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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

American universities are weird. My hometown has a large university and for the most part once you walk two minutes in any direction it just looks like a regular neighborhood. It helps to not have sports as part of the university.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

American schools are big. There is no need for a huge stadium, and definitely no need for a lot of parking, especially considering that it sits empty most of the time. Schools on my home country are smaller, and we have more of them, and they have zero parking. Even the expensive private schools didn't have any parking spots, the idea seems weird. Frankly American schools appear to intentionally waste space and aren't integrated into their surroundings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Every smart TV is a dumb TV too. Mine has some smart stuff, I think, but I have never used it, and it has never been online.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It's more machine now than man. Twisted and evil.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That's pretty normal, a few years ago I ran into these Brazilian bikers in Argentina and they didn't speak Spanish or English, so it was really hard to communicate. We (Spanish speakers) really rely on you guys understanding us. I can read Portuguese without much trouble, though, it's the pronunciation that gets me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You're welcome! Tankies are idiotic, I don't understand the appeal, they think they're edgy or something.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'm not a tankie, fuck Stalin, but the stat is correct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate

I don't know how well we know China's figures, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They're probably banning it in local elections.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

The US still promotes dictatorships around the world, and in Latin America specifically, while claiming to promote democracy. There isn't even that much democracy at home.

The narcissist's prayer definitely applies to the country that elected Trump, as it does to Trump himself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not that Apple makes amazing stuff, it's that other companies really put out barely shiny turds.

Look at the zune, the tech was fine, or so I have heard, but it looked like an ugly brick. Seriously, a regular red brick looks better, even a yellow brick does.

I have a Subaru, and while I love it, the infotainment system is garbage. Clearly there was no effort to make it look good and usable.

UX is hugely undervalued, I wonder if one of the reasons is because you don't notice good UX, it's not in the way, but you noticed bad UX. So good UX without a lot of marketing is invisible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In some games storyline matters, in others... not so much. Games with a storyline trend to be less replayable in my experience. One exception I can think of is This War of Mine, that game is really depressing.

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