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Yeah, that's how alot of soft power works unfortunately. This is worth a read for anyone wanting to understand the process and how the US used it after WW2 to their advantage
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man-shocking/dp/0091909104
From Wikipedia:
>The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consisted of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks provided tiny images to be displayed on them, a URL to which the images were linked, and a slogan to be displayed when hovering a cursor over the link. The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator.
It did indeed generate the $1 mil. that Tew wanted. He earned precisely $1,037,100. USD, not UK pounds.
There is also this app that display a live ranking: >https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airvisual
Edit: at the moment I'm reading this, Belgrade is in the top 7. But as others stated in other messages, air pollution changes hour by hour. To the other posters saying it's not the number one, then I guess it was number one at the moment the news was posted. In any case, being in the top 10 is equality as bad as being the first!
This is less of a case of “ugly building” and more of a case of “construction is ugly”.
The building is still not finished, and will look much nicer when finished.
Here is the building next door from the same complex of buildings. The new building will look the same since all buildings in that complex are supposed to look like that.
Here is the averages… July in Volgograd, Russia, is a tropical summer month, with average temperature ranging between max 30.8°C (87.4°F) and min 18.1°C (64.6°F). With an average high-temperature of 30.8°C (87.4°F) and an average low-temperature of 18.1°C (64.6°F), July is the warmest month. In July, the average heat index is estimated at a tropical 32.9°C (91.2°F).
I am not saying it’s like 40 every day, but on some hot days on the sun - easy.
Some example of the interior, most of them looks pretty nice
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/17348695?location=Xian%2C%20Shaanxi%2C%20China&s=W0HzwBRM
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/16060475?location=Xian%2C%20Shaanxi%2C%20China&s=W0HzwBRM
You can't explain India in a sentence or two and you can't grasp it in a few days vacation.
India is the type of place that requires studying to get. It requires actual dedication to understand all the layers it holds. It is so ancient is seems alien to most of us.
I recommend this book to anyone who really wants to understand India before they go or if they never plan on going: https://www.amazon.com/India-Mutinies-V-S-Naipaul/dp/0307739732
Yey it seems quite nicer with green in it:
I can tell you exactly why it will look like. The building is from ЖК сокол and all the buildings will have the same color theme.
Thanks, will definitely check that out!
Also responding here for /u/rock_lobsterrr since they asked for some recos as well.
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson is about a deadly cholera outbreak in Victorian London. The disease killed so many that it led to the creation of the Bazalgette sewer system that London still uses today.
New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns, Lisa Ades, and James Sanders is a beast of a coffee table book that outlines the comprehensive history of Manhattan from swampland backwater to thriving modern metropolis. It's chock full of some fantastic stories, including the one about two reclusive brothers who were found dead in a brownstone that was heavily booby-trapped. (One was invalid, and the other was killed by his own booby traps.) The whole book is a lovingly-created tapestry of New York's ambitious, brutal, and just plain weird history.
That's all I got for now, but if I remember something else, I'll add it to my comment.
I know you’re joking but in case anyone is traveling, these things are awesome. It was super useful and I felt pretty secure when walking around the touristy areas. I attached it to my belt and kept it on the inside of my pants. Had my ID and a larger amount of money.
I also kept a few euros in cash in my pockets just in case I did get robbed, they wouldn’t know I had the important stuff in the secret pocket.
You might like to read The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger. Large parts of Iraq used to be completely different.
Also, traffic is caused almost as much by driving capabilities than volume itself. If you add more lanes, you're suppposed to be able to handle more volume, but most people are not that good at managing more complex driving. So you end up with cars cutting each other and honking in a lack of overall coordination that would be necessary for an efficient transit. Perhaps self-driving cars will help with this, but I believe there's a limit to the volume improvment you could get with adding lanes.
https://www.academia.edu/13922489/Lane-changing_in_traffic_streams
Yes, Because I have lived in both environment
Take a look at yourself, I rather live somewhere with close access to restaurant and public transportation rather than a stand-alone house with nothing near-by
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/17348695?location=Xian%2C%20Shaanxi%2C%20China&s=W0HzwBRM
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/16060475?location=Xian%2C%20Shaanxi%2C%20China&s=W0HzwBRM
If you haven't seen it, you'll probably like this. Yandex.ru does their own version of Street View. You can wander around Norilsk on a nice summer day.
