if only hotels were as cheap as plane tickets. it doesn't cost me much to fly to Rome but beds are expensive.
i i lean toward having trans people in the "mental disorder" category
i have a mental disorder myself but i'm not under the mistaken impression that this is healthy and normal, or that it should have its own flag.
by all means, go off and do your thing. but you're not a woman. sorry.
one reason https://berserker.town, the instance i run, is unpopular is because it occupies the middle ground. i'm a centrist and moderate. i'm just running a service here. like a bar. you can talk about anything at a bar. old fashioned Internet service. i'm just the bartender.
nostr:npub16qct6ge6zdr72yxrw2cc0rsqyp9j9qrjs9pkz3gkydc839jrtk5sj8al6e i explored Nostr for a while but a whole lot of it is just "isn't Bitcoin great? bro. you gotta have Bitcoin. did i mention Bicoin?"
in the back of my mind, i'm kind of considering going back to No Agenda Social, where i used to live, but it has too many retarder far-right Americans.
i lean further right than the average Mastodon user but only because i'm a centrist.
nostr:npub16qct6ge6zdr72yxrw2cc0rsqyp9j9qrjs9pkz3gkydc839jrtk5sj8al6e what happens if you have to jump and it's windy
what's the big deal about men wearing skirts?
they've been wearing skirts and getting balls into holes for CENTURIES in Scotland, and no one made a fuss about it.
jeg feis høyt på trikkestoppen. nå kan jeg ikke se noen av mine medpassasjerer i øynene. 😔
nostr:npub16qct6ge6zdr72yxrw2cc0rsqyp9j9qrjs9pkz3gkydc839jrtk5sj8al6e you can't marry several people, but if you want to be technical about it, polyamory is what i meant.
sex in Norway: female influencers are telling girls to go all natural for protection. meanwhile, polygamy is increasingly popular among young people, abortion rates are skyrocketing and birth rates are plummeting.
sexual liberation? sure, but the numbers aren't adding up.
one side effect of getting a bit older
you find yourself confronted with a 20 year old who disagrees with you, and you very much want to tell them "i used to think like you but then i thought about it for another 20 years" but you can't
there isn't much good to say about a stomach ache. no one's happy to have one. it just sucks.
things i'd do if i didn't hate maintaining code: give Mastodon the infinitely scrolling Trending page it's so sorely missing. as far as i can tell, the current one isn't even federated. fairly useless for small instances. also can't find an admin-configurable way of completely disabling moderation for hashtags and trending posts. also, search ought to be federated and it should be possible to sort by popularity. yes, i have disagreements with the philosophy behind Mastodon. why do you ask?
the Apollo 11 mission, but the Irish, Australians, French, Germans or Russians did it, comically reimagined
i could have really used career advice and mentoring from people with different backgrounds some 25 years ago.
i had such limited access to educated adults who could show me the way as a lonely teenager in my shitty little home town up north.
i look at kids growing up here in the Oslo region and all the opportunities they have that i never had up there, and i realise that the game was rigged against me from the very start.
i made it here and got into computer programming, but not because i was guided into it. i just sat alone and figured out what to do. i mean, i'll give myself a pat on the shoulder for managing to do that with zero formal qualifications, but i know i could've done better with some guidance and people to serve as door openers.
nostr:npub16qct6ge6zdr72yxrw2cc0rsqyp9j9qrjs9pkz3gkydc839jrtk5sj8al6e i always thought lending with interest was a bit of a phoney business. and people have felt that way since biblical times. one thing is lending money to a business for a real estate project as an investment. another thing is to lend to consumers. especially credit cards, with their exorbitant interest rates.
i tried asking Google why loans have interest. it gave me a single answer that doesn't really explain anything and then a bunch of pages about interest rates.
i know that muslims do a workaround for usury where a one-time "administrative" fee is charged instead of interest.
i was just wondering what would happen if we dropped bank loans altogether and borrowed interest-free straight from the central bank instead.
sounds like it would be possible in today's world. just visit a website to apply.
since they're affiliated with the state, they don't need to turn a profit. everybody is borrowing from them anyway. all money is credit from the central bank, and it's not clear to me why it even needs to be profitable.
interest rates are currently used by the central banks to control inflation, but there are other ways of controlling the supply.
anyway, this is just me speculating and i was hoping to find an article by an economist that answered the question.
kind of funny how the best cure for feeling too crap to get up and do something is to distract yourself from that feeling by getting up and doing something. 🙃
me looking at any conflict in the Middle East: hm, i don't know who to side with here. they all look like crooks to me. 🤷♂️
this is a character from Horton Hears A Who. guess where Sonic got his weird teeth from before they changed the design...
my post-supper soundtrack
dishwasher: slosh slosh slosh
fan: vvvvvvvvvvvvv
hospital: *helicopter noises*
cat: meow!
conversation tips when you visit Norway for the first time
"hva faen er galt med deg?"
translation: what the hell is wrong with you?
if you're a guy with a social media following, are you a himfluencer?