Post Ad5w1fP7BHuvzToQue by thor@berserker.town
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(DIR) Post #Ad5vuP1pfNuZAxSU9A by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T07:51:48Z
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Fire alarm in the condo just went off.I'm not leaving the building. That thing goes off too often.Wish me luck.
(DIR) Post #Ad5vuQvsaUL154gl96 by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T07:56:49Z
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If I start smelling smoke, I'll leave, with a balled-up shirt over my mouth. This is a concrete building. Fire doesn't spread so easily here.
(DIR) Post #Ad5vyVSXhOCQHLuP2m by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T07:57:53.550934Z
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@thor Fire drill hopefully.
(DIR) Post #Ad5w1fP7BHuvzToQue by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T07:58:18Z
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@posrev It's 9 in the morning. Someone probably burned their toast.
(DIR) Post #Ad5w7soyD4MLL9s1AG by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T07:59:35.197580Z
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@thor Are you still in that small apartment which is living and sleeping in the same room?
(DIR) Post #Ad5wBhkDKoNO92T49g by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:00:02Z
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@posrev Yes.
(DIR) Post #Ad5wHsRgSe7r4TkAwi by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:00:42Z
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@posrev Cat doesn't like the fire alarm. He's in the bathroom. I wish I had little noise cancelling headphones to give him. Wearing them currently. Waiting for the darned thing to stop.
(DIR) Post #Ad5wMC39VxkB20KMuu by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:02:10.343046Z
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@thor My cat hates the vacumn cleaner.
(DIR) Post #Ad5wQdsjyfPSVdZx0S by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:02:58.619930Z
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@thor Maybe see what's hapoening out there?
(DIR) Post #Ad5wfmbroGqjvDuEZU by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:05:41.970222Z
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@thor Your country Norway has a similar population to New Zealand.
(DIR) Post #Ad5wlPw91JRJLB4r8C by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:06:19Z
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@posrev Yes and also Ireland, so we have some things in common with those countries.
(DIR) Post #Ad5wtEA2gc8n8RImzQ by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:07:48Z
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@posrev We're also in the same league as Switzerland. They have 8 million people and there are a lot of mountains. We're 5 million and there are a lot of mountains.
(DIR) Post #Ad5x0wcbmT0h3SLLsW by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:09:32.256386Z
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@thor Your largest city Oslo is about 2 million like our largest which is Auckland.
(DIR) Post #Ad5xFR7VBZIXhJhhho by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:11:07Z
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@posrev That's a generous number. Oslo proper (formal city limits) is only 623k people. The greater Oslo region has 1.7M.
(DIR) Post #Ad5xFRvqAPZ2DRFuAS by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:12:08.392985Z
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@thor I was thinking of the metropolitan area.
(DIR) Post #Ad5xKS436OKK4fTq08 by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:12:51Z
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@posrev It's not 2 million no matter how you look at it. That's rounded up. It's about 1.7M.
(DIR) Post #Ad5xRULqzrdHC9ADHk by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:14:19.875059Z
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@thor The same as Auckland.
(DIR) Post #Ad5xbjVjUPqB6ffZLM by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:15:22Z
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@posrev Most of the area inside Ring 2 (a motorway and major thoroughfare) looks like this.
(DIR) Post #Ad5xeRXekpCaFHrTfM by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:16:40.546649Z
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@thor That looks like a harbour area.
(DIR) Post #Ad5xm1Jk8jL3EEy0ES by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:17:25Z
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@posrev Outside of Ring 2 it looks more like this. It used to be the municipality of Aker and not a part of Oslo. It's more oriented around cars and subways. When I have looked for apartments in Oslo, I have tried to keep them inside of Ring 2. You can have cheaper rent outside but it doesn't really feel like you're living in Oslo if you do that. At least not to me.
(DIR) Post #Ad5y63wg4wSPAejdLs by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:21:39.733852Z
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@thor Auckland spreads out a long way and it's been car orientated since the 1960's. Only in the last 20 years have they started investing more in public transport. Especially trains.
(DIR) Post #Ad5y7QQLzO6fB1GWGm by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:19:19Z
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@posrev Well, the central parts of Oslo are close to a harbour. Most central places in Norway are close to the sea. Generally speaking, if you're not near the sea in Norway, it's in the mountains somewhere, which isn't great for agriculture.
(DIR) Post #Ad5yHplEdt3ceYznrk by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:22:52Z
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@posrev Mmm, inside of Ring 2 it's always been difficult to drive. Plenty of roads but you're always navigating a bajillion intersections and one-way roads and parking takes some effort to find. It's easier to walk or ride public transportation.
(DIR) Post #Ad5yHqX5lxL32zO1Sa by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:23:30Z
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@posrev People who insist on driving inside of Ring 2 are not very rational beings. Too attached to their cars.
(DIR) Post #Ad5yMghPlDqlzsWVCS by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:24:40.385667Z
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@thor Has it been designed like that on purpose?
