SoyViking [he/him]

Never attribute to stupidity or malice that which is adequately explained by a combination of both.

The people who rule us are stupid and evil.

Jensen - Denmark

Inside me there are two wolves.

One of them thinks fireworks is stupid and dangerous consumerism and would prefer each community to have professional fireworks shows instead.

The other one thinks people should be allowed to have their fun and enjoys when things go boom. It also sees a beneficial social function in the concept of dispensing with usual norms and allowing people to do something reckless and dangerous once a year.

Either way, there should be high safety standards on the manufacturing of fireworks and sale to and use by consumers should be heavily restricted.

“Kommunister i lysthuset”

A direct translation of “lysthus” would be gazebo but “lyst” can also be translated to “lust” or “desire”.

You guys get paid?

My mom bought some awesome South American Christmas ornaments way back in the day. One of them is a parrot and it has been on the tree as long as I can remember.

Parrots are Christmas animals now.

That depends on where the guy is from. If he’s from a Nordic country you can’t really conclude anything from a rune tattoo alone. Nazis love Viking shit but so does a lot of other people, it’s no more sus than a Greek guy being into columns.

It becomes a lot more sus if the guy is not from the Nordics.

Don’t tell me what to boil! What is this, communist Russia?

“Protect the children!” is a very good Trojan horse to sneak surveillance in. We’re not ending online anonymity in order to make persecution of dissidents more easy, we’re doing it to protect children from the harm of seeing a boob and who can be against protecting the children?

All wood is edible if you have the correct attitude and determination

Study after study had shown that most tap water from a reasonably well-maintained public water supply has less microbes and pollutants than bottled water. Most of the time it also tastes better.

This year they didn’t give out a Nobel peace prize, they gave out a CIA employee of the month award

We had a lovely Halloween, we took the smaller kids trick or treating in a part of town where people really put stone effort into it. Our oldest kid went to a party with her girlfriend, they had a nice time and by all accounts.

To make things even better, we were dog sitting and the dog, who is usually afraid of men, seems to like me.

Halloween seems to me like one of those things that showed how, if left to their own devices, people instinctively get the value of community. There’s nothing in liberal economics that explains what makes people spend a small fortune and significant time and effort to turn their garden into a spooky ghost house for local kids.

Hedgehog for scale

You’re giving the liberals too much credit by saying they admit that electoralism has never worked.

The liberal position is not only that electoralism works but that it is the only thing that works.

Robot vacuum. We have pets and children and our floors used to be disgusting all the time. But then my partner had the smarts to buy a cheap robot vacuum and now our floors are mostly clean most of the time.

Cheap Chinese diamond grindstones. I can have razor sharp knives any time I want now, it makes cooking so much more enjoyable.

What is this sorcery?

It turns out that the best way to cure ADHD is simply not to have it in the first place. Why haven’t anyone thought of this before?

To be fair, the name itself is not anymore bullshit than the name of a lot of other sweet treats. At least it has some connection to the place it’s named after.

A while back I bought a tiny bar of Dubai chocolate from my local Arab store to see what the fuss was all about. I love chocolate and I love pistachios. Chocolate with nuts is nice. On paper I should like this.

The bar was pricey enough but it was a completely underwhelming experience. The filling was a greasy sugary pistachio cream with a very faint flavour of pistachio that was completely drowned out by the chocolate. I might have been unlucky with the specific brand but I did not feel that it was worth the money they charged for it. A bar of chocolate with hazelnuts or gianduia would have been better.