Finland has actually tried to do something about it, contrary to USA where homelessness is borderline illegal, and the main policy against it is harassment to make them go somewhere else. Finland is a civilized society, USA is a sociopathic society.
That said, homelessness is a challenge, but Finland has a program they call “housing first” to help prevent it, that has turned out to work better than what most countries do.
Stand your ground, 3 times and you’re out, non livable wages, enormous wealth disparity, racism, death penalty.
All these feed violence, and all these are extreme right wing policies.
Where I live (Denmark) very very near zero. A burglar (disregarding color), breaking into a rich mans house would also be near zero risk of getting shot by police.
I had to use support for a product I bought recently (NRGi/Zaptec EV charger), 3 times I had to call them, and every time I got through within 2 minutes! And my issues were quickly fixed.
Weird thing to say after spending so much time and effort telling me how doing what I like is wrong and unpopular,
I have no idea what your problem is? I never claimed in any way it is wrong, I also showed that it used to be way more popular than it is today.
I just state the reasons I think it kind of fell out of fashion.
but thanks for the permission, I guess
It is not a permission, that wouldn’t make any sense whatsoever. On the contrary it’s an acknowledgement of you not just following the mainstream but doing what you like.
I have no idea why you would be butthurt about any of this?
I suppose you mean “minus” instead of minutes.
I suspected something of that sort. Back then using teaspoons was considered somewhat casual.
And now you find the old ways kind of neat. Yes the old cake fork has a slight advantage in that it can be used as a fork, and it typically has an edge to “cut” if it’s a proper one. But in reality those “advantages” don’t really matter, at least not for most people.
A cake can be cut with a teaspoon just as well, and for most cakes the fork function doesn’t really work, and in my experience the fork is used as a spoon anyway.
But hey, have fun. Do what you like. 😀
I must have missed that memo
Maybe you are not old enough, such things used to be way more important half a century ago.
A small fork is generally considered the “correct” cutlery for cake in Denmark.
Obviously a teaspoon serves the purpose just as well, and those are standard to have.
And we are not a pretentious people, so many don’t even have the forks. Since they are pretty useless for anything else. So the small forks are basically superfluous.
Seems to me their only purpose is etiquette, and most Danes don’t really appreciate that when it has no purpose than the etiquette itself.
Now you are making zero sense, since the OP joke was clearly derogatory.
Everyone includes minorities. So maybe you should have excluded that instead of using such broad strokes.
Yes. I don’t see how that could be offensive, because I don’t think anybody identify as humorless idiots. So go right ahead.
There’s a huge difference between targeting a demographic that exist and one that kind of doesn’t really.
But apparently you don’t have the intellectual capacity to understand that.
Obviously I don’t identify as a humorless idiot. I even noted the drawings are kind of funny, it’s the joke that isn’t.
Of course I can, it follows logically from your opposition to my post questioning it.
It is also logically in line with the fact that you suggest “librarian” as a better example than “foreigner”.
Thinking those 2 posts make sense and are OK, but the examples I gave you consider sociopathic, shows you can’t really distinguish between what is OK and what is not.
you have no idea who I am.
I know what you wrote, and my response is based on that.
You obviously think it’s OK to make fun of people for being Vegan, and think it’s OK to make fun of people for other reasons too, like being a librarian.
That clearly makes you “insensitive”.
Maybe you should consider why you think it’s OK to behave in a way, that makes you look like that?
Try to image the situation where Trump made fun of a handicapped journalist, is that who you want to be?
Edit: Dialed it sown a little bit.
Unhinged from what?
If I’m unhinged, it’s because I find you “extremely insensitive” towards people that may stick out for whatever reason.
Edit: Trying to be less “unhinged”.
I could, but those examples are not equivalent except for librarians.
Nobody calls themselves hipster or beer snob.
That is not reasoning, but examples of other groups people make fun of.
You are failing basic logic, and failing to answer the question.
Everyone should be made fun of.
That was what I responded to. Because that means making fun of the above groups too.
But maybe you too is a sociopath extremely insensitive?
I think that is spot on the main issue here.
But everybody needs to be able to accept they are not flawless, because nobody is.
Why exclude one group from humor? Everyone should be made fun of.
OK what are these other groups? Redheads, handicapped, foreigners, women, fat people, small people?
What are these groups that should be made fun of?
You are reasoning like a true sociopath.
Making fun of people for doing the morally correct thing is simply wrong.
True, but that does surprisingly little to prevent homelessness.
In Nordic countries homelessness is mostly due to mental illness and drug abuse.
In USA you can end up homeless because you got just a little bit unlucky, and got sick and lost your job, and can’t pay even the basic bills. By a little bit unlucky, I mean it may be very bad in USA, but here we at least have healthcare for all, and we have regulation that ensures we get paid during sick leave.