Mastercard/Visa and Wero is a hot issue on Lemmy, but I would bet the vast majority of Swedes have never heard of Wero and aren’t particularly concerned about Mastercard and Visa being American. Most Swedes have long been wary of the Euro and that’s unlikely to change in the near future.

Agreed, wildfire season this year is going to be brutal. I live in the Denver area and AFAIK we just got our second snowfall of this winter.

A Nordic country will decide to get rid of their “kronen” and introduce it in 2027/2028.

Euro adoption? Nope, guaranteed won’t happen. Norway and Iceland aren’t EU members and Finland already adopted the Euro. Denmark has a permanent opt-out and will never be required to adopt the Euro, and most Danes oppose adopting it. In Sweden public support for Euro adoption is similarly low, so although the country doesn’t have an opt-out like Denmark, the government uses a legal workaround to avoid adopting it.

+1 for addy.io!

I use it with a domain I bought just for emails. So for example I’ll use icelandair@mydomain.com for my Icelandair account and addy.io forwards all the emails addressed to my aliases to my Posteo email address. Nobody ever sees my Posteo address (great for security) and thanks to addy.io I can switch email providers in minutes. If addy.io ever stops working then I own the domain where all my emails are headed, so I can change a few settings to keep receiving them.

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For me: Mullvad (VPN), Viaplay (streaming video), Tidal (music), Wondery (podcasts), addy.io (privacy), Posteo (email), onX Backcountry (trail navigation). Half of those are annual subscriptions though.

I listen mostly to electronic music, especially house, and I never listened to a single podcast on Spotify, so no idea why it started pushing those far-right podcasts!

I find the recommendations on Tidal and Spotify to be pretty different from each other, but one isn’t necessarily better than the other. Spotify will recommend dozens of tracks that sound almost identical to one I like, while Tidal suggestions are broader as they pull from related subgenres.

As an American/Swedish dual citizen…

I think I’ve only had to show mail to prove my address when first getting a driver license in a new state. So that’s a thing yes, but not very common.

Unlike in Sweden, in the US you don’t register/update your address with the authorities when you move. It’s not that the US doesn’t have a “working database” for that – it’s just not a thing at all, there’s no population register like in Sweden.

In Sweden you use your personnummer for identification, but you also have secure authentication methods like BankID that aren’t available in the US. Your personnummer is public information and you’ll provide it just about everywhere because there’s little risk to you.

In the US we use our social security numbers for both identification and authentication. Because they’re used for authentication, they’re considered secret and we’ll only share them when strictly required for necessary services (like government agencies and banks). This is obviously really poor security and they weren’t originally intended to be used for authentication, but it is what it is.

Swedish system is of course more efficient and more secure.

OP clearly doesn’t know anything about living with cats. I’d guess they had a past bad cat experience (smell and damage) because of an owner that neglected their cat, and that’s the extent of their knowledge.

Also… I’m not saying that dogs don’t belong inside, but they’re almost always capable of causing way more damage than cats, so it’s weird of OP to single out cats for that.

I switched to Tidal a year ago because Spotify kept recommending Joe Rogan and Trump/Musk podcasts and there was no way to opt out. First I tested Deezer and Qobuz but unfortunately didn’t like them. Tidal is a US company but they’re way less unethical than Spotify and their service is much better IMO.

PostNord (in Sweden at least) is partially privatized. It’s government owned and operates its own logistics network, but the customer facing side of it is privatized. Instead of dedicated post offices staffed by PostNord employees, you mail and pick up packages at partner businesses staffed by retail workers. In my experience these are usually gas stations, grocery stores and tobacco shops.

As someone that’s lived in the US and Sweden, in my experience the US Postal Service is the only US government agency that’s better than its Swedish counterpart.

USPS runs tens of thousands of post offices staffed by its own workers, while PostNord has privatized its retail services and makes you mail stuff from gas stations and tobacco shops. USPS delivers mail AND packages to your home six days a week, while PostNord only delivers mail 2-3 days a week and makes you pick up your packages from their partner businesses. USPS offers “Informed Delivery” as a free service that emails you every morning with scanned images of the mail you’ll be receiving later in the day. You can renew your passport through USPS and they also offer some financial services.

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Yep. My aunt (in Sweden) still receives and pays all her bills by mail. She’s never been online, she doesn’t have an email account and she’s never owned a computer or a cell phone.

How is their inferior safety not relevant to the discussion? Personally I would love it if more people drove smaller and less polluting cars, but not if they’re death traps. If you’re willing to have drastically reduced car safety in exchange for a modest reduction in environmental impact then I guess we just disagree on that point.

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Yes! I live with my SO in a 2-bedroom apartment and we have three vacuum cleaners. One is a robot vacuum that vacuums our whole apartment twice a week. One is a push vacuum for rugs and occasional deep cleaning. The last one is a hand vacuum for quick cleanups and tight spaces where the other vacuums can’t reach.

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Born/raised in the US but I also have Swedish citizenship and I’ve lived there as an adult. My American girlfriend is spending a lot of time learning Swedish and we expect that we’ll move there sometime in the next few years.

If you all did even the slightest bit of research you’d see that kei cars are significantly less safe than regular cars and that’s due mostly to their design and size, not just because of the presence of bigger cars on the road.

This community LOVES cars, I’ve never seen such rabid love of cars. You all just hate big cars.