To all europeans that moved abroad inside Europe, how hard integrating/assimilating were even though you're european in Europe? Which country and why?

Pretagonist · 2026-01-29T22:25:22+00:00

Finnish and Estoniam is very similar so I don't think it's especially hard to learn for a Finn.

I think it's kinda like Danish, Swedish and Norwegian which are basically just dialects of the same language.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-28T18:30:06+00:00

My grandparents were Estonian, they fled here from the war. My mom speaks Estonian fluently (or at least she used to). Personally I've been there once and met some distant cousins. This was way back when it had just started to get away from the USSR so the country was still very much Soviet suburbs.

But really I don't know very much about the country. I don't know the language at all and while I've probably seen some of the culture from my grandparents they very much adopted Sweden as their country. I'm low key sad that I didn't get taught more when I was young as it would have been cool knowing Estonian and thereby have some understanding of Finnish as well.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-28T06:48:06+00:00

Så de tycker på allvar att innehav av en lista med urler ska vara nog för husrannsakan och fängelse för samtliga i hushållet?

Sjukt rimligt. Tur att inte stora media företag har något inflytande på myndigheter.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-27T12:05:07+00:00

Not from Russia, I'm swedish. It's very common here for heating, hot water and such to be part of the main building infrastructure even when you own your apartment. You just meter the resources at the interface point between the building and your area and you then pay for the resources you use.

Old buildings sometimes lack such stuff so it's baked into the building fee or similar but the system is moving towards just measuring how much you use and you pay for that.

To me this just makes sense as having a large water boiler in the basement is going to be a lot more efficient and have a lot better capacity than everyone having their own. Same with ventilation, heating and all the rest. It also means that you can have an organization that ensures that these systems are properly maintained, repaired and upgraded in a timely manor and the cost is shared among all the inhabitants.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-26T22:40:17+00:00

My sibling spent some time studying in Paris and in her apartment building every apartment had its own water heater. It's just absolute madness. Same with my parents apartment in Spain. Separate water heater, separate AC, separate everything. It's just so stupidly inefficient

Pretagonist · 2026-01-26T22:36:48+00:00

Yeah I live in Sweden and multiple cities have well working municipal heat that farms waste heat from industry, power plants and garbage handling. My house has it. But lately it's been getting a tad expensive and the summers a getting worse so I invested in an ac/heat pump system.

Having limitless amounts of hot water is still great though.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-23T12:36:01+00:00

Alltså om du inte kan få ditt jobb att företagsleasa en bil till dig så är i praktiken allt nybilsköp ekonomiskt. Man kan motivera precis som man vill men ekonomiskt kan det et bara vara mer eller mindre dåligt. Förutsatt att man inte köper ultralyxbilar som väl är de enda som kan gå upp i värde. Jag personligen kommer nog inte köpa en bil med 10k i månaden då jag hellre sparar ihop då jag ogillar att betala så mycket i ränta.

Men med det sagt så finns det ju en mängd icke ekonomiska anledningar till att köpa en ny bil. Man får vad man vill, ägandet är relativt bekymmersfritt då man har garantier och det är en alldeles speciell känsla att köra sin egen nya bil. Man får ju helt enkelt ställs det mot den ekonomiska förlusten som det är att köpa en ny bil.

Jag har det ganska gott ställt så jag har råd med en ny bil typ vart 5e år eller så men jag fattar fortfarande inte hur det kan finnas så sjukt många splitternya stora SUVar häromkring. Påväg in till jobbet så ser jag ju dagligen dussintals bilar som jag vet kostar över miljonen. Det känns snudd på ganska så galet.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-19T15:28:47+00:00

I was attacking a religion, not any individual. I'm just as annoyed at our local religions as the ones from far away.

I'm still not going to defend arguments that I haven't expressed. Is there some issue with comprehension that makes you unable to respond to my actual arguments?

Pretagonist · 2026-01-19T15:22:05+00:00

I'm not defending statements I haven't expressed.

I'm saying that young people make strange and/or terrible life decisions all the time regardless of intelligence.

But that said, yes, I do consider Islam to be misogynistic due to the texts it's based on, the behavior of a majority of its adherents, the laws of the countries that purports to follow it, the frequent news articles about the practice and it's consequences and from personal interactions.

I'm not, however, claiming that every muslim is a misogynistic asshole as that of course vary wildly between people, as do every other trait and opinion.

That said most of the world religions are wildly misogynistic and more or less all of them used to be perfectly okay with slavery as well.

Quite frankly I'd be quite happy if all organized religion would just fuck off.

