huf [he/him]

i genuinely dont understand how mussolini wasnt born in at least some formerly austrian-held part of italy. but he wasnt. history glitched there.

cant make jokes about charlie kirk because of woke, smh

fair enough, anyway, you probably cant really rescue anyone from a sinking submarine, but did the germans rescue soviet sailors when they sank soviet ships? there must’ve been a little bit of that too

yeah, but keep in mind that this is only true because the nazis werent sinking soviet submarines in ww2.

the thing is, how does this norwegian background actually affect your day to day life? do you speak norwegian? do you follow norwegian politics? do you eat norwegian dishes? decorate your home like a norwegian (whatever that might be)? cos like, tons of people in europe have ancestry from other european countries but pretty much nobody keeps track of it. eg, a hungarian with of slovak or german ancestry (there are literally millions of them) would not consider themselves to be a slovak or a german at all. not even a hungarian-slovak or whatever. this is generally why europeans are puzzled by the white hyphenated americans.

ion3 (notion since the original project got abandoned) for a wm, but really, just terminals and a browser, in a tiling wm.

the UI is incomparably better.

the things i remember struggling with were getting the stress right and hyperforeignisms (that is, concentrating so hard on getting the difficult “w” and “th” sounds that i would pronounce “v” as “w” and “s” as “th” by accident. i was once asked if my native language had a “v”, because that was the one i seemed to be struggling with)

the tradition of atheist diaspora jews celebrating secular christmas instead of any of the jewish holidays…