Norway

Our royal family is mostly into sailing, I choose to believe that’s why we don’t have the same issue.

As a noggie, this resonates with me. My ideology is in line with nobody being more important from the Birthe lottery than anyone else. But my pragmatic side says that there are no pressing concerns that justify such a drastic change as abolishing the royal family.

They don’t cost that much, our regent is alright, and his heir apparent is pretty alright too. Might as well keep them around as a unifying symbol and as primary diplomats.

Plus, I have to admit that I like the concept of a lhaving an apolitical person with veto powers, in case some shithead starts something silly. I just hope said veto powers are used if needed.

Source: Met them both when I was in the army roughly 1.3 lifetimes ago.

I’m intrigued. Which country?

As an aside, I was surprised to see that when I wrote chatgpt a sentence written in an obscure (mine) norwegian dialect, peppered with slang and nonstandard contractions, chatgpt actually understood me very well. It seems LLMs are really good at checking possible root words and their origins to infer meaning when it’s not recognizing the word.

For example, I wrote “veitkji”, which is a contractions of “veit ikkji”, which is normally written “vet ikke”. However, cgpt correctly interpreted it as "some scandinavian non-standard dialect for “don’t know” "

The two main bots in my IRC bot network were named Man14 and Girl41

Good point. I’ve just gotten used to the fact that gnu-everything is required to compile gnu-anything, both gnuseful and gnuseless, but you eventually realize that you have the wrong version of gnu-something. So I stopped caring after dicking around with dependency resolutionfor far too longbto make it work. Gnu is like furniture to me - it’s just there, and the less I have to think about it living in my gnuserspace, the better.

You give me too much credit. I got curious and started googling, lol.

You’re overthinking. Non-technical people don’t care aboutthe difference.

Yes, that’s pretty much the 2nd half of my comment.

Also, my understanding is that seroconversion kinetics is about how fast your body starts making antibodies, how strong the resp9nse is and how it changes over time.

Nobody wants to work anymore…

To be fair, I think it holds true for any head of department of health (or whatever they’re called) - that’s a position that calls for organizational skills and not a medical doctorate. In the same way my project manager doesn’t answer questions about clustered datastorage, that’s what he has people like me for.
However, leading JFKJrs department also calls for common sense and skepticism towards conspiracy theories, two qualities he severely lacks. But at least he’s right in that particular statement.

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Unsolicited suggestion from my driving playlist: Icy Lust - Downtown Maglev

I always enjoyed driving to that one with good audio. The way it builds up slowly is great for being on the road.

Mod notice: we’re serious though.

Watermelon and bacon.

And in the name of science I tried mustard on watermelon recently, and I was positively surprised. It has to be some really strong and course mustard, none of that Dijon slop.

Yup. They are part of “They”, as in the ones who are hiding the truth from us.

Can confirm. I have a fascination with deserts. It’s been that way for as long as I can remember. I wanna tumble down a sand dune!

Singapore is alright. Been there a few times.

Should come with an unopened box of prescribed ritalin, maybe?