Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Type Ashton" channel.

  1. Lapskaus is a traditional dish here in Norway too. I honestly have no idea if it's a shared cultural heritage from ancient times or if it crossed over either too or from Norway with the Hanseatic League.
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  2. Yeah, trouble is though that this incentive is limited because smaller parties is disadvantaged so much in Germany compared to nations with more proportionalism. Living in Norway I find it quite depressing that Europe is lead by France (first past the post) and Germany (mixed member proportional, essentially frp light). Both countries where big parties gets away with misbehaving and politics ends up being about person rather than politics way too often... I'd have preferred a leading country like the Netherlands or Norway with more proportionalism. Or I guess Switzerland? Their system also favours bigger parties somewhat.
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  3. 25:40 So, I'm not familiar enough with Germany to say what's the case there. But here in Norway it's about politeness. Approaching you and offering to help you without being asked would be considered a invasion of your privacy and rude, or at least it used to be. Giving you some space is a sign of respect here. If you need help you're expected to ask for it and it'll of course be given. But pushing said help on you? Honestly that's the most offensive and insulting thing anyone can ever do to me... I would never return to a store that tried to behave like what you described in that American store. Doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with stores doing that in the US. But yeah, a company doing that here would be out of business quite quickly... Doesn't matter if it's a local company or a foreign one.
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  4. 16:35 Yeah, here in Norway you have to know how to do first aid, you have to know how to drive on snow and ice and other slipery surfaces, you have to know how to drive in the dark, you have to pass a quite comprehensive theoretical test and so one and so forth... You'll often see a drivers licence here costing perhaps 3 300 USD, but it could easily go much, much higher. And like I've mentioned in other comments. Speeding just 20 kph (12 miles per hour) above the speed limit could result in you losing that licence in some cases. Meaning that you might have to pay that sum all over again, and you might even be banned from even doing that for some period of time after a traffic violation... Our laws does not play around when it comes to traffic. But it is showing good results. There's just 3 traffic deaths pr 100 000 motor vehicles pr year in Norway. Compared to 6,4 in Germany and 14,2 in the USA...
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  5. 11:12 In Norway you're technically only required to use tires with a minimum thread depth of 3 mm between the start of November and mid March (unless your vehicle is above 3,5 tons, then the laws are stricter and involves snow chains), but the intention is for those tires to be winter tires. But yes, you are technically permitted all year tires then too. Like Germany we're also required to have a good grip though, so in practice you essentially have to get winter tires.
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  6. ​​ @GegoXaren  I disagree. The idea of free speech is that it's intended to protect individuals and minorities, be that ethnic, political, sexual or religious from the majority. It's not intended as a way to harass minorities. Of course stopping anyone before the fact is wrong, and people shouldn't be censored. However if you are to harm others with what you're expressing you should have evidence and/or it should be important to the wellbeing of our society as a whole in some way. If it's not I absolutely feel that we should be able to fine people for such activities. Protesting against the church when priests hurt children or gay people are hurt etc is reasonable to address, people are being hurt, but just burning the Quran when you could express criticism against Islam in other ways is just abusing free speech laws. Likewise is the publication of the names of people accused of crimes before conviction etc. People should be able to practice their religion in peace. And I say that as an atheist.
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  7. ​ @guyro3373 True, but if you at least try to close the loopholes and also don't accept it culturally you'll get a lot less of it at least...
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  8. My view? It should be allowed, but only non-commercially and. heavily regulated... But yeah, if you have a friend willing to carry your child...
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  9. 13:37 While I don't mind the idea of limiting the number of times an add can be shown doing so based on number of votes is deeply unfair and frankly outrageous. There's countries that does equal amount of ads and/or speaking time for all political parties. That makes a heck of a lot more sense.
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  10. 11:43 That's because it's a volvo, not because it's a EV. The reason for that is that volvo packs in a ton of safety features. That car is likely the safest one you guys have ever driven.
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  11.  @DaijDjan  Yeah, apparently it's also found in Sweden (and of course Denmark). The word seems to originate in Germany or England. The dish? Who knows... Wouldn't surprise me if it's Scandinavian in origin, but there's really no way to tell...
