(Justin)
Tech nerd from Sweden
In the past two years, I have had horrible issues where it decides that I’m not allowed to join the call because I have a Teams account logged into a different organization, that it won’t let me log out of. An issue where Microsoft servers just time out if you have ipv6 enabled, etc.
Don’t get me started on Skype for Business. It’s still around.
bad summary
Chinese police have also offered little information about the 62-year-old attacker beyond saying the man — identified only by his surname of Fan — was upset about his divorce settlement.
IT folk got so annoyed about being asked about what happens if you got run over by a bus, they decided to go out and show everyone.
Now make it open source
“Shell has a responsibility to reduce its emissions,” but everyone involved is abdicating their responsibility and handwaving away the idea of emissions reductions?? How else will Shell reduce emissions by 45% if Shell doesn’t reduce emissions by 45%?
I mean Putin’s soldiers, not Russian speakers.
No NATO country has expressed concern about being nuked. This is a question of geopolitics, not military strategy.
Put up proof that you know this would happen, or stop fear-mongering.
My expectation, and something I think shared by most NATO countries, is that the Russian regime would interpret western troops on the front line as a ground invasion of Russia by those countries. Something that would win over the Russian people into supporting an invasion of the bordering countries of Finland, Norway, Poland, and the Baltics.
Not to say that any no-fly-zone or a tripwire force in Ukraine would lead to Russians running into Narva, but there is still these sorts of non-nuclear escalations that western troops in “annexed” oblasts would likely cause.
Who knows where the red line is, but a lot of people in the west think it’s located before the point of troops in Donetsk.
Some game theory about red lines in the Russia-Ukraine war: https://youtu.be/tM0ZTEz7Bzc
This is not true. Most NATO countries want to avoid fighting on their own soil.
Don’t say things that encourage nuclear proliferation
Taiwan making their position clear to Trump
The unfortunate thing is that the EU may have to suck it up and build more bridges with the PRC if the US shuns us.
Europe may be bigger than the US, but even Europe is only about 20% of the world’s GDP. We can’t take on Russia, the US, and China at the same time.
Russia is our enemy and Musk is committing espionage/treason by discussing American foreign policy with Russian officials, especially as someone with clearance.
Trump started plenty of wars https://youtu.be/QQYFVEka3fA
Biden has full control over arms shipments, why don’t people pressure him to cut Israel off?
biden is still president
very much literally burning things on the lawn of black families. He came all the way from Denmark to go into poorer neighborhoods in Sweden and say hateful things about the black and brown people there.
Sweden up until recently had freedom of organization protected in the constitution. This was changed in a recent constitutional amendment at the request of Turkey, as a prerequisite to join NATO. Turkey demanded that Sweden arrest “PKK members” (aka journalists that Erdogan doesn’t like), and to show support, both the Andersson and Kristersson administrations revived a constitutional amendment from 2021 and pushed it through, making it illegal to be a member of a terrorist organization.
https://www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/2021/03/sou-202115/
https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2022/6/pdf/220628-trilat-memo.pdf
It’s really an unfortunate development, since the terms “terrorist organization” and “support to terrorism” is so poorly defined, and it’s clearly intended to punish political opposition in dictatorships, like Turkish and Kurdish opposition in Turkey. Very much a chilling effect on political discussion when foreign political oppositions are banned from speaking in Sweden, even when racist hate groups are still allowed to speak.
It does seem that the current law is still quite limited, at least. The Terrorist crime law of 2022 (Terroristbrottslagen) outlaws support, propagandizing, and recruiting for terrorist organizations, but this seems to be limited to only material support, organized propaganda and organization leadership. Simply going around waving a PKK flag still is legal, for now.
So luckily, I don’t think it’s possible to be deported simply for expressing expressing pro-Kurdish or pro-Palestinian independence ideas, or even expressing support for the violent people in PKK or Hamas.
Johan Forssell has also expressed a wish for a new law making it illegal to be in a criminal gang, but this has not passed yet. His view on the ongoing wars with Israel seems to be that Israel “has a right to defend itself”, but that civilians must be protected and receive aid.
I didn’t know that Italians and french had the same language, traditions and skin color. I had assumed that there had been riots in the streets when Italy joined the ECSC in 1951.
You’re totally right, but I hate the whole “Sweden/Europe was ethnically homogeneous” line that centrists say.