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Depends on your definition of rich, I suppose. Here in Sweden it’s mainly upper middle class conservative voters that whines about this.

Generally, rich a-holes don’t like wind because it disturbes the view from their properties. Really selfish and dumb, of course.

As a Swede, I share your suffering.

Yes, but I’m talking about regular stores. Not the kind that you visit for office supply and such. If you’re aren’t a business owner, you never have to think about VAT.

Sure, but regular stores don’t have such listings. Everything is VAT included.

Yes, there were some protests around that. I’m talking about the time leading up to that; it was as if you couldn’t criticize USA because we all had to “stick together in a time of crisis” (this was more or less verbatim what our politicians said here in Sweden).

(I do agree about the Zelensky treatment, though. Fuck Vance and his cohort all the way to hell and back.)

The thing with Bush was that a large number of people here in EU despised him and was sick of the US’s continual involvement in international affairs. There were protests when he visited, and a big movement opposed him wherever he went. That lasted until 9/11, at which point US became the big victim, and all critics went silent.

I wouldn’t say that pointers and memory allocation is a good thing to start with. I teach programming to students with no prior experience, and sometimes it’s hard to even get them to grasp basic programming in Python. At least in the beginning. You have to start slow.

I’m also a Swedish programming teacher, but I always tell my students to use English variable names. Irrational perhaps, but it just feels safer to avoid åäö. Even more so in file names, where it can make an actual difference if you move the file between different platforms. It’s just safer to not form that habit to begin with.

And in the basking sun with a lot of sand all around? No thank you.

Wait, they did this now?

Zoom has it, for example.

Came here to say that! For the love of God, stop with this nonsense!