• AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    I have a mongolian friend, he said it was a choice between a dystopian city or the vast empty nature. I guess if you like nature it could be good but the density is sooooo low there are places where you wont see civilization for hundreds of kilometers.

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      21 hours ago

      The winters are super hardcore though. I forget numbers, but it gets really really cold, worse than the upper midwest of the US and central canada in temperature, although I think they get less snow than many of us.

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        13 hours ago

        Yeah i live in sweden and every time i complain about the weather he just shows me ulaanbaatar and its either like -35c during winter or +35c during summer

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          8 hours ago

          How extreme is it for you? Because it gets -30°C in the winter here, and 30°C in the summer here, in my part of Canada.

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            Yeah sweden is really mild cause of the gulf stream so even tho i live arround latitude 58(kodiak for reference, or kuujjuaq is a canadian example i found) winters usually dont drop below minus 15-20C and summers at best go up to 30C.

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            6 hours ago

            i thought where i lived in Tasmania was bad, it gets to 1c in winter and up to 28c in Summer in the part where i live

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      2 days ago

      I watched a heartwarming short of a guy getting stopped by the police in Mongolia for using a wind sail powered horizontal bike thingy.

      2 locals also showed up on a moped

      Top comment:

      “It’s nice to see all 5 people in Mongolia meet up to see how OP’s bike works”

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      2 days ago

      Oulan-Bator looks like your first SimCity game when you had 10yo and just put random coal plant there and there.