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[–] george@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

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[–] george@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was on vacation recently and Apple Maps gave a weirdly circuitous route from our hotel to a restaurant. I checked Google Maps and it showed the direct route I expected, so I went with that.

Google Maps routed me on to a street that was closed due to construction, Apple Maps was smart enough to route around the construction.

I expect general parity between Apple and Google Maps, I had not expected Apple to have better data.

[–] george@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is RTX in this context?

[–] george@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

!shoooms@lemmy.world

[–] george@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Execution is what matters, not ideas. Anyone can half-ass an idea and say “I did it first” but whoever comes along and does it right is who gets remembered.

[–] george@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Detroit has some great suburbs (check out areas like Ferndale and Plymouth/Canton), but don’t write off Detroit based on what you’ve read in the media. A lot of people in Michigan are in the same boat as you and are missing out on what Detroit has to offer because of what they think Detroit is.

[–] george@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It’s really flat here compared to California, you can’t just drive a couple hours to get what you call hills and we call mountains. The Great Lakes are great but they’re not an ocean.

Flights from DTW are more expensive than from big cities. It’s funny that Detroit is 2,000 miles closer to Europe than SFO, but flights to Europe from SFO are cheaper.

We started getting wildfire smoke from Canada this year, but I imagine we’re still doing better than SoCal.

California is still more progressive than Michigan, but we also don’t have as much craziness around ballot initiatives.

I adore Detroit, but it’s no LA or SF. Chicago is about 4 hours away.

[–] george@midwest.social 66 points 1 year ago (16 children)

A lot of people in Michigan are expecting the state population to boom in the coming decades. No earthquakes or hurricanes, minimal wildfires and tornadoes. Lots of access to fresh water.

We passed a ballot initiative in 2018 that made an independent committee draw up congressional districts and wouldn’t you know it, the state suddenly went blue when no one could gerrymander anymore! Legal recreational weed, legal abortion, free school lunches, the progressives are moving fast with the new majority.

What area all depends on how much winter you can take. Detroit-Ann Arbor area is probably the mildest, followed by Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo (great cities, lake effect snow storms), Up North (even worse snow) and da UP (Marquette is amazing but if you don’t like snow sports you’ll go insane).

$500k will but you a great house in some suburbs or a decent house in a hot market.

[–] george@midwest.social 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Copyright law? One Thousand and One Nights is in the public domain.

[–] george@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

You can join any instance and block threads.net once they turn on federation

[–] george@midwest.social 83 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To be clear, this creates a separate Pixelfed account, it just uses your Mastodon info for quick profile setup and authentication.

[–] george@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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