>Turns out, waking up at 5am every day and farming/ slaughtering your livestock and all that entails for $0 a day isn't as fun as you might have idealized.
There is a book about the people who did this back in the 1970's - and how most returned to city life - its pretty interesting - also to see how this was so popular nearly 50 years ago, and the idea never really goes away..
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>in 1975, the back-to-the-land movement had already attracted untold numbers of converts who had grown increasingly estranged from mainstream American society. Visionaries by the millions were moving into woods, mountains, orchards, and farmlands in order to disconnect from the supposedly deleterious influences of modern life. Fed up with capitalism, TV, Washington politics, and 9-to-5 jobs, they took up residence in log cabins, A-frames, tents, old schoolhouses, and run-down farmhouses; grew their own crops; hauled water from wells; avoided doctors in favor of natural cures; and renounced energy-guzzling appliances. This is their story, in all its glories and agonies, its triumphs and disasters
https://www.amazon.com/Back-Land-Young-Americans-Nature/dp/1566636647
I imagine they are lived in. It seems to me that this is a "median" shot to remove the people.
Example: https://lifehacker.com/remove-people-from-your-photos-with-this-photoshop-scri-1245505649
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Thanks for your suggestion, no /s.
That's the monobloc I wrote earlier about. I had one of those in a earlier flat (office in the attic) and they are not helping. They efficiency and effectiveness are crap in those unfortunately.
I'm kinda intrigued to buy one of those but hesitate because of price: split A/C
Also the size of that thing (on the ground) and how to get the hose out of the window (constantly open) aren't my favourite.
I explored the mirador mansions last year, it's a strange place. They're used to be apartments, but today every apartment is converted into any kind of business, there were hotels, factories, monetary service. You can roam around freely and go on the roof. Definitively go explore both Mirador Mansions and Chungkin Mansions if you're in Hong Kong and like cyberpunk shit.
That's a picture I took from the stairs: https://www.instagram.com/p/oVBUE6S9Cz/
By the way, the last picture isn't Mirador Mansions, it's probably the Chungkin Mansions (next door).
>Also very cold.
Novorossiysk is in the warmest region of Russia, 20 miles from a popular resort Anapa. It's 87°F there rn and summer hasn't even begun yet.
I like to tell people about On Democracy by Robert Dahl when this comes up. You need both free market and regulation for a healthy democratic society.
Think of it as two pillars that lean on each other for support. If one gets too big or leans too far, both fall over. Those two pillars are government regulation and the free market. It's an ever-changing balancing act to keep them balanced and in harmony.
Russia obviously is not a healthy democracy. Hence why we get tons of posts about Russia around here.
For a book on gritty NYC I would suggest Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City The section on the summer power outage is just insane
Supposedly, on average, it’s the hottest city on earth. I suspect some places like Manaus, Brazil or Lagos, Nigeria might be hotter. But Bangkok is damn close.
While cities like Riyadh and Baghdad are hotter some parts of the year, Bangkok is consistently at or above 90F for daytime highs.
Source: been there during the “cool” (lol) season and the hot season. It’s fucking hot.
For unedited shots, here are some panoramas -
Also, note that the steam stacks are for district heating plants, not for factories as is commonly portrayed on reddit.
Looks like one of the abandoned, brown-out sections of Simcity 2000, like this https://www.greenmangaming.com/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/simcity-2000-blog.jpg
This is the cover of The Soviet Bus Stops book. The only purchace I've ever made on amazon and it was definetly worth it. Appearantly bus stops was one of the few opportunities architechts got to really express themselfs and it made for some really interesting designs. Highly recommend it.
No clue. It sounds like something that would be within the sphere of r/tipofmytongue, but they don't have any subreddit listed where that would fit.
Otherwise that's basically the premise of the game Geoguessr. Drop to a random Google Street View location in the world and try to guess where you are.
Trees are very important. This place at summer but with "stick-trees":
Yes and no. In 1975, facing a budget crisis stemming from, among other things, a recession, NY established the Emergency Financial Control Board which was a state agency.
The key thing about it was that it gave control over the city’s budget to people who weren’t elected by New Yorkers. The mayor and the comptroller were on the EFCB, but the other people were state appointees and included several businessmen. Power was taken out of the hands of the politicians.
The problems of New York in the ’70s were the same problems facing cities across the country: deindustrialization, suburbanization and white flight. They came to bear on New York with special force partly because it had developed an unusually generous welfare state after World War II.
