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  • rnercle@sh.itjust.workstoComic Strips@lemmy.worldXXX
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    Alex honnold recently climbed Taipei 101 for Netflix

    “recently”, yes. Alain started climbing buildings 40 years ago.

    Apparently he climbed Taipei 101 too, 21 years ago

    On 25 December 2004, Robert scaled Taipei 101 a few days before its grand opening as the tallest building in the world. The 508-metre (1,667 ft) climb was legal, part of the week’s festivities. The skyscraper’s outwardly slanting sides posed no apparent difficulty for him, but heavy rain resulted in a climb lasting four hours—double his estimate.[






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    somebody recently posted a video on one of the fuckcars communities about how using boogle maps in Netherlands was impractical. In the same video they were explaining how they removed traffic lights from no car zones.

    traffic lights are necessary because of motorized traffic. When you’re cycling you’re moving less than a hundred kg at about 15kmh, not +1000kg at 50kmh or more



  • While some versions have depicted Sirens as woman-headed birds, other versions depict them as mermaids.

    The sirens of Greek mythology first appeared in Homer’s Odyssey, where Homer did not provide any physical descriptions, and their visual appearance was left to the readers’ imagination. By the 7th century BC, sirens were regularly depicted in art as human-headed birds. Apollonius of Rhodes in Argonautica (3rd century BC) described the sirens in writing as part woman and part bird. They may have been influenced by the ba-bird of Egyptian religion. In early Greek art, the sirens were generally represented as large birds with women’s heads, bird feathers and scaly feet. Later depictions shifted to show sirens with human upper bodies and bird legs, with or without wings. They were often shown playing a variety of musical instruments, especially the lyre, kithara, and aulos.

    The tenth-century Byzantine dictionary Suda stated that sirens had the form of sparrows from their chests up, and below they were women or that they were little birds with women’s faces.

    Originally, sirens were shown as male or female, but the male siren disappeared from art around the fifth century BC.

    Some surviving Classical period examples had already depicted the siren as mermaid-like. The sirens are described as mermaids or “tritonesses” in examples dating to the 3rd century BC, including an earthenware bowl found in Athens and a terracotta oil lamp possibly from the Roman period.

    The first known literary attestation of siren as a “mermaid” appeared in the Anglo-Latin catalogue Liber Monstrorum (early 8th century AD), where it says that sirens were “sea-girls… with the body of a maiden, but have scaly fishes’ tails”.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_(mythology)