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  12. 8:44 European roads being tighter is often intentional in order to make them safer. It discourages speeding, and makes drivers more alert. That feeling you get of unease is *intentional*. And of course because Germans are used to this you'll need even tighter roads to get the same effect for a European like a German then in the US.
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  13. @rondalucy The desire to integrate is closely connected to how welcome people feel. If you feel like you're always a outsider no matter what you do you don't want to continue to put in the effort to integrate.
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  14. ​ @mysterioanonymous3206  People adapt, but if people are racist or exclusionary in some way or just in general make you feel unwelcome then yes, it is the host nation that is causing the issues it is having with its minorities.
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  15. The American model? Never. But some middle ground? Perhaps.
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  16. The Norwegian royal family got in trouble due to surrogacy a few years ago. One of our princesses tried to help a friend wjo needed the service.
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  17. Likewise it's normally illegal in Norway, however local municipalities are allowed to grant exceptions here...
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  18.  @lal12  Yeah, we have similar laws in Norway. You can't walk on soil that has just been planted, through fields with sheep giving birth to lambs, to places where birds hatch etc... Essentially do no harm. No breaking branches of trees (even if they look dead) for instance.
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  19. 25:59 Actually, a ICE car also loses efficiency in low temperatures (although they'll eventually heat up enough for this to not really matter) or more so at high altitudes. A EV actually isn't affected by altitude at all, but is affected by temperature. However the temperature disadvantage actually kind of is made up by the effect of heating it up again. The cold doesn't actually remove charge from the battery, instead it reduces the amount of power the battery can deliver at any one time, a value that goes down as it's discharged. But when the climate changes and it gets hotter you actually regain the range you lost due to the cooling of the battery. However EVs also tend to use electricity for heating the cabin and heating the battery in order to get more power from it in a short amount of time, and that heating costs energy. That said, you don't really drive that long without stopping anyway. You'll stop to eat, go to the toilet etc. And each time you have the option to just charge a bit, it's not like you have to fully charge each time. If you stop 3 times on your way somewhere, each time charging 10-15% you'll have 130-160% of the original range for that trip, all while you're barely actually noticing that your car is charging, taking breaks that you'd probably take anyway.
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  20. 4:29 This is for the most part slightly stricter then Norway. In Norway you have to have a well documented identity. Be above 12 years old. Be in or intend to stay in Norway. Qualify for permanent residency (this is probably the trickiest part for most people). Have lived in Norway for at least 7 years in the last 10 years (so you can spend 2 of the last 10 years abroad in total) Know Norwegian culture and language (this part is somewhat new, we didn't use to have this rule back when I was a kid). Not be recently punished for a crime. (If you have you can still get a citizenship, but there's a quarenteen time where you're ineligible for citizenship). There's fast paths for a number of nationalities. For instance I'm technically a Norwegian citizen. I have two paths towards citizenship. One that's 2 years long but requires Norwegian skills etc. And one that's 7 years long, but where I basically just tell the police that I've lived here for 7 years, pay a small fee and as long as I haven't commited a recent crime or for some other reason have been put behind bars without my concent (mental health etc) I'd be a citizen. The main reason I've yet to apply for one is that I haven't lived in Iceland enough to keep my Icelandic citizenship if I gained a Norwegian one. By the way, regarding being able to provide for yourself. For non-nordic citizens that applies to the residence permit stage. Essentially, you're not allowed to stay here if you can't provide for yourself, or are from a country that has a agreement with Norway where their citizens have the same rights as Norwegians in Norway to social services.
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  21. 15:34 Hum, the NSB sleeper cabins here in Norway have really good beds, but no toilets in the room, no shower etc. Really barebones. I don't think breakfast is included, although honestly it has been so long that I don't remember remember anymore. Also, the relevant route has been taken over by a swedish railway service that I've yet to try out... Anyway, check out video reviews of the trains in question before ordering one of them here.
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  22. Our prices here in Norway are even higher then in Germany.
