Wait until you hear about the Gran Colombia.
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- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua were briefly united in the 1800s as the Federal Republic of Central AmericaEnglish8·2 months ago
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Trump is pardoning Todd and Julie Chrisley, the reality TV couple convicted of fraud3·2 months ago
How much did it cost them, what’s the going rate right now?
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Things at Tesla are worse than they appear | CNN Business24·3 months ago
… . and Tesla stock is somehow STILL over-valued.
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoPortland@lemmy.world•Amtrak pulls aging railcars from Cascades route due to safety concernsEnglish1·3 months ago
Radio Free Ubanism talked about this last week, and they said that Amtrak has already ordered cars to replace these, but they won’t be delivered for another 18 months, so it’s going to be a long period of disruption. There was some talk about Amtrak leasing cars from regional transit agencies (Sound Transit, possibly) to fill the gaps for a while.
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto LawsEnglish22·4 months ago
That’s probably a fair assessment, but still a rather damning indictment of the industry writ large.
There are definitely better versions of cryptocurrency that I think could be more useful, but the industry is definitely not headed in that direction. Instead, it’s all pump-and-dumps, rug-pulls, and other schemes that render them nothing more than highly speculative asset classes in which the underlying asset has no intrinsic value.
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto LawsEnglish112·4 months ago
It’s just grift all the way down with crypto, isn’t it? Scams layered on scams layered on scams.
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoGlobal News@lemmy.zip•‘Total chaos’: Monkey blamed for nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka6·5 months ago
Squirrels in North America and parts of Europe are the chaos gremlins, but the result is the same.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_disruptions_caused_by_squirrels
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Tubi will livestream the 2025 Super Bowl for free in 4K3·5 months ago
That’s okay, I’m definitely more of a SuperbOwl guy myself.
Also, it should have had Super Mario Galaxy 2, it was crappy that they went from 4 games down to 3 for that All Star collection.
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Tubi will livestream the 2025 Super Bowl for free in 4K6·5 months ago
Tubi is owned by Fox Corp, and can absolutely fuck off.
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•New York becomes first US city with congestion charge4·6 months ago
No, and the majority of New Yorkers don’t own cars. Which is why it’s been mind-boggling to have the majority subsidize the minority and out-of-towners when they want to drive in an store their 3-tonne vehicles in public space, often for free.
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•New York becomes first US city with congestion charge3·6 months ago
Yeah, to be honest, that’s a crappy article from CBS. London’s Low Emission Zone is a huge success in terms of air quality and active transportation. The city has continued to pour the revenues generated from the zone fees into its public transit system, so the iconic double-decker busses run frequently all day, and they have continued to open new train lines like the Elizabeth Line. New York has never managed that level of investment, and without the income and incentives congestion pricing creates, it won’t be able to. If anything, London still prices the LEZ too low, just like NYC has priced it too low at $9, rather than the $15 was supposed to be before Gov. Hochul’s cowardice.
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoScience Fiction@lemmy.world•I put off reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga for a long time due to the terrible covers, but I highly recommend them!1·6 months ago
Okay, I picked it up and blitzed through Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, and it was a deep disappointment. The personal and romantic stakes and themes of the earlier books with Cordelia Naismith were coupled with other adventures or plots, and the combination of the personal and the galactic stakes was part of what made them work. I felt like Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen utterly lost the broader plot, and it was just a book about two people getting together and retiring. (Which, to be fair, is a perfectly fine plot and there are multiple genres and sub-genres built around that plot, but in the context of the Vorkossigan Saga, it was a nothing-burger of a story.) There are some revelations about things long-past, which I think Bujold did to try to flesh out the story and maybe give Cornelia’s take on some of the events that happened around her in the intervening ~30 years since she had a book from her perspective, but in this book, hardly anything happens. Seriously, the stakes are so low. It’s pleasant, but scarcely needs to exist for the rest of the characters or novels. What a baffling addition to this series.
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly DudEnglish5·6 months ago
I’ve seen where doctors are using it for surgery
The article I’ve seen is one instance in Brazil (article in Brazilian Portuguese) for laparoscopic surgery, which makes a lot of sense. I don’t know how it compare to other displays, however, or if using a VR set rather than a monitor offers advantages, or if the Vision Pro did anything new or better. The same article mentions that doctors had done the same thing with a HoloLens VR headset some years before.
- fpslem@lemmy.worldtoScience Fiction@lemmy.world•I put off reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga for a long time due to the terrible covers, but I highly recommend them!2·6 months ago
Oh, I have not, thanks for the recommendation!
Is this the straw that will break the back of the $1.50 hot dog and drink???
Portal 1 & 2 were the first to my mind as well. I really like this list, actually.