It didn't start out from a good place either. US in the 70s was still homophobic, racist, and bombed the shit out of middle east. Reminds you of anything?
No idea :) I'm not familiar enough with the Iranian/Persian culture to even make a guess.
On this particular front Europe is doing OK as well, but it definitely needs to build more, faster, and now. And to do that it needs to build more ties with China. Honestly looking at the (lack of) EU response over the latest US war crimes I'm not holding my breath here.
I don't know the language at all but I can "read" the script, and they are quite different. The first one is like "Khomenee", the second is like "Khaamenae'i"
Felipe VI of Spain can (constitutionally) do the funniest thing right now.
Reinventing the labor theory of value from first principles
I think it may be part of the reason for Trump, but Iran's oil reserves and military control over the straight of Hormuz is probably an even bigger reason. US clearly wants to control as much of oil supply as it can to keep the dominance it has over the rest of the world.
Everyone should be building renewables and nuclear like crazy right now, because the alternative is slavery to the empire.
Most "western" countries have been acting like this in the past century and are still to this moment reaping the benefits from colonial and imperialist plunder of the global south. It's not just the USA, even though it is the most damaging.
Not only vocabulary, but grammar too.
Scratch that, get people to demand and vote for public transit and cycling infrastructure. It's much cheaper per person than building&recycling batteries for all the EVs, and beefing up the power grid to support the exploding demand. Much better for the environment and society in general too.
That's what Xi keeps repeating, that reunification is only possible by continuously strengthening economic, cultural and even political ties. Western media keeps trying to claim he wants to "take Taiwan by force" but there's never a source, it's always "read between the lines" of his speeches.
Yeah sure, this movie with 1.3 rating and 5 (out of 100) metascore, with only 50k ratings, is the #1 movie this week. The algorithm is really transparent and trustworthy, clearly there's no manipulation going on.
(for those who don't know, IMDb is owned and operated by Amazon)
This is my daily driver at the moment - X201s modded with a 51nb motherboard with i7-10710u (a.k.a X2100). A lot of geo nerd cred to whomever can guess the location by the mountains :)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33203710
Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.
Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32177363
Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.
Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830215
I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)
This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.
The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.
I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)
This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.
The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31459711
Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.
Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.
Literally anything is better than coal, oil and gas. Renewables are the cheap option to produce energy when possible, and nuclear is insurance for base load in case we never quite figure out grid storage at scale.