dojan

dojan, 1 year ago

Oh. The point stands! I can carry my dog, he’s about 35kg. Beyond that I’ll pay someone to carry stuff for me.

dojan, 1 year ago

Conceptually this is really cool, but the hole punch is oddly misaligned on my Pixel 6, so I can’t imagine it looking good.

dojan, 1 year ago

I’m sure he gets it all the time. Who wouldn’t fuck Goofy?

dojan, 1 year ago

If he’s willing to trample all over people, exploit them, and have them die for his sake, then absolutely.

Billionaires don’t care about people. They don’t view others as human. To them workers are robots, a statistical means to an end. Who cares if someone dies in some factory/warehouse somewhere? There’ll be another to replace them before the end of the day.

A billionaire gladly takes the effort of others and claims it as their own. They go out of their way to do it.

That’s not to say that every evil person acting like this will automatically become a billionaire, but you need to be OK with doing these things in order to get there. A billion USD is such an insane sum you cannot legitimately accumulate that without hurting people in the process. Like there’s no logical way of actually earning that amount of money. That’s money you take.

dojan, 1 year ago

Guillotine for the lot, I say.

dojan, 1 year ago

Okay if somehow one can’t figure out that night comes after day, then one can hopefully count and know that 12 comes after 1. 1AM is in the middle of the night so 11 hours later, 12AM would be noon. 12AM obviously doesn’t come before 1AM, thus midnight is 12PM, because midnight is when one day rolls over to the next and you get morning (or before midday) again.

dojan, 1 year ago

All the anger is in one man and it skews the statistics.

dojan, 1 year ago

Don’t apologise for silly things.

dojan, 1 year ago

Mythology is crazy!

I love the stories about Atalanta, and how it culminates in her and Hippomenes both being transformed into lions as punishment for shagging in a temple, because at the time people believed that lions couldn’t have offspring together.

The story of Thor dressing up as and pretending to be Freyja in order to get his hammer back from some giants is also pretty sick.

And Amaterasu forever shunning her brotherhusband for in disgust decapitating a lady who invited them to a party she was too lazy to go to.

There’s so many quality stories out there.

dojan, 1 year ago

Apologies for the late response, I was working.

Odin kidnapped children and set them to be chased by wolves for all eternity because of how their father named them.

No hailing Oden, please. He’s a cunt.

This bit is tongue in cheek, specifically the “no hailing Oden” bit. It is a joke. I don’t actually care if someone worships Oden or not, you’re free to do as you please. I apologise if my phrasing came across as more serious than was intended. My apologies to you, @Delphia, and anyone else whom I’ve offended.

This…

Odin kidnapped children and set them to be chased by wolves for all eternity because of how their father named them.

…is a reference to the story of the children Sol and Mani, whose father loved them so much he decided to name them after the sun and the moon. Oden took offence to this, and whisked the children away up into the skies to drive the carriages of their namesakes, and just to ensure none shirked their duty, he set Fenrir’s two children, Hati (Hatred) and Sköll (Treachery) to chase them until the end times when the twin wolves devour their targets.

No matter how you look at it, that’s a shitty thing to do. It’s not the children’s fault that their father gave them that name. Suppose father was punished too in that he lost his beloved kids, but the children really drew the short end of the stick.

It’s not the first time he’s a bit of a shithead either. The way I’ve always understood the stories having grown up with them, his treatment of Loke’s children is what drives them to oppose him in the end times. He creates a lot of problems that could be fixed would he be open to properly communicate, but Oden isn’t the type to do that. He’s too prideful.

And this…

He’s also co-opted as a symbol for nationalism and white supremacy so there’s that part too.

…is sadly also true. I welcome people rekindling Asatro. I think that’s delightful. However, sadly there’s a bunch of people that have co-opted these stories and group together under Odin as a symbol of hatred and xenophobia. I obviously don’t think the person I initially responded to is one of these people, nor do I think they’re seriously practising asatro.

So, if you do decide to openly worship Oden, or carry imagery associated with him - that’s really cool, but it’s also worth noting that sadly in modern society at least here in Scandinavia, there are some unsavory connotations with it.

Finally this

If you’re going to choose a god to praise, why choose an easily insulted one-eyed old fart with a self-confidence problem? Go with someone with more pizzazz, like Freyja. Goddess of love, beauty, sex, war, magic. Is there anything she doesn’t do?

…is also tongue-in-cheek, though I do unironically think Freyja is many times cooler than Oden and I will (figuratively) fight you on that.

dojan, 1 year ago

Love, sex, and, war is? Three out of five isn’t bad, could be worse!

dojan, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Odin kidnapped children and set them to be chased by wolves for all eternity because of how their father named them.

No hailing Oden, please. He’s a cunt.

dojan, 1 year ago

Hahaha. I love that.

dojan, 1 year ago

Speaking of Irish accents! First time I heard someone with a Cork accent I lost my shit. It sounds exactly like a Scanian (Southern Sweden) person speaking with an Irish accent. It’s delightful.

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 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

We don’t have Walmart.

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

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

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

Love hearing about companies getting screwed over when they try to screw their workers. Delicious!

My roomie is a truck driver. As far as I understand he is salaried, but it’s a fair wage. He also gets compensation for work outside of his normal hours, and bonus pay for “uncomfortable working hours.”

So the first eight hours, provided it’s not a night shift or a holiday, he gets normal pay. Any hour after those first eight hours he gets overtime pay, I believe standard there is double the amount. Holiday/uncomfortable pay I think is also doubled.

Because of the nature of the work he racks up overtime almost daily and takes home a decent sized paycheck each month.