Right?
Dude really got pissed. I remember getting some pirated games from Estonia in the 90’s and Estonia was halfway further to the West than Russia.
In 1996, the N64 was released. Unfortunately it took until the spring of 1997 for my dad to get us one. I fucking loved him for that. The most amazing suprise in my life. It wasn’t a christmas, a birthday, nothing. Dad just got us a N64 as a surprise. Fucking 3D gaming, flying around in Star Wars ships. It was AMAZING. RIP Dad
Like infrastructure designed for providing hot water (>75C) directly to the kitchen?
Damn, that’s amazing.
We only got saunas.
“Probably not”… what?
Money only buys happiness to up about like a 100k a year or so. I don’t know it might be even more now, but definitely not over 200k.
It used to be roughly 70k USD and 50k EUR some 10 years ago when I read the study. That’s the point at which you’re financially secure enough to have your basics needs met and have enough over to climb towards self-actualization.
From well kept recycled parts which are labeled? Not much of a challenge.
From DUMPSTER parts? I’d say that’s more impressive, as you need the knowledge and tools to know what works and what doesn’t.
Yeah, sure, given a limitless timeframe, you can sit there until you get lucky enough for someone to drop a completely functioning but disassembled PC on your lap. But building one? You might need to clean parts, research what they are to get the proper drivers and OS even if you manage to find a set that actually fits together. Tracking down and fixing tiny shorts in circuits? That’s not the same skills as putting together some Legos.
I’ve been in IT support in cities and schools and even when there’s a massive pile of computers and hardware that are known to not be broken, it’s sometimes a challenge.
You know how hard it is building a bookshelf? Take a piece of wood. Put book(s) on it. Now you’ve a bookshelf.
Yeah, people like Ian McKellen got like 13 million, so that’s a difference in a known vs relatively unknown actor, I guess.
Also, Cate Blanchett says she “got paid in sandwiches” and just wanted to work for Peter Jackson because of his previous movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ielt7A-Ebn4
Not really. Emotional attachment is forbidden, not marriage.
Marriage didn’t used to be about feelings, but about political convenience basically.
I used to send a complaint for faulty products to companies in my late teens/early 20’s as I was low on money. Like once I got some energy drink in a bottle made for Pepsi. Same volume, no difference, but a mistake, so got 5€ for it so “won” like 3€ for that. I’d pick out products like that if I saw them in a shop for that very purpose.
Once I genuinely was annoyed though, as a soft drink company that filled the vending machine at our school had filled it wrong and I got what was essentially Fanta he I wanted an energy drink and it was fucking hard waking up that morning.
Should be noted that in Norway it is not just for war, but rather any emergency like natural disasters or someone takes out critical infrastructure in a digital attack etc.
A digital attack would be an act of war, though, so…
So that’s a “yes, you can consider yourself better than the country I live in”?
Yeah and even when actors get paid “low sums” it’s usually like six figures still, at least regarding projects like Spy Kids.
And even if it was “just” five figures, if its above 50k and last less than a year to film, it’s more than most people make and the actors who do these aren’t exactly broke to begin with.
Orlando Bloom “only” got 175k for the lotr trilogy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0nHeZgepNw
If someone paid me 175k to fuck about as an elf in New Zealand for 438 days, I’d be willing to suck their dick on the spot. And I don’t generally like sucking dick too much.
How’d you know? for those who don’t remember
Get fucking rekt. Like an Aussie has any right to say they’re better than the USA. Go find a Norwegian and you got a deal.
“Get rekt” implies you think there’s a game. I don’t consider conversations competitions, but I know a lot of young people come to forums for that sort of thing. Now, if there was a game board, I won, seeing as how you’re saying that Nordics can say they’re better than the USA. And I’m Nordic. So… it is your opinion that I should be allowed to hold myself as better than the USA, right?
You said something that was incorrect.
You might not want to take the L, but it doesn’t matter whether you accept it or not. You’ve still lost.
For some reason, his general outlook and behaviour doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence that he takes care of his diet, even when it comes down to him theoretically having eaten something else. (Has he, ever? Like “lore-wise.” I don’t watch the Muppets, sorry.)
I have a no-blocking policy. Mama raised me with a spine.
One “I pointed out your mistake” later and you’re running with your tail tucked.
Get rekt.
So, to reiterate, like you promised, I’m allowed to act like my country is better than America?
Isn’t it weird how theres a conservative “argument” about morningafter pills, “if it’s genuine rape, God has ways of stopping a pregnancy”, but the same people wouldn’t see anything wrong with taking Viagra despite their god-given sexual impotence.
The hypocrisy
I’ve found those sort of people to be pretty psychotic themselves.
Got a bit ashamed by me pointing out your mistake?
You also can’t see a road. There is some paving, but none that’s broken. That’s two puddles and a patch of snow. So yeah, this isn’t Australia. It’s summer in Australia, and it’s not exactly known for snow in the winter either.
You proposed a deal. I’m Nordic. Do I have the right to act as if we’re better than the US, as you promised?
I haven’t attempted to insult you. I apologise for you thinking I did. Idk what you perceived as one?
I can see you have a point. I just don’t what the point is you’re trying to make?