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mh, a pretty nice castle near my hometown is listed as a Castle in wikidata, but missing on the mao, you may want to check what's up with the mapping

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63495355

EDIT: ah, it's only those with an english wikipedia page, nevermind

Are figs rare in central europe climates?

I live in Hungary and they seem to be relatively widespread, if not as much as in southern Europe.

People/companies are already testing avocado, banana, and coffee plantations in Italy at scale. Climate change really is insane.

This is true with basically every place and a proper guide.

I understand why people don't usually hire a person to walk then around when they're traveling solo or with their family, but if you're a mildly curious person it's a fantastic way to experience museums, archeology and nature.

Competitors run out of money and shut down, perhaps. Although I don't see how that happens for anyone but Google.

I used to unthinkingly put icons everywhere.

Then, once, a designer friend was doing some UI and I suggested using icons instead of edit/view text or something like that, and he replied "I don't believe in the thaumaturgic power of icons" and that somehow changed my perspective forever.

But this is about poetry, would Twain qualify as a poet?

My vote would go to Edgar Lee Masters because the spoon river anthology is one of the few poetry books I actually read, and it exemplifies a lot of the American spirit, IMVHO.

Musk and Trump had a pretty public break up, I think this is one fuckup where we shouldn't blame him.

I think that's changing too, my son got some cheap radio controlled boat a few weeks ago, the remote uses AA and the boat has USB-C as input (interestingly enough, it has a weird USB-C cable with a built in light to signal when charging is done).

but with interrail the "useful" thing was to travel overnight, because that saves you one night of $$ for loding, so slow is actually fine.

I don't think fast trains (TGV, Frecciarossa etc) were ever covered by the interrail ticket anyway, were they?

I don't think so, I lived the peak of budget airlines in the 00s and interrail was still quite popular.

I think young kids have just moved on culturally, I tried to convince a couple relatives to make use of the 18yo free trains opportunity and nobody wanted to pick it up, for various reasons.

Is Dredd considered cyberpunk? I know the definition is fluid but I wouldn't think so.

OTOH, robocop is ok on the list, so probably it should be there too.

In Italy (and sometimes abroad, I recall dark horse translated it in English at some point) Nathan Never has been publishing as a monthly comic for a few decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Never

Not all stories are cyberpunk, but many are.

Some are great.

Never used it, but I've seen some praise for Snac as an easy to deploy activitypub server

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

On the European side of the pond, single packaged industrial ice cream is also gone to shit.

A Magnum or Cornetto used to be a well sized very tasty snack. In Italy the "cucciolone" (an ice cream sandwich) was literally marketed as being "10 bites".

All of those are now tiny bland things that nobody should buy.

The Magnum Company (neé Algida/Walls/etc) is a fucking disaster and everybody should stop buying their products, but other single packaged ice cream snack makers have been following suit and it's basically a meme that every one of those ice creams now looks like a mignon version of the original.

Alas, small kids still like them and have no frame of reference.

I think it's also worth noting that China today is not China from twenty years ago. The communist party ran the country but there was some form of "internal quasi democracy" and leadership changes happened, with term limits.

This changed under Xi Jinping and no one knows what the effects will be.

I read the book and that's not the first thing that comes to mind.

What comes to mind is whole towns made of dockworkers which disappeared, and some places like Manchester lost their port and their industry died too, and it took them decades to recover.

Of course, some other like Rotterdam flourished.

I do recommend the book, but I think it shows many sides of what happens when a large change happens.

To paraphrase the science/funerals quip, one might say "Society advances one failed institution at a time".

With the rise of pre-print archives is this still a problem?

I play dungeon crawl stone soup (think nethack,but with web tiles), and most of the servers are struggling because of AI crawlers downloading the morgues.

Real users are already suffering.

If (big if) the AI labs can be made to pay for the abuse, actual users win.

Yes, It is also sold in every supermarket in soluble form, there's a Nestle owned brand (orzoro) and a few smaller ones (orzobimbo) which are quite popular.

I should avoid caffeine for health reasons and I usually drink milk with barley, it's quite a decent replacement for caffelatte

I can assure you the situation in Italy is just as bad.

We do have an independent telecommunications authority, but it's been subservient to the Serie A (rather, the companies who own the broadcasting /streaming rights) diktat almost completely.

If the server can trust the device, then you don't need the parent, you can use a digital-enabled id card or passport.

This is in fact the EU age verification app

https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/european-ag...

The concern here is the trust in the device appears to be tied to proprietary os/device vendors.

These "age verification" laws are - by design - identity attribution systems. They attribute digital identities (accounts) to physical identities (SSN, ID, etc..

No, they don't. The proposed EU verification system provides a proof of age to the service but no physical identity data.

This is possibly a slippery slope, but I don't think it's correct to state the two things are equivalent.

But the point is the movie industry has been trying to tell us that it is stealing.

"You wouldn't still a car" etc etc..

But people are not voluntarily philanthropists.

There's a reason we had to introduce work regulations so you don't have children working 13 hours shifts in coal mines.

It's way better if my children study by themselves, but if left to their own devises they'll just watch cartoons all day.

(Not advocating for belting kids, just saying there's a gap between utopia and reality)

FWIW, some fast growing non-native trees now grow trivially in central Europe too.

Ailanthus[0] is invasive as heck and Paulownia[1] grows everywhere too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus_altissima

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulownia_tomentosa

@steerpike on HN coined the "time to sheep" metric, a measure of how long you have to travel before you're surrounded by sheep[0], which correlates reasonably well with quality of living.

Alas, doesn't work very well outside of britain, but it's a good metric :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42802744

The good thing is bridgy fed/a new social exists, and you can trivially bridge atmosphere and fediverse today.

The east-west schism took way longer to allow some reconciliation :)

No, it didn't. The first iphone looked incredible and expensive.

People complained it didn't have apps and didn't support java, but it was very cool.

Also, it cost $500.