YHK - yet another hacker news clone

Agreed, the website is totally fucked

It's the dumb attempt to use video backgrounds and the varying ways that mobile devices choose to display those videos.

Because he is too Trump to realize that Norway has no saying in the award

Same energy as ‘CU in the NT’.

> Norwegians are honorary Australians apparently LOL, why?

Nope, sorry, Norwegians actually tax mining / energy corporations (so the government has money to spend on... designer dunnies!), instead of just giving away their non-renewable natural resources to billionaires for free. That's un-Australian!

My favorite Australian idiom is "built like a brick shithouse" (of a guy being very muscular).

Yep! From the headline, I assumed that Norway had made its own version of https://toiletmap.gov.au/

It's a literal shitpost. I think you're being hyperbolic.

I don't wanna absolve any of the evil shits in Trump's circle, or among the MAGA crowd, of blame in this. But I think the biggest issue of all is the anglosphere's love for first past the post electoral systems. There's no excuse for FPTP, and while they often have a positive side effect in giving crazies zero representation, they're vulnerable to crazies taking unchecked control of the system.

Sure, MAGA would've been a large congressional embarrassment in a proportional system. But they wouldn't run the show.

Slowly (GW Bush and Trump 1), then suddenly (Trump 2).

Because people voted a clown

It might be that just your knowledge of history is lacking.

Look for example to America (i mean the continent, there is no country named that). Civilisation brought extinction to various indigenous tribes, but in norther and central america. It brought slavery. In a way, we are over that now, aren't we?

Look for example to Europe (I'm so glad that no european country is so full of it and call itself just "Europe"). They had hundreds of wars in a 10 year period. Some small ... but some like the 30 year long war more devastating than even the 2nd world war.Sure, some people there (look into ex-jugoslavia or look into Russia) still think that mass-killing people is good. Oh, did I mention 2nd world war? Then look there, too. And how one society thought they have the right to extinguish Jews, Gypsies, Jehovas Witnesses, mental ill people and basically any political opponent. I still think we can say that we are over such a thing.

Look for example to Asia. There was a country that waged war on China because China was not buying enough Opium. Or look like the asian golden horde devastated with utter cruelty whole (at the time) mega-cities. And they brough the bubonic plague on top of it ...

Or look at Africa. I mentioned the slaver for America ... but actually african tribes captured people from other tribes and sold them. We can't say that slavery is totally abolished in Africa (I heard the Boko Haram does it) --- but certainly not at the scale it used to be.

If you think that society develops backwards, then just looking at how things used to be 100, 200 or 500 years.

Ro Ro Ro :D

Tell the Germans, they have a word for it: Wildpinkeln.

Are they just peeing now? One of my indelible memories in India from 20 years ago is seeing a rickshaw driver in Connaught Place, the heart of historically respectable Delhi and no isolated slum, crouching behind his rickshaw and defecating right there on the street.

Almost everybody can afford it if they really want to.

Not thinking something is worth what it cost doesn't mean you can't afford it.

I think the hundred of thousands of tourists packing the roads all summer didn't get your memo.

You can do expensive vacation or cheap vacation, and both are possible in Norway. You can get a cheap flight and sleep in a tent, or you can drive your car through Sweden.

Or you can fly in and stay on expensive hotels.

Norway has everyman's right, so for some holidaymakers that means no accommodation costs. It is also popular to do one's grocery shopping on the Swedish side of the border, or even drive up from Germany with a full load of food for the length of the holiday.

Generally building public works becomes quite difficult when you have one dominant sector pushing up wages (oil and gas in this case). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

Your message is snarky, but yes, it's amazing what you can do with oil money AND high IQ; compare Norway to many other countries which also have oil money but do not have high IQ.

Norway would still be an amazing country if it had no oil at all.

When you get a dollar bill, you can actually tell whether it's from oil or not? I can't..

What's really amazing are the lengths by which people justify they cannot have a nice society. It's easy to see, mathematically, the willingness to share has no relation to absolute GDP or where it comes from.

btw, Norway is the only country in the world which didn't get Dutch disease.

It's super impressive, isn't it!

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

Yet no trash cans. It's a frustrating trade off, especially with all the vending machines. If you don't have a backpack, you're stuck carrying trash. If you do, it gets messy.

Also, this does not hold in Hokkaido. I taught English in Obihiro (well, Makubetsu) and you had to plan your trash and restroom breaks.

Similarly cool reprisal from Trump 1 (made by a Dutch comedian, which was then many countries copied): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELD2AwFN9Nc

That chilling feeling when an intern in South Asia can freeze your trading account with one click.

> Norway has one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world

There were signs in the article lol

Norway has done a great job with what they've been given, but remember that they've had the national equivalent of being born into a rich family - they have had enormous wealth from natural resources in the form of North Sea oil.

Just came back from a vacation in the UK and I was amazed at how clean everything is. Not a single dog poo or cigarette butt anywhere.