Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 113

@gossamer That depends on how you define "want".

My inner voice at the moment: "Do NOT eat anything now. It's after 8. Also, brush your god damn teeth. No, you don't need food, you already had too much to eat. Also, first thing in the morning, you're going to clean up the living room. Your mother and your sister are going to visit, and you're going to impress them by cooking a good meal for them, and then you're going to serve them coffee and desert."

Getting my shit together is basically this long and slow process where I gradually pile more and more stuff onto the "have some dignity and self-control for christ's sake" shelf in my brain.

Being big wreaks havoc on your virility. The more weight I lose, the greater my interest in the opposite sex. That side of me had almost disappeared completely when my BMI was at its highest, and it's coming back now. I wonder how strong it's going to get when I start passing below the lowest BMI I've ever been at since puberty (my weight issues go back a long time), because I fully expect that to happen in the next 6 months...

If the Norwegian government collected all its revenues thorough the VAT, that would make it very easy to pay taxes. It would also cause a riot, because the rate would be 55% at the very least. 55% of Norway's gross domestic gross product is paid in taxes, so you'd have to set the rate at least that high to collect the same amount of revenue. Compare that to 26% for the United States and 34% for the United Kingdom. Over 50% is a tad extreme. The UK's tax burden seems more sane to me.

@Algot Glad to see that you're still active!

@frankiesaxx Never heard of it.

What's the American equivalent of the Norwegian app Vipps? You use it to pay your friends (to their phone numbers) or as a payment method in other apps.

@urwitchygothmom Not quite seeing the "bitch" part in you.

@urwitchygothmom Ah, a history, I see.

@urwitchygothmom Only thing I've noticed about him is that he's a bit aloof and keeps a distance, but that seems to be a common thing with people who get a lot of attention...

@urwitchygothmom I must've missed this. People said that? Where?

Immigrant or expatriate?

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/mar/13/white-people-expats-immigrants-migration

Not sure if online dating is broken or if I'm broken. I don't feel interested in talking to any of these women, and I'm on the biggest dating site in the country.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2018/8/22/what-do-you-believe-now-that-you-didnt-five-years-ago-centra.html

Centralised wins. Decentralised loses.

I wonder if Mastodon will turn out to be better than Twitter in the long run.