Posts by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
(DIR) Post #AUr0tb1pixpPCbkd5E by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-04-20T19:51:19Z
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Still can't quite understand how you, as an American, couldn't become at least functionally competent in Swedish before becoming a citizen. TBH that there's no requirement for a minimum standard to take a test that ought to be in Swedish is just...
(DIR) Post #AVYUzNGHet8fEMkPTc by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-05-11T19:20:32Z
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Ugh, this instance isn't able to keep up, everything is an hour delayed. Guess I'll use another instance. #Eurovision
(DIR) Post #AWMW952fTKS8c0vKLY by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-06-04T22:37:00Z
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Mastodon seems just as apt to amplify fake gnus about LOUD NOISES as the birdsite so I'd climb off that pedestal you've placed yourselves on. If you're new here and loud noises give you ANXIETY maybe the city is the wrong place for you?#washingtondc #dmv #dc
(DIR) Post #AXrIKIkKl7FQ39Ppmi by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-19T17:01:29Z
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If I had a dollar for every time someone said "In Europe" when they mean one tiny thing they encountered briefly on a visit of one or a few DIFFERENT COUNTRIES I'd be richer than Jeff Bezos.#ineurope
(DIR) Post #AXrJCttar2xiu6mWfo by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-19T17:16:58Z
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@publius Schengen is a copy of the Nordic Passport Union which has existed since the 50s. The EU playing catch up is par for the course. They're still independent countries with their own policies and occasionally re-institute border controls as it suits them.
(DIR) Post #AXs2WggCCHzpdzKAHg by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-07-20T01:44:36Z
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@publius I don't know if there's a desire for a postal union, some countries, like Sweden, barely have a postal system. Some don't run it as a nonprofit, others as national interest. Denmark just scans your mail and emails you.The NPU still exists, if partially subsumed in Schengen, but both Faroes and Greenland aren't part of Schengen.The EU desperately wants a labor wage floor and other things and Denmark and Sweden would burn that down without flinching.
(DIR) Post #AYWE6Ahnk8OHvXpvdI by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-08T10:34:02Z
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Land acknowledgements, the latest exercise in pseudo progressiveness in America, has yet to reach the Nordics. Ask Native-Americans and they'll tell you that running water on the rez, or McGirt or good jobs are priorities, but instead, empty words.In Sweden the ongoing argument is the traditional hunting, fishing and herding rights of the Sami vs but I assume Greta and her group are probably trying to eliminate the use of snow scooters, helicopters and implement re-education camps for herders.
(DIR) Post #AYWE8Tio0pA7U4PFYG by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-08T10:36:39Z
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I cannot take you seriously as a person if your model for how to build HSR is the PRC. A country that can expropriate at will and sends people to jail and concentration camps isn't a model the US should emulate. We already did that, it was bad, don't suggest it again!#Amtrak #trains
(DIR) Post #AYWGvKqU0C9o3LQCuW by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-08T11:34:34Z
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@ParadeGrotesque Some do. Higher speed is an option.
(DIR) Post #AYWHAb9fe7bOynft9k by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-08T11:37:18Z
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@ParadeGrotesque Greta is a spoiled rich brat whose grasp of the world is zero. She and her ilk have the same policy towards Sami as the state has had for centuries.She has done NOTHING to change Swedish climate policy. It's still practically impossible to build wind power, except outside Sweden's EEZ. Sweden still burns recyclables and calls it recycling. She has had no impact at all.
(DIR) Post #AYWWNHf2vyI3b5rDOq by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-08T14:27:39Z
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@ParadeGrotesque You have lots of fucking assumptions and you can shove them up your ass.I've been to Japan, I was born in and have spent a fair amount of time in Sweden and lived all over Europe. Fuck off.
(DIR) Post #AZ2hoaJViHpoxcq4Aa by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-24T03:02:23Z
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Last night I was up thinking about how people on the left in America get about investment of social security or pensions in something that actually gains value, like real estate, stocks, bonds, etc when Sweden's pensions have been invested in the same for seventy plus years now. It's going mostly fine, but the contribution rate is going to have to go up.
(DIR) Post #AZ2jlZzidxYp0hHBrM by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-08-24T03:28:31Z
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@publius They're not even in 30 year T bonds. They're in Notes and not even TIPS. It's so damn typical of the US to not make any changes, because of some kind of fear. In the 90-2000s they argued (perhaps correctly but still) that it was going to be a handout to T Rowe Price. They could have split it out or added additional contributions and used the purchasing power of govt.I don't want them in regular TSP but a separate similar system? Sure.Altho it all goes into the general fund so...
(DIR) Post #Ab76BgDEgEqIa1JqBE by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-10-25T00:39:53Z
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5 very obvious (hipsterish middle aged) tourists are on my bus and I don't understand why.
(DIR) Post #Ab76CBffiZ0a9BrUJ6 by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-10-25T00:40:20Z
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They didn't get off before we got to Trinidad WTAF IS HAPPENING?!
(DIR) Post #Ab76CGQy0fDUv21Ja4 by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-10-25T00:56:53Z
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Got off at Queen St, praiz bee.
(DIR) Post #AbQ399tFi3Ij71g7No by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-11-03T03:07:04Z
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Got asked what city in Europe I would live in tonight. Used to be easier. Stockholm would have made the cut but watching Swedes be frighteningly stupid 2020-22 left an impression. Copenhagen is great if you ignore it's in Denmark. Germany is a non starter, way too inflexible in their mentality. Strasbourg would be great but no gay scene.Fallback Stockholm but only because of good folks like @ulfurinn
(DIR) Post #AbQzxaGBjfEsiZ9hcu by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-11-03T16:07:13Z
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@publius @ulfurinn I have little faith in any Swedish government actually implementing anything these days. There hasn't been solid leadership in a long time and much as I generally don't care for SAP, Maggan Anderson's short PM ship was the most consequential in decades. If the current bunch had a soul they'd have made Lööf PM but they do not and would rather rely on the extremist far right.The constant withdrawal and reissue of cash impoverished people, perhaps intentionally.
(DIR) Post #AcYOQmBHYMRuWy0IEK by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-12-07T01:59:25Z
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Every time I hear a "land acknowledgement" "we're listening" I can hear the slightly rage filled voice of a Native American guy from the old site going "we're still here, you can just do shit for the living today!"Easy start: What's your position on seating the Cherokee delegate in the House?
(DIR) Post #AcYPQ6GjTttIUrnKZk by copperred@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-12-07T02:45:50Z
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My jam is happening at trivia. Mass transit system maps.