vaccarium

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by vaccarium 3y ago
No. Just, no. It's really arrogant how you assume you understand GP's situation better than themselves.
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by vaccarium 3y ago
Swift is slow and expensive as hell, the fees can run into 10s of dollars per transaction. SEPA is limited to the EU, not even the official candidate countries have it.
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by vaccarium 3y ago
Ancient Romans did enough pollution to affect the climate. https://www.earth.com/news/roman-activities-cooled-climate/
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by vaccarium 3y ago
The original "sick man of the East" was Ottoman Turkey.
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by vaccarium 3y ago
Caps Lock makes for a wonderful layout switcher key.
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by vaccarium 3y ago
He agreed to stop sending bombs in exchange for publication of his manifesto.
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by vaccarium 3y ago
Russia isn't known as welcoming to Central Asians either, yet they still (used to?) come there to work. Money talks.
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by vaccarium 4y ago
Nitpick: he is a Labour member but not a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party, so he sits in the Commons as an independent.
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by vaccarium 4y ago
Azerbaijan has closed its land borders for Covid. Still hasn't reopened, three years later.
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by vaccarium 5y ago
(off-topic question: do you come from Murmansk, by any chance? That username sounds familiar :)
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by vaccarium 5y ago
This is mostly but not entirely coincidental. The name München is derived from the word for monk, which would be "monaco" in Italian. Both "monaco" (monk) and "Monaco" (city) ultimately descend from μόνος (Gree
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by vaccarium 6y ago
We generally don't, most of the passengers on these trains only go part of the route. Train trips taking 2-3 days (like Moscow to Urals) used to be more common, but flying has become cheaper years ago.
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by vaccarium 6y ago
Not just you. I have to use Google search at 80% magnification tops, otherwise the results don't really fit on the screen.
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by vaccarium 6y ago
At a previous job, a coworker got a new Mac but still wanted to use Linux. He spent several days setting the system up, and eventually got it up and running smoothly. Except that the calendar on the lock screen somehow was in Romanian, it r
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by vaccarium 7y ago
Python does actually have an abstract type for numbers, and it is called Number: https://docs.python.org/3/library/numbers.html .
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by vaccarium 8y ago
> I got the impression that I could continue riding to Amsterdam in the same fashion if wanted to. You definitely could. A couple of years ago I've actually done a trip like that, Rotterdam to The Hague to Amsterdam (then onwards to