And how they had people in clean suits spraying down entire streets with disinfectant.

It's a good thing the West picked up on the queen that it might be a good idea to prepare for a virus. Imagine if they decided instead to do nothing, but then blame China for the virus and claim that they created it in a lab and hid the virus from the world.

Just imagine if the West did nothing and instead decided to let it rip through their countries.

  • anaesidemus [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    ahh i see, you are talking about Viking romanticism. Carry on.

    The super smart and talented bankers who bankrupted Iceland were referred to as vikings in the media when they were buying stuff overseas, they owned most of the media too of course. Turns out they were just idiots with easy access to loans.

    • lvysaur [he/him]
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      I don't think I've ever seen the word "viking" be used in passing speech without making big cringe

      It's "vikings" when they bankrupt Iceland and then again it's "vikings" fighting back against invaders when the Icelandic gov tries to hold them accountable

      scandiboos are 100x worse than weeaboos ever were.

      • anaesidemus [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        There is a myth here in Iceland of Icelanders being rugged and self-reliant, our forefathers having braved the extreme conditions. Nothing is better to disabuse you of that notion than reading Indendent People by Halldór Laxness.

        • lvysaur [he/him]
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          Oh yeah, the other myth I forgot to mention is that Europe is cold. For some reason chuds are addicted to "muh cold climate strongman"

          Europe's not cold. White people aren't "cold adapted". Iceland has winters like Manhattan. If you want cold adapted people, you might try looking at Siberians/Inuit or even Sami (who have about 40% East Asian admixture despite living in Scandinavia)

          Asia and America are cold, Europe has climate that resembles Beijing and Virginia. The only parts of Europe that actually get cold are the ones that are transitioning into Asia (Russia, Belarus)

          It's actually obscene how EASY the european climate is, the winters never drop below freezing, the summers never exceed 70F, and it has the most fertile soil on the earth excepting the US midwest

          • anaesidemus [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I can verify that, the most annoying feature of the weather here is wind and of course, lack of sunlight in the winter.

          • LeninsRage [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            What part of Virginia? Because coastal Virginia humidity is pretty brutal in the summer

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              well I'm referring more to the low temps. Europe never gets cold or hot. WInters are mild, summers are mild.

              As such, its winters are comparable to Virginia and Beijing. Summers are obviously much cooler.

              Obviously there are exceptions in the parts close to Asia, and the extreme Svalbard-esque north where literally nobody lives. But if you're looking at core Europe, where 90% of the population lives and has lived over the last several millennia, it just doesn't get cold. Or hot, for that matter.

              • LeninsRage [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Ah true, around here the temperature going into the 20s in the winter is considered an outlier and we start wearing sweatshirts when it's regularly hitting the low 60s

                • lvysaur [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  yeah. The other thing is that Europe is extremely humid (again, until you get near Asia), which is of course an amazing thing for the climate and food production, especially if the weather doesn't get hot (which it doesn't)

                • lvysaur [he/him]
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                  yea i guess you're right. It's more like the north parts don't get very cold, and obviously don't get hot

                  while the south parts get roughly as hot as other places on the same latitude, but still don't get as cold as those places

                  also africa begins at the pyrenees