(DIR) Post #Ad5ycBLg5aTLOkkDEu by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:27:28.153201Z
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@thor iI remember seeing one of your videos of you in Norway. It looks like you have a very good public transport system.
(DIR) Post #Ad5yeDN7XOUeFiO8yu by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:26:35Z
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@posrev The inner city has SOME planning but it happened in the 1600s before cars existed, so there are parts of it that are designed as a grid, but not all of them. What used to be roads for horse wagons are now roads for cars. The ring system looks like this. As a driver, you want to be on one of the ring roads and then you exit to find your destination.
(DIR) Post #Ad5ykWgSeJHzsvRbua by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:28:43Z
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@posrev Oslo has a good one. Several cities have. Outside of that, you really need a car. You can't live in the countryside without one.
(DIR) Post #Ad5yvufTohztSKPnOq by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:31:02.049532Z
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@thor It's the same in New Zealand. If you're in a city under 120,000 you really need a car.
(DIR) Post #Ad5yxlGziZk4tgqMhU by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:29:50Z
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@posrev You could technically do it but then you'd be walking a bit. Which isn't bad, but gets cold here at times.
(DIR) Post #Ad5zIdT7vgJqm2TKGO by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:35:08.290664Z
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@thor Similar to New Zealand I mean. We're a long narrow country.
(DIR) Post #Ad5zSqwQh2sNSE3AJs by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:36:59.077931Z
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@thor With two main islands. The North and South Island.
(DIR) Post #Ad5zUb4eetcwp0jG8O by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:36:48Z
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@posrev I didn't know it was long and narrow. Norway is about 2400 km from north to south.
(DIR) Post #Ad5zhDAMrIqcRBPrbk by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:39:35.165918Z
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@thor That's pretty big. New Zealand would be about 1800 km between the two islands
(DIR) Post #Ad5zvZXAUbuNrcvdi4 by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:42:10.554809Z
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@thor 1600 km apparently. That was a pretty good guess.
(DIR) Post #Ad5zyHzgAAXMKhYmTQ by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:41:50Z
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@posrev Well, okay, I think the 2400 km figure is driving. Line of sight, it's 1784, but you'd be flying through Sweden on the way, since we kinda bend around a bit.
(DIR) Post #Ad60Np8G5mzULikU7c by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:44:02Z
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@posrev The way to understand Norway is literally in its name.Nor wayThe North WayA sailing route that later became a country.We are coastline.
(DIR) Post #Ad60zjxvkYeVKUzvvM by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:54:08.033382Z
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@thor New Zealand is a coastline country as well. Farming sheep and cattle. Agriculture and tourism is our economic baseline. Our parliament is based on the British system.
(DIR) Post #Ad61EDwD6uquLD6Euu by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T08:56:45.120902Z
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@thor The people in the countryside are alot different than people like me in the city.
(DIR) Post #Ad61NDbbiPvRutkfGy by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T08:57:32Z
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@posrev We're cheating over here. Oil. We're kind of scrambling and stressing out about finding some kind of economic baseline that isn't oil.
(DIR) Post #Ad61iEdn3stLCznJ4q by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T09:02:10.549138Z
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@thor New Zealand has alot of gas and coal to be tapped. The last government banned it.The new government is bring back the gas exploration. There is also alot of silver and gold.
(DIR) Post #Ad61sSTmStb31XzGUq by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T09:03:12Z
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@posrev Natural resources. It's a constant battle. Argued heavily over in parliament here. Does Norway want to secure its own interests, or does it want to show people the way by abandoning them?
(DIR) Post #Ad621gZDSNohK2vgNk by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T09:05:41.507455Z
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@thor I think Norway should keep their oil industry going. It's important to keep the economy ticking along.
(DIR) Post #Ad62NSGnIHE9Lqh25w by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T09:09:37.551960Z
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@thor Our last Jacinda Ardern government did alot of damage to New Zealand. Stopping all gas exploration and race based and also climate change policies. Penalising farmers with taxes.
(DIR) Post #Ad62PMJMQ1OTRynkTg by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T09:07:24Z
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@posrev The majority feels so. The environmentalists feel we're villains.
(DIR) Post #Ad62TLksQdAQsqZi9w by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T09:10:41.763345Z
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@thor We have a similar problem in New Zealand.
(DIR) Post #Ad62kcqa8N6GogTtFA by thor@berserker.town
2023-12-23T09:00:50Z
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@posrev We kinda invented democracy here (he said, with no amount of pride)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly)
(DIR) Post #Ad62l8GXJvHUG9rYVE by tiskaan@fedi.layer02.net
2023-12-23T09:13:54.257812Z
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@thor @posrev based
(DIR) Post #Ad6NGgzkFKPo1xKq9I by posrev@gleasonator.com
2023-12-23T13:03:42.515916Z
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@thor i don't doubt it.