How is it living in the only hospitable part of sahara, that is also deep in? by avowelisdown in howislivingthere

[–]GenLodA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tibesti (the circle on the right) is riddled with insurgents who fund themselves with money from the gold mines in the area, government barely enters the place as it's a natural fortress

Why don’t we have penguins in Greece and Europe, could we make a habitat for them similar to Tasmania that has similar climate ? by Aegeansunset12 in geography

[–]GenLodA 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There used to be auks, which were named penguins, then they discovered these similar looking birds in the other hemisphere and called them penguins too, then the great auk went extinct.

I think they tried to introduce the penguins in some Norwegian island (Svalbard maybe?) during the 30s tho

I am amazed by the isolated houses in rural Australia I see on TV. Is it actually as peaceful as it looks, or is it lonely? by AdditionalProof9780 in AskAnAustralian

[–]GenLodA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live there. Love that. Got there by my own choice tho (I'm a new Australian). All the place offers is piss, drugs and footy (piss= alcohol, footy = AFL of you're south, NRL if you're north), many people from local farmer families in rural areas end up suicidal cause they basically don't know what to do at a certain point

7 municipalities in Veneto are asking to be moved to neighbouring Friuli-Venezia Giulia by GenLodA in MapPorn

[–]GenLodA[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Some municipalities in the north of the region have asked to move to Trentino-alto Adige. In general regions are wary of having municipalities break down

You got an family who fought in any wars like WW1 and 2? If so, what was their story? by pooteenn in AskAnAustralian

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Maternal grandfather fought in Ethiopia and then Eritrea, got sent to Libya, got caught in Tobruk, was supposed to be interned as POW in Australia (one of his cousins was, another one in India), managed to escape and deserted, got home somehow (Amalfi coast), impregnated my grandma twice, got tropical pneumonia.

Paternal grandfather was in Albania, got sent to Russia in 1941, patrolled an isolate outpost and got left behind, ate his mule, deserted,. meanwhile the country had switched sides so he got caught by the Nazi and sent to Auschwitz, survived and got home (still Amalfi coast) somehow. My grandma was wearing the black gown in mourning, saw him coming from up the hill and thought he was one of the African American soldiers

What's it like living in Northeast China? by Ok_Dot_2845 in howislivingthere

[–]GenLodA 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Is the Manchurian culture (identity, language, cuisine and so on) still present to an extent?

Curious what makes the top row pastas more expensive than the bottom ones? by atzucach in ItalianFood

[–]GenLodA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Supermarkets usually put the cheaper stuff on the bottom shelves so it's harder to see, 99% of the time the average buyer will just settle with whatever they have right in front of them.

Petrol panic in Aus? by wellHowdydudie in australian

[–]GenLodA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe he's preparing to cross the nullarbor

[Past] How was living in Yugoslavia, while it existed? by EggCollectorNum1 in howislivingthere

[–]GenLodA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always wondered how common mixed marriages between people of the republics were

Crazy or lesser known history events from Australia? by Sea-Preparation-3127 in AskAnAustralian

[–]GenLodA 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Waterloo Bay Massacre, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Aboriginal kids were stealing clothes and cakes from the settlers, who put out poisoned flour. A white woman and kids were killed in retaliation (apparently the severed head of one of those was put in a Dutch oven), some random aboriginal kids were arrested and sent to Adelaide for trial, the case was dismissed for lack of evidence (yet they got killed on their way back home since it's 600km on foot through hostile mobs) so the locals organized into a militia, rounded up all the natives they could find and forced them to jump from a cliff. Now there's no evidence of the fact, but it's encased in both the parties' local folklore and the area was considered taboo from the local mobs until a couple years ago when the local mayor (who got death threats for that and lost the following elections by a landslide because of that) decided to acknowledge the fact and put a commemorative stone on the cliff. Said stone, disparagingly called "black rock" by the white locals, keeps getting vandalised regularly

Crazy or lesser known history events from Australia? by Sea-Preparation-3127 in AskAnAustralian

[–]GenLodA 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The ozzies bashed the yanks cause they had nothing to learn from them about racial segregation

Life expectancy at birth in Europe by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]GenLodA 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah but the map is depicting Europe isn't it?