This is a good compromise. I understand cafés wanting to be able to have their guests smoke at the tables on the street, and frankly if someone is walking the street at night by himself i couldn’t care less whether he smokes as long as the remains are put in the trash.

Smoke detectors don’t respond to cigarette smoke, unless you cram one smoker per m² in a room and have them all smoke half a pack, with all windows shut.

I have seen indoor parties at flats with smoke detectors, which never went off, despite heavy smoking indoors. Meanwhile something burning on the stove set off the detector, as it should.

I think it is more about that drinking in public is legal in many countries (also in many it isn’t). So for the “discouraging” it should also be banned from the public equally.

In regards to “regulated what you can sell” You can also buy anything from 2,5% beer-mix stuff over 40-60% Schnaps and even up to 80% high destillate for cooking purposes. Which are still drunk by some alcoholics. Strong alcohol burns your throat away, but it is available on the market easily.

In Malmö the grenades are frequently old weapons from the wars in the Balkans. The police assume that someone imported a large cache of grenades, which has then been distributed to criminal gangs.[16][3] In addition to grenade attacks, there are a significant number of related bomb attacks with improvised explosive devices, including homemade bombs.[17][18] The number of incidents involving explosives tripled between 2008 and 2016.[19] According to a December 2018 Swedish Television interview with researcher Amir Rostami, Sweden has a high number of hand grenade attacks compared to neighbouring countries Denmark, Norway, and Germany. According to the Swedish police the reason may be the light sentence for possession compared to a firearm and that the evidence destroys itself when used. [20] While gun homicides were on the rise in the 2011–2018 time span, according to a study at Malmö University, the number of hand grenade attacks had shown a strong increase in the same period and a total of 116 hand grenade detonations were recorded. Rostami said criminologists in Sweden don’t know why there was a strong increase and why Sweden has a much higher rate than countries close by. [15] Statistics are hard to come by as the only country apart from Sweden that publishes statistics is Mexico

The hand grenades found by the police are exclusively the ex-Yugoslavian M75 hand grenade.

I remember seeing videos Finnish motorcycle gangs (very white, very Nazis) figthing with heavy arms in the woods sometimes. I remember in the movie “Lord of War” they said it was cheaper to buy real guns than fake ones for staging scenes of hangars full of guns after the downfall of the Sovjet Union, that made their hands into criminal trade. So if some dipshits smuggled in a few thousand grenades and distributed them, that explains why they are used so heavily compared to all other countries.

Also when looking at how heavily armed Finnish Nazi gangs are and how easy it was for Breivik in Norway to get the weapons for his massacres, it seems to simply be easier to get heavy weapons in Scandinavia than in other places. And Sweden being twice as populated than Finland or Norway results in more crime with that too.

Looking at the homicide rate, Sweden seems to be about the same like Finland and still much better than the Baltic states and on par with France and the UK.

So if they were both in your name she couldn’t?

I know that is not probably not what you are saying, but that is the implication of this argumentation

If most counties are like 53-47, 55-45, maybe even 65-35, having one county where it is like 90-10 will be dead obvious manipulation.

So will this be the fifth “once in a century” flooding since the beginning of this century?

Yes please be successful.

Screw all indirect “currencies”, screw all “lootboxes”, screw aggressive sales tactics with “limited offers” for digital goods like Skins.

I think there should be a mandatory counter that is present at any ingame purchase, informing you how much money you have spent on the game in total and in the past year or so. If people want to whale because they love a game so much and they think their 50 € waifu-skin is worth it, so be it. But they should have all the means to make this decision with the best possible level of information.

That’s what you get for electing a corrupt cop as mayor.

Also Adams is yet another example, why having someone from a marginalized group in office does not mean that the represents or even really cares about the needs of that group past his own political advantage.

I know the right candidate to guard that boarder.

I mean i am fully in support of PC gaming and in particular Linux gaming. It is just not as easy to keep upgrading PCs component by component. Eventually there is limits, mostly from the mainboards limits.

Within limits though. E.g. If your mainboard only supports old CPUs that is a huge limiting factor and we saw MS messing with older CPUs just not being supported at all by Win 11.