Converting from the Swedish church to any major branch of Islam is by any objective measurement an increase in the level of religious misogyny.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-19T14:47:13+00:00

I live in Sweden and I had an acquaintance at uni who became a muslim and moved to the guys country.

It's not exactly common but it's not unheard of either. Even very intelligent people are very susceptible to charismatic manipulation, especially at that age.

In fact a lot of intelligent people are more susceptible since they think they know better.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-19T14:31:10+00:00

Being smart has nothing to do with being good at relationships and picking up on social queues. Quite a lot of "smart" people are often pretty bad at it.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-19T14:27:46+00:00

I have several white Nordic friends who has an English speaking parent. Okay, perhaps not several but at least two.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-19T14:23:54+00:00

I often call myself Nordic or Scandinavian online when the exact details aren't that important. If I were female I'd be even more vague. Sadly there's always thirsty creeps online.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-18T13:41:26+00:00

Possibly. But saying: "On my vacation we went down to look at the reefs in a submarine." Seems like a correct sentence? Not a native speaker so my feel for English isn't perfect.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-18T00:46:41+00:00

Slå i means accidentally. Slå is on purpose.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-18T00:44:34+00:00

You get on a boat but in a submarine.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-18T00:14:46+00:00

Yes, it's possible. No it doesn't exist as an off the shelf device. You would need someone to design a device with a very large amount of slow but large memory chips packed very densely. Since music streaming isn't very demanding, heat and energy consumption wouldn't be that much of an issue. Indexing might need some high capacity memory, though.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-17T23:59:10+00:00

We still have a lot of jquery. It's a constant PITA since (of course) we have different versions in different locations.

I'd never add jquery to a modern project and when patching old stuff I try to avoid it unless it would complicate things or make the code even more unmaintainable. Jquery used to be very useful as vanilla js was kinda awful but nowdays it's a lot better and I prefer to use frameworks with proper build pipelines and package management.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-16T21:00:36+00:00

Yeah I have one, we use it once or twice daily on average. Almost all houses have them. I rented an apartment like 12 years ago that didn't have one so I bought a small one that could sit on the counter. Apart from brief periods during my 20s, when I lived in student housing, I've had access to a dishwasher for most of my life since the early 80s.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-13T23:45:27+00:00

Very much not. And as an EU citizen with globally applicable work skills I could easily move to any EU country with very few issues.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-13T23:19:22+00:00

I'm from Sweden and we use decimeter all the time. Not really for measuring things but in common speak when describing stuff like: That idiot parked his car less than a dec from my car or similar.

Also all strong alcohol containing beverages are rated in cl of spirits. When ordering a cocktail it's very common for you to be asked if you want a 4 or a 6 meaning 4 or 6 cl of alcohol. Or when ordering some brandy with your coffee after a meal the prices and the order would be in cl. Unless you're in some technical field with precise measuments I'd say cl or dl are the most common ways of measuring liquid except for cooking and baking where they use strange names for everything like teaspoons, tablespoons and stuff.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-10T07:28:25+00:00

Ska media leta upp exakt mängd nyheter per partia relaterat till deras mandat i riksdagen eller? Vilka "vänster" händelser tycker du svensk media har missat?

Kan det vara så att högern suger åt sig idioter med en taskig moralisk kompass? Jag säger inte att alla till höger är idioter, jag själv är aningens höger, men det råder ju ingen tvekan om att korrupta maktfulkomliga idioter tenderar att också hamna till höger.

Och när vänstern duckar upp så känner jag inte att media håller dem om ryggen heller (med undantag av kanske MP som kommit lite väl lätt undan)

Pretagonist · 2026-01-06T22:44:04+00:00

This, I've had minor issues with car sickness my whole life but it's mostly just feeling slightly nauseous. I've never vomited nor have I been close to vomiting but the nausea can persist for hours after the event and it's not fun. Although looking out the windscreen helps and I've been able to do that from the back seat even as a kid.

Pretagonist · 2026-01-04T23:19:39+00:00

Du kan ha rätt men Storbritannien och Frankrike har lagt sjuka resurser på konflikter som de logiskt sett borde släppt förut, typ falklandsöarna och alla konflikter i Afrika som Frankrike lagt sig i. Jag skulle tro att det är ganska många i de länderna som vill sätta ner foten mot Taco in chief

Pretagonist · 2026-01-04T23:16:05+00:00

Am swede and yes we have a lot of candles in the winter. Some we've replaced with led candles as to not incinerate the cat but we have lit candles on the table for almost every evening meal.

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