Help yourself.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-019-00436-8

https://www.varldenidag.se/nyheter/s-kritiserar-egen-migrationspolitik-ville-inte-forknippas-med-sd/771900

https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/s-radsla-for-sd-omojliggjort-serios-integrationspolitik/

People like you, immediately shutting down any discussion regarding migration as “racism”, “far-right” or “fascism” caused politicians here in Sweden to not have a serious debate on the topic until the situation had spiraled way out of control and caused irreversible harm. The consequences are clearly visible today, including the above mentioned issues and many more. The people that were supposed to be helped have instead become the primary victims of this calamity.

It’s morbidly satisfying in a slow-mo train crash sort of way and simultaneously awful to have predicted what was going to happen, as well as the consequences of those events only to see it unfold eerily close to what you expected. It’s the kind of situation where you’d prefer to have been wrong, but unfortunately weren’t.

For myself, I hope to have finished my education and gotten reasonably far away before the ongoing consequences destroy what remains of our beloved Swedish welfare system. Even so, we need to do our best to help out the people of Ukraine.

Yeah it’d be a similar reaction if Jasmine & Aladdin were recast as northern Europeans. Sure it’s a fantasy tale, but the story is set in a fantasy version of Arabia.

People with your attitude are a direct cause for segregated neighborhoods, kids as contract killers and literally explosive gang violence.

It must be possible to have a discussion regarding what is reasonable without immediately jumping to “any criticism of immigration policy is racism!”

The nearby countries are either already doing their part, themselves being attacked by Israel either overtly or covertly, or both.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar etc. etc.

Particularly the oil rich countries can easily take in these people instead of pointing fingers at us whilst spending billions on vanity megaprojects.

Sure, xenophobia isn’t SURPRISING at this point.

Not xenophobia, common sense. There are eight million refugees currently displaced from Ukraine. Caring for them has to take priority over refugees from other continents.

Pure far right propaganda bullshit.

The irony is palpable. Here in Sweden it was a left wing government with a social democrat minister of state that finally acknowledged that we had to put an end to the open door policy for refugees.

The vast majority of people making use of social safety nets are native born.

…a slim majority, at least here in Sweden, and the welfare system doesn’t just magically expand because you bring in more people. Housing, infrastructure, hospitals, schools need to be built, teachers, doctors, nurses, police officers need to be educated etc. etc.

…and unlike work immigrants, who tend to already be educated and have a productive job lined up, the MENA refugees that came during the 2010s first needed education (both language and qualifications) in order to have a chance in a job market where low-skill jobs had been eliminated. Perhaps the most horrible failure of the left wing in Sweden is how poorly these people have been integrated into the jobs market under their leadership.

Currently (2023), some 40% of all unemployed people in Sweden are of extra-european origin (vs 10% in 2000), with ~1/4 people of African origin and ~1/5 people of Asian origin relying on unemployment subsidies (compared to 1/13 for the general population or 1/20 for natives).

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Hmm…

I fundamentally dislike censorship and limitations of open communication. It’s a similar situation to X in Brazil, where the gov:t claimed they were “threatening national security”.

It’s certainly interesting to read about the contrast between how Haiti & the Dominican Republic developed during the time period - particularly since both were in a similarly empoverished state at the middle of the 20th century.

There are plenty of countries closer by that can handle this.

It is not surprising that countries in eastern and northern Europe feel the need to focus on refugees from countries on our own continent. It is bad enough that the hundreds of thousands of people that came from MENA during the 2010s are still straining our welfare systems to a degree where it degrades our ability to help both our own citizens and refugees within Europe.

Peace and stability, however, destroy terror groups.

Which is precisely why Hamas escalated the Israeli-Palestine conflict last October. They were afraid that Israeli efforts towards fostering peace and cooperation with the other Arab countries were being successful.

Peace will be impossible to accomplish until the Middle-East at large accepts the existence of Israel, and Hamas have in turn proven that is impossible as long as militant islamist extremists with the primary goal of killing as many Israelis as possible (as opposed to securing safety, prosperity and freedom for Palestinians) rule in either of the two Palestinian territories.

