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You would hate living in my apartment – there are at least seven doorbell cameras on my floor, and more cameras in the elevators and parking garage.

I understand your privacy concerns but I don’t do anything to conceal myself around doorbell cameras. I know I’m recorded by dozens of cameras and other devices every time I leave home. Trying to conceal my face would make me stand out more and might look suspicious to my neighbors. So it’s better to be boring and not give the neighbors anything interesting to look at. Those cameras are here to stay and soon almost every home will have them.

Mastercard/Visa and Wero is a hot issue on Lemmy, but I would bet the vast majority of Swedes have never heard of Wero and aren’t particularly concerned about Mastercard and Visa being American. Most Swedes have long been wary of the Euro and that’s unlikely to change in the near future.

Agreed, wildfire season this year is going to be brutal. I live in the Denver area and AFAIK we just got our second snowfall of this winter.

A Nordic country will decide to get rid of their “kronen” and introduce it in 2027/2028.

Euro adoption? Nope, guaranteed won’t happen. Norway and Iceland aren’t EU members and Finland already adopted the Euro. Denmark has a permanent opt-out and will never be required to adopt the Euro, and most Danes oppose adopting it. In Sweden public support for Euro adoption is similarly low, so although the country doesn’t have an opt-out like Denmark, the government uses a legal workaround to avoid adopting it.

My cat goes to bed when I go to bed. She curls up in my arms almost every night and sleeps that way most of the night.

Yeah I feel the same. I buy one of these every year and I won’t be getting one with his face on it. Anyway the parks will make more money selling me day passes over the course of a year than they would selling me the annual pass.

+1 for addy.io!

I use it with a domain I bought just for emails. So for example I’ll use [email protected] for my Icelandair account and addy.io forwards all the emails addressed to my aliases to my Posteo email address. Nobody ever sees my Posteo address (great for security) and thanks to addy.io I can switch email providers in minutes. If addy.io ever stops working then I own the domain where all my emails are headed, so I can change a few settings to keep receiving them.

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Yes, this is more or less what I’ve been telling people for almost a year now.

For all the doom and gloom stories you see about the US, life has changed very little for most of us. Your average American is living their life as usual, focused on one day at a time. As long as we’re not hungry and don’t fear for our physical safety, there’s little that would compel us to risk imprisonment or deportation to oppose this regime. Those in power ensure that life is just comfortable enough for most of us that we don’t dare disrupt the status quo. Even for those that oppose Trump/MAGA, the vast majority won’t do anything more than attend a Saturday afternoon protest once or twice a year and then pat themselves on the back.

Conservatives have been wildly successful for generations at defunding and dismantling public schooling in this country. Our news media has been dumbed down by the likes of Fox News and relentless disinformation campaigns to the point where the news is more entertainment and propaganda than actual reporting. The result of poor schooling and a propagandized news media is that many Americans aren’t able to distinguish between fact and opinion and they’ll believe anything at face value. That’s the abridged version of how we ended up with so many dumbasses that consistently vote against their own interests, if they vote at all.

The Americans you meet on Lemmy and Reddit aren’t the norm. Most Americans are very poorly informed about world events and not curious enough to educate themselves. I would bet most Americans never had a single thought about Greenland or Venezuela until the last year or so. My MAGA neighbors don’t care what happens in your European country and they almost certainly couldn’t find it on a map.

You all need to stop waiting for Americans to rise up and save ourselves. I promise it’s not going to happen. Cut your losses and build up your militaries. Even if we all get lucky and MAGA implodes, our electorate is stupid enough that it’s only a matter of time before we’ll vote in equally terrible leadership.

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For me: Mullvad (VPN), Viaplay (streaming video), Tidal (music), Wondery (podcasts), addy.io (privacy), Posteo (email), onX Backcountry (trail navigation). Half of those are annual subscriptions though.

I listen mostly to electronic music, especially house, and I never listened to a single podcast on Spotify, so no idea why it started pushing those far-right podcasts!

I find the recommendations on Tidal and Spotify to be pretty different from each other, but one isn’t necessarily better than the other. Spotify will recommend dozens of tracks that sound almost identical to one I like, while Tidal suggestions are broader as they pull from related subgenres.

OP clearly doesn’t know anything about living with cats. I’d guess they had a past bad cat experience (smell and damage) because of an owner that neglected their cat, and that’s the extent of their knowledge.

Also… I’m not saying that dogs don’t belong inside, but they’re almost always capable of causing way more damage than cats, so it’s weird of OP to single out cats for that.

I switched to Tidal a year ago because Spotify kept recommending Joe Rogan and Trump/Musk podcasts and there was no way to opt out. First I tested Deezer and Qobuz but unfortunately didn’t like them. Tidal is a US company but they’re way less unethical than Spotify and their service is much better IMO.

I’m in the US and recently discovered that High Coast (Sweden) is available in my area. I also visited their distillery a few months ago and sampled some of their whiskies!

High Coast Hav can be found here for $42 which is less than at Systembolaget in Sweden. It’s lightly peated and I’m working on my second bottle of it.

High Coast 63 – I was surprised to find this here and I bought a bottle for $120. It’s heavily peated, smoky, piney and briny. I’m absolutely loving it and highly recommend it.

I’ve also discovered you can buy Mackmyra and other High Coast whiskies elsewhere in the US, but I haven’t seen them around here and my state doesn’t allow alcohol to be shipped from other states.

I mean, everyone that spent any amount of time in high school should know this.

How is their inferior safety not relevant to the discussion? Personally I would love it if more people drove smaller and less polluting cars, but not if they’re death traps. If you’re willing to have drastically reduced car safety in exchange for a modest reduction in environmental impact then I guess we just disagree on that point.

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Yes! I live with my SO in a 2-bedroom apartment and we have three vacuum cleaners. One is a robot vacuum that vacuums our whole apartment twice a week. One is a push vacuum for rugs and occasional deep cleaning. The last one is a hand vacuum for quick cleanups and tight spaces where the other vacuums can’t reach.