Azdeus

Fremskrittspartiet in Norway is also making headway for what its worth.

I'm sorry to hear about the insomnia, I've had some trouble sleeping the past few days aswell, though for entirely different reasons. I don't know about that, I'm very partial to Empire, but I have a massive fetish for that era.

I feel I need to buy a new motherboard and 5800x so I can get some insights to assist you. Yes. Definetly no other reason. I've stopped reading the AMD reddit lately, but I've seen posts there detailing that they've lowered temps and increased performance somewhat with just undervolting and using PBO2. Might want to have a looksee over there.

I enjoyed that joystick, but I also bought the throttle aswell, if anyone else would buy it I also recommend going to the hardware store and buying some silicone grease. The throttle is really sticky and from what me and a friend found out, they don't grease the runners properly, so you're going to have to do that yourself.

I don't have specifics, no. But I do know this, most of our major windparks are in the far north of Sweden, and temperatures average -10C or thereabout, and the only failed windturbine that I've heard of was one that collapsed due to construction errors. You do get a loss of efficiency, but they've all been working. Yes, but to be fair, that is also because almost all of our major green energy, dams and windfarms are in the north of Sweden, and we can't get that power down south. Moving power 1000 miles it's like getting hydro and windpower from North Dakota down to texas. It has little to do with temperatures itself, it's not like the windturbines failed because it was cold. They did fail a bit in that, down south, there weren't much wind to speak of at all. What is going to be a real problem though is that industries like LKAB and SSAB want to move away from processes with loads of CO2 releases to more environmentally friendly alternatives based on electricity, and they are going to need about 30% of what is right now the total output of Sweden if I remember the article correctly. Since I can't read the article because it's paywalled, I don't know what they really said there.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-16/sweden-shows-texas-how-to-keep-turbines-spinning-in-icy-weather

I've planned to use the familys outdoor hot tub with a friend, been going at the ice for about one hour when I go to my uncle to fetch a digging bar, tell him I'm done in 5 minutes and he can unlock the barn so I can get the waterpump. I pry away the iceblock and wait 10 minutes, and go to check whats up. His car is gone, so I call him. Turns out he went to the landfill and will be back in two hours. ... So that's my timeschedule ****ed up for today.

Actually, loosing the memories wouldn't bother me too much, they'd make things a whole lot easier actually. It honestly would probably suck balls to be a kid today, but it certainly wasn't bright and rosy in the 90's either. No, I'm thinking a pretty extreme makeover that would've been alot easier before puberty. I'm probably, health permitting, going to change my gender. Something that wasn't allowed or even considered possible when I grew up was for someone under the age of 18 to start the process, and it was extremely rare for puberty to be halted, something that is allowed and more often than not permitted today. Also, had I been born one year later, the doctors would've checked for my illness(The one that causes my high BP) when I was born and they would've started me on the medication that I take now, that has as an effect that it blocks testosterone, which is a... perk, but also I wouldn't have had a bunch of problems related to high BP that plagued me. Things such as headaches that caused me to not focus properly in school.

Hehe, I'll be honest, I don't want to time travel. If I could take a nanotech shot to turn 12 again though in todays age, that'd be better, there are a whole lot of things that I want to change that wasn't possible to do then and that I want to do now.

I've considered going back to school a couple of times, but I really like what I do. I would've liked to try again to become a high voltage electrician, but going back to school and first upping my grades to be eligible for the course for a couple of years and then take the course for high voltage, isn't really that tentalizing to be honest. I'm kind of a late bloomer I'd fit right into the mid 20's on the adulting scale

36 come May

I should point out aswell, that I have no grades whatsoever that are worth anything. I've got A in Maths, English, some low level Electrical engineering courses and F in Swedish, nothing in any of the other courses including Sports. So the wage is fairly good for what grades I have.

