Capital raises rents

and the state housing benefits

so you can fiddle around a bit

with the iron law of wages

and even pay less in salary

than the price of food and rent

because the state is so happy to intervene

if the cost of living has become

all too expensive

Not really related. The Stockholm housing shortage is - depending on who you ask - due to older rental properties being converted into housing cooperatives, rent controls, and a lack of investments, incentives and interest from the state and city authorities for construction of new rentals.

The hotel shortage is most likely a residual effect of the pandemic when many hotels went bankrupt. May is usually a month with many big events happening at the same time, which also contributed. Most commentators seems to agree that Beyoncé is innocent since the rise in inflation in the tourism sector was the same in other regions of Sweden. But it's a great headline.

That Boomfunk MC's beat is so good.

The shirts look dope though.

This is my 3-year old niece's favorite song and I can't get it out of my head.

Video NSFW

I'm digging the new Fever Ray album. This one had me going back to the Hannah med H soundtrack, one of the earliest releases by The Knife.

I’m so happy I’ve managed to lock myself out of my twitter account.

According to the totally not political governor of the central bank price controls are bad and a form of market manipulation, unlike his non-political rate increases. Instead we need to reduce "the general willingness to buy food" to save the Platonic-Hayekian Idea of the Market.

I need to go back to ignoring the news.

I love Amanda Bergman's voice so much.

I have a folder full of purple/white/green planting designs that I will now refer to as my suffrage jewelry box.

I hadn’t thought of culture and cultural environment as separate before, it makes some intuitive sense but I will have to think on it some more. Either way I can’t wait to get out of the silvergold.

Empathy or her potential for reform aside, I don't see why the SDF should have to deal with her or any other western jihadi, especially while under attack by your (soon to be our) ally Turkey. Oh, and I think historically de-naturalization has lead to some really dark outcomes.

I heard Amyl and the Sniffers for the first time last week after finally looking up who Amy Taylor was after listening to this Sleaford Mods song for like a year.

Thank you, I love it!

Moroccan hardcore

Thanks for the shout-out, I was up at 3:30 AM and spent the day cooking and serving food to 50 healthcare workers, so I passed out on the sofa while waiting for the meetup to start. I swear one of these days I will show up and prove that I am not a robot!

It's pride month, so it seems fitting to post some music by Jan Hammarlund, the grandfather of the Swedish LGBT rights movement.

(Slightly NSFW illustrations of men and lions having sex)

In 1897, Frans and Lars, who had been living together for ten years, were spotted by two guards, having sex in the woods. According to court documents, when asked by the guards what they were doing, Frans and Lars replied "we're fucking, and its none of your business". They were sentenced to three months hard labor for "indecency, which is against nature".

A love story set in the 1960s when the age of consent for homosexuals was 18 years, while for heterosexuals it was 15 years.

Mom and Dad are okay even though Dad hangs out at the pub

but if they keep picking on our love, I'll tell them to fuck off -

I'll tell them to fuck off.

Ville is nice and Ville is good and Ville tastes like honey

But neither of us are eighteen so neither of us are legal...

So at home they said if we do it again they'll call the cops

so that's why we've been doing it almost everywhere except in bed

mmm - except in bed.

This video is funny because I have no idea why he's singing "I want to live in Europe" in French, on a boat, for an audience of two, and why a British (?) TV channel were filming.

BONUS: A spontaneous interview with Joan Baez, who unexpectedly joined a protest for LGBT rights in Stockholm in 1980 because she happened to be staying at the same hotel as the visiting British Foreign Minister.

Yes, the only interactions besides talking to a few NPCs is murdering.

But, dude. This game looks good.

I wholeheartedly support all forms of gamer hate, but I will say your description of the gameplay style doesn't match my experience with the game after getting past the tutorial. It does to some extent match my (limited) experience with previous Souls games. The difference this time around was that when I came across a boss or area that was giving a hard time, I could simply decide to fuck off and go do something somewhere else, come back later and have a better time with new gear, new spells or just some more attribute points. Which I think is the intended approach for most players since they decided to put this guy between your starting location and the first checkpoint:

The game highly rewards non-linear exploration of it's open world in a way I haven't seen other games manage to do this well before. There's still a Souls game in there, the legacy dungeons are maze-like ant hills and the some of the final bosses felt like what you describe. But then, the game has the summon mechanic for a reason, and like the article says, who gives a shit what the Gamers™ think. I haven't finished a Souls game before, but this one gave me enough flexibility with the gameplay to actually enjoy it while experiencing the beautiful world design and cryptic storytelling.

Yeah, as soon as I started to dabble in magic and incantations I found it a much more fun play style, requiring less sprinting past enemies to get to the next checkpoint.

The only legacy dungeon that really frustrated me was the Leyndell catacombs. That place, and the area below it, was a nightmare. Thankfully it's highly optional, so if I ever come back to the game at least I know not to bother with it again.

I'm coming around to the theory that the Post WWII world was largely shaped by disagreements between the US State Department and the US CIA. CIA gets to fuck with NATO members less, State Department gets to fuck with NATO members more.

This really piqued my interest, care to expand?

I'm still very much against Sweden applying for membership, but it seems like a foregone conclusion at this point.

Ignorant question from a foreigner: Roe v. Wade was decided in the 70s, why haven't the democrats turned it into federal law? Is it a common law thing?

May Day hit differently this year after two years without crowds.