The public sector expanded considerably, with a network of more than 20 public hospitals, free tuition at City University, an extensive set of programs in the public schools for art, music and athletics, and the largest mass transit system in the country, among other services.
New York increased Medicaid and welfare spending at the same time its population and employment were decreasing.
This continued into the 1960s during the War on Poverty. But toward the end of that decade, federal funding began to dry up and that laid the foundation for a fiscal crisis.
Great book about this topic:
While it's expensive, this book by Perou/Hyde is a plate study of underpasses from all round the UK. It's an incredible book. I stumbled upon it after seeing an Underworld album cover (it is they who seeded the idea for the book).
In which case, it's LITERALLY the best possible power plant! Since Russia routine re-uses waste heat for steam heating, the efficiency can be as high as 80%.
Compare that to the best solar PV at 10-15% which directly requires an addition 2x-4x in capital costs and supply chain CO2 to provide batteries and the efficiency difference alone means you need 8x more PV to simply match a good Nat Gas plant, and that means even more supply chain CO2 and resource use.
Easily the STUPIDEST thing ever: U.S. Cities Ban Natural Gas to Combat Climate Change; Gas Ranges on Chopping Block which easily creates 10x more CO2 than using NatGas as-is.
People who virtue signal like this will kill us all!
There are thousands of people that live under New York City. Some look like apartment blocks with power, some running water, walls, doors with locks. I’m the old days there were tapped land lines, no the ones closest to repeaters in the subway get full 5G phone services.
Thank you, likewise.
Idk if you know this book but I highly recommend it: https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Theory-Everything-Search-Better/dp/0062316559/ref=sr\_1\_1?keywords=nordic+theory+of+everything&qid=1653901002&sprefix=nordic+th%2Caps%2C58&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Turtle-Creek-Ted-Browning/dp/0940540045
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The Brandywine area but i dont know if that creek extends to what you are thinking.
Falowiec is not a name for just this one building. This district in Gdańsk houses dozens of them, this one in particular is just the longest.
The name "falowiec" is related to the word "fala" meaning wave.
Haha, that's certainly a good guess! I actually just went through Norilsk's Yelp page...there are some pretty solid food options: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g670439-Norilsk_Krasnoyarsk_Krai_Siberian_District.html
The only "club" is apparently called "Mechanika" and is only open once per month: https://meduza.io/en/galleries/2015/04/02/life-in-norilsk
Agreed. The neighbourhood isn’t amazing, but it’s nowhere near as bad as a telephoto lens makes is look. There are trees, the distance between buildings is reasonable (enough for sunlight to reach to lower floors, and there are green areas. The trees are still short but this will change in time.
This is one of the streets between the blocks of buildings. https://yandex.com/maps/?ll=41.902670%2C45.013085&panorama%5Bpoint%5D=41.902670%2C45.013085&panorama%5Bdirection%5D=258.797485%2C3.620960&panorama%5Bspan%5D=90.000000%2C90.000000&panorama%5Bid%5D=1323700988_774013292_23_1596704048
It is a bad thing because those people won't give up on cars anyway (mostly because there are no good alternatives). Every space will be used for parking. It will turn in something like this: https://teletype.in/files/2d/ce/2dceb536-f63d-4f01-ae4e-b37c9765f22c.jpeg
And then people will have to just pray for a fire not to happen.
This picture was taken to accompany a (London) Sunday Times article by the late A.A. Gill. You can find it in a compilation of his travel writing “A.A. Gill Is Away”. Very highly recommended. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SFD7Z2/ref=dbs_p_ebk_dam
Found on shutter stock.
From the original photographer
Riga, Latvia, December 28, 2017: demolition of the administrative building of the former Radiotehnika factory at Kurzemes Avenue 3B in Riga (Imanta district).
some context as to why their subway is so messed up:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-new-york-city-stopped-building-subways
Meanwhile actually developed nations do this
Yes, it does! Enjoy: http://photos.wikimapia.org/p/00/03/96/91/97_full.jpg from http://wikimapia.org/992207/pt/Cidade-de-Deus
Scariest wrong turn I ever took in my life. Thankfully God does protect teenagers trying to buy pot :-)
No he’s right the actual towers are about 2 km away. If you stand beside the monastery you won’t actually see anything.
