it might be that school fucking sucks and makes kids feel gray inside

whereas weekends leave them free to experience actual joy

While not quite the same, sweden has a lot of similarily mass-produced high-density housing areas (our version of a suburb) and they’re honestly pretty fucking nice, definitely some of the better places to live.

They’re affordable, have good public transport access, generally have a bunch of amenities nearby especially if it’s a larger “suburb”, and they’re almost always car-light which makes them soooo much calmer and safer than the rest of the urban area.

I recently visited the big suburb north of gothenburg called Angered, and it was quite lovely!
Tons and tons of housing yet the atmosphere was kind of village-like, centered around a tram station that has departures every 5 minutes to the city proper.
There’s a vegetable market right next to the trams, a grocery store and a bunch of other businesses (including a nice café), the streets are inviting and there’s lots of greenery, there’s a big park with a water playground literally like 100m away from the tram station, and last but absolutely not least there’s a river valley right next to all this and on the other side of that it’s just straight up rural farmland, and you can take a walk along the river until you reach a bus stop with departures every few minutes as well and just take public transport back home to rest your weary legs!

It’s a great shame that these areas have a general perception as violent and unpleasant areas, because this is what most places should be like. By building densely and making sure there are good public transport connections, you get easy access to amenities and transportation while also keeping nature right outside your door.

It’s this or kittens, there’s an ad for flygresor.se where it’s literally just a bunch of shots of kittens wearing knitted airplane costumes while a woman sings “flyg flyg flyg, flygresor.se”.

that is what actually competent commercial design looks like, you’ve immediately grabbed my full attention and planted a jingle in my memory that will never leave.

no thoughts, head empty

as a västgöte i take deep offense to this, it’s perfectly normal to say something is sketagôtt

one is a word, the other is a word with a descriptor in front of it. like greenhouse vs green house, one means a building made of glass where you grow stuff, the other is a house painted the colour green.

i mean there’s silverlök, which is a very white-looking onion…

garlic is amazing until the point where it curbstomps me with a migraine

well yeah why do you think it takes them so long to break out?

I shudder to imagine how much nutritional yeast you’d need to consume to gain weight…

taste-wise butter is like, slightly better? but the price is so hilariously not fucking worth it in the least.

Plus, you can get margarine with added omega 3! As someone who fucking hates fish, that’s pretty nice.

maybe maybe not, but for sure it’s not the thing you should be worrying about, what you should be worrying about is eating less in general, eating more vegetables, eating less carbs, and getting more exercise.

it’s just solid canola oil and water lmao, do you just eat spoonfuls of it on its own? i mean i guess butter would be better to consume like that but not by much…

as has already been said, overmorrow is already mostly a thing and is completely cromulent, and i propose taking the swedish “förrgår” and bringing it in as something like “foremorrow” which sounds reasonably cromulent to my ear, might confuse people a little bit but the “fore” bit is a pretty big hint as to what it means.

oh the irony

this is kindergarden level argumentation lol

and yet a nuclear bomb is commonly referred to as “nuke” and no one bats an eye, curious

are you asking why english should be taught in non-english native countries, or in anglophone countries? Because the former should hopefully be obvious, being able to understand and use english is pretty useful these days…

The latter, teaching languages to people who already know them, is something i’m more iffy about.
I think it’s dumb to make it mandatory, instead we should have optional general linguistics courses and encourage people to read.

Maybe as part of history class you can learn about how your native language was spoken in the past, as well!

i think we need more prescriptivists who insist we should all speak toki pona and write in chinese

counterpoint: umami sounds cool