u/troed — troed

For the topic of this thread in particular I see a lack of knowledge that the average lifespan in the US is a full _four years_ shorter than in other comparable countries.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-life-expectancy-compare-countries/

in this thread: Americans who have absolutely no idea what society looks like in Denmark. Or anywhere outside of the US actually.

... in Denmark? I mean, they're the happiest population on Earth in general.

I'm just across the channel in southern Sweden and there's no way I'm going to retire already in 17 years (67, which I think is the current retirement age for us)

That law wasn't in effect and wouldn't have applied to Assange. However, the facts that he admitted to would constitute rape even under the previous law. (He penetrated her without condom when she had previously consented to sex based on the premise that a condom was used).

Courts together with the police are quite good at figuring out when a story doesn't hold. We actually had such a case just these last few days where the woman got sentenced instead for having lied about being raped.

Luckily the courts are smarter than that.

/Swede, where we had the same change to our laws a few years back

EU not bowing to the US king?

oh noes

who could've guessed

The only reason your electrical grid works is because you use Norway and Sweden for balancing. As we also deploy more renewables, there won't be enough balancing power unless more is built.

Can be hydro, nuclear, huge batteries etc. And at least Sweden is capped out on hydro.

We southern Swedes will never forgive you for forcing us to close down our perfectly working nuclear plant out of your irrational fears.

I understand, and really hope you will be able to get rid of Orban so that the economic conditions in Hungary can get (much) closer to the EU mean.

Don't know about "London City techbros and finance bros" but in Sweden and Norway we prefer pure EV over hybrids.

It's a reference to Trump going on about "groceries" - repeatedly. I think Jon Stewart had a bit on it.

Funny word, "grocery". A bit older, but some people still use it.

As I wrote, at the time the MEPs in question believed this to be fully legal. I do not know any MEPs personally today.

Is it correct that the crime Le Pen was convicted of was hiring assistants to her parliament office who in reality were working for the national political party?

I've seen this claimed and if true I hope that a lot of people were convicted, not just her. Because I know for a fact that this exact setup has been used by other MEPs. At the time they believed it to be fully legal.

I'm happy she got convicted, but I _don't_ want this to in any way having been politically targeted because that opens up a shitload of worm cans.

Yeah, that was the point. When you require the world to serve your special needs expect to have to go to quite some lengths to get them.

*hugs*

Don't buy features you don't want.

Yeah, you missed how this is absolutely nothing like "we wank to you in-car videofeed"-Tesla and "we spy for the Chinese government"-BYD

A security hole exposing data that the users have agreed to share is nothing like companies willfully breaking user integrity.

You know this of course, you just don't like being corrected.

I think your view on what happened is based on media headlines rather than the actual technical facts.

https://soundofdevelopment.substack.com/p/volkswagen-data-leak-location-tracking

This is a horrible take. VW are diligent in following GDPR and as an owner (yes, I am) you are constantly asked for exactly which permissions you want to give what service.

They had a misconfigured S3 instance. While bad, that's not intentional - but you're comparing it to "At Tesla we wank to your in-car video feed" and "BYD spies for the Chinese government" which is just a whole different thing.