Yeah, and Kaliningrad is also choked off the oceans by the Danes.

Also, flaggstångsknoppstoppspolerare?

Less fun, I work in tech

Ah yeah, that’s true.

Not quite the same as having access to the oceans, but enough to be strategically useful.

How useful is a warm-water port in the Mediterranean really though, with the Gibraltar choke point blocking access to the rest of the world?

Honest question, I don’t know the answer

To draw a parallel to the problem of health care - in systems of socialized medicine, a health insurer does de-facto exist, so health insurance does not get entirely abolished when switching to socialized medicine. It’s just that the health insurer is now the government, and the system is no longer ran to optimize for extracting money out of the system, but instead to optimize for population-level health.

Similarly, when trying to reform the housing market, landlords don’t fully go away - you can for example imagine a system where the government becomes a very large landlord and optimizes the system for maximum level of ‘people housed’ (or whatever you want to optimize this system for).

There are also various forms of housing cooperatives, where the landlord is a body consisting of all the tenants collectively.

The landlord most people want to be rid of is the rent-seeking kind, which optimizes the system for extracting money.

I’m so embarrassed. I wish everybody else was dead.

Don’t do it, friend.

The better investment generally is to invest in index funds anyways, which makes your hands at least a little bit cleaner.

Fwiw, the picture doesn’t show someone setting themselves on fire, it shows someone having lit a Molotov cocktail.

In my defense, it looked like a Volvo yesterday

Fair enough. What’s the smallest firearm you would accept to clear the bar?

Any civilian vehicle with a large gun mounted aftermarket still counts.

I’m going to take the technical-market with storm with my bicycle+ak combo

Is a Volvo with a cannon on a trailer considered a technical?

That’s “at-will” though, isn’t it?

Insecure little boys generally

That is not a requirement

It is, actually: https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/sv/vagtrafik/trafikregler/cyklist-mopedist-motorcyklist/trafikregler/regler-for-cykel/

You’re liable to pay 500 SEK if you bike without lights when it’s dark outside.

It’s not necessary for Rust, no.

This is only a problem for Python because of a design flaw, one which Rust did not copy.

What a fucking loser

Is it really valid to call permalink() in that context, since it requires &self? There’s no self in that context afaik. Can’t test it now but it looks suspicious

EDIT: Invalid since the comment was updated

Layers - get a good base layer, merino wool is the gold standard for these. You also want to get a neck gaiter, plus some merino wool socks, and some kind of cap. These will keep you warm and dry throughout most cold weather. Add more layers on top when outside, and remember to remove layers proactively if you feel yourself starting to sweat - it’s never a good idea to be wet in cold weather. The base layer will make physical exertion a pretty hot affair quite fast, so you’d be surprised how fast the sweat starts pouring.

Barring societal collapse I believe I will be able to retire, but that’s only because I’ve gotten extraordinarily lucky in life.

As mentioned in the video, these are pretty hostile to pedestrians. Without knowing too much about the subject, I wouldn’t be surprised if roundabouts beat them handily - why else would countries with better road safety opt for roundabouts over diverging diamonds?