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If you were never a "fuck cars" person, hang out near a school
  • This is a case all over. At uni I rented near a elementet school (year 1-7 which is 5/6 to 12/13 years old in Norway) and it was massive driving hazards there as well. My aunt also worked an elementary school and they had to have staff patrol the drop off/pick-up area each day, and put up barriers and chicanes because of dangerous driving by stressed parents.

    I now deliver my kid by foot to kindergarten and here they built a proper delivery zone for both schools and kindergarten forcing people to drop school children (that can walk alone) far off and a well planned logistical sound one for the kindergarten. Not perfect but it's something

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    TIL over 500'000 German prisoners of war died in forced labour camps, after the German surrender, while detained in the Soviet Union. With the latest survivors only being released a decade later.
  • My mother worked in Germany in the late 60s (We are Norwegian) and her boss' (and life long friend of the family) husband was 16 when he was literally drafted from HJ to the SS in early 45. He was a good jugend and it was an "honor" and such BS. But having spent all his childhood in nazi Germany he knew nothing else. He was captured by the Russians in Czechoslovakia and spent 5 years as a POW and the only reason he made it as far as becoming a POW was his age and because the SS NCOs made sure he didn't get the SS serial number tattoo since he was so young.

    God knows how he manages to survive, but I never knew him to not eat every morsel of food on his plate, and he never talked about his experience.

    I shed no tears for Nazis, but I do shed tears for the duped and the "innocents" of any conflict.

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  • Think it's the trap that if you continue with the hobby, all the starter gear is useless and all the money could have been spent on better equipment.

    I paint miniatures. Not as often it as much as I would like to because of dividing my time between work, two year old and chores, but I have had the hobby for the last six years. I have yet to purchase an airbrush, and I can get a perfectly decent starter set for lets say 20 USD. But I can also get a better set with high end compressor, better paint gun.for 60 USD. I know that if I keep getting better at using the airbrush I will eventually get the high end stuff, why not "save" money and get it right away.

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • Its just a silly notion that you either choose a Greek root or a Latin root for a word. No mixing, just "wrong"😊

    It bugs me less than directly translating English expression into Norwegian (my native toung). Some of them just sounds weird

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  • This image needs some correction for Norway. Only SubWay, MCD and BK are prevalent. Dominos have mainly places on Oslo, and a the rest are mainly in the larger cities. Starbucks 10. Most in downtown Oslo. Think Pizza Hut pulled out of Norway years ago

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