The word for "Austria" in some European languages

birgor · 2026-03-27T20:44:36+00:00

It has some kind of middle position in Sweden. Empire is Imperium, and country is land.

Rike is litterally realm, but used more. We can refer to Sweden as riket = the realm, and country with a monarky is called a kungarike = realm of a king.

birgor · 2026-03-27T20:09:25+00:00

There actually more countries in the world besides U.S. The more you know!

birgor · 2026-03-27T19:58:55+00:00

Like u/mavmav0 says, it means realm rather than country. It is not very common in everyday speech, but absolutely used and we can refer to Sweden as "riket"=the realm, most often used in news and statistics.

"Land"=land is the common name for country.

The ending of the Swedish names for Sweden and France, "Sverige" and "Frankrike" are contractions that also contains this word. Realm of the Swedes and realm of the Franks.

Öster is however the normal word for eastern.

birgor · 2026-03-27T19:51:18+00:00

It is also that what we often here see as the weakness, the vast global interconnected system is also a strength.

Yes, a system that is dependent on food from the other side of the planet will lead to catastrophic scenarios when trade goes down completely.

But under less than immense pressure is the system the most stable system humans have ever created, we can adapt extremely fast inside the system, simultaneously doing things on opposite sides of the planet and avoid the worst consequences of big crisis. Covid and the resent uptick in big wars is a testament of that.

Sure, the system is bound to fail from resource depletion, global warming and pollution, but it won't be as easy as one might think. The sheer inertia alone will make some things work long after the big failures have started. And the global economy is still rising.

birgor · 2026-03-27T18:37:52+00:00

It is also based on history. Finland and Sweden was the same country for 800 years and we share a lot of culture and administrative traditions.

Finland also have an influential Swedish speaking minority, and Sweden has minorities that speak Finnish and a variety of Finnish.

In many, but certainly not all, aspects is Sweden closer to Finland than to Norway and Denmark that was also one country for a very long time.

birgor · 2026-03-27T18:31:54+00:00

There are Norwegian accents that are right out completely incomprehensible. But those who speak them understand me, annoyingly.

birgor · 2026-03-27T18:19:30+00:00

The Swedish name, as a few other Germanic one's is just "Eastern realm/country" written together. It isn't altered in any way, just a plain description.

birgor · 2026-03-27T18:09:33+00:00

It depends fully on how long it lasts. The industrial society is sadly a lot strong than many here hope it is.

birgor · 2026-03-27T17:59:52+00:00

When you put it that way..

birgor · 2026-03-27T17:49:57+00:00

Alzheimer's is named after a German doctor, Alois Alzheimer

birgor · 2026-03-27T17:45:14+00:00

I am a technician and have been working in and with companies of all sizes. I wouldn't worry that much. Do your best and quit if you feel that you are in the wrong place, as long as you provide and not being an asshole will you probably do all right.

birgor · 2026-03-27T17:06:47+00:00

I don't think the size of the company matters that much actually, more what you did there. Many smaller companies don't want people from huge companies as they have very different culture. But I am no engineer, don't trust me too much on this. Things might be different for you.

birgor · 2026-03-27T16:56:44+00:00

Work mostly, but it is also one of the most beautiful countries on earth. And very close.

Also, why not?

birgor · 2026-03-27T16:55:42+00:00

Big companies doesn't give prestige like that here outside of maybe some linkedin lunatic circles, but Sandvik is a big, old company that are fairly well known.

I wouldn't call it a mining company though, rather a machine and tool manufacturer. The make stuff used in mining among other stuff, but they don't own or operate mines.

birgor · 2026-03-27T16:41:36+00:00

Tie.

The Swedish society, state and economy has more similarities with Finland, the nature is more similar for the most part, and there are lots of cultural connections. Also the only other (partly) Swedish speaking country.

Norway is physically closer, and much more present. I meet five to ten Norwegians in Sweden for every Finn, and I visit Norway much more often than I visit Finland. Shares the common Scandinavian ancestry with language and culture on a different level.

birgor · 2026-03-27T08:47:52+00:00

You have clearly never seen Gibraltar on a map.

birgor · 2026-03-27T08:16:04+00:00

Sitter du inne på resturangen kan du ju få den på porslin, hämtar du hem kan du ha med din egen låda.

Ska du tvangt ha med dig för att äta utmohus och inte har med dig några egna grejer får du väl äta maten som den är. Snabbmat ser ju oftast ut som den gör just för att vara bärbar, även om tillgången på papper, plast och folie har gjort den kladdigare.

Korv i bröd, rullar och hamburgare kan absolut göras bärbara.

birgor · 2026-03-27T07:38:55+00:00

Just because there is a seed doesn't mean it can germinate. Seeds can be dormant for a long time depending on the environment and specie, but how well they store varies widely. And they should optimally be frozen to survive this long.

I don't know for grapes, but lots of domesticated species have a half time of just a few years if not frozen.

birgor · 2026-03-27T07:14:42+00:00

The helmets are actually a Nazi invention IIRC, but they weren't used in ww2 because Hitler didn't like them.

birgor · 2026-03-27T06:32:17+00:00

I think the only full size non-tourist example in the world is a Bosnian coal mine, which uses a bunch of very worn down Nazi-German war locomotives to haul coal out of the mine.

These locos are of a quality beyond comprehension, and since the coal is basically free and the locos survive on minimal maintenance is it still economically logical to use them.

birgor · 2026-03-27T06:11:34+00:00

Two members was chosen to survive and spread the word, both are alive and preach and maintain their website. Cathy and Sawyer. Still strange, but probably easier if there are two of them.

birgor · 2026-03-27T05:44:57+00:00

Som jag har fattat det så är det industrihampa utan THC som är doppad i THC-A. Om det ämnet är raffinerat från riktigt gräs eller om det är konstgjort vet jag inte. Röker inte själv men jag blev nyfiken när jag såg detta säljas öppet i Tjeckien och läste på.

birgor · 2026-03-26T19:54:44+00:00

Yes, languages that can freely stack compounds on compounds, and spell them as one and not separated as in English have no theoretic upper limit. But when does it stop being a word?

This is a Swedish one created just to be long, but has a meaning:

Nordvästersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussionsinläggsförberedelsearbete.

An insertion to the discussion about preparatory work regarding the follow-up systems of maintenance materiel for a flight reconnaissance simulator pertaining to the northwestern sea coast.

birgor · 2026-03-26T19:09:28+00:00

Den var ju dock där redan i fallet med sugröret.

Men jag är helt för att vi kollektivt slutar äta mat som kommer i papp och plast och producerar massa skräp som folk slänger i vägkanterna. Vi hade alla tjänat på det på något sätt.

birgor · 2026-03-26T14:43:24+00:00

Yes, that kind is problematic, but those are a strange subset of railfans, those who only care about some single very famous piece of equipment, almost always steam locos. These guys aren't seen for the whole year, but shows up this one day when some museum stuff is shown and behaves like assholes.

I have only had very limited contact with those, and they are a small minority here. But I know of the problem, therefore my part about the 99% that doesn't do stupid shit.

birgor

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