Bay of Tristan da Cunha.

My point is that noone is looking at the IRA and crying mental illness. Furthermore, if you look at the Wikipedia pages for people like Anders Behring Breivik, Ted Kaczynski, and Timothy McVeigh, they all refer to them as terrorists. Whereas people like James Holmes are listed as mass murderers because their crimes were not politically motivated.

So if someone has a heart attack while driving and their car plows into a busy shopping street. Then whether or not they are regarded as a terrorist depends on whether or not someone tries to ban old people from driving because of it?

Or to ask a different question, how would you define terrorism? Because the Oxford English dictionary definition is:

“The calculated use of violence or threat of violence to inculcate fear. Terrorism is intended to coerce or intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.”

That last bit sort of discounts the majority of gun violence generally. And yes in terms of the result, it is splitting hairs. But, knowing the motivation behind a crime is important. You’re going to have more success preventing school shootings by investing in mental health services than you will in anti terrorism policing.

Also if two separate people wake up one morning and person A decides to kill the first person he sees. Person Bdecides to kill the first black person he sees. They both end up killing a black man, and both end up in prison. During rehabilitation, if you treat both as a hate crime, then you’re not properly addressing the violent impulses with person A and if you only address the violent behaviour then you aren’t addressing the underlying racism in person B. Motivation matters in how things are handled generally.

For it to be terrorism it has to be motivated by political or religious ideology. So all the highschool kids who snap and murder a bunch of their classmates: not terrorism. However: the IRA or Timothy McVeigh or the Unabomber: definitely terrorism.

They ought to have that in Norway. But Norwegian businesses are parasitic on parents.

The thing i like about the Finns is that most of them spend their first year sleeping in a cardboard box.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity_package

They only teach bokmål in the language courses for foreigners, even if you live in a nynorsk area. Until relatively recently school children were expected to learn both and if you were expected to reply to letters/emails in the same language as they were written in. That doesn’t happen as much now.

I’ve had shared finances with my partner since we moved in together. It’s worked well for us because she’s really good with money. Probably not for everyone though. Basically we make sure everything is paid and put whatever is left in a joint account.

Perkele

Best for what purpose? Norwegian is best for understanding Swedish and Danish (Swedes have more difficulty understanding Danish than Norwegians do) Swedish and Norwegian are essentially a dialectical continuum.

Oslo dialect is heavily influenced by danish because back in the day if Norwegians wanted a decent education they went to Denmark. The more commonly used written form of Norwegian (bokmål) is still very similar to Danish (only as it’s written though, danish pronunciation is fucked up). The other form (nynorsk) was created from several rural dialects as part of a nationalism movement and more closely resembles Swedish (not in terms of spelling but pronunciation) it’s not as close as bokmål is to Danish though.

Finnish is a completely different language family but is very similar to kven which is spoken by very few people on the Northern coast of Norway. It’s a nice sounding language though and a good way to sound like you’re going to stab someone.

The correct language is the one that is spoken in the country you’re most interested in. I live in Norway so for my purposes Norwegian is obviously best. And I don’t need to revert to speaking English in Sweden or (most of) Denmark, which is nice.

If I had to learn a second north European language, I’d choose either northern Sami, Faroese, Icelandic, or Greenlandic.

Actually æ, ø, and å are regarded as separate letters in the Norwegian alphabet

Æ - like the a in cat

Ø - like the u in turn

Å- like the aw in paw

Here’s a handy song about it

I don’t know. I’m a guy and I really enjoy the horizon games including the dialogue and character development. I don’t think the interactions and dialogue would work if Aloy were a dude.

You know you just called him a ball sack in Inuktitut, right?

If I have to play it with another human being, I will not play it. I play games to escape from the rest of the species not engage with them.

🫲🏻====😃====🫱🏻 about this big.

Yes, but the sea is fucking cold as fuck so I don’t. We were required to learn in primary school including the correct way to jump off a boat wearing a life jacket. And how to get a person in distress back to shore.

I knew someone who learned as an adult by reading a book about the mechanics of swimming and then getting into a pool and swimming.

That’s just a photo of D J Qualls.

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Ok but there’s plenty of people in Europe who are in said marginalised groups who would probably help you.

I’m just saying you can’t suffer from male loneliness if you’re female.