As a Slovak, I am frustrated. The opposition seems unable to gain support from voters on the countryside, which is the majority of the population - they are the easiest to convince, usually by lying and fearmongering (i. e. "Korčok will send slovak men to Ukraine"), or giving promises they plan on never achieving but sound nice (reducing prices, even though they are doing the opposite).

The current government has plans to dissassemble the slovak TV and radio in favour of a state influenced alternative (essentially for propaganda purposes), is reducing punishment for criminals, rapists and thieves (as many of them are now in the government).

The country's debt is growing (now at ~7b euros), railways, healthcare and schools are falling. Things still kind of work, but they are held by duct tape.

Organic Maps currently only supports metro/subway navigation, not buses, trains or other types of PT (although they are planning on introducing a new map layer for that). Bike routing works, although only fully separated bike paths are rendered.

Hmm, maybe some forum platform would be a good alternative? I feel like the Reddit format of Lemmy focuses more on news, rather than the forum format which is more about deeper discussions... Just an idea.

Well, you can create an account from EU, although mine got locked after creating just one blog post. And the support does not seem to respond, so I moved to a different platform.

This is the energy mix for Slovakia (I live there :]) Nuclear and hydro are the most used sources.

I usually map these with a bare node - you could also use crossing=unmarked. I honestly don't think a new tag is necessary.

Na Mastodone som si spravil účet, aj keď som predtým odmietal používať Twitter. Nemám rád systémy a algoritmy, ktoré popularizujú konkrétne účty a je takmer nemožné spoznať zaujímavých, menej populárnych ľudí. Samozrejme, ďalšia vec sú neexistujúce reklamy, žiadna karma a ocenenia na Lemmy, chronologické radenie príspevkov a menší počet ľudí. Mám pocit, že ľudia nie sú stavaní na to, aby komunikovali s, a videli názory milióna ľudí denne. Federácia a decentralizácia je v tomto ohľade super riešenie. Taktiež sa mi páči to, že tu netrávim niekoľko hodín denne, len na pár minút nakuknem a vždy sa dozviem niečo zaujímavé.

I absolutely love CyclOSM. It's great for bike commuting, as it differentiates between separated cycle paths and cycle lanes, shows one-way streets that allow opposite bicycle traffic, good/bad surface quality, 20 and 30 km/h streets and bike stands.

I love your style of writing :) I'll bookmark your site in my gemini browser. I also think the post fits as it's urbanism- and community-related.

crypt.ee is a great alternative, which is extremely well designed. Included in the subscribtion is an online document editor for personal notes and documents. Everything fully encrypted of course & works across all platforms.

Slovak and Czech too (definitely even more languages). Both languages have all nouns, adjectives, numerals AND verbs gendered. You could theoretically refer to a non-binary person as a you (in plural form) - that is however used mainly for speaking/referring to someone more respectable. Then you have the they form, which is not recommended to be used in singular due to it being used during feudalism to refer to the aristocracy), and then it (which is terrible too, as it seems like you are speaking to an item, not a human being). If you want to invent a different pronoun, good luck with making it not sound weird, as we use 7 grammatical cases and declension; in general, the grammar is incredibly complex.