SoyViking [he/him]

They said on Trashfuture that the banks who financed Musk’s Twitter takeover are unable to resell the debt. They are now stuck with a large and essentially worthless asset that is hanging like an albatross around the legs of their portfolios.

This has allegedly already caused some bankers to not get their bonuses.

The closest I can come is blackletter or fraktur scripts that were once used for generic languages. As far as letters go they are silly and overcomplicated, with Latin scripts being far easier to read and more adaptable to different visual styles.

With that being said, they do have their own old-timey charm and there is something satisfying in being able to pick up a old book in blackletter and read it when you know that most people can not.

Fun fact: Blackletter was only used for Germanic languages. If a text contained non-Germanic passages it was normal to set those in Latin letters while the rest was set in blackletter.

I love the idea of a modern runic script, suitable for contemporary Scandinavian languages. Would you care to elaborate on your thoughts on this?

Whatever type of chilli mayo I feel like making that day. Or remoulade, the sweet Danish mayo-based condiment with chopped pickles and curry powder.

First person shooter but leftist instead of imperialist, with campaigns based on historical revolutionary struggles

Seagulls. These fuckers shit on everything, they scatter your garbage all over the place and they’re noisy.

And these tiny black insects that are small enough to get into picture frames and computer screens. Fuck then.

And that Brazilian penis fish that swims into your urethra. That im thing is just the stuff of nightmares.

You can pick a fight with a wasp and win it. But mosquitoes sneak up on you and once you notice the little bastards it’s already too late.

Southern Jutland for the redneck backwardness and incest/zoophilia, the island of Lolland for the rural poverty and hopelessness.

Brussel sprouts. Lots of people hate them because they got them overcooked as children but they are so pretty and so delicious if prepared properly.

Corporate Memphis, those shitty minimalist cartoons they put on apps for adults in a stillborn attempt to make banking or meetings look engaging. I don’t want to be infantilised by cartoons, certainly not by butt-ugly ones.

“When the devil grew old he joined a convent” is an idiom in my language. It seems fitting for Carter.

Korea has lots of big stadiums and the people there seems to like football so why couldn’t they host a world cup?

In Denmark the closest we come to the “marrying cousins” stereotype would be southern Jutland although that trope can be used about all rural areas.

As for being backwards and reactionary, rural Jutland is the place to go.

As for rural poverty and hopelessness an area stretching from northern, western and southern Jutland, over southern Funen to the islands of Lolland and Falster is known as “the rotten banana”. Rural poverty is worst on the northern Jutland island of Mors and the island of Lolland.

Don’t they have vegetables in America?

I guess this is one of those YMMW situations. I’m sure Halloween can be fun and cool in America but outside of America it really sucks.

Where I’m from Halloween was not a thing until ten or fifteen years ago when toy stores decided they wanted to use the opportunity to market ugly plastic decorations and shitty costumes. There’s none of the cultural background that gives celebrations like this meaning and it all feels fake, like people are pretending to be Americans rather than taking part in a genuine celebration.

Celebrating Halloween as a non-American also has a tiresome aspect of cultural imperialism in it. Adopting stuff from other cultures is fine but why does it have to be stuff from burgerland every single time? Why can’t we do Dias de los muertos or Chinese New year instead?

My total income tax is around 38%. I reckon that to be less than what burgerlanders pay in income tax, insurance premiums and co-pays.

If you look up the statistics, the US has one of the highest public healthcare expenditures by capita, in addition to also having one of the highest private per capita expenditures.

Americans are being scammed.

In Denmark visits to GP’s, specialists and hospitals are free. Prescription drugs are subsidised on a sliding scale meaning that adults will pay a maximum of USD 640 a year for their prescriptions.

Dental care is not covered though, leading to a huge disparity in dental health between the rich and the poor.

Hitler was a billionaire and in the end he did kill Hitler.

The European Commission aims to empower consumers and ensure tech giants adhere to European rules, providing immediate accountability for any issues.

Part of this “adhering to European rules” means complying with EU laws on “disinformation” and giving police forces of EU refined backdoor access to take down content.