I tried, but they don’t want to mix with dull colored individuals.

I don’t know, it’s the floor of an open-air corridor in a fairly recent apartment building in Japan. I would guess some innovative flooring that is extra safe for families and easy to maintain.

Thank you! The very average camera of my 4 years old Fairphone 4.

If I’m not mistaken, the water looks bright blue because some particles are going faster than light in this water. So it emits a blue flash akin to the Sonic boom when a plane goes faster than sound speed in the atmosphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

I think it’s already the case for 1080p at the distance most people put their TV.

Yep, literally the whole habitable layer of our planet.

Wasn’t India already enjoying cheaper Russian oil because of Western sanctions?

Here 4 months ago: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/9/how-india-plans-to-continue-buying-russian-oil-despite-sanctions

I guess they are just doing it more openly now that there’s another stupid war in the Golf so more countries are stressed by energy prices.

Yes, it was.

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That’s… impressive.

Single hand submissions are welcome, like mine.

Simple yet elegant

Edward something-hands?

You don’t have hands or you don’t have a shadow?

Cute!

Impressive

I liked the writing and agree with the general reasons, but this is going a tad bit too far:

Instead it [the fediverse] became the only place consistently posting trustworthy information I could actually access.

There’s no reason to think things are more trustworthy or less biased here than on commercial social media. The fact that people here are not trying to build a brand because there’s no money to make in this small network is not enough to make it more trustworthy.
It may make conversations more genuine, but that’s not a guarantee for correctness either.

My experience of working in a tech company in Japan is that most engineers are not Japanese, they are mostly Chinese, Indian, other Asian countries, a few Westerners and then Japanese. Those recommendations are still relevant in this context. I would add, use short sentences. When you are learning a language, long sentences are really hard. It saturates your “guess-understanding” memory buffer.

Greed is the fuel

Motorola Mobility belongs to Chinese Lenovo but headquarters are in Chicago. Not sure if that makes it better or worse regarding privacy and surveillance compared to USA only.