The financial sector is both highly regulated and employs a disproportionately small number of people compared to it's share of GDP. While it accounts for 20% of GDP it only employs some 4% of the workforce, which is about half of manufacturing (which is supposedly dead in America) or less than a third of healthcare.
Even if the finance industry would be disrupted it would affect relatively few people, despite it's large share of GDP and would therefore not lead to wider scale panic. At best/worst we're looking at a mild upward pressure on unemployment.
I'd say that the only real issue of those you raised is lack of granular heat control, which is often an issue with radiant heat as well.
Beyond that I'd argue strongly for getting something with knobs rather than touch controls. Touch controls are both really inconvenient and to some extent actively dangerous as they can get triggered by anything, utensils, spilled water, etc. I'm not aware of any brand at any price level that handles this well; I've never encountered it. My impression is that this is an area where touch controls are just a plain bad idea and they're used because it looks sleek and "modern" as well as maybe a cost saving measure.
You should probably be able to get something good for 3k or maybe marginally more depending on local pricing.
I prefer induction to radiant heat but the difference isn't massive so if cost was a concern ($1000~ difference for something you use daily and lasts a decade+ seems very small to me) I would probably go for radiant heat.
Ioper
1mo ago
Everything that requires extensive capital investments and permitting will be very slow to change, as will the government, and areas where there are natural monopolies.
Disruption isn't really possible for the majority of the economy.
Wealth and income have nothing to do with each other in Sweden. You become wealthy by either starting wealthy, starting a company, or in extremely rare cases invest your way there (or win the literal lottery). Capital gains are practically not taxed in Sweden so being wealthy here is great! Having a high income what's taxed and that doesn't lead to wealth.
Why not both? Extremist twitter brain rot turbocharged by copious drug use, in combination with being surrounded IRL by people competing to suck you off.
Ioper
1mo ago
Brand new account makes poorly supported histrionic post (and follow-ups) about a subject that inevitably will bait a certain segment of themotte to make embarrassing long-posts, immediately gets linked on rdrama.
Ioper
1mo ago
Is there just a vast reserve of ball-washers on the internet?
Yes, and as more people get online the worse it gets. This is further magnified by negative comments increasingly getting filtered (often automatically) and positive ones getting boosted.
Its in general not in a content creator's interest to have their comment section not being positive, regardless of actual audience reaction.
Ioper
1mo ago
A most ill order them by location and dependency but mostly I try to not think about it at all because then I'll start procrastinating. The important part for me is to get going since that's the hard part for me. Once I'm actually working I don't need motivation to keep working.
Its like exercising, the hard part isn't finishing your workout when you're at the gym, it's going to the gym.
Ioper
3mo ago
That depends entirely on what constitutes "special education programs". I remember going to some supplementary reading classes during grade school, along with a good number of other students, for an hour once every couple of weeks for maybe a year. Were we a special education program? It wasn't part of our regular class and we met with a special education teacher. Some other people went to a speech therapist, was that a "special education programme"?
Without knowing how special education program is defined, these kinds of stats aren't very interesting.
Ioper
3mo ago
My uncle worked as an electrician his entire life and he was none of that. He's in his 70s now and still does regular part time work for fun and money. Perhaps you just worked for a terrible company?
I mean, it's not glamorous but it's not that bad either. Something like firefighting on the other hand... Now that is truly backbreaking work and everyone is physically worn out decades before retirement and there are only a few desk positions available for dozens of aging firemen.
Ioper
1mo ago
Just reading the Wikipedia article leaves me with the naive impression that we know that it was a horror show of abuse and barbarism but that we have a very poor idea what happened on a demographic level (what percentage of the population died? How much of the decline was reduced briths as opposed to deaths? Was the decline 10% or 50%? Etc.) and to what degree the Belgians were directly responsible as opposed to criminally negligent.
Ioper
3mo ago
Surely it's both? The schools have control over the children 8h a day, time during which they interact with their peers. This is very likely the most important part of the day for socialisation and a part that the parents can't really influence much.
Of course the parents play an important role but so does the school. It's a collective responsibility.
Ioper
4mo ago
I think most people don't care a great deal about homosexuality but what frequently happens is that male friendship is sacrificed for (the possibility of) gay romance. People do care about the friendship and dont want to be on guard to not signal sexual interest to the player-sexual characters when they're just trying to be friendly. A prime example of this was in the release verison of BG3 when you could just be friendly to Gale and suddenly you had sex.
If some character was clearly gay from the outset and not conditionally gay/bi depending on what the player does, complaints about this would be a non-issue. It would also be a far smaller issue if video game writers were more competent but that's never going to happen.
IMO, Playersexuality is an awful idea that should be binned.
DCC is definitely a big name but several people have independently warned me against it as apparently the author is prone to long, smug /r/atheism style rants which I've had more than enough of elsewhere.
Are you sure you're not mixing up DCC with "He who fights with monsters"? This doesn't sound like DCC and sounds very much like HWFWM, and is likely the second largest LitRPG series out there.
Ioper
1mo ago
I don't really understand your complaint, having a cleaning lady is not some rich person extravagance. Its affordable for pretty much everyone in society. If you have a job, you can afford it.
Its a fairly common thing with glasses due to the very large per unit margins for the frames. There might be some restrictions but you can often get a much more expensive item discounted.
b) normie Europeans voted for Israel for political reasons because they're more sympathetic to the Israeli cause than the Palestinian - seem not to have occurred to her.
I don't know whether this is true or not but I think it's at least not unreasonable for people to get the impression that the support for Palestine is far more universal than it is, especially among people older than 25.
Its mostly the far left that is concerned enough about the topic to publicly talk about and organise protests about the issue, which can leave the impression of much more widespread support than actually exists. Furthermore, the far left is also pissing people off by being histrionic and obnoxious which can lead to people opposing Palestine out of spite rather than opinions on the conflict.
Just looking at my own friend group this is pretty much the case. The only one that brings up the topic is the far left guy, but at a poker night when he didn't show up and the topic came up, it turned out everyone else is either apathetic or quietly pro-israel/anti-Hamas, people just didn't want to get into a fight with the pro-palestine guy.
I think this a fairly frequent thing happening and especially with the left due to their ability to organise protests.
Ioper
2mo ago
Looking at the metropolitan area, which has a largely unchanged population, the murder rate per 100k is down from some 13-14 to 6.6.
Ioper
26d ago
I can't remember this ever being a problem and I even tried lighting a lamp i had at home and tried to see if I could detect any notable smell, which there was only a very mild one.
Googling a little it seems like kerosene can have a pungent smell when burning but that the oil that is sold for indoor lamps is purposefully made to smell less.
Perhaps your relative got the wrong kind of oil or used a bad lamp where the oil didn't burn clean?
Wick based lamps are plenty bright and the only kind of lamp oil lamp I've ever used, and those are earlyish Victorian.
I don't really remember that. People didn't talk much about parenting in the 90s in Sweden and when things heated up at the end of the 90s and in the 00s all the negative discourse seemed to be about the opposite: "helicopter" and "curling" parenting.
Talk about parental neglect emerged later with "latte moms" and then more recently about parents using smart screens as a baby sitter. That mostly concerns babies and preschool aged children though and I don't think that is what people are talking about when they say "free range parenting"
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