SoyViking [he/him]

Violence works. Violence is the most efficient way of getting what you want. If you can pull it off, that is. — And the dictator in charge of the world’s most violent empire is very much able to pull it off.

Potatoes, rice, rye bread and dry pasta.

Traditional family Christmas: Tonight we have my mother in law and her husband over for Christmas dinner and a ton of gifts for the kids. Tomorrow on Christmas day we will have the traditional “food hangover” and total relaxation day while the kids play with their presents. Yesterday we went for dinner and presents at my father in law’s house and the day before that we had my parents over for presents and sweets. On boxing day we go to a combined family lunch and my mother in law’s birthday which usually involves sizable amounts of smoked fish.

In Denmark we have mostly public healthcare. Everybody can go to a GP, a hospital or a specialist free of charge. Prescriptions have co-pays that can be really nasty up front but at least the co-pays gets smaller the more drugs you need and there is a cap to how much you can end up paying over a year.

Dentistry is not covered for adults due to dentists and medical doctors being represented by different lobby groups half a century ago. Dental health is scary if you’re poor although you can beg the local municipality to cover the cheapest possible treatment if you can demonstrate that you’re poor enough. Glasses are the same story and although the national health insurance pays some part of the cost for hearing aids, that only covers the cheapest and most basic models.

You can have private health insurance in addition to what you get from the national health insurance. Many people working in the private sector, especially in PMC jobs, has health insurance as part of their remuneration. These private insurances enables you to skip waiting lines for treatment and diagnosis by sending you to a private hospital, it is also common for them to cover physiotherapy and treatment for gambling and substance abuse disorders. Some of them even partially covers dental care. In essence the purpose of these private plans is to get you back to work as quick as possible and they have some really arbitrary limitations, like covering psychiatric care but not anything related to ADHD or anxiety.

There’s also private health insurance you can buy as an individual if they suspect you won’t need it. They will cover part of the costs of prescriptions and glasses as well as letting you skip the waiting lists.

George Washington. This thing should have been nipped in the bud.

I’m used to driving old shitboxes but a few years ago we rented a completely new car. It was almost driving itself, making sure I stayed in my lane, it had automatic beam selection, a big screen for playing music and navigation, tiny little plastic thingies that pops out when you open the door making it harder to dent adjacent cars. It was a fucking spaceship. I’m not going to lie, I would love to have all of those fancy features.

But have you considered that the economy is doing great and that the people struggling with debt should just pull themselves up by the bootstraps and should be blamed and shamed as individuals until they do so?

Never trust anything you read on the internet

They said on Trashfuture that the banks who financed Musk’s Twitter takeover are unable to resell the debt. They are now stuck with a large and essentially worthless asset that is hanging like an albatross around the legs of their portfolios.

This has allegedly already caused some bankers to not get their bonuses.

The closest I can come is blackletter or fraktur scripts that were once used for generic languages. As far as letters go they are silly and overcomplicated, with Latin scripts being far easier to read and more adaptable to different visual styles.

With that being said, they do have their own old-timey charm and there is something satisfying in being able to pick up a old book in blackletter and read it when you know that most people can not.

Fun fact: Blackletter was only used for Germanic languages. If a text contained non-Germanic passages it was normal to set those in Latin letters while the rest was set in blackletter.

I love the idea of a modern runic script, suitable for contemporary Scandinavian languages. Would you care to elaborate on your thoughts on this?

Whatever type of chilli mayo I feel like making that day. Or remoulade, the sweet Danish mayo-based condiment with chopped pickles and curry powder.

The future of the WORLD is literally dependent on this election.

Get an electable candidate then.

Someone I knew was living in an old building with old-timey fuse boxes placed outside the apartments. When she got tired of her idiot neighbours partying on a weekday night for the millionth time despite being asked to dial it down she finally had enough and went to the fuse box and took away all the fuses to the neighbour’s apartment.

She never had trouble with noise again.

It also has the must expensive healthcare system in human history.

Ordinary people are getting scammed.

In Danish we have “you can’t cut the hair off a bald guy”

If the US’ official self-understanding as a country with the rule of law, checks and balances and strong protection of private property is true, the TikTok ban should be overturned by any court.

If.

I’ve received checks three or four times in my life. I’ve never written one. As a kid I had a physical paper booklet for the savings account I put my birthday money into. The only way I can get to own a house is by winning the lottery. I remember when small shops had manual credit card machines that would transfer your account details to a slip of paper. I also remember when local stores would give credit to people from the community. I get low-key annoyed when I have to use cash instead of digital payments. My retirement plan is not to retire.

Satanically racist

If you’re drilling six holes a year, a cheap-ass power drill is going to work just as fine for you as the expensive one intended for professional use.