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Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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Post by gsf_emergency_2 »

geoduck14 wrote: post #235
grilledchickenw wrote: post #195

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You just described wonderfully why I'm drawn to remote places. It started with a trip to the interior of Iceland, then Tromsø, and more recently Svalbard and the Faroes. I tried to capture the beautiful sense of isolation in Svalbard here, maybe it inspires others to make a trip to somewhere remote. https://photoblog.nk412.com/Svalbard2024/n-ssC8fP/Svalminiph...

Thanks for the pics! The prevalence of rifles is... thought provoking. The pic of the guy on a bike with a rifle is so metal My overall impression of the area is "gloomy" all pics are overcast. It feels sad. It is beautiful, but I long for the sun

I couldn't find my old photo of a modern-day nordic recreational cyclist with an all metal SAAB on his back, so here's the next best thing

https://old.reddit.com/r/shittytechnicals/comments/yicgme/it...

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Post by petre »

llamasushi wrote: post #279
sandworm101 wrote: post #140

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And when you want to experiance true issolation in the face of nature, Alaska and Westerm Canada are waiting. Try a drive north through BC in winter. Fish on an Alaskan river only accessible by floatplane. Wake up to watch the northern lights only to realize you are looking south. Or pan for gold only to look up and see a grizzly cub walking cassually past. Norway: 15 people per sq km. Alberta: 6.7 British columbia:…

Went hitchhiking in Alaska while running my startup to "get a break". Absolute disaster. Couldn't properly connect to internet, dropped a bunch of meetings, etc. Still worth it. My fault for not planning in advance.

> Couldn't properly connect to internet, dropped a bunch of meetings, etc.

Isn't that the whole point of going to Alaska?

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Post by kasey_junk »

kyleee wrote: post #249
kasey_junk wrote: post #199

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It’s also problematic because that part of Indiana was geo engineered into a blank slate. It used to be a wetlands that rivaled the Everglades but was drained and filled in a massive (and controversial) public works effort.

Got any links describing this?

https://www.turnstoneimpact.com/blog/on-this-date-october-15...

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Post by petre »

JohnLocke4 wrote: post #106

I happen to be one of the Danes who partially grew up in Greenland that he talks about in the article. I even recognize the places from the article. Some of my cordial childhood memories are from there and it is a place I will forever love. One of the most visceral memories I have is looking across the ice fjord listening to the thunderous breaking of the ice bergs - you can hear the sounds on videos, but combined wi…

What does one feed sled dogs in Greenland?

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Post by petre »

Arainach wrote: post #26
tptacek wrote: post #5

It's funny to me that in portraying Indiana as a "blank state" he's highlighting one of the most beautiful parts of the state (the route through the Dunes along the Michigan lakefront; if you've seen "Road To Perdition", you know what that area looks like). It's not important to the article, a complete tangent, but I can't not call that out.

Then again, that stretch also has Gary. Having grown up in that area of the Midwest, I largely agree with the author's categorization, except that "people on their way to somewhere better who got tired and decided this was good enough" describes a LOT of the midwest, not just Indiana. Significant chunks of Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri, most of Iowa/Kansas/Nebraska, etc. If you read the history of westward expansion,…

I regulary watch a youtuber from OH and think it's actually nice compared to NY (crowds, cars, construction sites) and SF (intoxicated homeless people). Yup, the weather sucks for half of the year, there are abandoned Rust Belt industrial buildings all over the place, it's kind of flat, but apart from that, it still looks kinda nice. Also great beer joints, places to bike around.

https://youtu.be/eClMVj9GLAA?si=IxXxgdWfCsGge9yT

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Post by EFreethought »

macintux wrote: post #155
hinkley wrote: post #100

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The thing about the middle of Illinois is they consider Chicago to be a separate state and East St Louis to be Missouri’s problem. “Oh you’re from Chicago” is a common reply any time you found out you’re from an exurb. Often said with just a hint of dismissal. That’s not the real Illinois. Nobody talks about Rock Island and Moline (the Illinois half of the Quad Cities) this way, for instance. Carbondale is slightly b…

Indiana is seriously considering annexing much of central/southern Illinois. It’s amazing just how aggressively divisive politics have become in the last 20 years.

They might think they are serious, but they are not. Illinois would have to agree to it, and Illinois will not.

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Post by danielscrubs »

TMWNN wrote: post #159
impossiblefork wrote: post #34

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>I think US ownership (not necessarily of land) What would that even mean? Especially the use the word 'ownership'? I think there's zero chance of US long-term influence on Greenland. They simply have no reason to prefer foreign domination, when they can simply be sovereign. I would place independence + EU membership as more probably than any association with the US, and I think them staying within Denmark is much mo…

>They simply have no reason to prefer foreign domination, when they can simply be sovereign. No, they can't. The likes of Palau are (barely) viable as sovereign countries, because at least the geographic size is as small as their populations. It is absolutely, positively, completely impossible for 50K Greenlanders to by themselves maintain a the world's largest island, even aside from the completely frozen-over aspec…

You don’t get to decide the price after the fact.

The petroldollar has been amazing for every citizen of US… somethings just give and take.

US can choose to jump out of Nato whenever it wishes.

The real danger here is that we might all be chatting against llm bots…

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Post by ykonstant »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #152
jb1991 wrote: post #112

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It’s actually a very famous city, but not for entirely good reasons. For starters, it did in my youth have the highest per capita rate of murder in the United States. However, Michael Jackson is from there. So there’s that.

> it did in my youth have the highest per capita rate of murder in the United States. > However, Michael Jackson is from there. There are no coincidences.

Bunch of murderous psychos going heehee as they murk you smoothly.

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Post by tomcam »

btilly wrote: post #261
tomcam wrote: post #254

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> I feel small, irrelevant, in the face of brutal, powerful nature. I married a Chinese woman so I know that same feeling! I kid. Mostly.

I see your Chinese and raise you Russian.

Sorry. I love life ;)
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