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No.

I live in Denmark but used to live in the US. I see a LOT of the Danish flag around (Dannebrog 🇩🇰) but it’s a lot less nationalistic. The level of “I love my country” is a bit weird but it’s the “it’s the best country and all others suck and wish they were us” that’s incomprehensible.

I think David Cross said something like this:

If you’re in Europe and someone tells you how your country sucks and isn’t free, you know they’re American

We often toast in the language of the liquid we’re drinking

Legal things would be a mess.

Your visa is valid until the end of the month. Halfway through the day?

I see this argument all the time. Forget all the tradition, “people like noon near solar noon”, all that.

Date changes mid day some places and not others would be a nightmare for so many things.

What’re you doing on the Tuesday half of June 15/16th?

It has no business being that good

I have a hard time imagining making an argument where alcohol and cigarettes are legal and weed is not. In terms of harm it does to people acutely and over time. I understand the position of “nothing like that should be legal” and “everything should be legal” even though I disagree. But I think if you choose one, weed might be the least problematic?

No, it’s not easy to test for driving. But alcohol is and TONS of drunk driving incidents happen still. I think that’s more a function of not having non-driving options to socialize over alcohol.

I moved from the US to Europe and I keep joking that the largest QoL upgrade has been my unbelievably dumb microwave. It has a power knob, a timer knob that is spring wound, and when it hits 0 it physically hits a bell like an older toaster.

I fucking love it. It was like 20€

FEIE is like $125k usd

Wait you cut them all? You don’t just tear the bananas apart from each other?

Cutting, a stand, all feels like an overcomplication of a simple fruit

Usually the small regional airports aren’t indexed in large search tools like Kayak or Google or anything.

I recommend looking up directly what small airlines fly between those regional airports and seeing their flight schedules directly

Okay, fair enough. Just appreciating the lack of shit and (for something like an Animal Crossing or a BoTW quality Zelda game) I’m super happy to pay that much for a game I’ll sink hundreds of hours into, and I’d rather reward that price hike than any other form of monetization by them.

I’m real enraged by like 99% of things on the internet and in the world these days, but this pales in comparison to the rapid pace of enshittification I feel like I’ve had in virtually every other place in my life.

Still don’t love it.

Okay, here’s a slightly hot take.

I’d rather the price go up and the games remain ad free and high quality (not you, pokemon, you can get fucked) than become enshittified with micro transactions, ads, etc

I don’t like it. But it’s much more acceptable to me

I live in Denmark. I’ve met a few people who don’t speak any English but they’re not Danish :D

Also it’s a fun language learning trope here that it’s hard to practice because people will just reply in English if your pronunciation isn’t good/it’s obvious you’re not Danish. It’s not ubiquitous but it definitely exists sometimes

I was getting mildly outraged and ready to comment how you were re-deriving the train at first. Well played.

Sounds like you could invent a language with fancy rules :p

Um in Danglish:

Larry sold a lot of his(hans) stuff. Tom gave Steve his (sin if it’s Tom’s and hans if it’s Steve’s) stuff.

Just just for the current sentence(s). Like a new subject would “reset” it

Also, for what it’s worth, it feels a lot more natural with mixed genders here to me:

Steve gave Christina his phone

Right, in English you have to rephrase the sentence because the pronoun you need doesn’t exist. There’s just a pronoun for “male person” not one for “subject” or “object” of the sentence.

That’s why I replied with it to a “what word would you make up?” Question, because that’s what I would bring into English