bleistift2 @ bleistift2 @sopuli.xyz

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I believe every internet connection in the world is asymmetric. Most people download way more than they upload.

Guitars are very hard to play for kids because the strings are so thin that they hurt after very few minutes.

That’s a better reason.

Why not have a fun joke and some education?

If you’re wondering, Why recorders? — there are three reasons:

• They’re portable.
• Recorders in decent enough quality can be cheaply produced, so even low-income children get to play one. Compare that with a guitar where 30$ gets you a piece of wood that detunes as soon as you lay eyes on it. Not great for practicing.
• Recorders have an easily memorizable fingering scheme that allows you to quickly pick up the C Major scale. Compare this with a guitar where you need to remember for each string individually which frets have the notes of the scale.

Now that its 10 years since I last set foot in a school, I hold three opinions about the public school system (in Germany; check yourself what applies to your country):

1. Schools are an institution where adolescents are detained during the day, so their parent(s) can work and not worry about their children setting fire to the city.
2. A lot of the curriculum doesn’t prepare you for life. And it’s not meant to. Instead it forces you to engage with a topic for a longish period of time without the possibility to quit. That is supposed to allow you to see if you find the problems that topic poses interesting and if you like finding solutions for these problems.
3. Schools should put more emphasis on life skills.

… which is why I’ve become opposed to the notion of ‘spoiling your kid’ by giving them the things they want. There are only so many years you can buy true happiness for as cheap as a cone of ice cream. Why not do it while it’s possible?

That might be what he meant, but it’s not what the captions say.

The good old days where highway planners looked upon black communities and called them free real estate.

This is not a dunk on your comment, just historic context.

uploads a jpeg

I’d be insulted if someone compared me to the worst day of their life.

It doesn’t have to be an *.ico file. So you might need to try different file extensions.

Chengdu

Toronto

Metros aren’t always underground. They also need entrances to their stops above ground.

I don’t know what you mean by this. The yellow lines are transit lines. The red circles are stops.

These two maps are at the same scale:

Toronto

Chengdu

I agree. There needs to be a middle ground. In Germany, NIMBYs opposed to wind turbines because they’re supposedly loud and ugly, as well as NIMBYs opposed to high-capacity power lines have become somewhat of a meme.

The right way to handle this is buying the land at a reasonable price (where you actually need to build on someone’s land, not buying ‘the view’).

I guess it’s easier to undertake a massive infrastructure project if you can just tell residents to move it or else…

Aber man bewegt sich im Schwimmbad doch öfter nicht?

What’s the point here? Shitting on a good deed because someone else has done something bad? Arguing that small contributions don’t matter because others cancel that out? Great, now everbody feels entitled to shitty behaviour because they’re not the most rotten apple in the barrel. I’m sure many good things will come from that line of thought.

The rule is “Don’t be a jerk”, not “Don’t be a jerk if you’re the only one”

So können Schwimmbadpinkler sicherlich auch gut erkannt werden!

Wie? Man sieht ja nicht, wenn jemand ins Schwimmbecken pinkelt.