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it's funny how here in Sweden the left has historically always been against immigration because of fear of breaking labour balance. the right won the race under the "new right" slogan among young voters; immediately invited millions of immigrants - there are literal interviews where the left still says they are against immigration while the right says they are pro immigration, as well as the right-wing economist saying in an interview that immigration will help higher competition among workers which will let employers lower wages and strain the welfare system so it can be dismabtled. immigration in turn had all the effects expected plus a huge upswing in crime, and the right then went out in media saying it's the left who brought all the immigrants here while the left is defending themselves by saying the immigrants are here now and we have to take care of them; which just reinforces the lie that the left invited all immigrants - and all this has accumulated to the nazi party getting a shit ton of votes and are now kicking out essential workers en masse who are all the immigrants they can touch (aka. non-problem immigrants, because the problematic immigrants can't be touched), and just talking statistics about their success of booting people out of the country while our healthcare and service field collapses. which i no doubt they will somehow blame on the left even if the left currently has no power.

it's just funny how the left is always to blame for rightwing shenanigans.

I keep extinct in the wild and critically endangered species of fish in my aquariums and am a member of a couple of fish focused associations who work with universities for the goal of preservation of species. been considering getting into red listed frogs and cactus, but the communities are smaller (so less access to species) and space is a premium when living in an apartment.

i wish there was more exposure of this hobby because it's such an affordable, easy and "low effort" thing to do, but a lot of people who care about the environment and animals basically get offended when you keep animals "locked up" in an aquarium. in my opinion, serious aquarists (not the pet store furniture mentality) are invaluable, as a lot of species has been saved from extinction through aquarist efforts and university collaboration to reintroduce them to their native ranges after restoration work is completed (at least Lenoardo DiCaprio made a little bit of social media impact for one of the associations in 2022).

I should add, overfishing is not the leading cause for extinction in freshwater fish, it's pollution from agriculture, as the vast majority of fish threatened with extinction have no utility to us (or bright enough colors to benefit the commercial pet trade - brightly colored species are generally not even found in the wild, and have their colors from decades of selective breeding by dedicated aquarists).

evidently, as this election proved, it's not like voting on the lesser of two evils worked either. better to vote for a third party who actually stands on the side of the people.

if you're not interested in grapheneOS then pixel doesn't indeed offer much beyond what a cheap phone offers bar perhaps the camera.

yes, safari is apple.

those are just rebranded chrome(ium). all browsers except firefox and safari are rebranded chromium or firefox. edit: there are some other projects but none are mature.

It probably doesn't hold up. The idea of overpopulation is wrong because the west is suffering a birth crisis while the third world is having a child boom. It's not that more children are being born, it's that their standards are being improved so more of them survive. They in turn will level out and see less children born the better their standards become; so it's reasonable to assume if standards are collapsing in the west, then in a generation or so, more children will be born.

I've said this a million times, but it's definitely about time we stop spending taxes on a rogue entity across the ocean who definitely does not have our best interests in mind. I'm not convinced it's even legal and I don't understand why the legal prospects have never been brought up about this fucking situation. R&D money should not go to a foreign corporation. In addition, I (and pretty much everyone else on the planet) already paid for microsofts products and services so my government can use it (against my will), so why the fuck do they get away with setting a public price at all? It should legally be free or the governments shouldn't need to pay for it in the first place, and it should legally be open source because it's publicly funded. There are just so many problems with the entire idea of our government using Windows, Office, and their services.

most software is web based and OS-agnostic so there is no destruction and rebuilding happening, and for everything else, FOSS is literally free. How is it expensive to switch from X with a monthly cost to X that is free? Even if things breaks initially, the cost would equalize and long-term be considerably reduced.

There is some fearmongering in the news about the Tesla debacle. All around me I keep hearing people complaining about the Tesla situation as if unions are a bad thing. I've seen several "debates" from crocked asshats (i.e. "news sites" people genuinely believe have their best interest) bringing up, which is probably where their attitude comes from. Here's two lightbulbs from "Almega":

"Now exposed by LO vs Tesla, todays laws, rules, and regulations risks the will of employers to sign collective agreements and are thus a threat to the Swedish Model."

and

"Tesla has proven that strike rights needs to be reformed and modernized or risk political intervention."

These statements are so fucking backwards and braindead. Like, who's dumb enough to interpret it the way it's intended by the copy? Anyone who has even slightest understanding of the "swedish model", knows that what's happening right now is exactly how it was designed to happen when pompus martians think they alone has greater power than humanity. it's not a threat to the model, it's working by design! if employers don't want to dela with the collective agreement (of the people), they do not belong on the swedish market.

The second statement is equally offensive, so we need political intervention to stop political intervention? Alrighty then. It's just so confusing though, why do we need to reduce the rights of people to benefit business owners? Who do they think run this world, the wealthy elite aka. corporate business owners, or the people who are actually putting in their time, effort, sweat, blood and labour, to literally take care of everything and run this system we live in?

Honestly, if they don't want to get assfucked by the people actually producing their wealth, they shouldn't overstep. It's not rocket science. But I suppose, particularly in the experience of Americans like Musk, the concept of suffering consequences to idiot actions seems foreign, and yet, he seems to be suffering consequence after consequence for his more recent choices, especially after one particular choice starting in 2022.

Regardless, Sweden is likewise becoming less and less like it used to be. Employers on average used to be just another employee (to themselves), but nowadays more and more employers start feeling like they're part of some elite group who are better and more deserving than others, and this shit has been leaking out into our politics, and radicalizing a large segment of our population in ways that might eventually cause some very real damage worse than we saw during the industrialization and up until the 1920ies.

My grandparents and those of their generation were part of the force who started their lives with no rights, no wealth, no means, and they would have been appalled to see how far we have fallen over the last 20 years of political development in this country. One chip at a time. Nearly all the people who lived through the labour revolution are all gone now, and we're regressing back to the standards they fought to create, our parents being the sole generation who grew up during a time of collective wealth and possibilities - and these asshats just keep saying "look at the numbers!" like their continued legacy benefits will somehow be passed along to the next generation while touting "what's mine is mine!".

Oh man, talk about bringing me back in time. My first card was a voodoo 2.

and they regret it because the people offering .ml sucks but it's already too integrated with the platform to change.