The US embassy in Norway sent a letter to their electricity and heat provider (Hafslund), demanding that they stop any DEI type activities within the company.

Hafslunds’ response was, in short, “we can stop providing power and heat, no problem”.

Except where trams are involved. Those have a license to kill.

Me neither. It was just ridiculous. When it got to the point where the floor board on the Eclipse mysteriously fell out it was just too all too much, for me. How people who know and love cars ever could think that movie was great is beyond me.

I saw one of the later movies in the cinema, since my date wanted to see it. I felt it was some of the worst goo I’d ever seen, while my date thought it was “fantastic”. I remember thinking “this isn’t going to work out…”, hehe.

Harald Fairhair would probably be amazed at the lack of bloodshed during political discussions.

love America because it doesn’t have kings

I’m not convinced a president who can act with greater impunity than a king in any modern monarchy is better.

I read that a lot, “we don’t have a king, thank cod”. Is it because you’ve seen what a hell hole e.g. the Scandinavian countries are? /s

A king in a modern monarchy is nothing more than a representative of the country. He cuts ribbons and holds encouraging speeches on New Year’s. That’s pretty much it.

Of course they do, it’s vital for them, to ensure the US remains a country where they can legally exploit the population and keep taxes to a minimum.

I think he is a very good candidate… He cares only about himself, and so he lies and cheats. He says he grabs women by the pussy, I like that.

That woman, apparently.

It boggles the mind that this sack of shit is even in the running.

He has the charisma of a wet sponge (and the appearance of someone you’d think twice before buying a used car from), he can hardly string together a sentence (let alone hold a speech), hi lies, he commits fraud, he’s a convicted felon…

That’s hardly brushing the surface, yet people go “fuck yeah, this guy should run the country”.

Jeebuz fuckin christ… what’s happening?

Unless you got home schooled by Heinrich Himmler, there’s no excuse. You can’t possibly offer your political support to such a scumbag.

Probably a result of turning wrenches since I was first able, but that rule, to me, feels akin to “up the stairs take you up, down the stairs take you down”.

It’s not really a lot of hoops to jump through, and this seems to be standard practice by DHL, UPS, FedEx and others, over here.

I actually appreciate getting the options on delivery day. E.g. I usually get to choose what collection point they leave the package at (so I can pick a spot I pass by going home from work or whatever), or if I want them to come back the next day, or have it dropped off at my office (not always an option, kinda seems to depend on how stressful a day the driver is having). I certainly prefer it to risk having the package stolen, then reporting, waiting for a new delivery…

Of course, if the package is large, heavy or otherwise unwieldy it might be a pain not having it delivered directly to the door, but if I’m expecting such a thing I try to be home to accept delivery.

Yeah, same up here in Norway. If I’m not home they will offer to leave the package at a collection point, or drop it off at my place of work. As far as I know, they’re not allowed to just leave it at my door step and hope for the best.

Hehe, yeah, and he’s swerving to confuse the mines.

A bump on the head is all… And don’t call me Shirley.

That one puzzled me. My mind first went to “friendly fire”, and then to “a friendly fighter must be a Ukrainian fighter…”.

First guess was correct; it was downed by a Russian fighter, apparently.

One of god’s gifts to man was giving us concrete and steel with the same thermal expansion properties.

I’m pretty sure I read that somewhere.

Then, hopefully, PayPal can look forward to spending at the very least 2% of their worldwide revenue to pay fines.

The toilets/restrooms at restaurants (or at least many fastfood restaurants?) are often shared and used by both employees and customers. It grossed me out a bit a bit at first, especially as they are, in my experience, quite often pretty filthy. So all the nastiness customers drag in could potentially be picked up by employees.

I’ve been to BKs and Wendys’ where I left the establishment as soon as I entered, just because the whole place looked and smelled like somewhere you shouldn’t eat. I suppose these were more often than not in pretty rural areas…

While on the toilet topic, I’ve found public restrooms at e.g. gas stations and shopping malls to often be, uh, less than inviting. I think I’ve seen more overflowing toilets on a 4 week vacation in the US than I’ve seen in 40 years over here, in northwest Europe.

To be fair, I’ve driven east/west at least 10 times over the years, so I’ve been to a lot of public restrooms and the bad experiences tend to stay with you for longer than the good ones.

I’m close to 50, and it feels like every year of my life (except for maybe a couple years in the early 90s) Russia has pulled stunts like this, in what I can only guess are silly attempts at displaying strength.

Well, the cat got outta the bag on that one, Russia, as soon as you went to war with a country that carried more than rifles.

Andanussjuk? I don’t know, there’s a joke in there somewhere…

I’d be curious to see the dish install. It’s hard to imagine how someone would think it’d go unnoticed, on a warship, no less.