nivenkos

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by nivenkos 4y ago
A lot of Europe is suffering shortages the same though, it's just that in the UK the supermarkets refused to pay more. Whereas like here in Sweden you can buy tomatoes, but they now cost $10 per kg.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
But the prices are incredibly low. When I came back to Sweden, here we don't have a tomato shortage, but the price has gone up to about 9 GBP per kg - so not much difference in reality.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I don't vote SD, and I agree with you. We need a lot of tax reform - it's crazy how working is punished so much meanwhile there is no inheritance tax or land value tax. But I'd also support the death penalty for violent crimi
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by nivenkos 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jAm8cSBtA9o - but they'll keep going "no matter what German voters think".
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by nivenkos 4y ago
We know, but what is the other option? The Americans want European industry to be destroyed and Europe to be dependent on their LNG. Sure, it'd have been best to invest in nuclear power (and nuclear fusion research) for the last 30 yea
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by nivenkos 4y ago
You really expect us to be at war with China?
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by nivenkos 4y ago
> Nowadays, not so much… The thinking seems much more primitive. But the threat is so much greater. I live in Sweden too, and there was a bombing near my apartment. A shooting at the metro station, etc. With the massive influx of weapons
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by nivenkos 4y ago
> for example, sitting on the bus with it You'd use an $800 device (with limited awareness of your surroundings) on the bus?
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Income tax is absurd - we should tax wealth not work. By penalising those who work hard, it destroys social mobility and entrenches the establishment landowners and conservatism. Income tax and VAT should be replaced with wealth tax, Land V
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by nivenkos 4y ago
But income tax hits workers, not billionaires...
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It's not, but it's a corporation not a workers' co-operative. They'll get someone to do the same thing from Islamabad like Digital Ocean.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
And the US still resorts to the same tactics today - trying to provoke a war in Europe, whilst simultaneously attracting industry with massive subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act after bombing European gas pipelines to drive up industr
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by nivenkos 4y ago
My company even bans us from working outside of the 40h work week...
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Some companies do this in Spain too, especially in the summer. Likewise in Sweden, but it's a minority of companies I'd say.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Nah, protection money is expensive.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Damn, how did you find such "cheap" lessons? Even in Spain it was about 22 quid per 45 minutes and then 150 euros for the test. And here in Sweden it's double that across the board :/
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It depends massively on the state no? CA was pretty tough, they even fail you for driving too slow.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Until Google bans your account completely across all services with no means for appeal.
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Ericsson to cut 1,400 jobs in Sweden(reuters.com)
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by nivenkos 4y ago
He funded and armed the Mujahideen in Operation Cyclone though - which has literally caused endless trouble with the rise of radical Islam. So it wasn't all "world peace".
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by nivenkos 4y ago
But healthcare isn't nationalised in Ireland. Was that your point?
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Hopefully they unionise now.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, the European economy is in complete collapse. "You will own nothing"...
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by nivenkos 4y ago
They need to enforce the law on public transport too. Like begging and street selling should be illegal, clean it right up so even the wealthy would choose to take public transport.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
"Falling out of love with" = unable to afford Like in my city it'd cost at least $4000 to get a licence, and then $250 a month for indoor parking, $~200 a month or so for insurance, road tax, etc. and $~400 a month for the ca
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Hardly, there are huge issues with public healthcare access, public pensions (if they even exist when we retire - if we can ever retire), crime-ridden public transport, etc. Our governments sold us out to become an open-air refugee centre a
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Kinda, the benefit in the UAE is that the taxes are lower, but it's really company-dependent since you have fewer worker protections. I turned down a job offer there because it's so far away, so if you lost the job (see recent lay
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The Euro is basically equal to the USD these days anyway though.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
A lot of EU countries don't use the Euro.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Hmm I wonder how they did the TC though since the value of stock has absolutely plummeted now. On salary I'm well below the median value here despite being a senior engineer at a large international company, in a department that pays s

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