Seeing the way things have been going in different countries the last couple of years have given me a newfound gratitude for the country I live in. Even our most right wing party is left wing by any international standard.

The government should find a way to protect the local economy from the influx of tourists that own property in Spain.

That’s really interesting. I doubt a comment like this would be allowed to remain on Reddit, which is a shame because it naturally would reach a lot more people.

In addition to the blanket tariffs already announced? Seriously I think that guy might be an evil alien supervillain or something. He seems to be doing his best to ruin the world in any way he can.

That is just… Insane. Incredibly sad.

I had no idea about all of that. I really learned something today! Already really like Lemmy and the Fediverse, I feel like most people here put some extra thought and effort into their posts and comments. I’ve used Reddit since I was 18 and it used to be the same, but as its popularity grew I guess the “wrong” kind of people started joining and participating. I think that’s bound to happen with anything that gets really big. I’ve described some social justice movements the same way, where you had people who genuinely cared in the beginning but eventually as the movement becomes a trend the values and sentiments gets simpler, dumber and eventually unrecognizable from what the initial goal was.

By the way I think there’s a little birthday cake next to my username because I created the user today lol.

The situation in Norway is luckily a bit better than that, but I’ve heard from friends that their mortgages became a bit more expensive the last couple of years. Shit, is it really that bad in the UK? People’s payments tripled or even quadrupled? Sounds like capitalist dystopia.

From what I can gather the payments didn’t increase near that much in Norway, and we have solutions like exemption from down payments among other things for situations like the one we’re in now. I know some people with really expensive homes sold them and bought smaller cheaper ones to lighten the economic load, and a lot of people defaulted on expensive car loans. I think the situation hit people with expensive homes and cars the hardest because a lot of those people weren’t willing to adjust to the reality.

If I was allowed to get a loan I wouldn’t have gone over 1/3 of my income, just like with the rent I pay today. I’d manage, but they’re incredibly strict with who gets one.

I was replying to someone that said they could use it to treat covid, which has lead to people dying. Guess I got reported by them and for some reason an admin thought it was meant as a threat?

That’s really interesting! Did you have any problems getting your hands on it when people started buying it for covid?

Oh and happy Lemmy anniversary. Is it really today? Weird coincidence that I joined today.

I got temporarily banned from Reddit for saying that using ivermectin might kill you, and that was it. I’m done.

I love talking with people with a different perspective, and I love playing the devils advocate to try to understand other points of view better. As you said, if it’s just going to become a fight it’s completely meaningless.

Unless I know the other person has the same intent to respectfully listen and try to understand rather than argue I won’t engage in any sort of political discussion. Polarizing opinions have been completely normalized online and it’s literally ruining society.

Took you long enough. We’ve put our lives in the hands of the US for too long, it’s made Europe complacent and now we’re so far behind. We could be equal to or greater than both the US and China, but if we’re honest we have a long way to go.

Surely there can be a middle ground.

I hate that I’ve been paying close to 150k NOK a year in rent for the last ten years but for some reason I can’t be trusted with a loan unless I make a lot more and save up something like 300k.

Except for the fact that I have a place to live it feels like I’m throwing money out the window.

Are you planning on going back once the ban is lifted? I’m gonna try to stay away.

I got temp banned today because I replied to someone and said that using ivermectin would probably kill them.

I’m done, so fucking done.

Hey, I’ve seen that episode of Black Mirror!

That is seriously dystopian. Wow, what the fuck…

Are there any companies working on something like that?

For me personally I’d like a 50-60 square meter apartment for no more than 2x my annual income. And I’d like to be able to get a loan with a monthly down payment equal to whatever I’ve been paying in rent for the last couple of years.

I can pay 12500 NOK a month in rent, but for some reason the bank can’t trust me to pay the same amount if I were to buy an apartment? Fuck that.

I mostly just use my PC for video games, movies and music production, so that hasn’t really affected me.

Regarding UI I think it’s been horrible since Windows 8. I really miss 7!