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  23. 6:08 This part is better in Germany then in Norway. Here it's a bit of a nightmare to try to get your spouce either a residence permit or a citizenship...
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  24. Tipping in my country usually is a rounding thing. Last time I was in a restaurant that was just 1 NOK, or about 9-10 cent. Because I was paying something like 749 NOK and rounded up to 750 if I don't remember wrong. But yeah, I'll usually round up to the next 50 NOK ≈ 5 dollar.
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  25. 14:23 Sure about that? The map seems to suggest that Belarus is permitting it as well?
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  26. ​​ @heltonja  Assimilate Not "simulate". Also, expecting minorities to assimilate is wrong. The goal is *integration*. You want your minorities to feel like a part of your nation, as opposed to being a outsider. That doesn't mean that they should copy your culture. Instead the goal should be to take the best from each culture and mix them. It's proven that creativity is higher when you mix cultures like that. You get more patents and more economic growth. But it doesn't work if they're not *integrated*. Assimilate is trying to essentially make someone just like you, changing them. Or becoming just like someone else. Simulation is a simplified copy/representation of something else.
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  27. The German system is governed by the same basic principles as ours here in the Nordic countries. But that our older and more severe prisons would still probably be middle of the road by German standards, while the juvenile one you used as a example would still be fairly strict by our standards. I can't comment on what's the best ones in Germany, I don't know enough... But I really hope that you'll have a look at our systems. Especially Norways system. The Icelandic ones have more freedom then ours, but less resources allocated pr prisoner. So there's some problems there... I haven't paid as much attention to the system in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The Faeroe islands and Greenland makes use of the Danish system for severe crimes.
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  28. ​ @robertsmith4830  Well here in Norway part of the reason for that is that we're switching to electric vehicles and Tesla still has the biggest market share with their big bulky cars. People still tend to prefer their smaller ones though...
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  29. 8:33 Thanks for the countdown, it makes me willing to watch it in full instead of skipping.
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  30. 9:59 I'd love to read it. This is right down my alley in terms of interests. I personally think that zoning and zoning laws plays a huge part in all of this. As for financing low income housing, the condeminiums we created here in Norway after the war worked pretty well for a long time. By the way, if you want to look more into the city planning side of things you probably should try to study in the Netherlands a bit. They're better then both the Germans and us here in Norway at city planning, they probably got the most well designed cities in Europe in a lot of ways.
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  31. When talking about "free healthcare" what's being talked about is usually the British or Norwegian model, not the German one. Regarding who has the best healthcare system, no, Norway does not have the best one. Different healthcare systems reflects different values and the prioritizes of different countries. Norways system is overly expensive and overworks healthcare workers while failing to fill enough healthcare jobs to function without working the existing workers to exhaustion. On the whole the French system is probably the best if you look at balancing all of the priorities. The system in Singapore is quite interesting. And yes, the Prussian inspired systems in Germanic countries like Germany itself works fairly well too. I don't know what's the "best". This is a challenging topic and no country has fully solved the problems involved.
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  32. ​ @randomprotag9329  Um, why are you assuming that a universal healthcare system is a fixed budget one? You don't need a fixed monthly or yearly budget for such a system. Instead you can for instance have a fixed sum with a automatic inflation modifier pr patient for a given task, like a CT scan or a surgery of a specific type or a dose of chemotherapy etc. And then a yearly extra sum for things like funding buildings, new machines, research, bureaucracy etc. Or any number of other models. In Norway we have regional healthcare "companies"/organizations they get funding both for services rendered regardless of what's budgeted and a lump sum. They may then do whatever they need, up to and including taking loans if need be. Our system is definitely not perfect, and there's large regional differences in healthcare quality for different types of issues depending on what is prioritized and how well they've been run. Thankfully the one I live in has been very well run and has excellent results for most issues. But they've been struggling recently due to recent changes in their management software not turning out as well as expected. And I for one have concerns about them potentially doing worse in the future economically if those systems are not fixed fast. That said, part of the reason why they where the ones trying out the new systems where that they where more robust to start with.
