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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 hours ago

I initially saw that number on a Facebook post and when I checked the source [1] it also mentioned the 15 billion figure so I went with it. Looking at it closely, the author did some "creative" math to get that number

His total take home amounted to five times the earnings of the highest paid provincial governors over a similar period—enough to provide grain for the entire city of Rome for one year, or to pay all the ordinary soldiers of the Roman Army at the height of its imperial reach for a fifth of a year. By today’s standards that last figure, assuming the apt comparison is what it takes to pay the wages of the American armed forces for the same period, would cash out to about $15 billion

Good catch, I should read the sources better and don't trust the Facebook (especially the Facebook)

 

Source: https://landgeist.com/2022/04/12/spirits-consumption-in-europe/

Other maps on the same topic from the source:

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

And also how often the movie is completely oblivious to that. For example it's been a while since I saw "Devil wears Prada" but if I remember right, the ending is:

Our main character has an argument with her boyfriend

Goes to a business trip in Paris

Sleeps with random guy

Returns home and makes up with her boyfriend

And the movie ends like nothing happened, she's happy, that's what's important

 

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

What? I-I don't understand what ... what does ... miss, can you open the door please?

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You may say this is basic or this is really nitpicking or micro mapping. But this is something that bothers me for a long time. So I'm currently mapping sidewalks in my village and according to this

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Guidelines_for_pedestrian_navigation#Sidewalks_and_crossings

What I should do, is to separate sidewalks from pedestrian crossings - so top and left of the blue dot is a pedestrian crossing and bottom and right is a sidewalk. Got it.

Now things start to be complicated (at least in my head) when StreetComplete starts asking me for the surface of that crossing. An example:

Now my mind starts to go to crazy and I'm not sure which option is correct:

  1. Set the surface of that pedestrian crossing to paving_stones since that's the actual surface of that path. The fact that it crosses the asphalt road doesn't matter as that's the surface of the road

  1. Split the pedestrian crossing into 3 parts, set their surface accordingly so paving_stones, asphalt, paving_sones. But all are still pedestrian crossings.

  1. Split the pedestrian crossing to 3 parts, set only middle of that to be the pedestrian crossing as that's the actual crossing, set the other parts to be a sidewalk. Set surfaces accordingly

  1. Similar to 3., split the pedestrian crossing into 3 parts, set only middle of that to be the pedestrian crossing as that's the actual crossing, set the other parts to be footways (so no sidewalks), since those are just separate footways connecting the sidewalk and the crossing. Set surfaces accordingly

All of those have some logic in my mind but I won't go to details as it'd be very long post. But I guess the number 2. is correct? Although I then start wondering what to do in case the sidewalk is right next to the road? Just setting it to asphalt?

Anyway, please help me bring peace to my mind - which one is correct?

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

medieval soap opera

This sounds accurate when I think about it, maybe I found out why I wasn't interested. The thing is - I don't mind medieval soap operas (to some degree), I really liked The White Queen, The White Princess and The Spanish Princess. But those are based on real characters in actual history, I can forgive them for being boring at times since history is sometimes a bit boring. But for me the selling point and the excitement comes from the fact that this actually happened (well ... sort of). With GoT it felt like I'm watching one of those medieval soap operas but without the excitement of being based on the real thing

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago

Jealousy. His boss could act like an asshole and don't let him go fishing but he earned it! It's so rare to find good boss

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I second The princess bride but to add something new: (although not a movie but a serie)

The Game of Thrones

I love fantasy, I love medieval history, I love huge worlds, I love slow pace. But this one ... just didn't click, I don't even know why. I gave up after the 4th episode

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Pocket had a strange history for me. When it came out, I thought it was the best thing ever! But after some time I realised I actually don't use it. I just saved pages to bookmarks

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Hotel Amanauz (api.architectuul.org)
 

Another nice picture:

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm not from balkan but when my friend who works in Nederland told me that he voted (in Slovakia) for far right, anti-EU party ... I kind of gave up, some people are just dumb

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

TRUST US

I don't trust US

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

... for my tiiiime 🎵

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe it helps that Germans have a more relaxed relationship with nudity.

Yeah I guess that helps :) I'm pretty shy, I don't want anyone besides my wife to see my ding-a-ling

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Pope John XII (en.wikipedia.org)
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I'm surprised no one made a movie about him already. I can already see the title: "Teenage Pope"

 

This is a pretty common staircase type where I live but how do I map it? Should I make lines over each other multiple times, each with different level? Or just one line and don't care about the other floors? I don't know if I'm searching for wrong terms but I have a surprisingly hard time on getting info about stairs mapping.

Can you point me to the right direction or post some example?

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Nice guy (lemmy.world)
 
 
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