• mlg@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Okay not my country of residence, but you can choose to burn at the 4th hottest global temp of 54C (129F) or you can also freeze at -65C (-85F).

    Optionally, you can also enjoy staring directly at the sun as it rises or sets due to the air pollution.

    Oh and you can also find this funni river dolphin:

  • skeezix@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago
    • Car insurance is optional
    • Kids get govt subsidised dental care until they’re 18
    • Most common prescriptions are $5 or free
    • We did away with pennies because they’re pointless
    • It’s common to go barefoot into shops and grocery stores
    • Most kids in elementary school go barefoot
    • Semi automatic weapons banned
    • Kids get 20 hours govt subsidised daycare per week
    • When you sell your car the license plate typically goes with it
    • Most gas stations serve hot food and it’s good (by American standards)
    • Online banking allows instant direct cross-bank money transfer, so nobody uses Paypal or Venmo
    • Nobody pays by check, nobody carries around a checkbook
    • It’s not unusual for public parks to have exercise equipment
    • For short domestic flights, time between entering the airport and boarding the plane can be as short as 60 seconds
    • The milky way is still visible in good sized towns
    • Praying mantises are still common
    • Money (bills and coins) feature women, nature, and explorers not war generals, bankers, and buildings.
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    There are like 4 days a year everyone just puts their old sofas, broken TVs and other junk outside to be collected by a garbage truck the next day. As this furniture is mostly usable, people in white vans go around to collect the most valuable stuff, which makes up most of the traffic in villages on those days and causes old people to complain about Polish immigrants.

    The village children also have a look around if the weather is nice.

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      4 hours ago

      I don’t think the furniture thing is that unique. I’ve been in a few countries where that’s called a council pickup and pretty common.

  • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Going to the forest to pick mushrooms, nuts and berries. Going to the beach to pick up washed out amber. Having a lot of people grow their own food, even the city folk.

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      if NL gets annihilated by some climate related disaster, can the rest of the world claim hubris

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        11 hours ago

        Absolutely. You get first dibs on “I told you so”. But until then, I get the right to go “neener neener neeeeeener”" at the sea.

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    18 hours ago
    • Not being able to afford healthcare and insurance.
    • Half of the population worshipping a felonious, racist, homophobic sexist as if he’s a deity.
    • K.C. Barbecue.