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Cake day: December 30th, 2024

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  • People get more sociable the closer you get to the equator. This is reflected in the distance from which people talk to you. So in the southern USA people are very chatty and will talk about pretty much anything while basically sitting on your lap, but in Norway you’ll pretty much just shout across the fjord at someone to tell them their house is on fire if you’re in a talkative mood. Talking to cashier’s doesn’t happen anyway.









  • Ok where I live it’s :

    Jan - snow and first sunrise of the year

    Feb - snow

    Mar - snow

    April - snow

    May - snow followed by two weeks of thaw, last sunset for 2 months and one week of spring

    Jun - warm but no bugs

    Jul - where has all my blood gone (mosquitoes and horsefly) sun starts setting again

    Aug - same exsanguination issues as July

    SEP - too cold for bugs lol

    Oct - snow

    Nov - Snow last sunrise of the year

    Dec - snow




  • You want Norway, Sweden and Finland. You can get fast internett pretty much anywhere and a large portion of the countries are just forest. I actually met a guy in Troms who is the only year round resident of an island that has two ferries a week if you book ahead of time and he has fast internett, as well as a lovely vegetable garden and a plentiful supply of fish.


  • Of course they are, but in the capitalist paradigm success is synonymous with profit. So giant multinational companies making shitty cheap products is the goal of capitalism, because it allows for the greatest profit. In other words Macdonald’s is better closer to the perfect expression of capitalist ideals than the artisanal gastro-pub with the coffee and cocoa encrusted reindeer sliders because they are more profitable, despite the fact they sell industrial food adjacent waste as food.

    As a side note, do try coffee and cocoa encrusted reindeer sliders. You’ll have to make them yourself because as far as I’m aware they aren’t actually a menu item anywhere.


  • Actually what I’m advocating is small businesses and sustainable food consumption. Generally speaking the larger a company becomes, the worse the product is and the more environmental damage it does. I’ve worked at both chains and independent restaurants and the difference in food waste is truly shocking.