It depends on where in Sweden you live of course, but I always loved the moment the first snow was on the ground. It immediately makes the entire surroundings feel less glum, even during the short days of winter.

Agree on the impact of climate change though. The seasons used to be reliable like clockwork, and that hasn’t really been the case for the last decade and a half or so.

Once the humidity gets high enough this doesn’t really work anymore, at least, in my personal experience. Wet clothes stay wet, but your still sweating.

I live in Canada today, and used to live in Sweden. I’m perfectly fine with winter and heating the house, dressing for it, etc. I’ll compromise my stance by saying early spring is nice, but man do I hate summer heat and humidity. And don’t get me started on mosquitoes and other summer bugs.

I’d live in perpetual winter if I could. You can dress for the cold, but at some point the heat and humidity make it impossible to be comfortable outside regardless of your outfit.

Wasn’t the original quote by Nigel Powers about the Dutch?

I’m hoping it’ll make it in eventually. Kind of like with NMS VR support.

You’d be surprised how many people don’t know the difference between being sore and having pain, but I digress. I never wanted to discuss semantics, just make a jokey comment about trading pain for discomfort. Forget I mentioned it.

I think there’s a non-zero percentage of people that confuse being sore with having unexplained pain. And there’s probably also another group of people that think they can excercise without being sore, given how lots of people exercise tout it as fixing all pain, which might set incorrect expectations.

Anyway, I am just sharing my own experiences.

To be fair though, the soreness from regular exercise is what you get in the tradeoff. I have both a regular cardio and strength program I run through every week (5 days of exercise) and a pretty active lifestyle (2 days of outdoor activities every week (hiking, mountainbiking, splitboarding,etc)) and I am generally sore at least somewhere in my body.

Genious comment.

One has to wonder if we wouldn’t be better off without social media. Sure, it’s done a lot of good in helping people connect and exchange ideas, but some of those people aren’t acting in good faith, and some of those ideas are just plain terrible. I don’t claim to have the full solution, but it would be a great first step if the equivalent of a fairness doctrine were to be introduced to the algorithms these platforms use to weed out rampant misinformation.

People actively voted for deportation? Oh boy. There are some scary historic precedents there that I hope the Netherlands will avoid.

That’s somehow worse and also surprising. I thought your previous governments were made of the worker’s party and the Christian centrists. A quick trip to Wikipedia thought me I should stay up to date on politics if I’m going to comment on it.

So that makes me wonder: Why go further right if people feel the ruling right party let them down?

And there goes another country to the Alt-right. It’s really disheartening to see a message like this continue to win elections globally.

I get that people are worried their left and centre left governments have failed them, but why the pull to the opposite extreme?

That’s like saying you want to put ExxonMobil in charge of combating climate change because Greenpeace hasn’t solved it yet.

Morrowind memes in the wild. What a time to be alive!

I need to re-read the lyrics to that song, it’s one of my favorites by APC.

Thanks. I did not know that, but after reading into it 10000 days now feels a lot more personal.

Other than James Hetfield noone springs to mind in the category “Musicians’ moms killed by Christian science”. Who else were you referring to?

It’s a older meme, but man does it hold up to reality. Cats really do seem to come in two flavours: Aloof and house clown.

I actually ran this setup for a pretty long while without major issues. YMMV but OneDrive is not a terrible way to store a single user database backend if you don’t have a lot of sequential writes going into it in a short timespan.