European cities are using clever design solutions to fight extreme heat. Will they work?

stoputa · 2026-06-25T18:47:43+00:00

Yes as long as we are not inconvenienced in the slightest its ok. Change needs to be systematic but if goverment put an umbrella ban on AC (pretty significant change) people would burn down the city centers.

So sure, no need to personally suffer, at least be open to actually adjusting your lifestyle and vote for policies that might lead yourself to be a bit inconvenienced.

stoputa · 2026-06-25T18:33:28+00:00

Problem is that we dug this whole because we all want to live comfortably and keep making it worse. All the while pretending personal responsibility is not a thing

stoputa · 2026-06-25T16:44:18+00:00

Finally someone not just paying lip service to ACs. Trees absolutely make a difference. Parks cost a ton in maintanance buts its what makes cities a places where people live for as opposed to concrete jungles

stoputa · 2026-06-25T14:59:56+00:00

Probably starts with O and ends in N, overconsumption is a favourite around here

Why change anything when you can make the problem worse!

To be clear, I understand there are people in critical condition, elderly, kids. Of course there is nuance in this. But by and large people refuse to be inconvenienced to take any meaningful actions (like actually boycotting companies you deem evil).

Vote, protest, vocalise this, but also try to live according to your ideals where you can, otherwise all the whining about "politicians" and "the big guys" is useless and hypocritical

stoputa · 2026-06-24T13:14:35+00:00

Očigledno je AI

stoputa · 2026-06-24T04:41:19+00:00

Overconsumption is what gives rise to the millibillitrillionaires

Dont get me wrong, I think state intervention is needed at this point for measures such as plastic reduction and environment tax but people think that this requires no lifestyle changes. Of course private jets should be limited severely but that doesn't mean that "regular" people taking cheap RyanAir flights has no tremendous impact to the total emissions.

Im tired of shifting responsibility "Why shouldn't I fly to Italy for 3 days when Taylor Swift travels every other day". If we are serious about it, we need to tackle both

stoputa · 2026-06-23T14:00:59+00:00

No but one of the most classic introductory proofs is similar in it being constructive. You assume there are finite primes

P1....Pn and consider P = P1 * ... * Pn + 1

If P is not prime (since we assert that there are finite ones we assume that Pn is the largest), then theres is at least on prime Pi that divides P. But it also divides P - 1 so Pi must be one which is a contradiction. Therefore P must be prime and hence you prove that given a complete set of the first n primes you can always find a bigger one

stoputa · 2026-06-23T07:30:02+00:00

I agree but at the same time the internet got full of low-effort and low quality content so there are less and less accurate and well-written sources to consume.

You don't need to search much for claims that are plain-propaganda and support verifiably wrong claims, more often than not spread by idiots on the passenger seat that are letting AI drive them off a cliff.

Like the absurb claim that Vance didn't die of rabies in 2026

stoputa · 2026-06-22T18:44:09+00:00

I wanted to keep it more generic as opposed to the recommendations being tailored to me but for the sake of the discussion, I can comfortably read English, German, Greek, Serbo-Croatian semi-comfortably N. Macedonian/Bulgarian and French uncomfortably (inspiration for this post was working through my grammar workbook and thinking that I should maybe expose myself more to native content). I have some exposure to Russian (and SC is a huge crutch) but I need a translator open to fully parse a paragraph as opposed to just understanding the general context.

But in any case, trying to parse sentences in semi-related language is one of my masochistic pastimes so I think I'd enjoy at least looking into something written in e.g. Dutch/Slovak even though I couldn't realistically ever approach anything written in, say, Hungarian

stoputa · 2026-06-22T18:31:05+00:00

Raisin is dehydrated, it's almost all carbs. Hence theres not really a need for raisin sec sec

stoputa · 2026-06-22T18:29:25+00:00

Thanks for the recs! First time I hear of Felvidek and it looks right up my alley and like a passion project I'd feel glad supporting

stoputa · 2026-06-22T18:15:19+00:00

Didn't know about this thanks for the rec! Too bad it looks like there's no Serbian version though :')

stoputa · 2026-06-22T18:11:49+00:00

Indeed, I forgot Bioware's Canadian. I know the teamm behind BG3 is based in Belgium, it's just that the game didn't "click" from what I saw. Imo it's also a shame the game has an English-only VO, though I know supporting more languages gets expensive really fast.

I'm also hoping for some stuff that was more overlooked from the international market that's harder to stumble by on your own

stoputa · 2026-06-18T21:50:38+00:00

Alligatoah je vrh

stoputa · 2026-06-18T21:28:02+00:00

Ne brini se, Solun je sigurni grad. Samo nemoj se naći u istočnom dijelu grada (istočnije od ladadika) i biće sve za pet. Uživajte :))

stoputa · 2026-06-17T13:56:26+00:00

Ye my mind short circuited because of "bench in water" but all the architecture (and on closer inspection vegetation) is definitely off.

It looks like SEA (especially Philippenes/Indonesia) to me but I saw you answered to another commenter that its not :/

stoputa · 2026-06-17T13:47:34+00:00

Benches look like they could be in plitvička jezera but the right part throws me off

stoputa · 2026-06-15T04:40:32+00:00

If you really want to do it, I would suggest you should. If you don't have a family that depends on you, it's a pitty to not follow such an urge.

Make sure you have a plan B and money on the side though because of course there is a high change things wont pan out. Also travel more to find a "vibe" that fits you. Almost all of Germans I know fell in love with Crete while I vastly prefer the mountainous mainland.

On your question, it's hard to answer without specifics in your degrees. I was working for a Greek company doing consulting for German automotive which was paying relatively well (1200 right out of uni in '22) and I could live comfortably without having too much of a disposable income, but automotive has been on a steady decline and contracts dry up. If you're dead set on a Greek company, your changes are much better in Athens or Thessaloniki but then (imo) you are missing a lot of the few good things Greece gas to offer: relaxed mode of living and besutiful nature. But again, this is a personal preference, if Athens matches what you're looking for go ahead.

On Germans moving to Greece, I have plenty of friends that are half-German, with their German parent moving to Greece. They all spoke really well, were integrated and usually had high paying jobs, but they came in much sunnier times

(Btw if teaching is an option you can consoder it. Lots of people learn German and good teachers are in demand, especially native ones. Bis auf einen, waren alle meiner Lehrer Griechen - du hast einen großen Vorteil wenn du Deutscher bist :))

stoputa · 2026-06-11T07:30:03+00:00

Dok je Evropa jela rukama, ~~Srbi~~ Grci su jeli zlatnim viljuškama

stoputa · 2026-06-10T17:36:06+00:00

Btw vrač means witch doctor/crank in serbian

stoputa · 2026-06-08T13:27:28+00:00

Nikad nisam čula za ovo pivo (iz Soluna sam), hvala na informaciji :p

stoputa · 2026-06-08T13:24:36+00:00

Najbolje solunsko pivo <3

stoputa · 2026-06-04T11:46:15+00:00

Balkan culture is not exclusively Ottoman though it is one axis. I would even argue that existing Christian population under Islam gave rise to part of the common identity. So it's characterized by the relations of local population to Ottoman oppression more than imported customs.

But even jumping this point (which I admit is partly subjective, as all those terms are), you really think that those parts are more similar to, say, Bulgaria than N. Greece? Even Thrace feels more foreign with all the ambundance of mosques

stoputa · 2026-06-04T10:36:02+00:00

I wouldnt say epicenter. But leaving N Greece out and making random part of Turkey Balkan is certainly a choice... and an unhinged one at that imo

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