Are you really an middle class city dweller when you don’t interact with cities or society at large at all? I think people with $10B+ in wealth, or people with political ties to Trump would be considered ruling class, not middle class city-dwellers.

That’s what I’m saying. The petty property owning class has been completely replaced by the Elon Musks and Jeff Bezos. They pretend like they’re helping the bourgeoisie, but home ownership is already dead.

The bourgeoisie are all dead, all we have left are capitalist oligarchs.

Did some Google searching myself:

The JWT stands for Jönköping Westra Tändstickfabrik, one of the major matchstick factories in Sweden before they consolidated into the Zyn company.

https://thoresmatches.se/tandsticksfabriker/jonkopings_westra_tandsticksfabrik.htm

You can see in the matchbox pixtures in the page above, that they did use the term “impregnerade” to refer to their chemical treatment on the matchsticks.

This article says that the impregnation treatment was beneficial because it made matches blow out quickly without smoldering:

https://thoresmatches.se/tandsticksfabriker/sakerhetstandstickan.htm

This post on the SomethingAwful forums seems to show an original photo of the match boxes, posted by someone with a Swedish username.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3948652&pagenumber=9#post521474833

These matches don’t seem to be recorded in many museums, so probably either a modern gag, a period knock-off, or genuinely a Swedish person who didn’t realize that impregnerade had a double meaning in English.

There is a matchstick museum in Jönköping, Sweden that could probably answer.

What happens to pressure waves above that? The air liquifies or plasmafies?

The classic bubble tea is just Taiwanese style milk tea with sugar and tapioca

DO NOT ORDER THE CHEESE TEA

Twisting a hateful antisemitic meme to make fun of its tropes is probably a bit of sensitive topic right now.

get some nduja, hot sauce, and fresh basil on that motherfucker. Delivery pizza is obsolete.

would be killruler tho if we’re lore accurate

it’s a reflection of 1960s ubiquitous car culture, to Americans in the 1960’s, automobiles were thought as the only practical form of transportation

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DLSS is the graphite control rods

I dont know anybody who lives in rural areas who needs more than 200 miles of range, and I know many who daily drive EVs. 1 hour to work would be fine driving an EV. Going to the next town over would be fine driving an EV. A long road trip to the city would require fast charging, but there’s plenty of those.

get foreign aid from the EU?

You’re probably going to have a noticeable performance impact from running games off of USB.

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Seed Anna’s Archive!

https://annas-archive.org/torrents

I think SteamOS does automatic firmware updates so you would have to make sure you don’t unexpectedly lock it up

Yeah the nerds usually find themselves in very powerful social circles if they survive school. Circles of emotionally mature experts with strong careers.

Kids’ needs are of course very important, but abandoning engaging hobbies in favor of some phantom desire to fit in is dumb.

Yeah definitely, the US system is very dysfunctional. A good amount of money simply gets lost in the bureaucracy.

Insurance companies are massive conglomerates that have to negotiate deals with tens of thousands of providers, millions of products, and millions of customers. Every Healthcare provider needs dedicated bureaucrats that can navigate the sea of paperwork. I don’t have the data in front of me, but I believe the US government pays about the same amount of money on healthcare as the Swedish government.

Any difference between what a Swede pays and what an American pays is just pure waste. A wasteland of pointless jobs.

There’s definitely some fuskbolag and dysfunctionalities in the Swedish system, but for the most part, Swedes are not wasting money keeping dozens of massive office towers filled with bureaucrats, and Swedes have a happier life because of it.

With regards to salary, all Americans already pay 4% off their paycheck for Medicare. So Swedes don’t have lower salaries because of vård välfärd - at least not directly. But that’s a complicated discussion, and we’re already seeing American salaries fall drastically due to geopolitical factors. There is some aspect of the US having a monopoly on cloud services, where many top European tech works have been bought up and poached by Silicon Valley. There is also the risk of the American economy overinvesting into AI companies, with hundreds of billions of dollars already spent, and further trillions planned.