That’s just how you write “clock” in Norwegian (klokke)

Yes, you should very much talk about whether stuff like this is okay to do to someone else before you do it. You can’t consent when you sleep, so you must get full consent beforehand.

And yes, you should typically ask whether doing something is okay before you do it, in general. Communication is good, it won’t hurt anyone.

And no, it isn’t safe to just assume anything. Ask! That’s really all there is to it. Ask and accept a “no”. Ideally you also check in a few times underway. It leads to better sex.

My mindset comes from the kink community, where generally most things are permissable, but so long as consent stays in front and centre. Unless you have agreed beforehand to treat it otherwise, stuff like a “giggly no” is a no. Well, specifically you’d have safe words such as “red”, but I assume that’s not the case here.

In short though, don’t just assume anything of the other person, ask them, and allow them to talk.

Frankly, I wish we just abolished the damn monarchy already. I hate that we still have kings and queens in a democratic country even if they are just ceremonial. They don’t deserve all this media attention just because they got a lucky birth

Treat all of them as one would any other citizen and be done with it. Unfortunately, the monarchy still faces popular support towards existing, though I hope it changes sooner or later

You bet your ass I will be on the streets protesting if that happens. Would be one of the most disgusting things they could do

But hey, maybe if Trump comes to Norway I’ll manage to hit him with a rotten tomato (and then his bodyguards killing me, but that is a risk I’m willing to take)

A country being car centuries, however, does mean that people vastly prefer buying things online than going there yourself. When it’s far away, needs a trip, need to find parking, and can’t just pop into a mall randomly when walking nearb

It has, it’s basically the field of geoengineering

Dead malls must be a car-culture thing, right? Because the local malls where I live are always full of people whenever I’m there, not really dead at all

And yeah, it is nice to hang out with friends there and look at clothes or eat something or stuff like that!

Damn, it would be a fun time every day at work with my coworkers constantly seeing my bar at 10-20% and slowly going down

And very likely not something I will put into practice haha

Needing to be responsible for a child would be too much for me, I would not be able to cope. I already get routinely overwhelmed and burnt out

The older I get the less I understand how people are able to even get to a position where they’re able to have kids comfortably. I feel like my life is just a constant mess of putting out one fire after another, not the mention the state of the greater world

Norway doesn’t have a lot of air conditioners

…do you really think the other commenter meant it in that way, though? And is that how fetish is used in common parlance?

As a response to you

Would you say that someone “thinking cats are cute and liking them” is just a fetish?

There’s more dimensions of liking something and wanting to engage with it than just sexual

On the other hand, isn’t support for Israel really unpopular? Having it as one of your primary messages means that people disgruntled with the mainstream partie’s stance on Palestine/Israel become interested in your new party

I get your point, but also, Haiti’s final payment to France was in 1947

To some degree that’s true. But these days the ground contains more dangerous objects than it used to. Specifically hazardous man-made stuff

If it was just nature and we still mostly had like forest floor and such, then probably for the most part it’d be safe yeah. Well, with the exception of plants or animals that could damage your feet or bite you

Marx when contradictions of capitalism:

I don’t know if that analogy fully works. Bees get safety, they get a maintained home, as a colony they get healthcare from pests and similar, they get security when things get rough

Yes, they do more work, but the beekeeper also cares for them, and ensures their survival to a greater degree

Not to mention, they’re not caged, they’re free to leave

Is this a regional thing? People don’t really use she or he for animals here. I live in Europe for reference

Probably doesn’t help that ‘she’ and ‘dog’ sound very similar in my language

Yes

It’s worth to keep in mind that whether something is disparaging or not depends on the intention, and the context. Similar to how, say, “gay” can be used both positively and negatively, for example, “that’s so gay”.

So why do some people like it/its? You’d need to ask the relevant person, there can be different reasons that are ultimately personal.

But here’s one way to think about it: We use ‘it’ for animals, right? Like if we have a dog, which we love, we often will still say ‘it’ for it, right? But that doesn’t mean we value it less, or somehow objectify it, or treat it like an object. We still acknowledge and respect it as a living breathing feeling being, and yet we may still use ‘it’ for it. This may be one way people might think of using it/its for themselves, at least!

And also there’s something about the vibe of it/its, I dunno, it’s hard to describe, but it is kinda growing on me a little bit as well