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[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

It sounds like they're calling it for Merz? At least AfD didn't outright win but they made serious gains. Scary.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

This was exactly what I was going to link.

Certainly in my city bike lanes and sidewalks are cleared and salted before main roads. Though we just had the warmest January on record so a lot less snow to think about 😬

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 hours ago

It's super impressive, no wonder it's been used in a lot of media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%AFt_Benhaddou?wprov=sfla1

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

True, but when I lived in the US the majority of my trips weren't cross-state, but 1-10 miles which can totally be cycled if the infrastructure was there.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 13 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

The reason you can't is much more about infrastructure than weather, especially within cities

Source: I live in Scandinavia and everyone bikes even when it's cold

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 15 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

It's the opposite. On Android I have an adblocker. On my work iphone I have to raw dog the internet

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hm. You can't print it like that, it'd a ton of ink and too heavy.

Black paper and white ink? That's interesting

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're right, according to online calcs. But man I can't remember how to count these myself.

Wanna explain for someone who didn't have to do much chemistry?

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago

Running ECU tuning software (I'm pretty sure?) On a GBA SP is perfect. Gotta tune with hardware from the era!

(Yes I'm aware it's a photoshop)

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not to rub it in, but I moved from the US to Scandinavia (during Biden's presidency) and while I have plenty of problems and stresses there's a relief to the safety and stability of it that I didn't realize I was missing in the US.

Life is far from perfect here but it's all in all better than life was in the US for us, and I feel that would be even more true as time goes on.

Also sorry about wtf is going on to you (presumably) over there.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I always ran converse low tops for non-track driving. Lots of feel, plenty of space to heel-toe, and they go with anything

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

I think the ideal argument is both. Have a grid that's (at least vast majority) green, and work towards using said green energy to recapture some CO2

 

Hi!

Looking for a book that I know very little about. I heard from a Dan Carlin podcast a while ago about some stories compiled into a book. It was about people's memoirs of pre-WWII Germany, like 1920s and 30s, and specifically them trying to and sometime successfully leaving Germany for various other places.

Sorry, I have very few details about it. Any chance someone knows what it is?

Thanks!

 

Hi all–

Just had a tax meeting today in Denmark, and the Danish government like a fair few other governments, recognize 401k/trad IRA investments as retirement, but not Roths. This means you have to pay annual tax on the gains for your Roth, that you can't touch until you're 59.5.

This leaves us looking at pulling the money out and eating the tax/penalty. And my questions in case anyone knows are:

  1. is that money income in the US?
  2. is there anything particularly good to do with the money? Beyond the obvious of buying a house (here)
  3. how has no one told us about this in all the posts/threads, financial advisors, etc that Roths are fairly commonly not acknowledged and are absolutely terrible if you plan to leave the US?

Thanks in advance. Sorry for my grumpy tone... I'm certainly grumpy

 
 

It's a pretty solid impeding penalty, but I don't think I've ever seen a single place penalty be handed out for that.

 

Pretty wild and fun mini doc with interviews on some kids stealing Kia and Hyundai cars. A bit sad, as his videos often are.

 

We're moving to Denmark from the US soon, and are going to be (of course) selling our 120V setup and buying a whole new one. It's pretty exciting to be able to re-shop for things.

We currently have a Profitec GO and a Eureka Mignon Silencio grinder. I'd say my big want that we don't have is having warm water from the espresso machine easier to dispense (without small grounds in it) to pre warm cups, to make Americanos.

Either way, if you had the opportunity to do it all over again, would you change anything?

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Hi all!

We're very excited to move to Denmark soon as lifelong Americans. I have a good job lined up, and we're set on a place to live for a while.

Any advice from people who have done it, looked it up, had friends who have done it, etc? Just in general :)

 

Hi Lemmy!

My partner and I are moving from the US to the EU soon. We both have gaming PCs but they're a bit older, so we're thinking it's a great time to sell them, taking the SSDs, and buying new components there to avoid shipping them.

Any suggestions surrounding it? Maybe there's a good way to pay a little and backup the whole SSDs to the cloud?

I know it's not strictly gaming related but it sorta is? Sorry if this is inappropriate for the community

 

Sorry for the poor quality. Only twitter screenshots I could find

 

Sprint race pushed back 20 minutes to allow for a short testing session with new track limits. If the sprint data isn't favorable, they will mandate a 3 stop during the race with 20 laps max per tire

 

Hello all--

I'm already missing reddit for r/GrandPrixTravel, so here's a little write-up of my experience in Mexico City last year for the GP.

I've been to COTA, Montreal, Shanghai, Mexico City, Suzuka, and Silverstone for the GPs. Mexico City was absolutely fantastic and one of the best experiences I've had at an F1 weekend.

We went in large part because we were sticker shocked at the GA prices for COTA last year (and this year at that), and said "surely we can fly to CDMX and see the GP for the costs of flying to Austin for the GP." and we could! let's break that part down:

We were lucky and nailed the timing to get a Scott's Cheap Flights from CLT to MEX directly for $279 per person. Typical prices are $400-500 for that route.

We ended up missing the window for seats booked directly through the circuit (which we usually prefer to do) and ended up buying them through Grand Prix Events. We spend $1065 ($533pp) for 2 tickets in Foro Sol Norte (the stadium!).

Hotel was super cheap, and super nice. Just over $90 per night, and we did Friday - Monday (so 3 nights).

Food was also cheap and fantastic. Both at the stadium and just around the city. There's a weird system at the GP: you buy a card, load it with money, then can only spend that to buy stuff. Water was ~$1.50 and beer was ~$4.

Transport was cheap*, since it was all by train. 5 pesos per direction per person (like $0.30). Trains were of course busy, especially after the GP, but it didn't take much longer than normal.

This gives up $946.5 per person for travel, hotel, and F1 tickets, plus whatever food costs. You can definitely do much cheaper there, but for the $1,000 mark it's hard to have better seats from the US.

We mostly did F1 and Dia de los Muertos stuff, but there was a ton to see nearby. For Dia de los Muertos there was a subway station closed near the plaza (where we stayed), so we had to talk one subway stop away. Like any F1 race, we gave ourselves a few hours of buffer so it wasn't a big deal.

As for the race, we had AMAZING seats, got free Checo shirts (to make the crowd look like the Mexican flag in the stadium), cheered a ton (especially for Checo; when in Rome), got bootleg merch for almost nothing right outside the event.

It's a slightly weird one, in that you can only get in to your section with your ticket and can't freely roam around (even on Friday). So you don't see the whole track.

Of course after the GP, we went onto the track to watch the podium and have a beer on track. We walked down the whole front straight, checked out the pits, take photos, etc. All said, a really cool weekend, not horrifically expensive, and a very fun crowd. If you're on the fence, go to CDMX!

*I did get my phone pick pocketed immediately after the Friday session at the train station. A few people bumped into me in a row and next thing I knew my phone was gone from my front pocket. I spend $180 on a cheap random phone in Mexico and restored my backup and was off to the races again (with bad battery life and a terrible camera). That was a bummer; definitely keep a close eye on your stuff in CDMX.

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