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Sweden officially joins NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality

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As a Swede I often find myself thankful we don't have the military brainwashing the US has, even though we have a strong military for such a small country. The army stuff is there if you look but if you don't care you don't notice it much, if at all. I'm not invested enough to have a really informed opinion about us joining NATO. But from what I know it'll be a good thing, just being able to help countries more that need it is enough of a reason IMO.

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Victory lap!

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Imagine being born before World War I and still being alive. You've seen more change in the world than anyone ever has, more deeply transforming events and previously unimaginable things become real. Even teens complain about changes in the world and many work so hard to stop them, I can only imagine experiencing so much makes those things seem so childish and ignorant.

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Swedish is a beautiful language

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The word for marriage and poison is the same: "gift" (pronounced with a short j sound, like "jet")

The word for strawberries is "jordgubbar", which directly translates to "dirt old men". "Jord" means dirt or the earth, and "gubbar" means old men.

Cockroach is "kackerlacka" which directly translates to "poop varnish" or "poop leak" ("kacka" is an old word for poop that's not used much anymore other than for this word, and "lacka" has several definitions).

The word for a kiss is "puss", and the word "Kiss" means pee. Some other words that sound weird/wrong and their definition:

Kock, means a chef.
Fart, means speed.
Prick, means dot.
Bra, means good.
Sex, means both sex and six.

And some weird and funny commonly used expressions:

"Glida in på en räkmacka" - To slide in on a shrimp sandwich. Is said when you're lucky or things are going well.

"Smaken är som baken: delad" - Taste is like the bum: split. Just means we all have different tastes in things and that's okay.

"Nu ska det bli andra bullar" - Now there will be other buns (buns like in cinnamon buns). Basically means that from now on there will be new, more strict rules and routines.

I could list many more but gotta head to bed. I can add more tomorrow if you want!

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Granted.

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The whole joke is that the genie made the letter I stop existing. It's not a misspelling because the letter I doesn't exist anymore.

You really seem to not understand this very simple joke.

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"Hua Moa" just sounds right for a banana that size. I can picture the person that named it making those sounds as a reaction to seeing it, and then just going with that as the name.

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Euro bottles are so much better now

I seriously don't understand how people have problems with these, they're absolutely fine. Not hard to use, doesn't get in the way and you'll never lose them. And if all else fails you can just pull them off, not hard either. You gotta be dumb as fuck to have problems with them.

As with anything else, I'm absolutely certain this is the classic "something changed so I'm going to be mad about it and make up a bunch of reasons why it's bad" thing that happens to every little change anywhere. And what is some tiny inconvenience compared to lessening plastic waste, helping the environment and hurting less living beings? Stop being such spoiled little shits and pull your heads out of your asses.