You’re not wrong. There are cliffs exactly like that not far from this spot.

Just the opposite: this is a big, shallow gulley between wheat fields. I assume the ground is too rocky and uneven to bother cultivating. There’s a small, dried-up riverbed at the bottom, and the trails run along the rolling hills on either side. Some spots are bare volcanic rock, others are sagebrush and sparse grass like the picture. And in a few places, where the soil allows, there is thick, chest-high grass that almost completely hides the trail.

Panic bells, it’s red alert!
There’s something here from somewhere else!
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
When ninety-nine red balloons go by

Nina and Goldfinger did good English versions, but we really need a weird alt-metal cover of this song. I’m thinking System of a Down would be perfect.

Also, I never realized how different the German and English lyrics are.

I’ll mention some dead projects, in case anyone gets an itch to pick them up…

lotide/hitide is a minimalist, text-only platform. It has been abandoned.
https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide/. https://lotide.fbxl.net/

Sublinks was in the works, but it is on indefinite hiatus. As I understand it, the main dev became too busy IRL to continue work.
https://github.com/sublinks

Same here. Paper ballots that can be machine scanned and stored for manual audits seem like the best possible method.

Not my language, but I like the Dutch word “peperduur” for “very expensive.” I like that the meaning has both historical and emotional aspects: pepper was once very expensive, and a high price can be considered spicy.

In English, “crestfallen” is a good one. When I read it I immediately imagine someone hanging their head in dismay.

The trend toward subdued color palettes. Every new home is decorated in “millennial gray.” Most cars are black, white, gray, or silver. You have to go out of your way to find bright, colorful clothing or furniture. It’s incredibly boring and I can’t wait for the pendulum to swing back the other way.

I miss <marquee> myself.

I assume it’s an intentional trade-off by the devs to reduce the storage burden. If each instance is a complete mirror of all federated instances then hosting becomes that much more expensive.

90’s internet was awesomer. It was simple and chill and small. We hand-wrote our silly little HTML pages and freely published our email addresses. I once mailed some random person a check to pay for a piece of shareware. They were the true halcyon days of the internet.

The Baz Luhrmann movie is definitely worth a rewatch.

It just dawned on me that you said this is a Rodriguez frame. As in, a hand built custom frame from a well-known local builder. That is a sweet, sweet find!

Beautiful work!

Those polished alloy rims are sexy. I hope they are better for braking than the old-school steel rims; those were terrifying.

My bad. Me not read good.

And the Ukrainians don’t need no stinking takeoff ramp. 💪💪💪

I noticed that vegantheoryclub.org now redirects to that picture on imgur.

I have been looking for the same thing for years. I basically want the WTA Hike Finder but expanded worldwide, and with some map integration to show the routes visually instead of having to interpret the descriptions.

Free is good, of course. But I also have some gripes about how Band functions so I’m interested to see what else is out there. Thanks for the Campfire recommendation; I will check it out.

Good find.

This should be submitted as an issue to the lemmy-ui GitHub:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

If the mountain contains valuable minerals then the cost will be negative; you can make money by removing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining

Though, depending on the geology, you might not want to build a town on the resulting site. Sometimes heavy metals leach out of the disturbed rock, resulting in polluted surface water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_mine_drainage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit