dojan

dojan, 1 year ago

My roomie’s a trucker, he listens to the radio a lot. Otherwise I’ve no idea, don’t think you listen to the radio outside of when you’re in a car.

dojan, 1 year ago

I belive we have really strict gambling laws, one of the reasons we never got arcade halls here. Online casinos and such don’t count though, it seems. It feels like half a dozen pop up each week.

dojan, 1 year ago

I legit never understood that one myself. I think it’s a mix of laws that make it infeasible.

Game machines are not allowed to be an establishments main source of income. This I think is targeted at gambling machines, slots and the like, because gambling is heavily regulated by the state, but naturally that also made arcades nigh impossible to run.

I believe there’s also some sort of law about the amount of such machines an establishment may have. Again, to prevent casino type establishments from existing. You can’t really run an arcade hall with two or three machines.

Then a more recent law enforces such machines to also give you a receipt? I dunno I didn’t read too closely, but I suppose machines of that kind don’t tend to have that sort of functionality meaning if you wanted to have an arcade hall here you’d need to custom order the machines.

It’s just not economically feasible.

And the most ridiculous thing is that while there’s not much in the way of physical gambling here, there are so many internet casinos I can’t properly convey how ridiculous it is. Like imagine an incredulous amount and it’s still more than that.

And the government is perfectly okay with that. They’re such incompetent buffoons.

dojan, 1 year ago

Yes, and my go to Chinese restaurant had two slot machines. They can have these things but they can’t be the primary income of the establishment.

Ergo no casinos or arcade halls, but blackjack at a bar is fine.

dojan, 1 year ago

Gambling shouldn’t be advertised. Swedish radio advertisements is 70% gambling, and the remaining 30% is sex toys and car related services.

dojan, 1 year ago

Don’t give them a heart attack. They’re like 60% of Lemmy’s content.

dojan, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Aah, that’s the context I wanted. Thank you!

They’ve recently tried establishing here in Sweden. Not quite sure where they set up shop but it’s nowhere near where I live, so I’ve not been. Don’t think it’s going great for them. I don’t think bulk groceries is a filled niche here, but I’m also not sure how big that niche even is. As far as I know most people buy groceries for the day, or every couple of days. My roomie and I order in groceries once a week. I think that’s fairly standard.

Might be massive savings in buying in bulk, but then there’s the matter of storing it all too.

dojan, 1 year ago

We don’t have Walmart.

dojan, 1 year ago

I don’t think we could as the nearest Costco is 2 hours and 40 minutes away. The reviews aren’t great either, seems they mostly sell expired stuff.

dojan, 1 year ago

There’s no such thing here, to my knowledge. Why would you be ashamed of shopping at a certain store?

dojan, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

What’s special about Costco? Speaking as someone who’s never been.

dojan, 1 year ago

I’ll give this a go! We’ve not found any particular congregations of them. I’ve even repotted all my plants to check if they’re living there.

If they’re on the walls that would make sense.

dojan, 1 year ago

I can’t believe a gar licked this!

dojan, 1 year ago

And there’s a lot of alternatives for many different prices. I remember how people used to berate me for being vegetarian while growing up, telling me I’d die and whatnot.

Still here, after nearly thirty years.

dojan, 1 year ago

Sounds like just another way to avoid paying people. A share that’s never paid out might as well just be Monopoly money.

dojan, 1 year ago

I just paid my electricity bill and got really surprised that it was sub 400SEK. It’s consistently been above 800, sometimes upwards of 2000 since the pandemic. Our kw/h price for September was 46,61 öre. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fe64b9b2-3504-47d5-a8eb-5aed2f292da1.png

dojan, 1 year ago

That’s because nuclear energy is green. It doesn’t produce any greenhouse gas emissions. You having bought into the fearmongering about nuclear doesn’t change reality.

dojan, 1 year ago

I interpreted “right now” in the message as “today”, or “when the post was made.”

Some days are purely renewable. Others aren’t. In the winter when electricity usage goes up it’s not uncommon for us to import fossil fuel electricity from other countries. The green party also suggested powering up natural gas plants as we were shutting down nuclear. Ngas obviously isn’t renewable.

Svenska Kraftnät has a “control room” with graphs and timelines on exports/imports and energy sources.

“Värmekraft” is power produced by burning things, it can be coal, oil, wood fuels, garbage, etc.

“Ospecifierat” (unspecified) includes power produced in facilities with more than one type of source, where you cannot separate what produces what.

dojan, 1 year ago

That happens. Feels like most climate related things that aren’t disasters is greenwashing so it’s not an infeasible conclusion to jump to.

dojan, 1 year ago

Sweden does it right and the Swedes can be proud of themselves.

Reading this as a Swede is kind of funny because we have a lot of criticism internally in this subject. Our electric prices have been wild these past few years, like, bankrupting businesses and people wild.

I remember reading an article about a bakery shutting down because they got an electric bill on like 70k, in addition to all the other operating costs.

dojan, 1 year ago

Given that my inextant basement wouldn’t be a facility equipped to store or process nuclear waste had it existed, I’d obviously have some reservations. Having lived near such a facility however, and having been involved politically with it, I have no big qualms about it no. Why do you?

dojan, 1 year ago

I never claimed it was. It’s a waste processing and storage facility. Waste comes in, waste goes out.

dojan, 1 year ago

That’s fair. The CO2 emissions involved in production and building anything shouldn’t be disregarded.

dojan, 1 year ago

Me saying that you’re right doesn’t make sense? A house built using cement isn’t CO2 neutral. A house built using wood uses less CO2, but it isn’t neutral either. A nuclear reactor won’t be CO2 neutral, even if the fission process or the turbines don’t generate any CO2. A wind turbine by comparison, while it won’t have the same output capacity as a nuclear reactor, would use a lot less CO2 to manufacture and assemble.

dojan, 1 year ago

Why? What’s wrong with WSL?