As a Norwegian, I am fully aware that my ancestors helped created the English language by first invading the welsh isles, and then, three generations after invading the Francs, we invaded the isles again with romance speaking nobility for generations.

English is a Nordic made Francish/Welsh/Germanic creole that was made popular by the still Norwegian blooded crown.

I used to pronounce it “sk”, but in my new job, working with schedules with a Londoner, it is now “sh” for me. Undoing the US-ification of my English one word at a time.

Of course, wouldn’t want consistency or anything trivial like that.

If we hadn’t already nuked ourselves by slaughtering the bees, and the bees suddenly took 80 % of our living space from us to expand their own, we’d be nuking them.

The fascinating part is, why aren’t the smart, massive matriarchs ordering all humans stomped on sight?

There was a story about moose some weeks ago, but it’s been a while now, sadly.

I remember in primary school that we were tasked with learning the names and capitals of all countries on the planet, continent for continent, so there is an early taught awareness of all countries, as well as a culture for backpacking, experiencing and adapting to other cultures. As a Norwegian, most news here are about here, and only major headlines from other countries are mentioned in the news, like the upcoming doctors strike in UK in the news today or the power outage in Spain a while back. Some more news from Sweden though, as it is our closest neighbour and the country we visit the most.

The Swedish Vikings created the settlement that is now Kyiv, and later spread to settle parts of what is now both Ukrainian and Russian.

With your not naive world view, Putin should give his land to Sweden, right? It is what history tells him to do.

Seems to be modeled on the Scandinavian countries BankID that is a well working solution.

DDG or Qwant is so much better

A quick Qwant search gives github link as first result

What a dystopian hell hole. My condolences to everyone having something like HOA in their lives. May you all experience a civilised and free country at some point.

The US seems like an increasingly bigger dystopia for every post about basic human rights that is a standard in the civilised world but they are lacking. But still they keep voting to let the billionaires rip them off decade after decade.

The Normans were third generation Viking settlers of France, so the Vikings did have a huge impact on the British isles for a few centuries there.

Lidl failed so hard in Norway that none of the Aldis ever tried.

I have a grocery store in the first floor of the building, so just an elevator down and up. One supermarket in each direction 550 and 650 meters. But I live in the city centre, so that is a privilege most people do not have.

McFries

Does the colonies have too much power over The Commonwealth?

Is all this AI bullshit actually wanted by anyone other than the creator companies using it to ruin what made them big?

That depends on how shallow you want your life to be.

Some times. But also, sometimes not.