Broken_Hippo

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by Broken_Hippo 5mo ago
A lot of their furniture now has warnings that it must be secured to the wall - for that very reason. On their (Norwegian) website, this starts with furniture around 100cm tall, especially if it is talland thin or sits on legs. I guess the
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by Broken_Hippo 5mo ago
If you don't actually sell someone something illegal, but take them to buy illegal things using the safety of your car so they avoid detection - are you innocent? Drinking and driving exists and is illegal, but going to the grocery sto
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by Broken_Hippo 5mo ago
A lot of Europe rarely has a need for air conditioning. I'm in Norway, so I'm an exception - I generally only want it a couple weeks per year, if that. It'll be more widespread here, I think, but that is more because of the p
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by Broken_Hippo 5mo ago
That wasn't because of smoke, though. It was common, in part, because antibiotics weren't nearly as good and in part because medicine wasn't so advanced. Turns out, it's good to keep tonsils in even if they get infected
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by Broken_Hippo 6mo ago
Even the grinder used conical vs. flat burrs and high RPMs vs. low RPMs creates palpable flavor profile differences I bought a good grinder about 6 months ago - a Fellow. I changed nothing other than the grinder and my coffee improved. An
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by Broken_Hippo 6mo ago
I shouldn't require international travel - over an ocean - to talk to my siblings on the internet on a social app. Visits are great and all, but they require money and planning with more than one person. And I'm lucky - I can trav
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by Broken_Hippo 6mo ago
The real answer: Folks rarely get very drunk at the bar. Folks have drinks at home, go to the bar and drink modestly, and drink after. And I'll let you know that my shortest days are 4.5 hours long (with weak sunlight!). Oslo has sligh
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by Broken_Hippo 6mo ago
Distilling at home was fairly traditional long before high alcohol prices. Sure, high prices encourages some folks and helps ensure there is space for a black market. But technically, the high prices didn't cause distilling.
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by Broken_Hippo 6mo ago
The US being different is no excuse - this is really just a shortsighted retelling of American Exceptionalism. Intelligent folks look at a system and figure out ways they can adapt it to their own situation. You can take systems they use fo
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by Broken_Hippo 7mo ago
They definitely cross roads. In the mountains around Trondheim, Norway, you run into free range chicken farms (and sheep roaming the mountain top). Signs warn you that chickens are about and I think them getting hit is a real concern if you
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by Broken_Hippo 7mo ago
It isn't that it isn't enjoyable, but it just isn't enjoyable in the same way. How often do you view the jokes in shakepear's work as raunchy or sexual? Do you think younger teens get the jokes? Do you think anyone expla
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by Broken_Hippo 8mo ago
Heh. Indiana charged sales tax at when you registered the vehicle the first time unless you had paperwork proving otherwise. Very common for a private sale to put the price cheap, but not free - $200 charged sales tax on $200 and a free car
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by Broken_Hippo 8mo ago
Indiana has sometimes required that for decades, though I think they finally adjusted the law a little after online purchases became popular. Indiana charges sales tax like a lot of states, but only on things sold in the state or from a com
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by Broken_Hippo 8mo ago
That's not really true. Some places sell their cardboard scrap. I'm guessing that places with the right sorts of metal scrap get paid for their waste. And folks have to pay for much of the rest. Some of the issue with dumping wast
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by Broken_Hippo 10mo ago
Great. What do you do when folks in expensive places can't eat while folks in low-cost areas are able to live better? $100 had different spending power in different places. I can buy more beer in Prague than in Indianapolis. I'll
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by Broken_Hippo 10mo ago
If you want AAA games, you are going to have a safe game. You get the same with movies - Bigger budgets cause safer behavior with less risk taking. You wind up with a pretty game, a somewhat safe story (that they think will sell) and gamepl
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by Broken_Hippo 10mo ago
That's not the way it works. I live in Norway, have residence and stuff. I can travel freely through most of europe without much hassle - but I can only travel 90 days out of 180 days - then you gotta go out of the area (or back to you
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by Broken_Hippo 11mo ago
If this is your take, you've missed the point. I said there is no reason good bits can't be adapted to one's society. it isn't that one system will work for everywhere or that it'll even look the same. Some things a
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by Broken_Hippo 11mo ago
On the other hand, I live in Norway. Bits like healthcare and a good safety net makes things nicer. I'm from the US originally. This nice stuff could be adapted for the US if folks would put their energy into helping others rather than
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by Broken_Hippo 11mo ago
That isn't what the poster was saying. They were saying that the best treatment was jail. And that's not the case. Jail is horrible for treatment.
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by Broken_Hippo 11mo ago
Somehow, you believe that jail is the best option for treatment? So, lets jail the professionals that are addicted too. After all, it is the best option for treatment, right? They are also hurting themselves as much as they could otherwise
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by Broken_Hippo 11mo ago
That's great. It's only around 8 hours of work instead of 16. Its still a lot of money at $16.50. 12 days a year you labor just for the opportunity to labor. Your point only makes it slightly better and doesn't really take aw
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by Broken_Hippo 11mo ago
Of course the rhetoric is such. One of those things helps poor folks more than the others.
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by Broken_Hippo 11mo ago
"Only $132" That is 16 hours of work if you make $8 an hour. You obviously make more than that if you can say "only $132"
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by Broken_Hippo 11mo ago
we don't let our neighbors and kids become fent zombies on the main drag Nope, you'll take homeless folks right to jail, promptly, where they can be zombies out of sight. It isn't like folks in small towns are gonna help th
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by Broken_Hippo 11mo ago
Adults actually have to work at making new friends and few get any tips on how to go about doing so. I honestly didn't really get any until my late 30s or 40s - and that was mostly because I moved to Norway and for some folks, loneline
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by Broken_Hippo 11mo ago
Unfortunately, the world contains nuance that your statement does not.
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by Broken_Hippo 1y ago
Apple trees are weird. You can take a seed from an apple tree in your yard and grow apples that taste disgusting. One of the apples from that disgusting tree might make apples that taste absolutely heavenly. You can't just grow an ap
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by Broken_Hippo 1y ago
I think the idea was to get the kids who probably had ADHD to lock in and do their work more Wow that sounds terrible. My mother used to have me sit in silence at the dining room table to try to get me to do my homework. My god, so much
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by Broken_Hippo 1y ago
Contrast isn't always necessary. Am not a doctor, but I have MS and get them regularly. I've only had a couple with contrast. My understanding is that contrast highlights abnormal stuff and some tissue sorts more than without cont

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