Monks devote their lives to one thing. Many craftsmen devote their lives to one thing. Activists, philosophers, doctors, diplomats, bakers. Devoting your life to a specific thing can be enriching.

I’m responsible for print in my company. Printers are spawned from Satan’s sphincter and only want to see humanity suffer.

The moment you decide to “make sure” because you’re uncertain about what you’re allowed to say on the Internet, it’s over. The bad guys didn’t win, you just quit the race and sat down.

Watching people who look like they should be knee-deep in a mortgage and two jobs going out on adventures on bikes hits a bit different.

Two weeks? If you’re middle to upper middle class, sure. If you’re lower middle to lower class, you’ll get a week, if anything at all, unpaid. Sick? Unpaid. Spouse died? Unpaid. What, give people welfare? Not on my tax dollar, that’s communism!

The US stopped being the land of opportunity two generations ago, and only now people are starting to realize.

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I feel cheated. This is obviously not a shitpost.

A lot of good points here about pros and cons when considering republic vs constitutional monarchy. I was myself against the idea of monarchy for quite a while, but I realize it’s mostly because I was living in the UK at the time and was exposed to how normal people are treated compared to the upper class. In addition, though the British royal family doesn’t have any power on paper, they have vast connections in all parts of the government and private sector with many ways to influence things. Also, the UK was until recently a two party state, which meant almost total power to whichever party won the election.

Scandinavia doesn’t have as much of a disparity between social classes (even counting royals), and what I see here is that the monarchy provides a stability and continuity that we wouldn’t get with a republic. Anyone can lie, cheat and bribe their way to getting elected president, but when you have a dozen different parties with different policies passing laws with a monarch as an anchor, it works out pretty well.

The King of Norway has a mostly symbolic role in day-to-day affairs. New laws that have been passed by the Storting (Parliament) will have their final approval signed by the King, but this is largely a token approval. The King does have veto power over any given amendment, but if he invokes it, Parliament has the right to vote the same amendment through a second time, at which point it cannot be vetoed. He is the head of the Church of Norway, and also supreme commander of our armed forces. Though command is delegated to other commanders, the King would have a more direct role in questions regarding central command or wartime. When representing our country abroad, he is very much considered a personification of the nation, rather than a representative of the ruling party. Norway’s main reason for maintaining our own monarchy stems very much from declaring independence from Denmark and Sweden, which ruled us for about 500 years.

Most hilarious part of this meme is the people losing their minds in the comments. “Jesus wasn’t white, he was black! But he didn’t exist, stop with the religious nonsense!”

As a Norwegian, I was staring at the picture again and again, not getting the joke… Never thought about how the eastern Norwegian place Toten would sound to the Germans. Bravo. 😄

Encona is a UK brand owned by Grace Foods, a Jamaican conglomerate. Great range of tasty sauces. Another alternative, though not European but South African, is Nando’s range.

Norwegians are supreme in the Nordics. We can count to five.

He’s an attention-seeking edgelord and a buffoon, but I highly doubt the Nazi allegations. This comes from someone who genuinely believes in the right to punch Nazis. We need to be careful about throwing the Nazi-card in all directions, or the real ones will slip through the cracks (some have already managed to skip into positions of power while us plebs are squabbling). He did a couple of insanely stupid things that he should have grown out of by age 15, hopefully he learned from that.