Lowpast

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[–] Lowpast@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Old school Runescape

[–] Lowpast@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

The real issue is that we have a rapidly aging workforce and there's not enough young people to replace them. With the average age of parents raising, the gap is getting larger. In the 50s it was 16 workers for every 1 retired. The 70s, 5:1. That number is now almost 2:1. This is bad. Very bad.

Higher bar for jobs. Lower wage for entry level. Later retiring age. Higher need for migrant and seasonal workers.

[–] Lowpast@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

2016 - 40% of mortgage borrowers are not paying their debt down. Those that are paying principal are doing so at a rate it would take 100 years https://www.swedennews.net/news/225058369/sweden-facing-possible-property-bubble-warns-imf

2014 - Sweden to limit max mortgage to 105 years after average repayment is 140 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/mortgages/sweden-cuts-maximum-mortgage-term-to-105-years-the-average-is-14/

2024 - Countrys household debt to income reaches 180% (down from 199% in 2022) https://www.nordea.com/en/news/household-debt-burden-on-the-decline-in-sweden

[–] Lowpast@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure if people are suggesting that oil itself is a magical solution or if they're suggesting that having exclusive access to an extremely profitable resource (oil) enables a country with a tiny population to make socialism work.

I have a strange feeling that if oil became worthless Norway would quickly stop doing socialism well

[–] Lowpast@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Sweden is fairly unique as it's economy wasn't destroyed by WWII, and it's stance on banking, foreign exports, and foreign ownership has enabled it to make massive profits. But the economy is seriously struggling today. The average home loan takes 100 years to pay off.

Finland economy replaces oil with timber and an extremely educated population. Both of which are not sustaining the model well as the country is in recession. The timber industry isnt producing sustainable profits like it used to. The debt-to-GDP ratio is extremely high. The highly educated population is leaving and people don't typically immigrate to Finland.

So arguably the model isn't working anymore, without something like oil to fall back on.

[–] Lowpast@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A known side effect of Ibuprofen (and most NSAIDs) is sweating, so the faster release tabs that aren't in your system as long and thus clear out faster, dont have that aide effect... maybe

[–] Lowpast@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

For using msbuild or vsbuild to build C projects.

Can be installed standalone but it's typically just easier to install the full VS suite because on a shared runner it's better to include the entire kitchen.

[–] Lowpast@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When cocaine usage first exploded, it was almost entirely in "laborers, youths, black people, and the urban underworld". Most of the early history of its usage is associated with non-whites and lower class peoples. Making it illegal worked for a long time until the cocaine boom happened and then it became popular with disco and rock, but again, still mostly used by non-whites. It wasn't until crack became a thing that the racial divide became more clear - rich whites got the clean cocaine, everyone else got addicted to crack.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.12987/9780300255874/html

The switch to being heavily used by the rich white class is a "relatively" recent development.

[–] Lowpast@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

A large foundation for the belief in critical periods for language are based on Genie, a feral child who was entirely unable to learn a spoken language despite significant efforts. Today, she can use some sign language but cannot speak.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)

So the answer is largely believed to be: No. You cannot learn a spoken language if you missed the critical period.

It's also literally impossible to test/study ethically, so nobody actually knows.

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