different causes: people are having less kids in the US because they’re living in misery, whereas in europe we’ve long had fewer kids because better education and less need to have 8 kids so one of them survives and can take care of you as you get old.
can you really not reject citizenships?
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I just want to check though: Do you wear motorbike safety gear? Because you REALLY REALLY should, e-scooters are great but the one thing they are not is safe (if you go faster than a moderate run).
yes, through the magic of eliminating every expense i can.
My expenses are: Rent, electricity, internet, phone service, home insurance, bus ticket (in the winter), and food (of which i’ve been steadily finding cheaper and cheaper things to cook, most recently discovering that you can just fry the shit out of mixed frozen vegetables and it tastes amazing).
It’s slightly terrifying to see what other people spend money on, like paying 5€ for a SINGLE CUP OF COFFEE… Or, like, owning a car at all. Buddy maybe you could afford to heat your luxurious mansion if you weren’t blowing half your fucking income on a living room with 4 wheels?
An incredible amount of people, probably most people, just seem to be fundamentally incapable of recognizing expenses as being expenses. Their brain just classes that cup of coffee as something required to live and thus the cost doesn’t exist. They’ll buy it every single day, even as it doubles in cost, and i’m not sure if the act of paying even consciously registers.
there’s no point to a budget if you minimize all costs anyways, and it means i get a surprise amount left over at the end of every month which i can do whatever i want with.
Which is usually just letting it pile up because i don’t know if my welfare will be denied at some point and having that buffer means i can afford to replace things every now and then.
KDE plasma: A random contributor helped implement a nice little feature that somehow makes you 20% more attractive, nice!
Windows: We’ve killed your cat and replaced it with an AI-generated version that will forever occupy a fourth of your screen.
also it’s not like other vegetables have the energy density of plutonium, aside from the starchy stuff most vegetables have precisely the amount of calories that’s good for you.
but like if this was true, surely i’d hear about it? i also a quick search doesn’t even show any sites that claim it as an aphrodisiac…
you know what also makes you cool? wearing a cowboy hat and chewing on straws of grass
also also: fucking up your lungs makes exercising harder, especially cardio which helps a lot with raising the flag
finns inhale licorice all the time and i can’t say i’ve ever heard of them being particularly raunchy
then again maybe it just brings them back up to a normal level, and that’s why they self-medicate with licorice…
ah, america
swedish gas stations are boring, they’re all clean and boring with completely normal products being sold. Weirdest stuff you’ll find is fuckin o’keeffe’s working hands…
this is also why i actually think hard candy that’s basically just solid sugar, is the best kind.
Because you’re sucking on it and the sugar dissolves into your saliva you get a lot of sweetness that lasts a long time, rather than constantly shoveling stuff into your mouth.
Now, i have no clue how terrible it is for your teeth to soak your mouth in sugar water for hours on end, but it’s not like that doesn’t happen with other candies, and i’d imagine it’s pretty good to avoid chewing on sugar?
i’m convinced the chinese congress finishes every meeting with “let us now read the good word of Sun Tzu: Never interrupt your enemy while they are shitting their pants in public”, pulling up a random news article about the US, and everyone sits there softly giggling for five minutes.
i find swedish healthcare really is the precise opposite of american healthcare, because the american standard seems to be having a dedicated personal doctor whom you can just go to with whatever minor ailment and regular checkups.
But here it costs like 20€ for a visit to the clinic where you meet whatever worker has time at the moment… Even if all you’re doing is getting a super simple hearing test, which literally consists of listening to a pair of headphones and pressing a button when you hear the tone…
so like, how do they expect to get paid?
no true, you might get a token bill of like 100€ which the bog standard insurance probably covers if you just ask about it.
gender/sex too, why the fuck does anyone but a doctor need to know that? not like it’s even correct a lot of the time
it is nice to not cause a stampede because people think a fire broke out
makes you wonder why companies selling AI services don’t just cut out the middleman and scam everyone directly