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So what you gonna do when you grow up? :-)

I disagree (and am European, and a union rep for many years). Subordination is what I expect from an employee and obedience from a dog.

Subordination is a role you opt into. Obedience is something you can't get away from.

You take a job as mailman and then you are a subordinate to the postmaster. Refusing to carry out sensible and appropriate orders (without a valid reason) is insubordination and grounds for being fired (more or less) on the spot, even in Scandinavia.

What counts as an appropriate order and a valid ground for refusal is probably very different in different regions/countries/states, but the basic dynamic is not.

The EU is an alliance of shared interests and some very basic shared ideals. We are allies, not soulmates or lovers.

That is not intended to defend people who speak ill of their neighbours. Bad manners are always ugly. Just pointing out that being nice is not a prerequisite for being a useful and even so.ewhat dependable ally.

Ok? Some military guy in Ukraine has a patch with a skull and... drumroll THE NAZI:S ALSO USED IMAGES OF (not-quite-the-same-looking) SKULLS!!!

If you are into this kind of scary stuff, I can warmly recomend a documentary from 2012 called Iron Sky. It really puts the American moon landings into a new light. No big surprise of course, since Americans often use eagle symbols, JUST LIKE THE NAZIS!!!

The truth is out there!

I still prefer taking and giving traditional paper cards when meeting new business acqaintances. Need to order a new batch soon, actually.

Any recomendations for high quality printing services? Preferably one that can do all the stuff they talk about in American Psyco!

Revolutionary is of course an extreme stretch, but they do add unique convenience to the checkout process.

No user account creation, no entering of address and credit card number. Just click purchase and confirm with BankID. I also like that they retain neatly organized purchase history across all vendors, including permanent storage of the product images.

I prefer klarna so much, that I occassionally simply go to another etailer if there is no Klarna checkout option in the first place I try to buy something.

Of course it is shallow. But it can be OK anyway. A bit of vanity is present in most of us. You don't need to fight it, it is fine to embrace vanity as a hobby or profession.

If the baldness goes beyond being a minor nag in your vanity though, and you start believing that regrowing your hair is truly essential to your happiness and wellbeing, you should perhaps seek professional help for your mind rather than your scalp.

Of course stay away from crowded, public, indoor spaces.

But keeping your kids indoors is not considerate towards anyone. It is simply abusive to your kids.

Let them out in the garden/park/street to play.

As a fan and random stranger from the Internet, your Anandtech byline and twitter handle are how your public persona introduces himself to me several times per months over the course of multiple years.

Your actual person I of course know nothing about and pass neither judgement nor praise for. That is none of my business!

This is the way, that is naively sortable.

I maintain some code that rely on Python AST for finding and packaging modules with appropriate class signatures when building customer specific distributions. It works really well most of the time. And, it is a lot easier to maintain than 50+ separate wheel definitions.

The one big drawback is that the AST for even trivial code patterns has had a history of changing between Python versions. This makes it more annoying than usual to support multiple versions at the same time. Luckily 3.9 and 3.10 hasn't brought any changes that impacted my codebase, as far as I've noticed.

Extremely different. Sweden has 20% foreign born inhabitants.

Population density in the inhabited parts of Sweden is similar to the Netherlands, only slightly less than Denmark. Norway and Finland are much lower.

It is no Hong Kong for sure, but not quite as sparse as it is often made out to be.

So, it is really easy and almost no one manages to do it right even after instructions?

And after failing to do it right after instructions, it is the other people who are arrogant for asking to use something they are able to pronounce, not you for insisting on making them uncomfortable?

Names are just sounds people make when they want someones attention. Respect goes two ways.

In Sweden the QR menues tend to be based on Facebook messenger. The restaurants that use this system also tend to push very hard for avoiding manual orders and payments. It is a complete farce every time, since most of the people I go out with don't use Facebook. We are usually not the only patrons annoyed by this, so I hope they give up soon. I will never go pack to a place that don't let me order normally.

It's the blessing and curse of Dutch people, as a collective, that they really don't mind telling you what they think.

It's hard to jump straight to friend-level, without first socializing and making acquaintances.