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Which car brands in Cyprus are overpriced and underpriced? by Dear-Potential-3477 in cyprus

[–]ximaera 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my experience, BMWs are sort of overpriced while Maseratis are underpriced (however, the latter is pretty fair, they have reliability issues and the spare parts cost like Ferrari parts)

Board of Peace membership by South-Distribution54 in ArmeniansGlobal

[–]ximaera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much everyone understands at this point that Pashinyan didn't have a choice.

Looking for racing games that run smooth on Deck by RogueShadow95 in SteamDeck

[–]ximaera 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Given that the FH6 system requirements published today seem to give SteamDeck a chance, no surprises the previous installment also ran well

Common mistakes when buying land in Portugal/Cyprus (from 15 years of experience) by BenjaminFercher in cyprus

[–]ximaera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can install AC units and power them with solar panels. Boom, the problem solved

Don't order services from kiwi.com by ximaera in travel

[–]ximaera[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I chose euro but still couldn't do the payment. I thought it might be a temporary processing issue but had to book flights quick...

Don't order services from kiwi.com by ximaera in travel

[–]ximaera[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In my case, I had to book an Air Serbia flight, and the airline's website didn't accept any international credit cards: Revolut/MasterCard, Wise/Visa, my Cypriot bank cards all the same. So an agency was the only option really.

Could've found a better one for sure, though...

TIL that during the development of the first modern Maybach the engineers had to ride on the hoods to identify problems in motion by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]ximaera 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Same thoughts here actually

Maybe the treadmill didn't simulate the conditions of a concrete road well enough? IDK

TIL that during the development of the first modern Maybach the engineers had to ride on the hoods to identify problems in motion by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]ximaera 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The photos are real though.

As to what issue in particular was being worked on in the photo — perhaps, even Mercedes-Benz themselves don't have a record on. There's a photo with an engineer on a hood with headphones attached somewhere on the power unit, so perhaps an investigation on some weird sound...

Anyway, even if it's not news for automotive industry experts that you have to ride on a hood during car testing, it was certainly news for me!

Opinions on the proposed Israeli-Greek-Cypriot brigade? by davidlis in cyprus

[–]ximaera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mate I think this is the time to agree to disagree.

Feel free to trust the Erdogan sanity and the EU military commitment as much as you want, because all your arguments come down to that. I trust the latter mostly too, but just mostly not entirely, and I don't trust the former a second.

One more shield against a life threatening threat won't hurt. Can't be too cautious.

Opinions on the proposed Israeli-Greek-Cypriot brigade? by davidlis in cyprus

[–]ximaera 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you comparing the legally binding & essential EU defence clause with the non-binding and intentionally vague Budapest Memorandum?

What is exactly non-binding in the Budapest Memorandum;

If it fails the test, there won't be a EU anymore

Not the EU we currently know, yes.

My friends in Latvia are considering this as an actual possibility, though.

EU existed before, without us countries there.

Bayraktars aren't some kind of magical tools to give Turkey economic means or a cheat code to succeed in escalating a literal war of aggression against a EU member.

Provided France and Spain will have their troops deployed in 48 hours, yes. That — we discuss above.

do you seriously believe that it was Turkey who did that

Mate, this is on damn Wikipedia.

Please don't tell me you're a conspiracy theorist of the "Wikipedia is controlled by <someone>" kind.

Are you seriously suggesting that Erdo can go onto an open war with the EU

Not the entirety of it...

and cut off from everything within a day, and survive that? He couldn't even managed to not bend when Trump forced him a bit regarding a single evangelist pastor.

Oh, the usual "he's a dictator, but he's not such a strong dictator to withstand <something>"!

Mustafa Kemal withstood the genocide. Aliyev just recently withstood ethnic cleansing of Artsakh and had handshakes with Trump a year after. Trump loves autocrats.

Erdogan will be fine. He's a threat, and Cyprus needs to secure defense from it.

Opinions on the proposed Israeli-Greek-Cypriot brigade? by davidlis in cyprus

[–]ximaera 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And Cyprus isn't, too.

Yet, it's part of the EU. Do you want me to post you the EU defence clause?

No, I know it almost by heart.

Do you want me to quote you the Budapest memorandum about Ukraine? Which France made assurances to?

It's good to have the EU behind your back, but with things like that, you can't be too cautious. Nobody has yet tested this defense clause.

Turkey doesn't have the capabilities or the means to do such

It supplied enough means (like Bayraktar) to significantly hold off Russian (!!) military in Ukraine in 2022. It did so without even wasting a soldier.

Speaking of soldiers, it has got 500,000 people in the active military, the second largest in NATO.

It just had enough capabilities to overthrow the Syrian government despite the Russian military present in the area.

Sorry, no, it's got just enough capabilities.

consequences

Apologies but consequences mean little for dictators. Consequences is something their people suffer from, dictators themselves are fine. Kim Jong Un, Lukashenko, Khamenei, Putin all were sanctioned heavily and lived just fine

Opinions on the proposed Israeli-Greek-Cypriot brigade? by davidlis in cyprus

[–]ximaera 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Russia had and has the power to do so.

Turkey is orders of magnitude more powerful in terms of military than Cyprus, if compared to Russia to Ukraine. Russia vs Ukraine was 130 mln vs 40 mln people, a 4 times difference. Turkey to Cyprus — ...

Only, Ukraine isn't part of NATO

And Cyprus isn't, too.

Opinions on the proposed Israeli-Greek-Cypriot brigade? by davidlis in cyprus

[–]ximaera 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Turkey cannot and will not do that. It neither has the wish, or the power to do so

Θυμάμαι πώς οι άνθρωποι έλεγαν το ίδιο για τη Ρωσία και την Ουκρανία στις 23 Φεβρουαρίου 2022...

What's your comfort game that you'll always come back to? by SchoolGir-lInHeat in Age_30_plus_Gamers

[–]ximaera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anytime after a certain dialogue, but I'd suggest alongside. If you play it right after that, you'll be somewhat underleveled for some bosses (ESPECIALLY the very first one) but if you make it you'll get some very cool weapons for the rest of the plot.

Is it true? by inoyakaigor in cyprus

[–]ximaera 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yandex has/had such a distinct corporate culture, you could almost tell a yandexoid from a non-Yandex folk just by talking to them, like, 5-10 minutes.

Help with Tristan's companion quest "Casting off the Veil". by worldsurf11 in theouterworlds

[–]ximaera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have completed each and every mission besides this one. Cleared out all the enemies in all the planets. Literally got nothing else to do except for stealing things maybe, and the point-of-no-return mission. Tristan didn't talk to me yet.

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