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[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

Definitely part of it. I'm a huge nerd, but years ago raced motorcycles in the US. The demographic makeup difference between that and going to a local MTG event is insane. Seriously, out of hundreds of people at a race track at a time and a decade of doing this I know 2 openly gay people and 0 trans people.

Not sure you could go into my local MTG shop without seeing that many gay/trans people. It's lovely, but I think highlights the bias in what hobbies people will lean towards or how honestly they'll be about themselves depending on the social situation

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is supposed to be anonymous with our MitID system, which is already in place for almost everything. How it works (on paper at least) is that the social media site would send a question to MitID, like "is this person at least 16?" And MitID just responds with yes/no

So again, in theory, no social media site should be getting your ID here. Only the government, which absolutely has it and is in fairly high trust from the people in Denmark.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us, dozens!

Super happy about Mamdani as well, especially as a NYer. The state of the US has been really rough for years but just especially ramping up recently. It's cool to see the opposition to it rise up, and I love supporting it as much as I can from afar.

Men jeg er så glad for, at jeg har flyttet til Danmark

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Well Jimmy Carter won't be exactly aligned with me on a Foreign affairs issue so I think we might as well just support Putin

^Average pre US election .ml poster

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. I mean, Trump is just the marketing of a president. All sizzle, no steak. He has appeared in debates but it's a huge stretch to say he's shown up well in them.

In fact, a lot of politics are purely a popularity contest these days, aren't they?

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

American who lives in Scandinavia now:

Yup. Bernie Sanders would be pretty center here imo

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Or kpop? Maybe against demon hunting?

Sounds a little demon-esque to be anti demon hunting

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

From a brief look at the blurry screenshot, looks like a sunny and decent temperature day in Manhattan, depending on where in the city and time: yeah. I could definitely see that level of people fairly consistently

True of not only NY, but other big cities across the world as well. That would be light foot traffic for Shanghai for example

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's like if you get a water flask at a restaurant and they have some lemon or something in it. It's still water not soup.

Same idea but vegetables and noodles

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the reminder and breakdown of donation. It isn't much, but I hope my coffee-sized recurring donation helps

 

Hi!

Looking for a book that I know very little about. I heard from a Dan Carlin podcast a while ago about some stories compiled into a book. It was about people's memoirs of pre-WWII Germany, like 1920s and 30s, and specifically them trying to and sometime successfully leaving Germany for various other places.

Sorry, I have very few details about it. Any chance someone knows what it is?

Thanks!

 

Hi all–

Just had a tax meeting today in Denmark, and the Danish government like a fair few other governments, recognize 401k/trad IRA investments as retirement, but not Roths. This means you have to pay annual tax on the gains for your Roth, that you can't touch until you're 59.5.

This leaves us looking at pulling the money out and eating the tax/penalty. And my questions in case anyone knows are:

  1. is that money income in the US?
  2. is there anything particularly good to do with the money? Beyond the obvious of buying a house (here)
  3. how has no one told us about this in all the posts/threads, financial advisors, etc that Roths are fairly commonly not acknowledged and are absolutely terrible if you plan to leave the US?

Thanks in advance. Sorry for my grumpy tone... I'm certainly grumpy

 

Hi all!

We're very excited to move to Denmark soon as lifelong Americans. I have a good job lined up, and we're set on a place to live for a while.

Any advice from people who have done it, looked it up, had friends who have done it, etc? Just in general :)

 

Hi Lemmy!

My partner and I are moving from the US to the EU soon. We both have gaming PCs but they're a bit older, so we're thinking it's a great time to sell them, taking the SSDs, and buying new components there to avoid shipping them.

Any suggestions surrounding it? Maybe there's a good way to pay a little and backup the whole SSDs to the cloud?

I know it's not strictly gaming related but it sorta is? Sorry if this is inappropriate for the community

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