Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure

• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was thinking more about all the dismemberment and depression jokes about the one on Neva with the Aurora cruiser docker yadda-yadda

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  • eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s the weather, probably. Something for the natives, and Finns maybe.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, but at the same time - the weather in Vyborg is fine by me, and the weather in Narva\Ivangorod. But the place between them (one the coast) is somehow far more depressive.

      And I don’t think I’ve heard Helsinki being called depressive.

      It’s something about planning, perhaps? Streets are laid out so that you feel as if you were in a military location. People live in those historical beautiful buildings as if they were birds making nests under the roof, as if people were not the main thing there.

      And places around SPb, like Strelna, are also not depressive at all. At least in my perception. That air flavored with Baltic salt, every sea smells differently, the Baltic water smell is nice, in some way similar to Coca-Cola.

      It’s the city itself.

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      • eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Interesting observations, thanks.

        I also am a fan of Michael Swanwick.

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