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- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 days ago:
Exactly. The Swedish government or something did some study recently to determine if we’d be able to be self-sufficient under a longer time if we needed to be, as we currently have a lot of food imports. The conclusion was “yes, but there won’t be as much food diversity”.
However, they completely ignored the fact that we only have a ~90 days strategic reserve of oil, and that basically all the machining used for farming runs on diesel. And there’s currently no goals to change that.
If we can’t import or refine diesel anymore, we will starve.
- Comment on hostile design: sink 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t it be cheaper for them to put up signs saying the water is non-potable?
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
A reasonable person would have forked the repo and maintained the project themselves, or used something else. I’m also deathly allergic to LLM code, but I don’t come into someone else’s free project and tell them how they should live their life.
But I agree that it was bad style to remove the co-author attribute. He should have just said “yeah, I slop, so what?”
- Comment on Keeping the tally of suicides. Pedestrians vs those in cars 2 weeks ago:
I know right, I have no idea where a tram is going.
- Comment on Rude 3 weeks ago:
My keyboard psychologist also says that person has some kind of codependency issues… but if they’re truly happy, all’s good and I wish them well.
- Comment on It's literally science 3 weeks ago:
I never get back pain, because I get it all in my shoulders and neck instead.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Is Violet8 the evolution of Mickey7 ?
- Comment on Remember when car controls weren't complicated 4 weeks ago:
I’ve just never seen one like that, it has always been on my right hand side in every car I’ve had.
- Comment on Remember when car controls weren't complicated 4 weeks ago:
Hey grandpa, what does that “push button & turn” thingy do? Handbrake?
- Comment on Uhhhh sure? 5 weeks ago:
It can be, if you’re driving a non-ICE car and plan your driving. But still usually not worth it.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 month ago:
Why would that matter? It just looks like HTTPS traffic if you set it up right. And even if they fingerprint it as Plex, they can’t see what exactly is playing. Yes, my Plex library only has public domain content of course.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 month ago:
Is illicit Adderall in the US “real”? Or are they usually pressed fakes?
I never understood why speed is/was so uncommon when I was in the US a long time ago. I was offered basically everything there, but never normal speed (without methamphetamine in it) like in Europe.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 month ago:
Stimulants like Adderall and Xanax are often misused to cope with academic and social pressures.
I never knew benzodiazepines were stimulants.
- Comment on Noooooo 1 month ago:
The thing is, people usually suck at explaining themselves… so instead of a <5 minute telephone interrogation, it’s suddenly a 15+ minute back-and-forth chat. But yes, I’d much rather answer a quick well-detailed text question.
- Comment on AMD and Nvidia are talking about local AI, good news for PC gamers and memory prices 2 months ago:
How’s that good news? It sounds like they are just double-dipping…
- Comment on it's so fluffy 2 months ago:
Did you also go to imagefap and shit brix?
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 2 months ago:
There are bottles as well, but it’s not as common. And they’re factory-produced bottles – not like those orange ones in the US. So it’s basically the same safety as blisters, other than its easier to spill.
I’m not 100% sure, but I think most of the groundwork for this situation is from EU Directive 2001/83/EC. Medical products need to have a lot of information provided, and it just gets simpler to have boxes with blisters to meet all the requirements, and gives safety at the same time.
I can’t imagine how hectic it must be for pharmacy techs in the US. Despite requiring 5 years of school to be a pharmacist here, the job is basically being a glorified cashier… Unless the person has any questions, you simply check their ID, check in the national registry that enough time has passed since their last collection (particularly if it’s a controlled substance), collect a package from the shelf, print out a label to put on the box (containing their name, doctor, dosage, instructions), scan the label and package, collect payment, and that’s it.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 2 months ago:
Tbh, a pharmacist shouldn’t really do anything with the actual medication other than dispensing it correctly. In Sweden, every package is individual; the pharmacist should never be opening them nor touching the blisters in normal cases. It significantly reduces risks for the patient and ensures traceability.
It is a bit less efficient though, as pharmacies need to stock up different qualities of the same dosages: Stilnoct(zolpidem) 10mg for example has two different packages: 14 tablets, or 28 tablets. If you have a prescription for 28 tablets, you can’t buy two 14-tablet packages. And if you were to have a 14 prescription, you can’t buy the 28 and ask the pharmacist to throw away the other blister. But I think it’s a worthy tradeoff to eliminate the majority of human mistakes.
- Comment on I fucking ♥️ industrial society and its consequences 2 months ago:
I assume this is the US? Is it really cheaper for the company to import chicken wings and some cheese, or why’s it not domestically sourced? I don’t get it.
- Comment on i can't handle coffee 2 months ago:
the shits
I thought that’s why we drink coffee, no?
- Comment on Priorities 2 months ago:
Whippets are also extremely addictive.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 2 months ago:
shitty card with a very high APR
Which doesn’t matter if you pay it off in full each month ;)
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 2 months ago:
You’ve got the right idea for the European system though. “Tourist tax”. It’s usually low enough that it’s not a big deal, but I was shocked when I checked in at a hotel in Greece and the receptionist wanted 5€/night from me.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 2 months ago:
One weird thing you missed is the “length of credit” though. Let’s say you get your first credit card somewhere as a kid, and now you’re 40 and haven’t had anything else. Suddenly, that bank wants you to pay a monthly fee to keep your account open. If you get a new credit card somewhere else, and cancel your kid-card, your score is going to get hit quite a bit, no?
If you did it “correct”, you’d have 10+ different cards lying in a drawer at home to tons of different credit agencies.
It’s all an insane game that you have to play, despite the fact that it can usually be played “for free”.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 2 months ago:
Yeah, I would consider that somewhat “acceptable” usage though. It’d be irresponsible to approve a large loan to someone who’s already extremely overindebted, for example.
Sweden’s system doesn’t have a specific number like the US, but mostly just shows economical health. How many active loans you have, income over the last few years, and if you’ve had loans go to the enforcement agency. But we have the same sickness as America: if you have had something go to the enforcement agency within the last 3+ years, it’ll be basically impossible for you to rent an apartment (as if it wasn’t difficult in the first place).
- Comment on Latitudes 3 months ago:
It’s Spanish, no? Philadelphia in French is Philadelphie.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 months ago:
Yeah, the card issuers are already making bank from the interchange/issuer/processing fees, as well as interest if the customer eventually isn’t able to pay their full balance in time.
But if you’re a perfect person and always pay your full balance every month, there’s literally no negatives with a credit card as a normal consumer. It’s usually even a better alternative, as if something goes wrong, a credit chargeback is much quicker and easier than a debit chargeback.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 3 months ago:
A legally required age verification will be introduced. We want this to take effect as soon as possible to prevent minors from using BNPL.
Wait, it’s legal to put minors into debt in the Netherlands? In Sweden, a minor wouldn’t be liable to pay any such invoice, as minors can’t sign any legally-binding agreements without their guardian’s consent.
- Comment on We all do this 3 months ago:
PARKTRONIC has existed on Mercedes for like 20+ years… how is it an unreasonable assumption that you would have such a feature if reversing impacts your stereo volume?
- Comment on We all do this 3 months ago:
Isn’t that due to parking assist beeps? Turn that off and see what happens.
