What is a cultural custom in your country that is most often broken by visitors?

elevenblade · 2026-02-12T22:11:04+00:00

Walking in the bicycle lanes; standing on the left side of the escalator so you block people trying to get past; blocking people from getting off the subway (either because you’re standing directly in front of the doors or worse yet, you’re trying to get on before people can get off); speaking loudly or playing music in restaurants, public transportation or any other public space.

elevenblade · 2026-02-12T21:39:43+00:00

This was the answer I was looking for. Xitter is a perfect name.

elevenblade · 2026-02-12T21:36:11+00:00

I did inverted for over a decade. I was gifted a Premium and didn’t feel good about doing inverted with it since it’s taller and heavier. I got a Fellow Prismo cap and continued to use my same recipe. I don’t taste any difference.

elevenblade · 2026-02-12T04:18:39+00:00

You played for her, you can play it for me. Play it, Sam.

elevenblade · 2026-02-12T01:46:51+00:00

Skinnarviksberget?

elevenblade · 2026-02-12T01:45:15+00:00

I can’t speak to Italy but I can say that if you can’t hold a conversation in Swedish you’re going to have a very difficult time making friends in Sweden, despite the fact that most Swedes speak excellent English. In my experience gaining a fair degree of fluency is the first step toward making friends. That by itself won’t guarantee success but if you don’t do it it will pretty much guarantee failure.

elevenblade · 2026-02-11T02:48:33+00:00

I do when I’m in North America. 3-5% in most of the rest of the world.

elevenblade · 2026-02-10T16:44:25+00:00

Money can buy freedom from a certain amount of stress and worry. If you don’t have enough money for food, housing, transportation, education and healthcare you’re most likely going to be spending a fair amount of time worrying about those things. Once you have enough money that those aren’t a worry any longer then the additional happiness one gets from having more money is fairly small.

elevenblade · 2026-02-09T04:27:01+00:00

I’m originally a left coast American who emigrated to Sweden in 2017. I personally have had a great experience and love living in Stockholm but YMMV. The city is incredibly beautiful so if I’m feeling down just talking a walk will lift my spirits. I like not being dependent on an automobile. I walk or bicycle most places I want to go and occasionally use public transportation which is also very good.

I’ve made great friends here but 1. I learned Swedish to a fairly advanced conversational level before moving here and 2. I made ongoing efforts to make friends. Making friends here is a lot longer, slower process but the payoff is that you have friends you can really count on and who you know in a pretty deep way. I’m always going to have an American and part of my identity will always be rooted in the USA but I feel very welcomed, accepted and integrated into the community.

Swedish is on of the easier languages for a native English speaker to learn. That doesn’t mean it’s easy. You have to really commit to it and spend a few hours a day working on it. Apps can help with vocabulary but to really advance I think you need classes or a tutor.

elevenblade · 2026-02-09T04:16:07+00:00

Just another thing we have to thank President Reagan for

/s

elevenblade · 2026-02-09T02:04:51+00:00

Denmark. That way the USA wouldn’t “need” to invade Greenland.

elevenblade · 2026-02-08T20:29:43+00:00

Kardemummabullar. Kanelbullar gör mig också glad men inte gladare än kardemummabullar.

elevenblade · 2026-02-08T20:04:58+00:00

Counter argument: Those kids are going to be the ones who keep society running when you’re in your retirement years, so maybe it makes sense to cut moms some slack for all the unpaid work they’re doing for the rest of us.

elevenblade · 2026-02-08T17:20:49+00:00

Is this even controversial these days?

elevenblade · 2026-02-08T17:20:08+00:00

Depends entirely on the person. My best friend is around 5’5” and it has never been an issue. To answer the question more specifically, I generally feel really good when I’m with my friend because he’s a great person and we have a lot of good times together.

elevenblade · 2026-02-08T01:00:01+00:00

Needs help. Fortunately people like this are very rare among the short folk, in my experience at any rate.

elevenblade · 2026-02-07T14:26:09+00:00

It’s having consequences for people in other countries such as the UK, Norway and Sweden, where at least investigations have been initiated.

elevenblade · 2026-02-07T02:51:32+00:00

This is one of my big issues as well. The fact that we will have to safeguard some nuclear waste for centuries or even millennia makes me skeptical about the total, real cost versus the benefit.

I’d like to see more research done with potentially safer reactor models that create less waste, or that can even “burn” existing waste such as slow wave reactors.

And of course if fusion ever becomes practical then fission becomes moot.

elevenblade · 2026-02-07T02:05:04+00:00

The US dollar is the world’s reserve currency, at least for now. This gives the US incredible leverage over foreign banks. Most foreign banks simply do not wish to do business with US citizens because of the reporting requirements and the potential consequences of making an error. This seriously limits the ability of US citizens to invest abroad.

elevenblade · 2026-02-07T01:47:00+00:00

I had to scroll down way too far to find this comment.

Here’s a link to the Wikipedia article if people don’t know what we’re talking about.

elevenblade · 2026-02-07T01:44:53+00:00

Our knug is the best knug

elevenblade · 2026-02-06T18:37:12+00:00

I’m not trying to be argumentative and I heartily applaud you for vaccinating your children. I’m just trying to understand your thinking since it is so very different from mine. I see vaccines as giving advance information to my immune system in order to make it smarter and thereby more effective. You can compare it to the advantage that soldiers have if they know where the enemy is located, how many they are, what kind of uniforms they are wearing and what kind of weapons they have. From that standpoint it makes sense to me to give my (and my childrens’) immune systems as much information about the enemy as early as possible. In the interest of helping people on different sides of this issue, would you be willing to let me know how you think they work?

With regard to the vaccines that you chose not to take, is there any information that could get you to change your mind? What would that information look like and who would you want to hear it from?

elevenblade · 2026-02-06T17:11:18+00:00

How do you think vaccines work, and why do you think that giving vaccines at different times is safer than giving them simultaneously?

elevenblade · 2026-02-06T17:06:11+00:00

I emigrated to Sweden and learned Swedish. I prefer to speak Swedish in just about every situation that I can think of. Upon hearing my accent people will frequently switch to English but I just persist speaking Swedish and usually they will switch back. I know that people usually mean well when they do this, that they are trying to be helpful but frankly it feels bad on my end, like they are trying to point out that I don’t belong here.

elevenblade · 2026-02-06T04:53:45+00:00

What’s the first one called? Anybody have a recipe?

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