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astutemural@midwest.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Why would anyone want to parallel park. I'm going to bed.English4·5 days agoWas in Vietnam recently. About 80% of their traffic is mopeds, and they park those things anywhere there is space, including sometimes in the lobby of the building they’re going to (most buildings are open-air anyway).
astutemural@midwest.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•No way! Definitely not like everyone has been saying that for YEARSEnglish7·7 days agoObviously, Latin is their native language.
astutemural@midwest.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy roadEnglish1·2 months agoFair enough, I learned some things today. I was under the impression that indigenous languages were a lot more normalized than they actually are. I still think that using more indigenous language in everyday stuff is low-key a win, but for it to be commericalized while denying it elsewhere is just a slap in the face.
astutemural@midwest.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy roadEnglish8·2 months agoEnh, it’s at least a little more complicated than that. Native or mestizo people are much more common in Mexico than the US. For example, Nahuatl has somewhere between 1.3 and 1.7 million speakers, mostly in Mexico. This is not counting over a dozen other languages that have hundreds of thousands of speakers apiece (wiki. By comparison, in the entire US there were only about 372,000 people that speak any indigenous language.
Depending on how you want to look at it, this could be just…a normal name, or even a tribute to the Nahuatl community. Or just a cynical attempt to sell more cars by looking inclusive. How many people need to speak a language before it’s ‘normal’, after all? We don’t go asking Italians before we put stuff in Latin. Or the Irish before we sell St Paddy’s Day shirts. Etc.
Am I the only one who was mildly upset that they weren’t? Like shit, we somehow got to bio-transhumanism before techno-transhumanism, that’s rad. By all means, let’s research new ways of being transgender, I wanna see what people come up with next.
That would just be several hundred square miles of parking lots with the occasional Denny’s. There are plenty of one-horse towns like that, please don’t fuck up our cities because you are obsessed with your car. We have to actually live here.