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I definitely have a crush on her.

From the video:

> I would much rather be acknowledged for the work that I do rather than being a woman doing the type of work that I do.

Just think of the appalling number of propositions she must get every day, what with being a nerd dream-girl and all.

"nerd dream-girl" whatever you mean by that has little to do with it. She's a woman on the Internet so she is sexually harassed. She's a woman in the world so she is sexually harassed on the street.

And even though the parent comment attempted to steer the discussion away from sexualizing her by directly quoting her desire to do so, you brought it back with a pointless comment about some ill-defined nerd-girl fantasy.

So much animosity.

A wild knight in shining armor appears to save the damsel in distress.

You know, someone can have a 'crush' on someone and be from the same sex, or hold that 'crush' for reasons other than physical attraction.

Yeah, geeze, I think everyone really took this the wrong way. I'd have just as much of a crush on her if she was a guy instead.

is that quote relevant here?

Nobody cares.

Advise. Go to Stockholm Sweden. I've lived there twice; once for 3 months and the other time 1 month. Mid summer is amazing. Learn to love coffee and fika.

Midsummer is amazing (and you can swim in the harbour).

Unfortunately Dec/Jan are pretty grim. It's cool -- once -- to use your subway fare to take a tiny ferry that breaks through the crust of ice. But not seeing the sun, except for a dim, watery glimmer around lunch time, is not nice at all.

It’s one of those local optima. Too good to leave, yet too cold to really enjoy life.

Agree completely (posted from my yearly exile from Stockholm to Canary Islands)

If only I could ...

At least there's some cool people here :)

What temperature is the water at? I would have thought very cold.

In the summer it's pretty nice. I don't remember but I'm not a fan of super cold water and I found it enjoyable. In the winter the harbour freezes, though it remains navigable (i.e. not thick ice; more of a skin, but it gives you an idea of the winter temperature).

Sea temp is pretty ok, it’s a lot less exposed than the “big” oceans. Often over 20 in summer. Same as many North Atlantic beaches, or othe “cold water” beaches like south Australia etc. Shallow and protected makes more difference to sea temp than latitude. It’s like a big lake effectively (not even salty)

I learned to love fika from one of the commodore 64 remixes. These guys have no inhibitions whatsoever: http://www.remix64.com/track/dr-fikalover/i-would-like-a-fik...

fika?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fika_(Sweden)

So it's the Swedish equivalent of Dim Sum.

Hah! That's a great analogy.

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