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Manuel Erhardt  

voted its on May 29. Votes are currently counted.

I'm impressed with the implementation of the live map showing the results: results.elections.org.za/dashb Definitely handy!

As of now, 55,19% of all votes have been counted and the holds 41,95% (2019: 57,5%).

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vanta rainbow black: the fedipact girl :FediPact:  

had to use the internet without ublock origin for like five minutes the other day and was horrified about what an ad-infested shithole it is, i can't believe regular people just live like this, it's like some horrible dystopian parallel universe

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Steve Herman  

Sweden approves Ukrainian use of Swedish weapons against targets in Russia.
svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/direktr

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Manuel Erhardt  

Shinjuku Station (Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵️) is the clear winner with approx. 1.26B passengers yearly, while the already mentioned Gare du Nord 🇫🇷️ serves approx. 244.7M passengers per year.

Source:
japantoday.com/category/featur
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_

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Manuel Erhardt  

A ranking of the 20 busiest railway stations in the world by passenger volume is dominated by one single country: Japan 🇯🇵️
The busiest railway station outside of Japan 🇯🇵️ is Gare du Nord in Paris, France 🇫🇷️, making it on the 24th place of the busiest railway stations in the world.

Source: japantoday.com/category/featur

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Nexta  

Blinken suggested that Ukraine be allowed to strike Russian territory

The head of the US State Department, Antony Blinken, has suggested that Ukraine should be allowed to launch strikes with US weapons against missile systems and artillery installations on Russian territory.

en.nexta.tv/ukraine/2575-blink
#news #nexta

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Baldur Bjarnason  

We really don’t make enough of the fact that you don’t need JS to make a nice website. Just HTML and CSS

And, whatever most programmers say about HTML and CSS, they absolutely are much more accessible to learn than JS ever has been or will be

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Manuel Erhardt  

The ScotRail's Class 385 with its distinctive front is definitely an eye-catcher.

It was manufactured by Hitachi and a total of 70 units have been delivered. It entered service in 2018.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_
Image credit: The ScotRail Alliance/CC BY-SA 2.0

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myrmepropagandist  

I was wondering why hand stencils are so common in early human cave art... then I read one of the comments on the video about the art "This is so cool I'm going to do it in my son's room."

Oh.

Ok I get it now.

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Today I learned  

TIL American composer Kevin MacLeod allows anyone to use his music for free, as long as he receives credit for the song. This has led to his music being used in thousands of films, millions of videos on YouTube.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ma
#til #todayilearned
reddit.com/r/todayilearned/com

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Manuel Erhardt  

I had the problem that my view listed removed because they were still part of old revisions and, hence, couldn't and shouldn't be deleted from the database.

Adding a relationship "By id: Relate each Content with a field_your_paragraph_field set to the Paragraph." and enabling "Require this relationship" fixed the problem. The removed paragraphs disappeared from the view. Phew.

Tooting my solution in case someone has the same problem.

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Jon Baker  

Please don’t ever give me a houseplant I can barely keep myself alive most days

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kravietz 🦇  

#Switzerland

Having enough electricity in winter is the big challenge for climate neutrality in 2050. This requires gigantic – electricity storage systems or new nuclear power plants, says author Andreas Züttel. It is an explosive result: If Switzerland wants to be climate neutral in 2050, building six to eight #nuclear power plants is the cheapest alternative. That’s how it stands in a study a team led by Andreas Züttel, who researches at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/sechs-kernkraftwerke-studie-der-eth-lausanne-fuehrt-zu-einer-kontroverse-ld.1829743

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Manuel Erhardt  

The Channel Tunnel connecting the United Kingom with mainland Europe was officially opened on May 6th, 1994. Last monday marked the 30 year anniversary.

The construction took 6 years and 13,000 people were involved in the project. Pre-COVID more than 11 Mio people boarded the Eurostar passenger trains, and as many people used the car shuttle service (2019).

Source: Wikipedia
Image credit: Billy69150/CC BY-SA

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Dr. Michael Blume  

Weil einige zu meiner Rede beim #Israeltag in #Stuttgart gefragt haben: Es ist wirklich wahr, #Äthiopien reduziert seine #Öl-Importe durch das Aus für Verbrennermotoren drastisch. Ein schneller Umstieg auf erneuerbare #Friedensenergien wäre auch in #Europa🇪🇺 längst möglich.

Ich fahre übrigens seit 7 (sieben!) Jahren glücklich das gleiche, französische #Elektroauto. Derzeit nutzt es mein Sohn, um zu seiner #Bundeswehr-Kaserne ohne ÖPNV-Anschluss zu gelangen. Bizarr, oder? watson.de/nachhaltigkeit/good-

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Yassie :flag_agender:🏳️‍⚧️  

As a former librarian I wish a very friendly Fuck You and Die to book publishers. They are the scum of the Earth.

They hate libraries. Did you know that they induce artificial scarcity by making libraries pay for each digital copy of a book? Despite ebooks being infinitely replicable, they make libraries pay for more than one copy at a time. Publishers deliberately force a limit on the supply of digital library books to extort more money out of libraries for popular titles.

In addition, publishers lobbied (in the UK) to make library ebooks only work through their apps on mobile and PC, and not compatible with any Kindle/Kobo/etc so people wouldn’t get a good experience. There is a cartel — made solely of a company called Overdrive. Their app is absolute buggy dogshit. A far cry from the breezy and simple interface of an e-reader.

But it gets worse. Original proposals from the publishers wanted it so that service users could only download ebooks while physically in the library, thus negating the convenience of them!

Despite ebooks being cheaper to produce than a traditional book and infinitely reproducable, Overdrive will sometimes charge more for an ebook than a supplier would charge for the equivalent copy.

Publishers would have lobbied against the invention of public libraries if they could. And take it from me — public libraries are one of the few open spaces left on this planet where one can just exist at without needing to pay for anything.

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Manuel Erhardt  

The first piece is a photo taken by myself of the Gornergrat Bahn halted at the Gornergrat station with the famous Matterhorn in the background. According to Wikipedia, it is the second highest railway in Europe at an altitude of 3,089m (after the Jungfrau, which is also in Switzerland) and opened more than 100 years ago (1898 to be precise).

Image license CC BY-SA.

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Manuel Erhardt  

I decided to toot something about railways every sunday, simply out of interest for this mean of transport, and the technology, culture and politics behind it. It might be a short fact, some news, or just a picture.

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𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙧™  

Er hat ja so recht. 😟

"Furcht führt zu Wut, Wut führt zu Hass. Hass führt zu unsäglichem Leid.“
Yoda

#StarWarsDay

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Statistisches Bundesamt  

Der Trend zu #Fleischersatz ist ungebrochen: Im Jahr 2023 produzierten die Unternehmen in Deutschland 16,6 % mehr Fleischersatzprodukte als im Jahr zuvor, binnen vier Jahren hat sich die Produktion sogar mehr als verdoppelt (+113,8 % gegenüber 2019). Mehr: destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemi

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