i have never seen these for use by customers, but they're very popular at the traditional street food ("grill") places here in sweden still. Very convenient for the staff to just spritz some ketchup onto your fries before handing them to you.
i would absolutely be corrupted by wealth, it's just that it'd corrupt me into a mad train model enthusiast who buys a huge piece of land to construct a "model" resort with smol steam train-styled trams, which are fully functional and the whole thing just actually being a quite nice place to live full-time, simply because i desperately want to see it exist.
The mad part is that the old-timey cozy vibe is enforced by contract, everything is themed and you must dress accordingly and avoid obvious use of modern stuff while in public. Cars are verboten, as are e-bikes and scooters.
i sorta like it for the same reason i like long fingernails, the obvious inconvenience is just kinda hot 😳
it does rather rely on your feet not looking gnarly and misshapen, though.. And i think you really need to round off the nails a bit, having them square just looks unmaintained.
the whole point of the rainbow flag is to not put a representation of literally everything you can think of, and instead using the rainbow (which IRL contains all the colours we can see) as an umbrella.So yeah no let's ignore that and just slap on one symbol for every specific identity we can think of, oh hey if you squint your eyes the flag is just white now!😭
i maintain that basic bikes should be literally free, like bikeshare systems except you just place bikes all over the place and people just grab the closest one when needed.
wait, are you imagining that there'd be privately operated public transport companies? that's.. only a significant thing in japan, as far as i'm aware.
the japanese model of requiring a proof of off-street parking to own a car, and ideally you should need to justify ownership of anything that can go faster than 45 km/h and weighs more than a ton.
i'm currently living on sweden's basic "i literally have no other option" welfare which is ~$450 per month, and through the arcane magic of NOT FUCKING SPENDING MY MONEY ON USELESS SHIT i'm able to quite easily have 50€ to spare at the end of the month while living comfortably.
it's existentially horrifying how bad the vast majority of people are with money.
also like, he's already been hard and genuine, why does he need to keep trying? he made it, he got popular and make music about how his life sucked and whatnot, just retire.
