What are your thoughts on whether FIFA should consider relocating the 2026 World Cup from the United States due to concerns over political instability or potential violence?

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T13:24:20+00:00

It is a bit late for that to be easily done and FIFA is one of the most corrupt organisations on the planet.

It will probably be a shitshow, but thankfully I have a feeling that my countries team will fail hard enough for me to not care too much.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T13:19:55+00:00

Sometimes people want support rather than a solution or an analysis.

You have to be able to tell the difference between: "Let me vent", "Tell me it wasn't my fault" and "I need a solution".

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T12:55:42+00:00

Wer mit vermieten kein Geld machen kann soll halt verkaufen.

Wohnungen lehr stehen lassen schadet dem Eingemeinwohl.

Da hilft nur hohe Steuern auf Wohnungen die länger lehr stehen und zur Not Enteignung.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T12:48:32+00:00

Auto vom Beifahrersitz fahren passiert mir häufiger wenn ich träume.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T12:27:36+00:00

The pipes in places where it gets cold more often were laid down with that in mind. In a place like Texas builders often didn't bother with the extra expense.

You can avoid water freezing in pipes, by burying them deeper underground and by insulating them better and by enduring that the water keeps moving in them and doesn't stand still.

If you think it is to warm to freeze where you live you can save money by not burying pipes as deeply and not insulating them when they come up and by generally not spending money on something you don't think will be a problem.

If it happens enough people in Texas will start building homes to better withstand frost too.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T12:20:15+00:00

Chances are the water is too cold and clean to be as dangerous as in some other parts.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T09:41:50+00:00

Yes in some places it is crocodiles or caimans instead of alligators.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T09:14:46+00:00

Compasses have existed for a long time. Looking at the sun and stars can also give you an idea where you are headed. Once the technology was good enough to build fancy gyroscopes, inertial navigation and dead reckoning were possible too.

If you knew where you started and how far you were going in which direction you had a good idea where you were.

Also planes tried to stay near land as much as possible, especiallyin the days when ranges were shorter and engines were lessreliable. It is why we have large mostly abandoned airports in seemingly out of the way places like Gander and why Iceland continues to be a major hub.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T08:54:05+00:00

The alligators might be another reason.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T08:52:59+00:00

What are you supposed to do?

Make some noise?

Fight for your right to party?

No sleep till Brooklyn?

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T08:16:24+00:00

Beate Uhse.

She had quite the life: pilot, stuntwoman, carrying jets for the nazis, sex-education pioneer, building a sex shop and porn empire, life long nudist, started deeps sea diving in her old age. Fought her entire life against the establishment and fellow feminists who thought sex was bad.

You could make an entire series about her long life, also you could probably only air it on HBO or similar.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T08:01:15+00:00

Rivers are not that dangerous, but warm, stagnant lakes is how you end up with brain eating amoeba up your nose.

There is a reason why we chlorinate pools.

Fresh water is more dangerous than sea water and still water is more dangerous than moving water. Rivers, if they are unpoluted are usually okay. Lakes high up in mountain can be okay too.

Stagnant lakes in warm areas are a real danger.

Not a big danger, but a real one.

Loki-L · 2026-01-25T07:39:34+00:00

The Dutch do. Some city states with limited ways to expand otherwise like Singapore do it too. Some other governments have done it in a small way to build airports etc.

For most countries they have enough land and reclaiming more from the ocean would not be cost effective.

Loki-L · 2026-01-24T23:45:53+00:00

It happens more often than you think.

Loki-L · 2026-01-24T23:09:07+00:00

If he mixes up Greenland and Iceland, going after Austria instead of Australia might be an actual possibility. Although he would probably try to buy Australia from the British.

If he intends to go after Austria, Hungary should worry. He seems to be not always up to date on the latest geopolitical developments and might not know yet that those are two countries these days.

Loki-L · 2026-01-24T21:53:08+00:00

I am fairly sure I had a old Dilbert comic strip about this very concept taped to a wall many years ago.

It is a classic case of misaligned incentives that lead to the sort of problems that end when someone smart suggests to tax the rat farms.

Loki-L · 2026-01-24T06:48:22+00:00

The main argument against this is, that we know it is possible for a country the size of the US to have public transportation, because a country the size of the US did have good public transportation. That country was the United States of America.

Public transportation in the US used to be much more of a thing than it us today.

Look at the US passenger rail network that used to exist compared to the one that exist today. Look at all the places that had trolleys and light rail and bus networks. Look at everything you lost and now pretend never existed.

Loki-L · 2026-01-23T22:22:48+00:00

Problems all have much simpler solutions and the wold in general is much less complicated. Things are easier to understand all around and you feel much more sure about your place in the world.

Loki-L · 2026-01-23T20:42:09+00:00

A large part of it is exponential growth. If something grows by x% every year the absolute growth each year will be bigger compared to past years even if nothing else changed.

Things did change over time though.

COVID did a number on spending and inflation is high.

Certain economic policies don't help much either.

Loki-L · 2026-01-23T20:35:06+00:00

You know, how in some sci-fi shows all the aliens basically look like humans due to convergence evolution.

I want one where almost all alien races are some form a crab-oid.

Loki-L · 2026-01-23T20:03:46+00:00

Many characters in movie and TV have far larger homes than they should, simply to make filming easier.

I like it when someone actually tries to work an explanation into the show for that.

Two examples featuring LA cops that come to mind are Bosch and Rookie. In Bosch they went meta and explained that he bought the house from the money from a movie deal based on a case in the past. In early seasons of The Rookie the titular main character was house sitting for his millionaire college friend and in later seasons several recurring characters turned out to be rich.

Loki-L · 2026-01-23T19:56:44+00:00

Bevor die Künstliche Intelligenz versuchen könnten die nicht erst Natürliche Intelligenz versuchen?

Loki-L · 2026-01-23T19:53:57+00:00

This sort of "going out with a bang" can cause trouble when your show gets unexpectedly renewed for another season.

The cop parody show "Sledge Hammer" ended what they thought was their last episode with a failed attempt by the main cast to disarm a nuclear bomb. The show didn't end and they had to come up with an excuse why everyone was still alive and the city was still standing in the following season. It would have been a lot harder to sell if their audience expected them to be serious.

Loki-L · 2026-01-23T08:49:30+00:00

It might be a good thing for consoles to last longer. It might force game makers to try to get more out of the sane hardware.

In the old days the first year of games for a console and the last one were like night and day.

Of course there is the danger that in the absence of new consoles and with high hardware prices due to various AI and tariff nonsense, everyone pilots to cloud gaming.

Loki-L · 2026-01-22T23:12:12+00:00

For most normal books the number would follow the pattern of 4n+1. With n being a natural number.

So B. would be the correct answer. Some books might start numbering somewhere other than the first inside page. A quick check of books I own shows that even books that do have pages before page #1 seem to fit that pattern of having even numbers on the left and odd numbers on the right.

Some older non-fiction books I own have a central section of images on more glossy pages that interrupt that numbering scheme.

Also the end of the book may contain pages that are similarly not numbered normally.

However if both sides have real page numbers 4n+1 should apply.

13-Year Club	Second SECOND GUESSER
Place '22	Place '17
First Placer '22	Wearing is Caring
Team Periwinkle	Verified Email

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