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Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by throw7448488 »

chvid wrote: post #197
throw7448488 wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Do you think the US is going to build railroads in Greenland?! Anyway the campaign for Greenland is ramping up. And it goes from all the way from weird social media posts, oddly timed attacks on Danish companies (Orsted), huge US "diplomatic" build up in Nuuk, weird "little green men", various statements of agression by Trump and surrogates. And there is a Danish campaign on other side with a silly number of visits b…

I expect US would build more infrastructure. Maybe even rail eventually. So yes!

Alaska seems to be doing pretty well!

Denmark treats Greenland as pristine natural reserve, where people should not exists, and are just nuisance!

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by guappa »

dijit wrote: post #189
benrutter wrote: post #181

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I've got bad news for you on that front: https://www.explorsweden.com/sweden-destinations/sweden-a-ca... (tldr Sweden is pretty cashless and a lot of shops don't accept cash)

speaking from a Swedish perspective, I haven’t even seen Swedish currency in about eight years. I’m not even joking.

That's your personal choice. Doesn't mean stores don't accept cash.

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by robbingtherob »

port11 wrote: post #194
throw7448488 wrote: post #180

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Maybe the USA should do a better job at managing the USA? Compared to the EU, it has more crime, worse life expectancy, more alcoholism, problems with rail infrastructure… you see, that's a bit of a silly argument.

Truly silly. One can all of these bring up for "Europe". Maybe not life expectancy (if you avoid public transport and Christmas markets), but all others match for Germany too.

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by guappa »

mordae wrote: post #157
chvid wrote: post #118

One of our biggest practical vulnerabilities is that our payment and electronic id infrastructure (nets, dankort, mitid) has been sold off to a private company (Mastercard) even though it was at one point a government owned and developed setup.

That's likely a non-issue when actual crisis happens. A voucher app + paper vouchers are doable in under a month if needed.

You will get riots and looting long before "under a month".

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by dijit »

guappa wrote: post #212
dijit wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

speaking from a Swedish perspective, I haven’t even seen Swedish currency in about eight years. I’m not even joking.

That's your personal choice. Doesn't mean stores don't accept cash.

No, its the nature of the country.

And, most companies don’t take cash, especially smaller ones.

Large companies (ICA the supermarket) takes cash but it’s like 1/200 who use cash and the cashier is often visibly flustered when cash is presented.

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by guappa »

walthamstow wrote: post #154
lm28469 wrote: post #149

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90% of people won't do it

They will in small countries with high trust and community, near to Russia and currently or formerly having national service. In fat, lazy, individualist countries like the UK and US? No way.

Source for this obviously false statement?

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by egman_ekki »

throw310822 wrote: post #198
ambicapter wrote: post #35

Wait, so we're now approaching risk levels high enough that's its economically feasible for businesses to prepare for situations where their stores lose power, telecom, and resupply? Are we already preparing for land war across western Europe?

We're nowhere near that, but EU leaders keep hinting that there is a big war coming and we should all be prepared. In fact my impression, as a European, is that if any war is coming is because EU leadership are actively rooting for one and waste no opportunity to stoke the tension. This news is just one of the many examples of this. The Ukraine- Russia war is a regional war that is happening outside our borders- all…

> EU leadership are actively rooting for [a war] and waste no opportunity to stoke the tension

Yes, we should all just stop building our defenses and increasing our resilience and roll over. Let's roll out a red carpet for Russians all the way to Paris (or maybe Lisbon?). The same peaceful folks who talk about bombing our cities every week on their national TV.

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Post by wiseowise »

riffraff wrote: post #151
xp84 wrote: post #126

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Yeah, in my humble opinion anyone in Europe that considers wider war breaking out to be farfetched is not paying enough attention. You can be forgiven however if you're a millennial (as I am) or younger, because the long peace has been so long that it seems crazy that Russia might start dropping bombs, say, on Copenhagen or London. "They wouldn't dare attack NATO" we would have said 10 years ago. But today, NATO is a…

All out war shocked the shit out of the 20 somethings in Ukraine too, many fled, and yet Russia has not made significant advances in the following three years. There's no plausible world in which Russia has the strength to take on the rest of Europe, in, say, the next ten years. (Let's assume nukes are out of the question)

> There's no plausible world in which Russia has the strength to take on the rest of Europe, in, say, the next ten years.

Sure they do. Total war + support from norks and China will do it.

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by throw310822 »

egman_ekki wrote: post #217
throw310822 wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're nowhere near that, but EU leaders keep hinting that there is a big war coming and we should all be prepared. In fact my impression, as a European, is that if any war is coming is because EU leadership are actively rooting for one and waste no opportunity to stoke the tension. This news is just one of the many examples of this. The Ukraine- Russia war is a regional war that is happening outside our borders- all…

> EU leadership are actively rooting for [a war] and waste no opportunity to stoke the tension Yes, we should all just stop building our defenses and increasing our resilience and roll over. Let's roll out a red carpet for Russians all the way to Paris (or maybe Lisbon?). The same peaceful folks who talk about bombing our cities every week on their national TV.

> Let's roll out a red carpet for Russians all the way to Paris (or maybe Lisbon?)

This is the kind of platitudes I'm talking about.

Russia is struggling to advance in a couple of regions in Ukraine, how do you think they would fare with attacking Europe and reaching Paris or Lisbon? Seriously.

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