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

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Post by guappa »

walthamstow wrote: post #304
victorbjorklund wrote: post #292

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I'm from Sweden, I 100% would not trust my neighbors. Sure, maybe if you live in a tiny tiny village in the countryside, but if that's the case you probably have the same thing if you're living in a tiny tiny village in a in the US too. Like that's more of an effect of living in a very small village, not anything about the country. And regarding the changes to the military, that is still a very small amount of people…

Interesting, thanks. Doesn't Swedish have a word for community responsibility, are you saying that sense is breaking down in modern Sweden, that people no longer feel that responsibility? Friends in London seem to talk about it as if we don't have it in the UK (I know that's true) but that Sweden does.

You have to understand that sweden does a lot of marketing but at the end of the day it's just marketing. Things here aren't nearly as great as everyone abroad imagines them to be.

Not claiming it's a bad place to live in or that there aren't worse places, but the high trust society thing is a myth.

I've had my wallet disappear while I fell asleep on the shore of a lake, in one of those tiny villages where everybody knows each other for example :)

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Post by chiph »

inigoalonso wrote: post #254
Barrin92 wrote: post #62

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we may or may not but I don't think this is reflective of it. This is just the fragility of digital societies were one hack or outage can kill entire national payment systems. A few decades ago any store could run three days without power or telecoms. Here in Germany foreigners often scoff about how prevalent cash is, but to this day nobody has yet invented a payment technology that works without electricity, without…

The “no transaction cost” claim is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Cash may feel free to the person handing over a coin, but only because the costs are hidden upstream. Someone has to produce those notes and coins, swap out designs to keep ahead of counterfeiters, move them around in armored vans, count and recount them in tills, reconcile them at the bank, and insure against theft along the way. None of that is c…

Most of the cost of currency is up-front in it's production and initial distribution. The cost of handling it is also mostly up front (purchasing a wallet to hold it, buying a cash register with a drawer for the bills and coins). The transactional costs are things like taking it to the bank for depositing. But if you have cash to deposit - your business is probably doing things right and this is negligible.

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Post by chvid »

close04 wrote: post #303
chvid wrote: post #294

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The Brazil stuff is related to the case againt Trump-ally Bolsonaro. The European cases so far have been related to the Israel-Palestine conflict. The US uses its so-called SDN list which in general prevents the person having a bank account in any western country. It also caused Microsoft to kill off the email account (I believe the full azure services - ie. Active Directory - rendering his work computer useless) of…

The wording is “legally correct” but meant to look like it was an ICC unforced decision. In reality the US sanctioned the ICC chief prosecutor and Microsoft gave the ICC 2 options: either the ICC cuts off their own employee, or Microsoft cuts off the whole ICC. ICC made a choice between these 2 options and all the public statements were then made to not further tarnish Microsoft’s reputation. To be fair, under US law…

Yes. That is is the issue. These laws of the US have been around for a long time; what is new is that traditionally allied countries are now the target of them. And for activities that are at the heart of our legal sovereignty.

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Post by eptcyka »

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.

There are lots of places where most customers still pay in cash. Mostly ethnic minorities in stores that cater for ethnic minorities. I find it interesting that ethnicity or religion would end up being a signal informing if one is using cash or digital money.

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Post by blibble »

14 wrote: post #43
jpalawaga wrote: post #32

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Buying a bunch and then blaming everyone else 12h after you seems disingenuous. It sounds like you’re trying to clear your conscious from panic buying. However, some people went to the store to find nothing because they weren’t able to go at the same time as you.

I am not blaming others at all but my point was more to ops question about people panic buying the answer is yes people will do so. Without limits those with lots of money will take the lions share. I am not trying to clear my conscious. I know I am a good person and literally would give the shirt off my back. But I had a hint things might get bad and as a father of young children above all and everything in this wor…

> I know I am a good person and literally would give the shirt off my back.

action speak louder than words I'm afraid

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Post by chvid »

impossiblefork wrote: post #250
jamesblonde wrote: post #166

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The worst thing is the lack of solidarity towards the danes here in Sweden. If Trump turns off Microsoft, Sweden will shrug its shoulders and privately say - thank god it's not us. yet.

In which kind of environment is this? Because I too am a Swede and in mine I don't think the normal attitude is one where we have any limit to our commitment to Danish territorial integrity.

Your government is probably just as shit scared of the US as our is.

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Post by chiph »

elzbardico wrote: post #84

Item #388293 of things that would never happen in America. During the Cold War, even the Soviet Union had better missile defense and civil defense infrastructure than the US.

By treaty, both sides were limited in missile defense. The Soviets placed theirs around Moscow (to hell with the krest'yanin), while the US placed them around larger cities (also likely targets but this diffused the effectiveness of the system).

Civil Defense was taken seriously in the US for a while (I was trained as a radiological monitor in high school) but fatalism and optimism took over. Countries like Switzerland made changes to their national building code requiring all homes and larger buildings to have shelters. IMO the US should have standardized shelter plans as an optional part of our building code, so if someone wants one, there's a proven design available.

With regard to Denmark, look to the Mormon Church. They have a mandate (not always followed!) to keep a years supply of food in the house. So the church has distribution warehouses and publishes information about long-term storage.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/food-storage/long...

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Post by mopsi »

throw310822 wrote: post #219
egman_ekki wrote: post #217

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> 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.

They'd fare much better. Ukraine had a large pool of conscripts, a professional cadre with combat experience from the Donbas, and deep Soviet stocks to draw from, while Western Europe abolished conscription and destroyed its Cold War stockpiles a long time ago. The current reintroduction of conscription and massive investment in defense are clear signs that European armies were (and for some time, will remain) inadequate.

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Post by ath3nd »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #302
scotty79 wrote: post #299

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> Now Russia is probably at its weakest relative to NATO That's exactly why there's gonna by full scale war with russia. It's simply the best moment for it and russia showed it can't be left alone.

Are you suggesting that NATO is going to start a war against Russia, the country with the largest nuke stockpile? That's bonkers on all levels, and more.

Russia can't deal with small Ukraine for 4 years. Their outdated poor tech and drunkard band of villagers called "soldiers" can't defeat a country with 5 times less population. Even with the help of the equally poor and unqualified North Korea and the jihadists of Khadirov, Russia hasn't achieved anything substantial but lose north of a million poor conscripts.

I want to remind you Russia's long distance rockets have largely self destructed on Russian territory even without a liftoff: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/24/europe/russia-sarmat-miss...

A single misstep of the Russian war criminals on EU soil, and they will be obliterated in seconds. It's bonkers to think otherwise.

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Post by infinite8s »

TrojanHookworm wrote: post #296
guappa wrote: post #293

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And why do people end up in denmark in jail then?

What does this have to do with whether or not Greenland is a colony?

In what other country does a jail sentence mean you get sent to another country to serve the sentence? (Except maybe the US now with detained immigrants)
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