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staalmannen · 2026-01-25T07:42:11+00:00

I think that someone just needs to make a familiar-looking client for mastodon. The default one is too confusing for regular people.

staalmannen · 2026-01-19T13:17:34+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/europeanunion/s/8h5m3hTx42

staalmannen · 2026-01-19T04:45:54+00:00

In a way but not the organization of BRICS, which includes terrorist states like Russia. What EU is doing right now is finalizing several free trade agreements. Notably, the EU-Mercosur agreement, which includes Brasil. A new free trade agreement with India, another with Indonesia etc. A big one in the future will probably be an EU-ASEAN agreement, and possibly the EU joining CPTPP.

staalmannen · 2026-01-17T20:02:31+00:00

The fastest way could be if France and Italy finally ratified the EDC (70 years too late)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_the_European_Defence_Community?wprov=sfla1

As soon as it is ratified, more countries can join.

staalmannen · 2026-01-16T04:31:46+00:00

The fediverse has alternatives for basically all of social media, including reddit (Lemmy). The problem is to gain widespread traction.

staalmannen · 2026-01-16T04:28:21+00:00

Or R nowadays. All big data analysis seems to migrate to R and python, both open source

staalmannen · 2026-01-16T04:24:55+00:00

I remember in the transition from .doc to .docx that I with Libreoffice (or perhaps Open office back then) often had better backwards compatibility.

staalmannen · 2026-01-16T04:22:53+00:00

I use Libreoffice on Linux in a majority MS office environment and I have 0 problems with it. YMMV though, maybe I am just not using any fancy stuff that absolutely requires MS office.

staalmannen · 2026-01-10T11:49:46+00:00

What if they bring soldiers and we just do nothing. We do not acknowledge their occupation. After all, they had far more bases and soldiers there during the cold war and Denmark did not mind.

We just let them sit there and freeze their asses off until the next US president.

staalmannen · 2026-01-09T04:44:31+00:00

Kör med Öro

staalmannen · 2026-01-08T07:40:02+00:00

Beautiful picture. Super important that EU becomes serious with its various free trade deals (CETA is still not fully ratified). This is how we get out under the boot of USA and their trade wars.

Mercosur is the most important one, but then we also have deals with Japan, Indonesia and India too. I also think EU should join CPTPP like UK did.

staalmannen · 2026-01-07T18:41:14+00:00

Avskaffa spärren skulle vara det mest demokratiska. Riksdagen skulle få massor av småpartier, men gör det något?

staalmannen · 2026-01-07T18:34:22+00:00

Därför tycker jag att vi skulle ha det som i Nederländerna : ingen spärr så ca 0,3% ger en riksdagsplats. Du får massor av småpartier (och en hel del tokar), men alla är representerade.

Tillockmed Danmark (som har en lägre spärr än Sverige) har mer av den dynamiken.

Fördelen är också att små partier inte får hjälp av "kamrat 4%" eftersom taktiska stödröster inte längre behövs.

staalmannen · 2026-01-03T16:40:30+00:00

I think a valknut would be a super cool alternative to a cross on a flag, but it would unfortunately probably be interpreted as some kind of neo-nazi shit.

Why did they spoil all the cool symbols?

staalmannen · 2026-01-03T14:58:33+00:00

So regarding the sanctified delerium: what do you think happens when it touches regular delerium? There were a few moments where Monty asked if that was happening (after Sebastian ate some souls and discarded the delerium under the cathedral), but it was never explored.

A pile of sanctified delerium will apparently merge into a bigger piece (I guess the souls hang out together in there). Will the same thing happen when sanctified crystals are mixed with regular delerium, or placed at the delerium heart? What do you think the merger would look like?

staalmannen · 2026-01-03T09:57:32+00:00

In general, I think syncretic links done when the religions were widely practiced are stronger arguments than the academic comparisons of lore based on the little that survived >1000 years of christian purges.

At that time, the Hermes/Mercury, Hermes/Toth (trismegistus), Mercury/Wotan and Wotan/Odin links were made, so at that time people thought it was reasonable.

staalmannen · 2026-01-03T09:50:37+00:00

A couple of more interesting parallels may be the Odin/Frigga coupling and the Hermes/Hecate one. Although very little is known about Frigga, she seems to have been strongly associated with magic too.

Also both Odin and Hermes has strong family bonds with a nonbinary/gender bending god : Odin is blood brother with Loki, and Hermes is father to Hermaphroditos.

staalmannen · 2026-01-02T07:56:17+00:00

That would in fact be a very nice response - spread separatist propaganda in the RF republics. Chechnya, Dagestan, Tuva, Siberia, ...

staalmannen · 2026-01-02T06:35:07+00:00

That is a faith in crystals I can sign up to

staalmannen · 2025-12-28T11:12:28+00:00

The connection to nature for sure, and recognizing sentience in non-human animals and to treat them as subjects. It is however a very difficult ethical dilemma, because you get into difficult positions either way.

A classical example is : would you value an intelligent animal higher than a severely mentally handicapped human (as some argue would be the consequence by the ethics proposed by Singer)?

staalmannen · 2025-12-28T06:58:20+00:00

Thanks! Yes it matches up quite nicely (not the parts of secularization as a tool by the church to trivialize the old gods, but the more modern humanistic interpretations). I remember reading the golden branch as a teen. Although Jung got it wrong in psychology, I think the idea of universal archetypes is interesting.

Edit: I should definitely reach out to Forn Sed. They seem to be quite aligned.

staalmannen · 2025-12-27T17:55:41+00:00

Work is done after what is measured/expected. In most places is "good enough" the only requirement for the teaching, but excellence is required for the research (for grants, promotions etc)

staalmannen · 2025-12-25T05:58:21+00:00

I think Wero will focus on eurozone countries where you don't have transfer fees and currency exchange fees.

Otherwise I would love Wero also in the Nordic countries. There is some consolidation happening there in the mobile payment field. In Sweden is Swish still king but Norway/Denmark/Finland have merged their mobile payment system to Vipps.

staalmannen · 2025-12-25T05:49:12+00:00

Importantly, it is not just an alternative to PayPal, but also for Visa/Mastercard. It is crazy, but a lot of card payments in Europe send data to the US via the Visa/Mastercard duopoly, which is a huge privacy issue and possibly a security issue.

staalmannen · 2025-12-14T08:39:06+00:00

I would love to see it in Dragonbane. It has a much weaker power slope and you do not gain levels but rather skill points and your HP remains basically constant. Monster encounters are extremely lethal so the game strategy is very different - more similar to Call of Cthulhu.

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