Mid 30 Scandinavian right/libertarian leaning.
You can argue for it from both sides.
The right want a small government and to encourage entrepreneurs to take risks. The left want a strong social support system for the unfortunate.
From what I’ve read about it it seems like a good idea. The big question is how you implement it at scale without crashing the current system that works reasonably well.
My body seems to default to a day slightly longer than 24 hours.
This gets worse during summer/winter when daylight does not help in keeping my sleeping habits in check.
Got non perishable food for about a week at home.
-40 temperatures every few years. I live in an apartment so I’m not allowed to install a fireplace and can’t really make changes to the heating system. Got a heap of candles that could keep a small room above freezing for a day or two.
Excessive amounts of snow. 4WD and can work remotely.
Visited family for new years and slept next to one. It made about as much noise as their fridge. It’s most likely a newer model.
Yes. I would not want a row of them in my way looking out over the wilderness that I live next to.
Looking out over the town or farmland I don’t really care.
Sure my phone manufacturer has my data. Does not mean I’ll give it to the grocery store.
They’d get it too if it was a choice between no food or giving up my data.
More than €250/year.
I’m currently not using membership cards at the local grocery store. The discount I’d get is worth approximately that much for me.
Apple. Vendor lock-in and anti-competitive practice. I’d boycott Google too but at the time of writing I can’t dump the mail for example.
Tesla, until they sign an agreement with the Unions in Sweden. I’m voting right, I’m not a member of an union, but if you want to do business here you follow our culture and norms.
Probably half a dozen more I can’t think of now.
In my case it was because Ubuntu broke on me for whatever reason (and the threat of snap packages looming).
I did not feel like putting anymore effort into getting the computer back to working so I just switched to something not Ubuntuoid at semi random to anything that promised an easy installation.
A year later and it’s still working. I’ll notify you when it breaks so you can tell me “I told you so”.
Some games don’t run (runs badly) on Linux.
I have to work on a windows computer so I’m regularly reminded of the horrors that is W11.
For the same reason people hate the Nazi trolls. Extreme left or right does not matter. Normal people don’t want that garbage.
I don’t.
I acknowledge the sense of community and belonging a religion can bring but I find the entire notion of believing in anything supernatural to be absurd.
When I feel like I am getting dragged into an argument on the internet I try to remember that when two people argue at least 50% of them are wrong.
Sweden: you can apply for a licence from the police for target shooting if you’re an active member of a club, or a hunter if you have passed a hunters exam (like drivers license basically). You’ll have your criminal record checked.
Either way the gun must be suitable for the purpose. Shotguns and hunting rifles are not very hard to get. If your criminal record is clean and you’ve got the hunters exam you’ll probably be granted a licence for up to 4 hunting rifles/shotguns with the only question being if you have a large enough gun safe. You’ll get to keep them forever unless you’re convicted of a crime. (There is a debate right now if doctors should tell the police if someone is unsuitable, the argument against is that people would not go to the doctor if they suspected they could lose their guns)
Hand guns are harder to get and the license needs to be renewed every few years and you’ve got to prove that you are actively hunting/target shooting.
Magazine size for semi automatic is limited. Length of rifles and shotguns are regulated as to not be easily concealable. All firearms must be stored in a heavy safe when not used. You’re not allowed to carry it around town.
As for my opinion as a hunter it’s not excessively burdensome to get your license. The time delay has been due to under staffing rather than the laws itself. I do take issue with the “suitable for purpose” as they can arbitrarily deny you a licence because it “looks” like a military rifle.
I use a a Motorola g30. Was the cheapest one in the shop a few years back. Not too inundated by bloatware.
What should I have for dinner today? Jokes aside probably something unimportant like: which stock on arbitrary stock market will perform the best from the first to last day of 2024.
I don’t really want to know the answer to the big philosophical questions, because what if the answer is depressing? “The meaning of life is arbitrary and nothing you do matters”
I don’t really care to know the truth about something controversial because I’d be no different from a fanatic arguing blindly for their side. Noone else knows I know.
I don’t want to know the secrets to some revolutionary technology. The explanation would be lost on me anyway and it’s not like I could explain it to someone who can build a fusion reactor or whatever.
I don’t really want to know the truth about why by ex left me or other events in life. If I had infinite questions I’d start here, but there are too many of these and none of them are that uncomfortable to live with.
I want to be secure from bad actors myself. Currently there is no technology that would safely let government break encryption without letting bad actors use the same backdoor to empty your bank account. Sure they would not be given the key but there is a huge incentive for them to try to find it.
Also how would you make sure a bad actor don’t make their own app with unbroken encryption and running a system without client side scanning? Again there is huge incentive to do this and the information how is publicly available.
So in the end bad actors get their private conversation while law abiding citizens don’t.
2015 Toyota RAV4. Reliable and does everything I need a car for. Cheap-ish too.
I live in the very north Scandinavia. I go hunting and need a 4wd for that. 25% of my mileage is long drives in Arctic winter conditions. Electric cars that manage this drive were 2-3 times as expensive and I’d have to drive 2-3 times as far every year even when electricity is free to motivate the expense.
Increased support for Ukraine.
It’s at the moment more important than solving any domestic issues.
(I most likely don’t live in your country, only argue for your favored domestic issues if you really have nothing better to do).