Now imagine if we took this, made it longer and flexible to fit more people, put it on steel rails for less rolling resistance. I wonder how that would work out.

Das wär kein Populismus. Die Bevölkerung liebt US Konzerne.

Fellow Viennese person detected, must post song Workers Of Vienna https://youtu.be/A95Gu39oBrI

I’ll use the cliche meme of “I was today years old when I learned where the name comes from”. Just made the connection when I read this article, and I love Pulp Fiction.

But I too am not a native English speaker. Just always accepted the clunky acronym as the reason for the name.

Why does Athens have a USA flag and English text?

Two things can be true at the same time. Palestine is a horrible place for us queer folks, and Israel is committing atrocities against the Palestinian population.

I remember a talk a few years ago where someone engineered controlled detonations to destroy a single server in a rack without damaging any surrounding equipment. Was pretty fun to follow the engineering.

Fuck shopping centre employees amirite folks?

“Fifth June” in German.

The whole thing is immensely complicated and expensive to maintain. But they wanted ultra low floors (hence the name) and this is probably the only way to do it.

Vienna and Oradea are the only cities using the pictured ULF tram model, with Vienna having immensely more of them. That’s probably where OPs confusion came from.

ULFs are a creative system but in practice it didn’t work out that well.

well häuslpapier.at goes somewhere else appropriate

I discovered Tinariwen through one of their live recordings. Pretty amazing stuff.

Hello Melbourneians? Melbourneites? Person from almost the other side of the world here.

How come this community is so active on Lemmy? I haven’t seen any other city pop up on my feed as often as yours. You regularly get more than a hundred comments each day in these discussion threads.

Oh for sure. When I joined, servers and communities dedicated to specific countries or even cities had a bit of activity. Used to see a lot of German, Austrian, french, Dutch, Australian and NZ content in my feed. Now only the Germans and Australians, sometimes.

It is though? Sure, you can’t just throw it on a compost pile and wait a few weeks for it to rot away. That’s why leather is processed (tanned) in the first place, otherwise it would be a pretty useless material.

But it will biodegrade. In a few years instead of thousands of years like plastics.

And if they have access to your computer, they can get much more useful information, both for extortion and surveillance.

If someone has enough access to your system to covertly use the camera, then the camera is the last thing you need to worry about.

Nobody is interested in looking at you. Getting your payment data, or private data, that is much more interesting.

Fair. I would claim that’s saying something by itself.

It’s not just here, it’s everywhere. That’s why people like me are so sour about it.