The spire in the background looks like Vor Frelsers Kirke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Our_Saviour,_Copenhagen

I got excited for a second it was the (recently burnt) Børsen, but on closer inspection I’m pretty sure it’s not.

No! Misinformation! They are very very dangerous! If you see it, run away as fast as you can, in great panic!!

(they might have a heart attack if you don’t, they get really riled up)

I think the idea is to fuck with AI. Why not, it doesn’t really help much, it doesn’t do much harm either.

I had great experiences with Sennheiser (Momentum, ancient make. They looked cooler back in the day).

From Denmark there’s B&O, but while all other over-ear headphones seem to last forever the pair I had from B&O broke within a month. That was a few years ago, but I’m a bit hesitant to recommend them since.

Julenissen in Norway, so the yule gnome more or less. Not to be confused with låvenissen, who lives all year in the granary of the farm and is given porridge for Christmas. Some people, especially those living on farms, are visited by låvenissen instead of julenissen on the 24th.

Låvenissen is a trickster, and when things are missing around the farm it’s probably his fault. But unlike the people living under ground (de underjordiske) he’s not a scary fellow, and he deserves a little treat for Christmas like everyone else.

I guess this is where the insight that you should judge a society by how it treats its weakest comes from. That’s a problem with OP’s scenario, as you’d be thrown into a completely foreign context without access to the more family and community-based security nets that are essential in poorer parts of the world.

I have travelled to some not very wealthy regions to small communities that can only be accessed by a 4x4, horse, or motorcycle (or by foot, as I prefer), and seen severely handicapped people in such places live what at least appears from the outside to be highly dignified and decent lives as the community works together to take care of them. It’s not at all obvious that they would be happier in a western city. Once anyone needs professional medical care or expensive treatments it of course becomes more clear-cut, and if you’re an outsider (or just unlucky) you’re of course out of luck.

Taking away enforced regulations on housing, employment, and banking makes things easier for me, not harder

In the short run, maybe, but sawing off the branch one is sitting on is dangerous business. :)

Yeah, in general if you have a good starting point anywhare not affected by tyranny, war, or genocide you’ll be alright. Behind a veil of ignorance there’s a whole lot of developing countries I’d go to before I’d risk being poor in the United States.

I wonder what people in this thread think the third world is, and what they imagine living there is like.

It’s not like there’s a clear answer. I guess technically Sweden is a third world county, while North Korea and Slovenia are both second world. America is as first world as it gets, and it’s a fucking mess.

If I could choose my own third world country I’d be quite alright. If they sent me to the worst first world country they could find, well, Alabama.

There are people whose concerns it is worth listening to. I’m sure they will show up eventually.

Happy holidays!

Congratulations to Putin for launching 635 drones and 38 missiles to kill some completely arbitrary 4-year-old and two random people in their 70s right before Christmas. He has brought the Russian empire to its absolute peak, no doubt.

As much as I appreciate the effort the DoJ made to spare us from seeing Trump’s ugly face, I wish they’d make a more holistic effort for the cause. Why not put him away for good.

Because it’s a system consisting pretty much exclusively of career politicians, even though it was originally designed to consist of representative peers.

I guess that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but whatever the US has been doing is clearly not working.

Gode nyheter. Jeg er ikke videre gira på å investere i aksjefond i påvente av at verdensøkonomien skal kollapse, men sparekonto føles som om jeg blir ranet.

Big investments like this are often very politicized-even before Trump and all-because it’s to a large degree just geopolitics. Gripen is in all likelihood the better alternative, but F35 has been considered an excellent choice for countries wishing to suck up to America. Until recently sucking up to America was considered good defense policy among parts of the political spectrum.

Also in Europe it would be totally normal to respond with measurements. 200 ml, 0.33, and half liter are the standard ones. In the UK there’s pints and half pints.

If somebody just pointed at the container for me instead of telling me the size I would probably consider it weird. Maybe it’s normal in fast food joints.

I’m probably just not cultivated enough in the refined world of internet memes, but this comes across as “girls are noobs hurr durr”

I found their roadmap for 2026 to be pretty inspiring.

Yeah, there’s good reason to study the US and to avoid doing whatever the hell they have been doing with their military industrial complex. I think the US has however been spectacularly stupid and corrupt - the shit they have gotten themselves into seems hugely avoidable.

As for “economic and cultural infrastructure/exchange/ties”, it’s nice when it works, but building Nord Stream and sucking up to Putin for decades did not exactly get us very far in terms of peace in our time. History is full of culturally rich civilizations with deep economic and cultural ties being completely fucked over by stronger military powers.

There’s also a lot of people who of course think this is a very hawkish way to look at it and that it’s basically stating that war is peace.

From a Spanish perspective, I understand it. For people in countries bordering Russia, and especially former Soviet republics, things look a little different.

I agree we need investments in defence, but salaries are also important. Taxing the rich allows for both. Thinking we can either be safe or have decent wages is a trap.