Azdeus

I very much doubt many of the companies selling those are above board either, forcing banks to keep handling cash is more satisfying. My deepest wish is that programs such as Swish be banned. On the plus side, I got to act as a bank around here when someone ddos'd the card readers for foodstores. For some reason though, I'm still viewed as a nutter

I never had a trust in banks to begin with, but it took a turn for the worse towards hatred when a childhood friend of mine started studying to become a banker. 2008 didn't help make it any better either. I was cranky as all hell when my employer refused to pay me in cash instead of a bank transfer. Bastards.

Yeah, all of the losses are focused around people born in 1979 or later, so it hits us that haven't had a chance to work up a whole lot of pension funds yet.

Forgot about this gem actually; My company pension plan was managed by Alecta whom sold off all their shares in Swedish Handelsbanken (That they'd had for 71 years) to buy more shares in american niche banks, most prominently Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. "Only" 20 billion SEK lost

To be fair, if I were to leave Sweden, Canada is likely where I'd go. Got relatives in Vancouver. I just need to win a fem mil on the lottery first so I can rent an apartment for a couple of days

The hardon our politicians have for yankee politics and policies here is embarrassing as ****.

I didn't want to be as pessimistic as to say that we're already there.

Well, yeah, that'd quite likely come way before that I reckon.

Eh, not so much the country as the jobs or lack thereof that I have had, I'm trying to stay positive that the pension age is just 70 though, it'll likely be 75. Then again... the way people keep voting for the right wing politicians, and the way they've already dismantled our social security nets, my mother that can barely walk or even lift a coffee cup was expected to reeducate herself into something like a psychologist at age 62, I dare not even think where we'd be at in 35-40 years.

Damn, the most nostalgia I feel right now is being able to carry a 21" CRT from one end of Gothenburg to the other without breaking a sweat, I miss being fit I still have my two Voodoo 2 cards lying about somewhere, and a TNT2 aswell.

As things stand at the moment, I'm going to get a 200€ pension when I'm 70. "Thankfully" the government steps in and guarantees atleast 900€, not that that actually is enough to cover anything nowadays. My private pension is going to be a shotgun I think.

I might aswell, Ayakashi Triangle is on another pause until june or something like that, and I'm running out of entertainment

Found a magical girl anime I can get behind; Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka. A shame there isn't more of it, I really like the premise. Blood and gore, PTSD and such lovely things.

I drove past the Sabaton tour trucks going to work, so I'm on a binge.

Haha, yeah, all-in is the safest bet ironically, you can be sure that you don't have to scrap your car because of a cranky policeman or inspector then atleast. Or you have to go super stealth, that's a possibility too!

That sounds more up to my speed It's not so bad when you're working on older cars, but I can definetly understand the hesitancy of doing it on something brand new. Before year 2000 you could get away with using a tuner chip, but nowadays the ECU's are complex enough and integrated enough that you basically have to use a custom ECU, and as such many things stop working. Inspections? Depends on your car and who is doing the inspecting. If you've got a new car with computers, they hook up the car, put a probe up the tailpipe and measure and read away. It's thorough. If you've got an old car like mine that doesn't even have a proper OBDII jack (It has the jack but was made to blink a diode for fault codes. Don't want to hook a computer up to that ) they do the typical shakeboard, visual inspection, prodding, physical braketest and smog. They check the odometer and record it each inspection, and they also check for dashboard warning lights and that your headlights and taillights work properly, and that the horn works. And they make sure that you have a warning triangle. If you were to roll in with a V8 swap under the hood, they'd require me to do a certification smog test. This is basically a write off for the car, since we're talking about the same test that manufacturers have to do for their new cars. That's a few million bucks. If you roll in with a tuned original engine and the inspector is a gearhead (They typically are) they don't really care aslong as you pass the smog, which is easier on an older car. TL/DWR version, pre 1987 cars are easy to mod, not so much after that. As for what is allowed to be modified, that depends on the age of the car actually. We've had a couple of different car registration "eras" so to speak. Before, iirc, 1971, the only thing that was recorded was power, weight, length, width of the vehicle. So my 1968 Volvo Amazon I could swap a V8 into and they can't say anything about it aslong as it doesn't produce wildly different amount of horsepower compared to the Volvo Amazon maximum, the only thing I'd have to do was register an affix for the papers that said I'd done an engine swap. After that they added some more things to the papers, I can't recall all what it was though but I think tyre dimensions was added, and in 1987 catalytic converters were mandated on all cars, so if you want to do an engine swap on a newer model than that you have to include a catalytic converter. In 1993 they tightened up the registry with more details again, environment classes, gearbox type, noise level, rims and such, and this is the last year that you can register an engine swap on a car. That's why I got myself a 1991 Volvo 240. After '99 or something like that they recorded almost every single little detail about the car, and you're not allowed, technically, to deviate anything from it. There is one way around it though, you can register the car as a total conversion. Then you can do whatever you want basically, but you have to pass a special registration inspection where they absolutely make sure that you have done a total conversion and not just an engine swap or similar. You have to modify the engine, the brakes, the drivetrain, the suspension and so on in a meaningful way. The only thing you don't have to change is the bodywork. And I've only touched lightly on the subject of modifying here My fathers Volvo 740 passed the inspection with his 400+hp race engine in it without issues, the inspector just looked at the turbo and chuckled "That's a big ****in' 'un, heh".

