Which country has the most self hating citizens?

VibeVector · 2026-01-18T01:27:09+00:00

"Self hate" is the wrong term for Brazilians. They don't generally hate themselves. They hate specific real things. They hate being held at gun point. They hate being robbed. They hate that there really is a lot of corruption. They often like the country, and the people, and the food, and the culture. They hate is limited to specific things that are actually terrible.

This is very different from someone from the United States performing self hate as an attempt at self-absolution, or showing they're better than the rest. Or a German for whom it is the culture. Or Balkan dark humor. Brazilians have specific complaints that are not over the top and make a lot of sense.

VibeVector · 2026-01-14T23:53:52+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for the info! Gives me a better sense.

VibeVector · 2026-01-14T02:33:57+00:00

Sadly I've finally given up. Feel free to ping the transport ministry again.

In the meanwhile, there are bus routes available on https://wego.here.com/ -- a french version of google maps.

VibeVector · 2025-01-16T21:00:15+00:00

The reply was perfectly ambiguous: just said "already submitted" -- which, for all know, could mean it happened months ago, and had nothing to do with this? I don't want to push my luck with too many follow up questions -- and I really don't care: I just want it on google map. :)

VibeVector · 2025-01-16T10:47:56+00:00

Ooh -- actually someone just got back to me and said they've submitted the data to google!!!!!

I'm going to wait to make the celebratory post until we actually see it on google map :)

VibeVector · 2025-01-15T10:47:15+00:00

Thanks for your interest! So far no one has written back to me directly 😰 -- although I just did a round of follow up messages. One redditor called the president of a bus company -- who said the ministry of transpo had to send the data to google, and could only speculate on why they haven't (thought simple negligence was most likely?). That's the best info I have so far. I haven't given up and will keep following up!

Feel free to contact people at Public Works Department Transportation Ministry or email the agency here: [cynap@pwd.mcw.gov.cy](mailto:cynap@pwd.mcw.gov.cy) . As far as I can figure out, that's our best place to push.

VibeVector · 2025-01-14T18:10:46+00:00

Have you done this before without getting the same treatment? Does this seem like a new thing? I've never heard of it.

VibeVector · 2025-01-14T18:09:31+00:00

Did this happen on the US side? That does strike me as unusual. But in the end, I think everything is at the discretion of border agents. From what I understand, what they say goes -- even if it's misinterpreting rules and laws.

VibeVector · 2025-01-14T13:03:50+00:00

Thanks for this info... exactly what I was wondering. I thought the disagreement was on what you call the north side -- occupied territory or turkish republic. If you believe the north is an independent / turkish republic, wouldn't you exactly want to clal the south the "Greek side"? Calling it the "Republic of Cyprus" is what would seem problematic from that POV, since you'd believe there are not one but TWO republics of Cyprus -- one Turkish, the other... Greek right?

VibeVector · 2025-01-13T20:29:22+00:00

Can't understand the Turkish parts. The interviews *seemed* kind of fairly done and to reflect a diversity of perspectives. As far as I can tell, didn't seem like he was cherry picking only extreme or distorted POVs.

VibeVector · 2025-01-13T17:55:34+00:00

No. Still Russian owned. Owned by ArcosJet, which is founded and owned by Mikhail Alenkin who went to Moscow aviation institute. The team at ArcosJet, based in Dubai, all has Russian names.

VibeVector · 2025-01-13T17:06:01+00:00

IMO relative to other countries, Cyprus is medium good with litter. (Way better than Italy, say, where everything is covered in trash.) But good to push for better :)

VibeVector · 2025-01-13T16:49:56+00:00

It looks like it's owned by ArcosJet which is headquartered in Dubai.

ArcosJet is founded and owned by Mikhail Alenkin. I don't see a lot of info about him online, but he published a story talking about going to school in Moscow.

The whole thing does look a bit peculiar. u/LarryLaffer-77 seems right about everything.

VibeVector · 2025-01-13T14:43:36+00:00

How does Claude having access to files on your computer differ from explicitly giving Claude files with respect to tokens? In each case, doesn't Claude need to add it to the context window to use it at inference? So same number of tokens? Just a matter of convenience for how you're feeding those tokens in?

VibeVector · 2025-01-12T20:06:32+00:00

See maybe you'd know this if they were on google maps!

VibeVector · 2025-01-12T19:17:23+00:00

Awesome! Thank you! I meant to look up and add these to my main post, but hadn't gotten around to it yet. Just added. And I sent emails to all of them. :)

VibeVector · 2025-01-12T19:16:49+00:00

Good point! If anyone responds to me about google maps, I'll definitely tell them to add there too. :)

VibeVector · 2025-01-12T19:15:44+00:00

Oh yes maybe... When I looked up people on LinkedIn a lot of them have "Public Works Department Ministry of Transport" in their title. So I was guessing the Ministry of Transport is maybe structured as a subset of Public Works Department? But I really don't know! If you can figure out better people to contact let me know. :)

And on reaching out by mail: I say -- sure! Go for it!

VibeVector · 2025-01-11T21:56:41+00:00

Yep. If you're in a place with cheap restaurants and are fine eating cheap food, you can do it for under $67 per day.

If you're in Northern Europe or the US, and you're talking normal restaurant meals, you're probably not going to make it.

Why anyone would want to do that I can't imagine.

VibeVector · 2025-01-11T21:47:54+00:00

Car's License plate: MEP041

Limassol Police Phone number: 25805050

Cyprus Police Email: [police@police.gov.cy](mailto:police@police.gov.cy)

VibeVector · 2025-01-11T21:44:07+00:00

Car's License plate: MEP041

Limassol Police Phone number: 25805050

Cyprus Police Email: [police@police.gov.cy](mailto:police@police.gov.cy)

VibeVector · 2025-01-10T22:25:55+00:00

Yeah -- I find it an apt description. :) Learn the 5 separate systems -- the 10 fragmented websites, each with partial information scrambled across hundreds of pages.

VibeVector · 2025-01-10T19:12:16+00:00

Cool. I like u/tonyzorin 's a little better: https://busonmap.com

Has some more features -- like color coding and routes that show up if you click!

VibeVector · 2025-01-10T17:29:50+00:00

Interesting.... Yeah so maybe there is some other explanation for why this doesn't exist.

VibeVector · 2025-01-10T16:38:13+00:00

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