Probably amongst the most impressive and precisely targeted strikes against a terror organization in history when taking the scale into consideration. Mossad is one of the most inventive intelligence agencies out there. They do not mess around.

If it is enough to dissuade Hezbollah escalating to an all out war in Lebanon, the few tragic collaterals pale in comparison to the number of prevented deaths.

Yeah, Trump already looks bad without us making shit up. The only thing that would do is cast doubt on the veracity of real critique and ironically give him more legitimacy.

In addition to what @LwL said - It has to do with how testing is done, and that some diseases can’t really be tested for. It is quite expensive, and is generally done on small samples from lots of people mixed together. If it is positive they split the batch and test again (look up binary search).

The lower the incidence rate of diseases, the larger batches can be done. Ditching certain denographics with significantly higher risks for certain diseases can make testing orders of magnitudes cheaper and faster. (Other groups, at least where I live, include people who recently changed partner, recently went abroad, have ever gotten a blood transfusion, have gone through a recent surgery, have recently been sick, etc. etc.)

Mint is a very nice starting distro tbh, it was my first too!

Accounting for taxes and grid fees, between 0.05€ & 1.2€/kWh depending on the season.

The court’s order for an injunction applies only to the sections relating to defining and reporting data on content violation categories. Social media companies will still be under the remainder of AB 587’s requirements, which include semi-annually creating publicly viewable reports to California on the current terms of service, how automated systems enforce the terms of service, how companies respond to user-reported violations, and what actions the companies take against violators.

Seems like the higher courts ruling is sensible overall.

It’s hypocritical, and I don’t like it. With that said, most politicians are hypocrites, which is why I generally dislike politicians.

Where I live (Sweden) our grid has been essentially fossil-free since the early 90’s, thus we haven’t had the same need. Particularly since our electricity prices (excluding grid fees) already dip into the negatives in the summer, and solar is useless in the winter (<3hrs of light and snow cover).

Unfortunately though, recent politically motivated shutterings of nuclear plants during the 2010s combined with higher volatility in continental Europe has led to the volatility of our own electricity market skyrocketing, and more decentralized electricity production has led to huge increases in grid fees (state monopoly).

During a recent winter we had prices (when accounting for taxes and fees) in excess of 1$/kWh. This, in a country where almost all heating is electric, is disastrous. For context, we live in a small villa with a geothermal pump, and despite keeping indoor temps as low as 12°C at times we ended up with 1000s of USD equivalent in power bills for the winters 22/23 and 23/24.

Quite sad really.

From the calculations I’ve seen in recent scientific reports, that doesn’t seem to be the case, barring major economic changes on a global level.

Even the cheapest grid scale storage solutions are an order of magnitude more expensive than constructing more electrical generation capacity.

Particularly closed cycle fossil gas thermal plants have a massive advantage in markets where variable renewable electricity generation (wind, solar…) achieve high degrees of market penetration due to the volatility they cause in the grid.

Hydro, transmission and nuclear are currently the most accessible non-fossil options to counteract the disadvantages of solar & wind.

Those 5 requirements are not small things, but as a (relatively) recent linux migrant, here’s my take.

1. Keep using iTunes (but use the windows version) - through wine. You get to keep all your stuff as is for now with the possibility of migrating to another service in the future.

2. See above, stick with your current device, keep using iTunes for now.

3. If it’s for private stuff LibreOffice suite does just fine though + the thunderbird email client. If it’s for work you should probably have a work device, but there is also winapps for linux, which isn’t official by microsoft, so it might be a bit funky.

4. Maybe try out proton if you want something trustworthy to back up your photos. They’ve recently added a service for that. Costs a subscription though.

5. Keep using evernote. There’s a linux client.

Obviously there will be hickups, and things’d be a lot more smooth if you were willing to make some adjustments, but this is perfectly doable.

Grid scale storage will be built en masse the moment it becomes economical, or when governments decide to use tax payer money to do it or subsidize it.

Happened once a long time ago, incredibly vivid dream and it was quite nice.