I wonder how much difference there'd be in the centre of gravity if it had an inline 4 instead I'm a DIYer, so working on a boxer sounds feels like a headache, I get annoyed that they canted my engine over something like 20 degrees, so a boxer would be at least 350% more annoying Only about 150k are mine, if I hadn't been cut off and smashed it between the railings on the highway, it'd be about 75k more since I had to buy another 940 to drive while fixing up the first. I'm currently trying to get my hands on a dutch or italian Volvo 940 Turbo (They're 2 litres only, but they have a 16V head, and I need the papers from the car to put a 16V head on my 2.3L without having to change head each time I take the car in for an inspection) engine to put into my Volvo 240, but I think I'm going to have to find some other way. I had a T6 engine from an S80 that I was going to put into it until a friend of mine tried to start the engine without putting the bloody camshaft belts on... I was inspired by this

The GR86 is one of those very few cars made after 1998 that I wouldn't mind having. It's a shame it's a boxer engine though. I'll stick with my ~450000km Volvo 940 though. I've got my Volvo 240 for some variation

If someone were to put some effort into developing it, Slaughterbots are quite feasible, atleast according to the Swiss Drones and Robotics Center.

I very much doubt the footsloggers will survive much longer.

I guess one should be grateful they didn't shoot the family, then again they look fair-skinned

Ian's the best I forgot one of my newest subscriptions that I made, Sabaton History. Members of the band Sabaton (For you who don't know, a metal band that makes metal songs about historical events, mostly wars) and Indy Neidell go through the history behind their songs.

I've subscribed to around 200 channels, many are sister channels to a main channel, like Extra Credits and Extra History, Nightwish & Floor Jansen, Charismatic Voice/The Singing Hole, Tom Scott/Tom Scott plus, Hardware Unboxed/Monitors Unboxed et.c. Some storm chasers like Pecos Hank, Reed Timmer & Melanie Metz, some science channels such as SciShow, Kyle Hill, Vsauce, ScienceAlert, Engineering Explained, BBC Earth Lab. I've got a bunch of gaming channels, TotalBiscuit, Matt Barton, Spelrum, Jim Sterling, Liana K, Girlfriend Reviews, Noclip, Joseph Anderson, The Neon Arcade, AlexJordanVO, Luetin09 and Bricky, plus a few more. There's a couple of hardware channels like JayzTwoCents, Gamers Nexus, Linus Tech Tips and AdoredTV. Some firearms, weapons and military related ones like Forgotten Weapons, InrangeTV, TFB TV, Garand Thumb, Demolition Ranch, Skallagrim, Shadiversity (MACHICOLATIONS!), Kentucky Ballistics, Brandon Herrera, Tacticool Girlfriend, Perun, The Chieftain. And a few randoms like Ask a Mortician, Jonathan Pie, First we Feast, Steve1989MREinfo, Plainly Difficult, Bruva Alfabusa, Davie504, RoomieOfficial, ContraPoints, Viva la Dirt League, Juice Media, Tasting History, Nicole Johnsons Detour... And a whole metric shedload of different artists, singers and musicians. Oh, and DW News.

Went home a couple of hours early from work to see if me and my father could snap some photos of Venus, Jupiter, Mercury or Mars, and against what the forecast said earlier... clouds.

The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration just signed a deal with Finnish SACO to supply us with new rifles for our army. https://www.fmv.se/aktuellt--press/aktuella-handelser/fmv-tecknar-avtal-om-eldhandvapen/