• @Viking_Hippie
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    TIL that Icelandic people are never allowed to leave.

    • @FooBarrington
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      No no, they are. But they’re not allowed to ever come back.

    • oce 🐆
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      It’s because if they go slightly South, they melt.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        111 months ago

        I’d love to! It seems a gorgeous country with lots of great people! I’ll just steer clear of a couple of the national “delicacies” on my way to the penis museum 😁

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        I know. I was making a joke.

        Poverty isn’t anywhere near as bad in Iceland as in the US, though, so I’d guess that the vast majority could afford a trip abroad at least a couple of times during their lifetime 🤷

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  • @SmoothLiquidation
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    I learned that hummingbirds are native to North America and they don’t have them in Europe. That made me sad for all of them over there.

  • @[email protected]
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    Wait, did Iceland actually fall for our prank? They believe snakes exist! Next they’ll start believing in Australia!

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        Flat braille: the most useful thing since InAudible, my startup producing audiobooks for deaf people.

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          This is a joke but blind people have special braille keyboards to read the net. Someone could probably cook up some software ai to scan/identify images including text. Flat braille would just become readable braille

  • @shalafi
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    Come to Florida and I will show you beautiful things!

    Meanwhile, you live in the land of the most beautiful homo sapiens on Earth. So you got that going for you.

    Trade experiences and learn?

  • mommykink
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    I feel sorry for anyone who never gets to see a praying mantis in person. Coolest critter on the planet

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      Coolest critter on the planet

      Idunno, penguins are pretty damn cool, pun intended…

    • Justas🇱🇹
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      I saw one just outside work last summer. Which is weird because they are not endemic to my region.

    • Apathy Tree
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      111 months ago

      I released a few thousand a couple years in a row (got ooth, hatched them, there are just a lot of eggs in each) and would occasionally see the adult females around my property for a few years after (I’m not sure why the population never took hold, it should have and didn’t).

      They are totally chill and will walk onto your hand pretty readily. They are also thrilled to be fed small insects from tweezers, and really like moth larva.

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    I will never see a hot spring I will never see a land of grass I will never see a volcano I will never see a glacier I will never see a puffin I will never see a lamb

    • MacN'Cheezus
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      111 months ago

      Where TF you live bro, there are plenty of those in the US. Except puffins, I’m not so sure about those. Alaska might have some.

      Come to think of it, Alaska probably has all of these.

  • theodewere
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    comes with living on a place that is still being birthed out of the planet’s interior

  • @zeppo
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    911 months ago

    will see: volcano

  • @angrystego
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    And travelling won’t help, anon is blind.

    • @Plopp
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      Judging from the photo they glued their eyes shut.

    • @[email protected]
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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Iceland

      they used to, for certain construction projects (harbor, hydro dam). but none currently, although a passenger light rail has been proposed around their capital

      Low population, heavily concentrated in one city, with little heavy industrial activity, coupled with very unforgiving terrain (steep volcanic grades) and even more unforgiving weather (severe frost heaves/thermal fluctuation, huge snow load).

      there’s just no economic reason to build difficult railways when your entire country is like 300mi across and never moves enough stuff in bulk to need it. including people.

      • @[email protected]
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        The only real use case would be for Keflavik to Reykjavik. But even that is handled just fine by a fleet of coaches.

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          So, you just ask your coach while training “can you take me to Reykjavik?”