Scott_of_the_Arctic

Because Vance is arguably worse than Trump.

I've heard that if you actually add her on friendica, the mayor of Toronto shows up at your house and gives you an old fashioned.

A mechanic? Can you fix my POS 2013 VW Touran?

They just turn me angry.

So Norway is interesting in regards to the LGBTQ community. Sexuality things are generally very accepted all over Norway and have been for longer than most places. Gender things are a bit different, but progressing slowly in the right direction, I think.

For example doctors are not allowed to prescribe HRT unless they can show that their patient has been living as the gender they identify with for a year (I have heard this, don't know if it's accurate). One article i read also said that in order to be officially change your sex (new I'd number, passport etc), removal of the testicles/ovaries is required. So not exactly progressive. But I think that a lot of the official stuff might just be that Norway is extremely slow to change things. There's very much an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude here and that means that most things are very close to broken most of the time.

Individual views tend to be relatively open minded in most circles, but you do get a lot of closed minded people who can be quite forthcoming with their opinion after a few beers. Although that being said the majority of Norwegians don't like to involve themselves in other people's business beyond a snide comment between friends. I would be genuinely shocked if a trans person were physically assaulted. According to statistics from the police, there are between 5 and 15 counts of bodily harm (including grievous bodily harm) and fewer than 5 counts of bodily injury (not sure why the distinction) motivated by gender identity each year and 2 murders in 2022 although the statistics I saw only covered 2021-2023. I have no idea how they collected or handled the data.

Regarding pronouns, my NB friend has said that they constantly need to remind people. Also an NB colleague of mine who's they/them pronouns are visible in their zoom profile is habitually referred to as she by all but a couple of my colleagues (2/50) and even when I emphasise they there are only a couple more who switch.

I know that recently the orange administration has been sending ultimatums to all the universities in Europe saying essentially saying "stop teaching woke stuff and practicing dei or we won't recognise your university or fund American students who go there". I believe the response has been a mixture of offence and disgust. One of the department heads signed it and was quickly reprimanded by the administration and told to walk it back. So there's that at least.

That's my knowledge of the situation in Norway, it I'm not trans so take what I say with a pinch of salt. Hope it was helpful.

Pretty much all of June July and August was in the 20s in Tromsø last summer. I grew tomatoes and chillis on the balcony. I'd say that qualifies as pretty warm.

Shetland and Orkney. Nobody who lives there says Shetlands or Orkneys. But yes there are a few for sure but not all of the islands have one.

The sheep were tired of getting fleeced...

The people who lived there were forcibly relocated to the colonies because the lairds worked out that it was more profitable to use the land for sheep than peasants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances

Pretty likely. The chances of getting assassinated are essentially dependent on two things:

1. how easy would it be

2. how many people want to make it happen

I believe that there's enough of the second to more than compensate for the first.

Oh grow up and use liters like normal people.

It's spelled Elon Musk actually.