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Who do you consider a Great Author of the last 50 years or so (first well-known work after 1970)? I'd like to get a feel for who's who in modern literature. Any language/culture. Fiction only.

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  • Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time Saga.

    The Amazon show does not do it justice on my opinion, but it has been explained with how it's another turn of the wheel and a "what if"

    • Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

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  • The tax will just be the cost of doing business. But surely "tHe MarKeT" will correct this by finding cheaper non carbon transport sell a cheaper product.

    Personally I support tax of fossile and subsidization of alternatives. Worked like a charm to electrify Norways car park.

    The cons are however that increased demand for electricity means building wind, hydro, solar power, with a huge cost to local environent both in most land and the diesel used by construction euipment

    • $1.5 billion in estimated revenue: A look at the Massachusetts 'millionaire's tax' first year taxing the rich

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  • It's how you tax. Some Norwegians left because not the income but the fortune was taxed. And by fortune also the value of stocks and such. The issue for some was they needed to sell off stocks to pay the tax. Also Norway established a new tax that tax the fortune if you leave. I am ALL for taxing the wealthy, but if the money has already been taxed....

    • McDonald’s burger empire set for unprecedented growth over the next 4 years with 10,000 new stores

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  • You are very US centric. In my town there are one McD, one BK and one SubWay waay outside the downtown area. That is for a Norwegian town that has roughly 50k ppl in its "Metropolitan" area. I take the train home and besides some Sushi places (decent) and Kebab joints (awefull) I can choose BK or McD if I just walk in of the street toward the station

    • My dad found his order form from our 3rd computer

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  • I had the Gravis Ultrasound Max.

    • So sad when it happens

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  • Diablo 4 and 3. Thats my dealbreaker

    • Where is it damn it ???

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  • Demotivationals?!! I have not seen these for over 12 years. Let's bring them back

    • whats your best drinking story?

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  • Well done both. 1,5 year here. Not addicted but wanted my now 1,5 year old to never have a dad to hungover to do stuff or have even the slightest change of personality because of drink.

    • Restaurant Bill

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  • Cheap sub contractors need so much constant control to make sure things are delivered on spec that it is almost like it costs more than to hire the more expensive company with a reputation for solid work

    • What are some of the stupidest trends/fads that have existed?

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  • Those really, extremely wide JNCO jeans. Other than that I still wear Billabong sweater with baggy jeans sporting Oakleys. Hairs to thin to frost the tips, but I don't care. Or about the rolling eye stare from my wife

    • What in your opinion is the worst Linux Distribution ever made?

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  • I don't understand the use of oriols ( not native English speaker.) I know it's a bird, and the name of a baseball team.

    Never heard this colloquial use

    • What other weapons are we missing out on eating...

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  • I have heard about one idiot eating RDX and he got very ill. (sugar cube size). Credibel source as it was from former colleagues a few months after I left the unit. Don't eat it, its really not good for you

    • What are the worst names you could give a baby boy?

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    • What is Your Favorite Foreign Tv Series

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  • Second "8 out of 10 cats died countdown", and also suggest "Would I lie to you?"

    • Alabama Mayor Kills Self After Right-Wing Blog Outs His Cross-Dressing

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  • Well, the fact that he was gay is perhaps a sidenote to the internal power struggle in the nazi Party, and the struggle between the SA and the SS. Hitler stayed in power by playing the people beneath him against each other, and Himmler was particularly ruthless in this regard to the very end of WW2.

    Did not help Röhm that he was gay tho'

    • Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool

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  • It might be it's because of Teslas business model. They protract the cases, and gamle on it not going to mediation. (Customer gives up) and that the US head office is required to evaluate the case, rather than the local or national dealer. In either case I don't want shite US late stage capitalist business practices in Norway so Tesla can fuck right off.

    • And the city would even place them at booths all over for the public's doxxing convenience

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  • In Norway there was one big book. Can't remember the "catchment area. White pages where private, yellow businesses. Last one published in 2009, tho smaller one for local district was published until 2017

    • Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+

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  • What three games are perfect?

    • Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool

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  • No it was in Norway. Tesla sold 21303 new cars in Norway in 2022. Total new car sales for Norway in 2022 was 174329. Tesla Model Y is the most sold new car in Norway and Tesla is the largest brand. Totally electric cars is 79.3% of all new cars (Norway has pretty generous tax incentives on electric cars making even high end Teslas pretty cheap)

    83 out of 168 cases that ended up in "consumer court" (that is they have not been resolved without mediation) was Tesla. These cases are mostly not cosmetic but more serious issues that has not been resolved.

    Edit: you can argue that with more sold cars they get more complaints. But Tesla has approximately 12 % of the market but 49% of the cases so they are over represented in Norway at least

    • Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool

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  • Perhaps for chapter consumer products, but starting a car company that produces normal mass produced cars is not really done overnight. And Tesla produces the most shite cars of all of them only really disrupting by cutting out customer service at this point.