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If you visited there with 4 friends, wouldn't you be the 5th friend?
It was four friends and then this guy. The other four hate him.
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Got a link to an article by anyone who doesn't think the moon landings are fake or that the US government was behind 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing? I've no idea if that article is factual or not but let's not uncritically link to infowars.net, eh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(radio_host)#Religi...
https://mobile.twitter.com/sweden/tweets Primary source, but I haven't checked what it says.
Don't you think it'd be highly likely that the offending tweets were deleted by the account?
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#144Do swedes get to opt out of this?
It's opt in. In a radio segment the other day they said 6k people have volunteered. Which makes it very much non-random, but still, cute concept.
The fact that they are volunteers doesn't change the fact that it's random, it just changes the set from which the random values are selected.
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#145Nobody has mentioned the language issue yet? Unfortunately what I've seen implies they talk in English. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But my son has been taking French language class in school and this provides the obvious extension to their idea of "talk to a random French-speaking person" or whatever other language someone wants to learn. Something like that probably already exists anyway. I suppose th…
In practice, all swedes are bilingual english (yes, including young kids).
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#146Skype has something similar back in 2005. You could ring random person and have a chat. I dont understand obsession about Sweden. It is expensive country in decline with high crime. There are better places in Europe.
In decline? Sweden had the highest growth rate in Europe in the last quarter of last higher. Highest population growth rate in the EU. How do you define decline? Or crime for that matter :) Sweden does not have high crime. I'm Irish, living in Sweden. I know high crime.
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False equivalence. Blackface was not civil disobedience. Not even sure why you're bringing that up unless it is to tie white guilt in America to white guilt in Sweden.
Assuming best intentions on the part of everyone involved (Which, let's face it, is being too charitable): No, it was white people pretending to be black people, with the intent of caricaturing them, without having any sense of propriety or mindfullness. This is white people pretending to be of Arabic origin, with the intent of caricaturing them, without any sense of propriety or mindfullness. Since when is calling a…
The intent behind the two instances is different. With blackface, it was part of entertainment, not political protest. With this Sweden thing (which I'm assuming is legitimate, as I've yet to see a source by the person claiming it, although I've asked), the intent seems clear, to me, to be political protest of the perceived dilution of their culture.
Now if black people in America were wearing white face to politically protest gentrification, I would say that's more equivalent to this Sweden thing than historical blackface.
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Like nearly all other Swedes, you can google 'carl heath' and find a page with his phone number, home address, birthday, and a button 'send him flowers': http://personer.eniro.se/resultat/Carl+Heath
haha yes! I used interflora
Oops, just found out he's a colleague :)
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#149This reminds me of https://mapc.am/, a browser based variant.
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Ingvar Kamprad now moved home to Sweden, probably to spend his last year. All other still apply. http://www.svd.se/ingvar-kamprad-flyttar-hem
Thanks. I have edited my post :)
It seems most of the profit ends up in the charitable foundation which is now paying a bit out to the needy after some prodding http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/8772...