The first one at at least is an active construction site. It can still be seen from on yandex's satellite images, but it's no longer like that on the panarama view: https://maps.yandex.com/?ll=37.542132%2C55.753367&panorama%5Bpoint%5D=37.542132%2C55.753367&panorama%5Bdirection%5D=200.500610%2C7.420906&panorama%5Bspan%5D=40.536083%2C80.000000
I couldn't find the location from which the second photo was taken.
Edit: Also, because I know someone will whine about the sleet and snow, pretending that it doesn't exist in other countries, here is the nearest street during the summer: https://yandex.com/maps/213/moscow/?ll=37.542132%2C55.753367&panorama%5Bpoint%5D=37.542586%2C55.752658&panorama%5Bdirection%5D=286.051661%2C12.566886&panorama%5Bspan%5D=120.000000%2C68.210438
> Right. Both those are true statements.
What's not true: when you said "you're leaving". Please.
>Both those are true statements.
So you know nothing about Bolivia, but you do?
> Because you didn’t actually tell me anything factual about Bolivia
Mariah, you said you "weren't gonna read it nuh uh uh". Because it doesn't fit with your spoiled white girl "world" view.
Quote:
"sorry no one's actually reading that!"
"there's no way i'm reading all that."
And you don't have google? You can't read something, find it yourself? (again, you're used to having things (that you want to hear) spoon fed to you.)
So why don't you take the suggestion I made, that you did read, and book an AirBNB in La Paz, go for yourself?
Air fare about $700
https://www.kayak.com/flights/JFK-LPB/2020-04-04/2020-04-11?sort=bestflight_a
AirBNB
And hon, La Paz: there's more than one. So if you are going to book anything on your own, check with them. It's not the Mexico La Paz.
You can get there and be real woke!
Oh: upstate new york, you haven't been, have you? Do you have a driver's license?
> i'm leaving fully satisfied with my comments now
Yet here you are!
I really recommend reading this book by the former head of Google China -
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0358105587/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_CC24TGW2NP91F5XZ4B6G
Just so you have a better understanding of just how far ahead China is in tech. We just don’t hear about it much because it’s a closed system.
Surprisingly no. I used VyprVPN, and my Internet was faster with the VPN than without. The Chinese sites slowed to a crawl, because the VPN would have to link to a server outside of China then access the Chinese site through the firewall and that would be slow. VyprVPN, also didn’t allow illegal downloading, so, even though they didn’t give up your name, if you got a certain number of DMCA complaints against your account they would kick you off. I got kicked off twice And had to make new accounts with new emails. More of a pain in the ass than anything.
This makes me think about the story of The Story of the Little House! I had on a vinyl as a kid.
Fuck that.
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Dog-Don-Winslow/dp/1400096936/ref=nodl_
There’s a good place to start. This book series will kick your teeth in. And it’s almost all completely true. I’ve listened to it three times on audible and I’m about to start it again.
Census records and other documents from back then are a little tricky to decipher sometimes. Some say that my family married Seminoles, some say they did not. My ancestry.com DNA test didn't result in any Native American despite Peggy Edwards/Hamilton (my great(x4) grandma) being "full blooded" Choctaw. She was also said to have been black. People lied a lot on census records back then for several reasons, a lot doing with racism. One thing I learned from Lostmans Heritage: Pioneers in the Florida Everglades, which is all about my direct family line, is that my family would often "disappear" into the Everglades with the Seminoles right around the same time as one of their annual ceremonies. Pretty cool to think about! There is a huge conspiracy regarding my great grandfather who vanished while hunting, it is most commonly believed that he was murdered. I'm proud to be a Florida Native and I love living here. I've lived in South Carolina, Texas, Ohio, and all over the state of Florida, but South Florida is in my blood, it's home. Thank you for your interest! God bless.
His book City of Darkness (amazon link ) is definitely worth a read. The city had a fascinating society and social structure. There was also a documentary made before the city was demolished.
When I visited China last year I relied on ExpressVPN , they were alright except that there were times that It couldn’t connect to any of the HK and SG servers. If you rely on google services on your phone then you NEED VPN .
Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel https://www.amazon.com/dp/0253205360/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_i7.dFb7VN2HF1 pretty interesting autobiography of someone from the USA working in this city In the 1930’s. It’s probably been 12 years since I read it but he does a great job describing working in 1930’s Soviet Union.