• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    The station was slated to get public funding to the tune of 3.95 million Swiss francs

    TIL Liechtenstein is so small that they don’t even bother having their own money.

    I mean I knew it was small, but that’s small. Even Malta had its own version of the lira before it switched to the euro.

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      it has a population of 40k people. There are small towns with more population

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        Including the one I live in. Terre Haute, Indiana. Population: ~60k.

        And we are not considered to be some great metropolis. You can drive from one side to the other in maybe 45 minutes if traffic is good.

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          It’s crazy to me that you need 45 minutes for a city of that size. In Germany you probably need 20-30 minutes depending on traffic.

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            Smaller world than you think. My wife does pioneer days every year (and also the weekends when the village is open), either showing off the school room or the room with the spinning wheels and looms- she knows all about that stuff and is very talented at it.

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    It says Radio Liechtenstein had an average 11,400 daily listeners in the country in 2021, the last year for which figures are available. Liechtenstein is a principality of about 39,000 people that borders Switzerland and Austria.

    I’m honestly kinda impressed they’re getting almost 30% of the country’s population to tune in.

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    Another threat to public institutions driven by dictatorships relentless social media misinformation campaign to drive us back into the Middle Ages.

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    Can we please stop defunding everything public?

    Not everything needs to be incentivized by moneys.

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