Norway isn’t EU.

Brits aren’t Europeans. Got it.

Teach him how to beegfs and he will never run out of storage space again.

It’s definitely NOT a thing. But it absolutely should be.

Your brain is better at associating around the topic than mine. I’m sitting here hoping we can see a showdown in The 2026 Nordic Rural Medevac Championship.

Note about Norway: I think we have another yellow section now (<50%) after a couple of hospitals closed down. But that’s because medical emergencies are usually airlifted. Every rural village has an emergency helicopter landing spot.

EDIT: And I think the bar for sending out a helicopter is pretty low. I’ve been flown to the hospital like that myself - while the injuries were obviously serious, I don’t think anyone on any level considered them life threatening.

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Then who was phone?

Red Dwarf, on the other hand, used Smeg. Which today is a company that makes excellent fridges.

I wish I had some pearls I could clutch.

Gravel is expensive if you’re doing a lot of landscaping. I’ll supply all of the entrepeneurs in the area and make a fortune.

What if I’m not wearing pants?

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Mostly due to lacking the stamina to run towards each other.

TIL…

I shy away from defining myself on the left/right axis, as this depends a lot on where you are and what is defined as the center. But let’s just say I’d love to hang out with Bernie.

And here the rest of us are trying to be as eloquent and articulate as possible, and yet you said it better than any of us ever could.

What does “pinko” mean in this context? (Or any context, for that matter… can’t recall having heard that term before)

True. I just tried to give a short primer. I am indeed part of (to an extent) the “America bad”-camp, but it doesn’t make me sverve so hard I crash into a ditch on the opposite side.

Ah, I wasn’t aware of said defederation. Good on Blåhaj

In case you’re asking out of good faith curiosity:

Tankie is a pejorative (and rightfully so) term for a particular brand of communist/socialist. It’s worth noting that I have nothing against communists or communism in general (even though I don’t agree with it as a political system). A tankie is someone whose standpoint is that communism can do no wrong; anything that went wrong in USSR and China is CIA’s fault, and the Czechs, Hungarians, and Tibetans had it coming.

Oh, and to any tankies who are reading this and are tempted to engage in sealioning, don’t bother - I don’t care and probably won’t respond. Plus there’s a pretty good chance you’re already on my block list. Call me fascist if you will (I’vebeen called worse things), but at least tell me a definition of fascism that doesn’t also encompass todays China and Russia

Basically, it’s a label applied to people of a communist persuasion who have given up on any form of critical thinking, and just defaults to “America bad, therefore anything opposing it must be good”. Yes, America bad indeed. But that doesn’t automatically Pol Pot, Kim Young Un, and Stalin are good.

Also, don’t be surprised if this comment is downvoted to oblivion after someone links it on hexbear or lemmygrad. It’s quite telling that comments like this are usually attacked based on syntax rather than substance, while refusing to actually explain what happened at Tianmen Square or during the Holodomor, without citing russian or Chinese propaganda.

Also, the name is a reference to communist countries sending tanks against civilians, RE: Hungary 1956, Prague 1968, and Tianmen Square 1989