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  33. They're a bit older. Think the fall of Napoleon for the beginning of the concept. And honestly the need started because it became possible with larger and larger empires where that where more and more centrally controlled leading to peoples suffering under the control of people who didn't understand their lives and problems.
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  34. 10:46 Trust me, US speed limits are not "conservative"... Norwegian speed limits are conservative. Highway speed here is typically 80 km/h (or about 50 mph for you Americans), and that's pretty much as fast as you're likely to go for most of your life here. There's a few rare roads where the speed limit is higher. But they're very much the exception, not the rule. And going 20 km/h above the speed limit can lose you your drivers licence. And you can absolutely end up in jail for speeding here, even for just speeding amounts that would be considered small in other countries.
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  35. 10:37 Hum, I might be wrong, but I believe the US was considered to be on this list by Norwegian authorities back in the day. Not because it's impossible to renounce it, just, difficult...
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  36. 29:52 Wait, what!?! Norway spends less then Germany?!?
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  37. 16:39 Um, mind adding the metric units as text in editing? These imperial measurements makes my head hurt, and I'm honestly trying to relax while watching this, something looking things up actively like that isn't really that good for. Sources in the description is still great though for days when I feel up for doing some research. And it gives you more credibility.
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  38. 9:59 It's not just land availability though. There's a lot of other factors at play. And you'll see plenty of other countries with as much or more land area available that does not have the same building patterns that the US does.
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  39. 12:43 You might want to look into some of the alternative programs out there as Adobe is kind of known for not necessarily fully utilizing your hardware and being somewhat inefficient in what it does utilize, in return they bring a lot of features to the table. But if you're making a living of this other programs might be useful since you might use less time just waiting for the computer doing its thing. I don't have personal experience with this though, coming at this from the hardware side (being interested in computers) rather than the creative side.
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  40. 4:07 Honestly, don't worry about range anxiety in Western or Northern Europe. It might be a issue in the east...
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  41. Have you guys looked at Range Extended Electric Vehicles? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Znw6Wvh2R8 They're kind of a in between between a regular PHEV and a EV. Since the ICE engine isn't directly connected to the driveshaft and they have bigger batteries then your typical hybrid.
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  42. Depends. Remember that anyone working here after getting a education elsewhere is already saving us a lot of money. And funding from abroad will help with the value of our currencies just like any other export product, and can make it cheaper to get health care workers from other continents here.
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  43. 8:40 Even with a 100% coal powered EV you'll eventually reach and surpass the break even point with a EV vs a ICE car. It's just going to take a lot longer then with a power mix including renewables.
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  44. 5:31 Okey, that's impressive, Norway lies at 41 kg pr person on average.
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  45. 5:23 So, if you get a modest plug in hybrid with a not too big a battery or a small battery electric car the enviromental impact really isn't that bad. But make sure you have enough range for your daily commuting needs, and other then that try to aim for a low impact car.
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  46.  @TypeAshton  Sweden?
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  47. Hum, I'd love to see what you think about Nordic housing (I'm thinking Norwegian, Swedish, Faeroese and Icelandic houses, not so much Danish ones since Denmark uses much more bricks then we do). Norwegian and Swedish houses are generally speaking made of wood too, like you described the US houses where.
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  48. 12:09 You're kidding me, you guys where worried that this car was too *small*?!?!?!
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  49. 7:18 Well, here in Norway school busses take regular passengers too. Yes their schedule and route might be adapted to help kids get to school, but anyone may take those busses and they have the same kind of route numbers as regular busses, although they might have a astrix in the schedule with added information on additional stops they might take etc.
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  50. 7:38 Okey, so that "74-76F" thing is a bit on the hot side for me, but other then that I'd be comfortable with pretty much any of those below that... But then I live in Norway... And I'd get those temps by simply opening the window in winter or not heating the apartment that much... I probably wouldn't go below 20 C indoor personally, at least not unless I plan to leave the home for a while. But meh... Like + 10 C isn't bad, but I wouldn't want to sit in a t-shirt in that temp hours on end... And it's nice to just be able to dress down a bit in your own home, you know...
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