Now i made the switch to Linux myself too and i am very happy, but for people who want to start somewhere, maybe starting with their own linux gaming PC is a bit much for the start.

Oil and Gas prices going up was also cited as a main driver for the inflation of all sorts of goods, including basic food.

Problem is now “somehow” the prices remain high on these goods whereas the energy prices are back to normal again.

Also lovely way to start a childs life. Instead of being at the chest of its mother, it gets to be with some overworked strangers, not getting breat fed and not feeling the physical closeness necessary to build a healthy sense of security.

In this case the Unions and HRs rigidity could be part of the problem.

They tend to make groups based on formal qualifiaction. E.g. all trade apprentices get similiar salaries, all trade masters, all bachelor degrees and all master degrees (simplified).

So a person with just a formal trade apprentice, but great experience and proven know-how will still get a much lower salary than a recently graduates business degree “idiot” who mostly managed to study based on his parents pushing him through.

I’ve seen Job ads for cloud experts, who are supposed to organize an infrastructure over multiple data centres, running hundreds of different services in a heightened security environment offered around 3k. The Operations people said that this does not need a masters degree, because they didn’t want to filter out all the self taught people, and then HR and the Union reps said this is a trade level position so it gets a trade level salary.

From what i understood with the complexity of the IT landscape they would have needed to offer more around 6-7k to find people.

I mean the tool is also being made by people. And there is people who pointed out, that a tool that is great at spurting out plausible sounding things with no factual bearing could be abused badly for spreading misinformation. Now there have been ethic boards among the people who make these tools who have taken these concerns in and raised them in their companies, subsequently getting ousted for putting ethical concerns before short term profits.

The question is, how much is it just a tool and how much of it is intrinsically linked with the unethical greedy people behind pushing it onto the world?

E.g. a cybertruck is also just a car, and one could say the truck itself is not to blame. But it is the very embodiment of the problems of the people involved.

The library is legally allowed to hand out the books. However they are not allowed to replicate them and you are not allowed to borrow them with the goal to scan and copy it.

I remember they used to last me for years around 2005-2010. Now it is like every year at latest i need to get new ones because the cable got fucked.

In 2024, Greece has one of the strongest growth outlooks in Europe. Once seen as the “problem child” of the eurozone, Greece has turned things around and now expects real gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 2% this year.

This [debt to GDP] is higher than it was before the start of the sovereign debt crisis, simply because economic performance shrank by a quarter as a result of the crisis

After the immense downturn, Greece is still far from pre-crisis levels. Meanwhile ordinary people are very much fucked economically.

Even though the resulting economic success surpassed expectations, not everyone was happy. There was opposition, criticism and accusations of an alleged “sellout of public property” to foreign investors, from left-wing circles in particular. Economic expert Petrakis doesn’t understand this attitude. “The accusation of a sellout when it comes to investments within the EU is senseless,” he said. Petrakis pointed to the fact that the Fraport investment was a success, specifically because the Germans invested in smaller airports, thereby attracting even more visitors to Greece. He emphasized that it wasn’t just the German investors who had benefited from the project, but also the local economies in all of the regions where Fraport is active.

The problem is not that some public property was sold, but rather that the profitable ones were sold, now generating money for foreign investors instead of keeping it in Greece. meanwhile society is footing the bill of non profitable infrastructure.

They could just have the kids read actual books designed by actual pedagogic experts which actually help to learn through studying it.

Now nobody knows if the “AI” is even teaching real things or if it is only using properly vetted material, if the structure it proposes makes sense.

Yes teachers are fallible, but they are also human and can emotionally understand what is going on during learning that a trained algorithm just cannot get. In so far also it means there needs to be a clearly defined “goal” of knowledge and competencies and the algorithm can only fill the holes, rather than encourage students to maybe seek knowledge beyond the established set.

Also i am skeptical how much of it is even “AI” in the sense of needing a machine learning approach, or it is just regular computer tests of which “level” is reached in each category and where to improve still. Chance is, this could be done with an excel sheet.