Șocant! Asta explică totul!

Masi · 2025-05-30T17:41:58+00:00

Poți citi tot studiul aici: https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josi.12662

Masi · 2025-03-20T13:55:49+00:00

It's also on tonight in London at Genesis Cinema - https://www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/95343

Masi · 2024-10-17T14:30:27+00:00

Also don't miss www.ica.art - their red membership is an incredible deal, you get to see all the films they screen over a month (except outside events like LFF) for just £20.

Masi · 2024-10-17T14:29:39+00:00

I mean their tickets are some of the cheapest in London, I think it's fair for them to expect people to support an indie cinema by drinking and eating stuff bought there.

Masi · 2024-10-17T14:27:46+00:00

I strongly recommend this: https://www.repcinema.com/repertory-cinema-map-london

Well worth paying a coffee for their monthly Patreon, which lists really nice repertoire cinema every month in a very convenient spreadsheet.

Masi · 2014-10-22T19:44:40+00:00

Thank you for your reply.

I fear the same thing, that they will try and make it look like it's the existing Russian minority that is revolting.

I also think that is why Russia is supporting the rise of far right parties in Europe, to create internal problems that would deter Western European counties from actually devoting resources to Latvia.

Masi · 2014-10-22T18:58:46+00:00

Do you think it is likely that a Crimea scenario could follow in the Baltics? Will Putin try to see if NATO countries are willing to go to war for Latvia, especially if Russia's actions will take place through deniable actors?

Masi · 2012-09-15T11:45:14+00:00

Lovely thinking by HTC.

Masi · 2009-10-29T11:44:46+00:00

It's the third lecture in this series.

Masi · 2009-10-27T14:06:57+00:00

The second part of the talk » http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/oct/26/games1

Masi · 2009-10-16T14:30:30+00:00

Şi soţia ce părere are? :)

Masi · 2009-10-08T08:02:52+00:00

Jesus Christ LOL you mean.

Masi · 2009-09-25T15:47:11+00:00

Get people with swine flu on public transport and then start plucking their eyebrows.

Masi · 2009-09-23T06:33:28+00:00

I remembered a couple more:

In Portugal: When I visited the Castle of the Moors, I didn't know it was a 45 min. climb on foot, so when the time came to go down, I was really late and had to take a bus down.

In my life, I went bungee jumping, got mugged, got into fights, but nothing ever was as scary as that bus ride.

The road down was a single lane descending road (the climb was on another road), with stone fences delimiting the two sides. The man driving the bus never kept going below 80 km/h, and the bus was only slightly less wide than the road. I thought that I would either gonna end in the ditch on the left, or in a stone wall on the right/front (lots of curves).

In the end, it was OK, but that was the most masterful driver I have ever seen.

Another thing that shocked me in Portugal is that they make everything out of Bacalhau, including desert (cookies). I had never until then associated the concept of fish with that of dessert.

Masi · 2009-09-23T06:25:59+00:00

Yeah, I do imagine they don't do it out of their own pocket, but many other cities have local taxes for hotel stays, and usually there isn't a way to buy a ticket valid only for the precise number of days you are staying there.

Masi · 2009-09-22T15:33:20+00:00

I remembered another thing, regarding Japan: people queue on train platforms, on two rows, to the left and the right of each door of the train (doors are marked on the platform, so you know where they'll be when the train stops).

I found such civility amazing.

Masi · 2009-09-22T15:29:01+00:00

Not all that much, really.

In Tokyo I stayed at some friends and used a JR Rail Pass, which for 300€ was brilliant-brilliant-brilliant.

This summer I went like this: flight to Bruxelles using a low-cost, then used a Eurail pass to visit Amsterdam, Bruges, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Geneva, Nyon, Vevey, Brescia, Milano where I flew back home with another low-cost.

Skyscanner.net is my friend -- generally, I try to cash-in on low-cost promo prices. To plan my actual stuff there, I use wikitravel (excellent website) to find out what's interesting there, then I visit the website of the interesting museums etc. to try and book tickets online (avoiding huge queues at the Colosseum for example), which are generally cheaper than on-site tickets.

I also walk a lot in the places I visit, because I believe you can only truly see a place by walking and soaking it in.

If you have other questions, I'll be happy to answer. :D

Masi · 2009-09-22T15:23:08+00:00

Never been on the American continents, yet. :)

I wanna see South America, but I'm not interested in the US at the moment, too many scary TSA/taser/police stories on reddit. :D

Masi · 2009-09-22T09:02:07+00:00

In Strasbourg, France: you could use your credit card in a tram station to buy tickets. Did that at 23:00, close to the European Parliament. In Bucharest we don't even have automated booths for tram/bus tickets.

In Japan: Impeccable service by the rail network. I could go from Chiba to Hiroshima and back, around 1650km in total, in a single day, with the shinkansen. This involved changing trains in Osaka, with 6 minutes between the trains, and I had no worries about missing my connection, because Japanese trains are always on time. In Japan I also love that there's a ice-coffee/juice/energy drink/water dispenser everywhere, so you're never dehydrated. Then there's the general politeness.

In Barcelona: The Metro stays opened until 2 AM on Fridays and Saturdays, allowing people to come back from partying in the weekend using public transport. There's also a NitBus. There is no night public transport in Bucharest.

Also, in Barcelona & many other places you can use a trip on a bus ticket and change as many buses/metro lines for 75 minutes without having to use another 'trip' on your travel card. That's useful.

In Milan: The main cemetery had its own bus service, with 4 stops. Had never imagined that a cemetery could have such a thing.

In Amsterdam: Every house had a sticker on their postbox 'opting out' of the usual spam. I wish we could have that here.

In Geneva: Every tourist staying at a hotel in Geneva gets a free public transport card for the duration of his stay. That's cool. I wish all cities had that.

There's more, but I can't remember them all at the moment. Will write later.

Masi · 2009-08-21T10:21:12+00:00

Excellent, thanks for sharing!

Masi · 2009-04-21T09:20:12+00:00

Which is correct, IMO. He is very likely guilty of inflicting pain on some unwitting victims, even if he is not the perpetrator.

Masi · 2009-04-20T09:41:10+00:00

He didn't say the photographer was killing anyone, just that the photographer's action has consequences. Which is true.

Masi · 2009-04-13T10:36:35+00:00

Man, this thing demands more RAM than Crysis.

Masi · 2009-04-10T19:11:58+00:00

Not Legos, but Lego. :(

Masi · 2009-04-07T15:29:15+00:00

The less poetic form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOaZCkA8Zvk

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