowe @CeraGibson No land comes with home - unable to garden or have privacy that's not indoors. Noise from neighbors. Tall buildings blocking light and views. No nature except for a few planted trees. More illnesses in tight quarters etc. etc.
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@insuffbeca but one important thing in comparison to canada is that french was the language of the aristocracy and politics for the longest time, and flemish was seen as a peasant's tongue. this is no longer the case, owing both to flemish protests and the regions now strongeconomic standing
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@insuffbeca it's iffy with german but brussels is officially bilingual but de facto french. however, in govt positions you pretty much have to speak french *and* flemish
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0.0067% of the entire Population of Belgium live in the German speaking community of East Belgium and yet their language is entirely co-equal with French and Flemish despite the Region being a part of Belgium for just over a century. They even have three distinct passport covers.
J.J. McCullough@JJ_McCullough
I have written a long essay clearly and hopefully comprehensively making the case against official French-English billingualism in Canada. I hope you give it a read!
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@Cyberw0t @CeraGibson you know how fucking big the US is, let alone the rest of the world?
if you paved over every square inch of the states shown below in green, at the density mentioned here: x.com/krisowe/status…, you could comfortably house 8 billion people there.
krisowe@krisowe
@CeraGibson we could house almost 1.1 billion people in an area the size of indiana at the modest density of levallois-perret, the densest town in europe. it looks like this:
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@krisowe @CeraGibson Wait till you learn there’s only 8 billion people on earth. Anyone can throw out wild numbers with 0 data backing up the claims.
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@Milk413213 @CeraGibson 1) tell me one thing about the above picture that feels unpleasant (except for the cars perhaps)
2) what difference does it make functionally if you live in a dense neighborhood of 1 sq mi or 36k sq mi? most of your life you'll never move further than 1-2 hrs radially
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@krisowe @CeraGibson Do we want that though? To live crammed together like sardines in megacities?
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@OliverJia1014 dual citizenship restrictions are generally a pretty annoying concept.
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There’s nothing impossible about this.
The residency period is made shorter if you’re married and getting citizenship in any country is by definition on a case-by-case basis.
Most people here don’t naturalize because they don’t want to give up any other citizenships they have.
Pubity@pubity
New laws in Japan will make it almost impossible to gain citizenship if you aren't born there. You have to live in Japan for 10 years just to qualify, followed by strict screenings given on a case-by-case basis.
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@CeraGibson we could house almost 1.1 billion people in an area the size of indiana at the modest density of levallois-perret, the densest town in europe. it looks like this:
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@CeraGibson that's simply not true. all of our problems are due to inefficient land use for all use cases, lackluster recycling, and lagging adoption of renewable energy. we could house well in excess of 100 billion people.
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Der Vorstand des AfD-Ortsverbands Freising besteht nach dem Austritt des Vorsitzenden Ulrich Holzner offenbar aus der Vize-Vorsitzenden Thi Lam Hong Nguyen, dem Schatzmeister Murat Demir und der Schriftführerin Phuong Lan Tran Thi.
Lars Wienand@LarsWienand
@ER_Bayern Was?
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I gave it a read.
I don't think essay is the right word, it's more like a long rant crossed with a long whine.
J.J. McCullough@JJ_McCullough
I have written a long essay clearly and hopefully comprehensively making the case against official French-English billingualism in Canada. I hope you give it a read!
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Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart falls to his knees, weeping
Bohemian girl@_Bohemian_Girl
Kreska
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didn’t know san francisco was settled exclusively by germans.
erin@ratsnotagain
dating in San Francisco is crazy because even the older guys will make you go on a 3 hour hike.
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unpopular opinion: 16GB is plenty if software engineers actually cared about memory efficiency. chrome eating 4GB for 12 tabs is not a hardware problem its a software disgrace. docker consuming 2GB idle is not a feature its laziness. we live in an era where people optimize every single token to save $0.001 on API costs but happily ship electron apps that eat 500MB to display a todo list. if the industry treated RAM the way we treat inference compute - obsessively measuring every byte - 16GB would feel luxurious. the hardware isnt the problem, the software is @adxtyahq
aditya@adxtyahq
never buy a 16GB RAM laptop in 2026. you’ll regret it within a week
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