Please don’t be too harsh on yourself, you don’t actually know that it would have been a good idea, it is impossible to say if it would have been better or not.

You took the logical route, finnishing your education, which opened other doors for you.

I tend to see life as a game where you are given a set of playing cards at birth, you gradually take over control of your deck as you grow up.

You play your individual cards with the knowledge you have, and every play can give you even better cards to use later.

You have no idea if you are about to get your next break, you can only play your cards with the knowledge you have.

I have been using a pair of Roth Audio OLi-RA1 speakers with my computer, they are real stereo speakers and require an amplifier to wire them up and power them.

The are excellent speakers, good general speakers, and not that expensive.

I don’t use a subwoofer, but it isn’t really needed for me, I do miss some sub bass, but that never bothered me.

I am currently running them with a no brand Chinese analog amp, from the soubd out on my monitor that is connected to my computer with DisplayPort.

Works great.

I sm considering getting a Dennon RCD-M41 tl replace my amp, but have not had any need to do so in the last eight years.

There was a time when I thought about switching to Fedora when I ditch Windows in 2025, but the frequent release schedule of Fedora has made me worried if those updates risk breaking my setup.

That, or taste…

Thank you, I do my best, I had no idea obout the dolphin name, fun!

They hire behavior specialists.

I was suckered into the shark cards on GTA Online, I worked terrible hours and it was my escape.

I bought shark cards for thousands of SEK ocer a year or so, not much in compared to normal whales, but I did feel the addiction drawing me in harder.

Then one day I had just had enough, and uninstalled the game, else I knew I would continue.

I am glad though, the money I spent was not wasted, it taught me a valuable lesson about what to look out for, and how to recognize sinkholes like this.

My sister worked at a dairy for a while, they both made the name brand version of cottage cheese as well as the off brand. They made several brands of cottage cheese, so you are abolutely right that different brands of product are made in tye same factory, but depending of the brand or country it was shipped to the recipie was changed slightly based on the customer’s request.

I know of two buildings sort of like that, they both look like a bungalow office building with an empty parking lot and a card reader by the door, one building has plastered over windows, the other has normal but dirty windows

Back in 1967 Sweden had “Du-reformen”, a change to our language and popularize the second-person singular pronoun, “du”, as a universal form of addressing others in the Swedish language.

There is a wikipedia article anout it, and it is a bit interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du-reformen

Then we also have the law of “jante” which is deeply rooted in Swedish and Scandinavian culture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

The informal laws sound harsh, but boils down to, “you are not better than us”, and it applies to everyone.

Jante should be taken with a pinch of salt, the main point of jante is to not act like you are better than anyone else.

Worf’s jam was Klingon opera in DS9

In Sweden/Stockholm:

Avoid Akalla/Hjulsta/Kista

They are all boring and sees a lot of gang crime.

Swede here, in general thw Swedes are very law abiding, there are plenty of laws and regulations that carries no punnishment, but they are still followed.

When I need to speak with say the tax authority, I call the general customer service number, and adopt a persona of positivity and friendlyness, I speak to them as a coworker that I need help from, this is simply because we are both trying to solve the issue.

When talking to my manager at work or even the CEO, we talk like coworkers, we joke, talk about the weekend and lunch recommendations. I know they are my managers, they know that I know that as well, there is no need to keep enforcing it in our day to day tasks.

Talking to Police is done politely and relaxed, I have never been mistreated, though I am white and clearly Swedish who lives a quiet life.

That’s a fair point I didn’t think about when I made my comment.

Now that you mention it, switching to international scale in politics/activism sounds fantastic, but if often used as a way to divert responsibillity to a party with no authority.

So yeah, a national program is better

Lower the cost to ten usd and ditch Youtube music, that would be ok for me

Ok, how is Android relevant when the article only talks about the iOS app?

Biologically: grow up, have sex, take care of and teach the next generation.

General: Nothing, there is no underlying meaning to life.

Aspirational: Improvement, the meaning of life is to improve the world during your life.

Capitalistic: Aqquire wealth, get the high score!

Hey, this thread is about what should be an actual thing, not what is realistic or even feasable to do.

You mention that a nationwide fund for removal of lead in the environment should be a thing, I just countered that there should be an international fund dor the removal of lead since it is an international problem.

Both funds should be a thing.

I am sure they do enjoy it, just as I don’t.

IT guy here, I absolutely hate working from home, I want separation between my work life and my home life.

I need that to change my brain from home mode to work mode.