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There was lots of reporting on the difficulty integrating in Sweden when I grew up there. We were supposed to have the highest educated taxi drivers in Europe if i recall correctly. Having a foreign surname meant getting sorted out first in the application process for any job. This was in the late nineties and the situation did not get better w the 2008 financial crash. There are generations of ppl who have been kept outside.

The Örebro Party seems similar to Bundnis Sara Wagenknecht in Germany. They are a splinter group of mostly older Linke who are anti immigrant. There is also this super weird fringe on the legit extreme left here, the Anti-deutsche antifa who are pro-Israel and islamophobic.

For real tho, I think the current crime wave has more to do with power struggles in the drug market than anything else.

Sweden has had terrible integration policies coupled w segregating all immigrants in the suburbs.

The drug consumption of everyday Swedes is fueling the crime wave. Cocaine consumption is at an all time high. The former prime ministers son was caught w coke at home. But only the marginalized are penalized for it and forced to work supplying the rich inner city kids who get off the hook..

„Letting mass migration happen „ is such a fallacy in and if itself.

To go back a long long while, the Israeli state was also founded by religious paramilitary organizations. Irgun et al.

Hamas IS the only organization to survive Israeli assasinations & internal conflict. Why is it there are no secular Palestinian groups left?

IMO Hamas / Netanyahu & the Kahanists are both the worst possible leadership on both sides.

The Kahanists literally murdered the Israeli prime minister for shaking hands w Arafat.

I am sorry but did you look at pictures of Gaza? Do you not see them actually CONCENTRATING the previously 2 million people there into a gigantic CAMP?

Look up snipers taking legs off kids. It’s been reported for a long time.

Thank you for stating the case better than I ever could.

Duct tape gets real nasty after a while

Boars and their spread as an invasive species is relevant here?

All this talk of frontier models and replacing developers leaves me wondering how energy efficient this all is compared to just using human labor. The costs of R&D has to be calculated into the equation, especially considering global warming. I get a sense we are cooking the planet doing this.

Anyone smart enough here to make the comparison?

Thank you for this comment. Especially on a forum as focused on optimization of health, peptide therapy etc. You made my day a bit better.

Come to Berlin, you get stickers for the phones cameras and if you film/take photos you’re thrown out..

I’d like to squeeze in the stooges there too, maybe mc5

I come from Sweden and would say it worked great until '86 or so.

To me the biggest problem w. libertarianism & game theory etcetera is that humans are not only motivated by greed/personal gain.

Pure anecdata; the libertarian/capitalist anarchists I've met have all been close to sociopathic in their disregard for others. I always figured that people who have an underdeveloped sense of empathy project this onto everyone else.

Consider taking lessons from a human?

Did social media exist when you grew up?

I'm not sure the desired outcome will be achieved. Iran is not a pushover. Good night!

From what I know the Islamic republic was founded in part as a reaction to US & British meddling in the internal Iranian affairs. Do you really think the US can achieve anything positive by putting troops on the ground? Have you learned nothing from Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam or Korea?

Is Iran yours to "give back" to its people?

So you are ready to sacrifice thousands of lives for that?

The more money gets into it the worse it will get. I really am disappointed by how the world has developed in the last 30 years..

This is the definitive argument for me against prediction markets. It creates incentives to do really dumb shit.

A big speaker element is useful for micing kick drums.

the list goes on pretty far; the khmer rouge, Moise Tschombe, The greek junta, francesco franco and on and on..

Love this. Hit me up if you want a chill soundtrack for it, I can make something for free.

Wow maybe 10+years running here since i lost last..

You can do anything at zombo.com!

what is the point of a society that doesen't have common utilities? and where does one draw the line at what is necessary for a decent life in a modern society?