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I don't think there is even a print shop for film in my country anymore, with the last one shutting down last year.


Don't know what country you're in, but in general people has been picking up analog cameras again. Madrid probably has at least doubled or tripled the number of print shops in the last 5 years.

The real problem is the price of film has skyrocketed. Since factories has been closing in the last ten years, the offer is low, and the demand is high... Even low quality Chinese stock is going for prices higher than professional rolls where 5 or 6 years ago.


Some companies accept films by postal mail! ... Of course it increases the price which is already expensive, as sibling poster wrote.


Even though they're the cream of the crop of a country of over a billion people, those silly engineers at BYD don't know what they're doing. We'd all be better off if they took tips about this problem they've spent years developing from random guy on the internet.


Actually


I've seen the word "kiwi" used to refer to the fruit in the US, which just seems odd to me, like calling a pineapple a pine. In my part of teh world its a kiwifruit, not a kiwi.

A kiwi is a New Zealander. In fact while they're both named after the bird, the bird is more often called a kiwi bird than just a kiwi.


As a New Zealander, it seems like everywhere other than NZ the default is calling it a "kiwi" instead of "kiwifruit"


German here, it's exclusively Kiwi here, never Kiwifrucht (kiwifruit).


I think this is more or less correct. Presumably because the need to distinguish between kiwi fruits and New Zealanders is less important in most other places than in NZ.


Yes us Americans just say kiwis instead of kiwifruits. Not too many kiwi birds or New Zealanders in the states so there's not much confusion


UK people also mostly just call it "kiwi" instead of "kiwifruit". Similar lack of kiwi birds but we do have a fair few kiwi people (at least in London.)


American here. I can state authoritatively I've never confused a greenish fruit with an expatriate of a peri-Australian island.


I’ve never heard of anyone calling it a kiwi bird, in NZ or anywhere else.


I've always loved this. The coolest thing is to overlay Kiribati over the continental US.


> Australia, Queensland, Brisbane

OT but what an odd way to address a place. I know it's called down under but not everything there is back to front.


If I throw a pamphlet on the ground I have broken some city ordinance or law. If I blow it up so that nobody in the vicinity can avoid seeing it, then I'm all good.

Bizarre.

Trash is trash whether it's a piece of paper on the ground or blown up to billboard size.


that is a silly argument. If you put up a billboard on someone else’s property without permission that would be illegal. If you drop a pamphlet on the ground in your own yard that is perfectly legal.

In your perfect billboard free world, would you also ban signs outside of a business saying what is on sale? what about signs outside a private residence?

What kinds of property would be allowed to display what kinds of sign?

I could see telling government agencies they cant rent billboard space out on the side of the road, but if someone puts a billboard on their roof or the edge of their property I think it would be gross to stop them.


Billboards have been banned in Hawaii for a century ie. they were banned even before it became a state. Their are also billboard bans in Alaska, Vermont, and Maine.


To be clear I am 100% fine with billboard bans. I live in a billboard ban state and it's great. I was talking about the proposed complete ban of all advertising of any kind.


Billboards are banned in the state of Hawaii.


Don't blame them for the assumption based on 450 years with the mercator projection that makes USA and European nations look bigger than they are and African nations look smaller than they are.


USAID has been gutted, and yes, it was political.


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