tiny lemmy

u/idegenszavak

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Languages I can speak: Hungarian, Lisp, Broken Engrish

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3 points ·

Tanks and jets also pose some amount of obstacle, and they may have a better roi.

Until the Helsinki Talllin tunnel is built it doesn't make a lot of sense.

5 points ·

It doesn't matter much, changing bogies is a relatively quick and easy task, they could use that money better for other defense development.

The Russian military recognized as early as 1841 that operations to disrupt railway track did not depend on the gauge, and should instead focus on destroying bridges and tunnels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_ft_and_1520_mm_gauge_railways

13 points ·

Actually Russian gauge is not 1524mm, but 1520mm! Finland has unique gauge not used anywhere else in the World, although that 4mm difference allows most bogies to be compatible with both of them, international trains can run through the border without bogie exchange.

So the point of the article is right, butnot perfect in details. I love trains.

3 points ·

I write in English because most of you can read only that. We can continue the conversation in Hungarian if you would like that better. I also know basic German, and I learned a bit of Latin, Italian and Russian in school, you can choose from that if you have some problem with my English spelling.

73 points ·

What if he just asked something so unhinged or stupid the pope couldn't ~~bare~~ bear it anymore.

![](https://i.imgflip.com/9rfzzl.jpg)

15 points ·

Well, if Mr. F. Sense would buy some shares we would consider his wishes

6 points ·

Animations, maps, starting and ending times for each country: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2025-march-29

6 points ·

Me too, but later I learned a bit of german and latin. The thing is you can fake english easily, like "why use lot word when few do trick" is a totally understandable sentence. Word order is not as stict as in german, no cases, no grammatical genders, verb tenses are mostly optional. Pronunciation is messed up though.

56 points ·

English is a global lingua franca, not just european. And it's not just because of the american and british influence, but because it's a relatively easy language.

Also the translator programs are better and better, this is actually a good and fitting usecase of current LLMs. I think we are not far away from the babel fish.

6 points ·

The first 3 characters of barcodes means the country of origin.It won't tell the nationality of the owner of the factory, but you can see where it was packaged, if there are no other clues it can help. Here is the full list. Basically if the first number is 0, 1 or 2, there is a big chance it's from the us.

2 points ·

Fico from Slovakia. Before that the Pis from Poland. Article 7 is invoked by the council, not the parliament. Nothing will happen again...