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I like to add some black tea, about a quarter of the amount of coffee. Adds a lot of aroma, while not disrupting the taste of the coffee

Echo chambers, belief perseverance and the “second belief theory” (I’m not sure it’s a real theory). For example most (western) people learn that the US is great and everybody else are terrorists from action movies. Then you learn that the US has done a lot of horrible things. However finally you also learn that the Soviet Union also did a lot of horrible shit, and then you have a nuanced opinion. However some people stick to the second belief, that the US is the great Satan and they know so much more than everyone else that have only learnt from action movies (even if they are on the third belief)

After I started using dearrow to remove custom thumbnails, I’ve had alot better time browsing YouTube.

Man, seeing ich_iel while browsing all is an experience all right. You’ll never know what to expect

That part of lemmy is full of Putin supporters

Oh yeah, it’s on a table, not the floor

Your source also compares the renewalable percentage of overall electricity production, where China lands at roughly spot 100, placing it near Poland.

Absolutely fucking not

Imagine you have a database, you decide to add something to it and now you have to solve 5000 sudokus. Also you can’t remove anything as well. Have fun

Not really, for example I recently learned that both property-tax (a yearly tax based on property value) and property-transfer-tax (a one time 3% tax on every property transaction) basically kills speculation on properties.

As a result, houses prices are actually humane (between 50k-300k, depending on age, surroundings, size, etc. To compare, the median income is roughly 45k per year).

Of course there is still a capitalist class, but they are nowhere as parasitic as they are in the US/UK. Though if that is due to the welfare culture or a thought out tax policy I can’t say.

Note that I used Finland is this example. While not perfect, Finland is pretty good at taxing the wealthy (for example Mikko Kodisoja, Supercell founder payed 13,2m€ of his 35,3m€ paycheck as income tax in 2022. Still 20m€ in hand, but another quarter of everything he buys will be taxed as VAT).

Outside the theocratic libertarian hellhole USA, shouting “Tax the rich” isn’t really a solve-everything-button.

Yeah, like 100% not to victim blame, but that is what not to do 101

That ain’t jeans

Yeah they probably tried to translate “Vätterns impregnerade tändstickor” or similar, which means “The goblins/gnomes impregnated matches”.

It’s not worth it to be angry over people on the internet. Most of the people in real life are quite swell.

Datafag is norwegian

ThE LeFt cOntRols The nArAtiVe

If you need to go to a specific store to get beer with quite limited opening hours, you’ll probably get some extra just in case.

Regarding the monopoly, I prefer the Finnish model of strong alcohol (recently increased to around >9-10%) are in the domain of the monopoly (Alko), while beers and weak wines can be bought in stores.

First of all, there’s more friction to get stronger liqours. Especially when you don’t need as many stores as a whole.

Second of all, it makes it less important to bunker alcohol. If you have a lot of alcohol at home you’ll probably drink it.