Heh, that's quite the resumé! Here in Sweden your wife would earn about 8000-11000€ depending on what part of the government she would be employed at, but Foreign Affairs would be state employed, so 10200€ According to https://www.ekonomifokus.se/lon-efter-skatt-kalkylator (If you want to play around yourself, "Vilken kommun bor du i?" is basically what town you live in, Stockholm is the one I used) she would get ~6200€ into her bank account and you'd get 3375€ Edit; Also, uncheck "Medlem i Svenska Kyrkan" unless you want to know what the church tax is aswell.

Haha! Yeah, when I first met him in 2000, he was by his computer writing a kernel for some OS of his own, and I told him that I just got a C++ book from my father that I was studying. So he started talking programming to me, and that is when I decided that the C++ book would become my new monitor stand. I felt like a complete idiot when he was around. It's a fairly decent wage for what is required from you, the requirements is working arms, legs and a passing grade in Swedish (Which they honestly disregard, we've had a lady from Wyoming, iirc, working for us and she could say hi and goodbye).

Nothing No data on that, but; About 4420€ Edit; I've got a friend that is a software developer, a really, really good one, obsessive about programming, he does it on his spare time for fun kind of guy, and on his first job they offered him 3600€ which he accepted, because he doesn't give a flying **** about how much money it is, because it's stupid amounts in his mind. One year later he asked for a raise or he'd quit, and they offered him 1000€ and paid travel time to and from work (About two hours each day) which would count as part of his workday.

I'm not very well versed in the cost of living in Germany, but yeah, it's pretty expensive here, but we also do get many, many things for free or cheap, or with the help of state student loans. But generally speaking I'm lower class so, it is to be expected. An engineer here has an average wage of 41000 SEK (~4100€). If you don't mind sharing what your job "title" is I can look up the expected average wage? It's only from 1855, so it'd be newer than mine ;D

It's before taxes, no extras like overtime, inconvenient working hours, teaching bonuses or such. I get about 18500 SEK (2200 ish dollars) into my bank account each month on that. Since I work evenings though I get about 1500-2000SEK more. When I worked daytime at the gatehouse, managing traffic and such I got 2000 SEK extra for the specialized tasks I had. The best money I made was last December two years ago, working 10-23, 7 days a week, I got about 37000 SEK into my bank account. Go up a wee bit here and you'd get https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/gard-7rum-edsas-alingsas-kommun-edsasvagen-170-16941895 (An 27 hectares next to a nice lake, including two islands)

They have ideas. Not necessarilly good ideas, but they are ideas. Postal workers rarely stay long nowadays, so they make sure that anyone can get a liveable wage. I mean, I did benefit from it alot when I first started, but I think my total raise over the past 6 years has been something like 60€, so my wage is 15€ more than some yours if you were to come here tomorrow and start working. And I'm a yard jockey that also knows how to plan traffic and train people, stuff like that. If I could get my foot in at the docks... they have an average wage of 30500 SEK, compared to 24000SEK that I earn now.

Thanks! I look forward to see how much the union cuts off

Got called to my boss' office today out of the blue, turns out I was due for a salary discussion. It was nice to hear that I was performing well above expectations, but it feels pretty pointless since I'm unionized, and they don't dole out increases by performance, they just give everyone a flat equal part, no matter what you do. Which really irks me. Sure, the idea behind it is good since people don't stay for any length in the company, but it also means that the company and the union bleed any talent away. Oh well, atleast the complaints about the longhaired hardass has mostly died down alot. My boss doesn't recieve weekly calls of complaint about me yelling at drivers.

Same over here, the cold itself didn't shut down anything Edit; It would lower production in windfarms though due to icing Swedish article; https://www.smhi.se/nyhetsarkiv/isbelaggning-bromsar-vindkraft-1.168598?l=null

Rehydrating with Moscow Mules? Here's your gold man-card. 🎟

*Raises hand* I'm hearing impaired, so I was taught this in school. Video over here; https://www.teckensprak.com/siffror1.html Okay, three for you, and eight for me, looks about right

I honestly don't mind spending 40 minutes driving to work, what I really mind is that it costs me 300€ in just petrol.

So, today was Fettisdagen here, so I had myself a semla. And like a gift from heaven, Max Miller who hosts the channel Tasting History made this;