And please don’t talk to me like I’ve never stood up for my beliefs when it was unpopular. In the middle of the Gulf War in 2006 I put out a song called “Dear Mr. President” and sang it every night on tour while my country was in a war I didn’t support,

And now I’m standing up for my own people,

Translation: “my country” = America, “my own people” = genocidal Zionists. Great take. I’m sure all the dead women and children in Palestine would be so proud of you.

For real, how does everyone in the media bother to feign such cognitive dissonance all the time? When someone says they’re against the war in Iran, does that mean they want to kill all Americans?

Who falls for this shit? Zionists need to find something better than playing the victim card 24/7.

The Dutch, Belgian, French, and German cops have their own special level of “forceful de-escalation”. You don’t follow my commands, I beat you with my baton, or let the dog bite you, your choice. Absolutely disgusting. But at least you’re less likely to be shot by them, but they’re still the same kind of “people” compared to American cops.

I’ve been lucky though to avoid any physical violence with Swedish police, but physical violence isn’t their preference… It’s psychological violence that they crave.

When I was younger, I started bad-mouthing a group of cops walking by the bar I was drinking at. Hanging with a group of friends, just some mean-hearted banter at the cop bastards, like the punk kids we were.

Of course they got mad, and first decided I need to be put into the drunk tank for disturbing the peace… The drunk tank here is a brightly lit cell with a steel bed and no blanket or anything. “For your safety”. Enjoy sitting there in the light with nothing to do for 6-8 hours. Toilet right in the middle of the room, with a huge door-window to the cell, where the guard looks inside at least once every 5-15 minutes. Again, for your safety.

I told them I’m barely drunk, I had only had one beer. They could see that easily as well.

“Oh, then you’re certainly drug intoxicated”, so they forced me into their car, where they drove me to the hospital like 40 minutes out of town, where I was forced to leave a blood test. They also seized my phone “to gather evidence on who I might have bought drugs off of”.

After the blood was taken, they escorted me out and then said “bye, you’ll be hearing from us once we’re done with your phone”. I ask how the fuck am I supposed to get home now? “We’re not a taxi service, but you’ll figure it out yourself!” and drove off laughing.

So I got to wander around a closed hospital in the middle of nowhere at 1am in the morning until some lab tech went out for a cigarette, and they were nice enough to call me a taxi. The real final hero was the taximan, who let me pay the insane fare (was like over 1,5k SEK, high tariff for both nighttime and long distance) within a couple days, as he understood the cops fucked me hard. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s heard similar stories, and he’s just happy to get some form of compensation for those fares…

I was of course confirmed drug-free after the blood test came back, but I never got any apologies, nor compensation for anything, not even for the taxi fare.

ACAB, regardless of nationality.

I never really could describe that until now, great term, “baby music” is exactly how I’d describe it. It’s not like most pop has loads of depth, but his has like none. I literally felt like dozing out when I listened to a few clips.

No hate for people who like that, but it feels like listening to an uninteresting podcast for me.

FedEx in Sweden doesn’t even leave their warehouse to succeed in making their failed delivery. Same with UPS. It’s honestly impressive how successful these two companies can suck at doing the only thing they’re enlisted to do.

I can see in tracking that my packages first get scanned upon arrival to their regional warehouse, and then within 15-30 minutes it becomes “failed delivery, no one home”. Even if I was to be their first stop, driving from the warehouse to my house would take at least 2 hours. Maybe they’re actually trucking it at 300km/hr, but then I’d notice the police chase. But no truck ever seen. Many days I worked from home because I was to get an urgent package that never came.

After the first few times, I joined their “My Choice” and “Delivery Manager” or whatever they call it… but that did absolutely nothing, even if I explicitly choose “leave the package at my doorstop, I don’t care if someone steals it”, the shit still never leaves their warehouse!

I have never seen the face of a single FedEx or UPS man in real life, despite having 30+ packages from them over the years. Maybe they don’t dare to show themselves after screwing me over for so many years…? But then they could at the least just throw my packages outside my door and run for their life instead of hoping I’m going to drive to your warehouse and pick it up myself!

If I want to buy something and don’t see a PostNord or DHL option, I’m not buying. And if it ends up being FedEx/UPS somehow, I contact the seller to choose something else, or to just give me a refund directly, because it’s not gonna arrive.

And what might come as a surprise for some Germans, DHL here works wonderfully basically 100% of the time. Thank you Germans for doing your jobs ❤️

Nooo, not my precious alarm clock… it’s the only thing that still works for me. I always manage to sleep through the loudest alarm volume on two different phones, regardless of whatever tones or music I choose. Not even El Sonidito works anymore.

I’ll be dead (metaphorically, at the least) if the smoke detector stops beeping for me :(

you need to codify that the AI agent can’t be responsible and determined who is (the company or the model creator)

Sure. But that’s not exactly what the proposed law is though?

These companies all want to be captured, “we’re so dangerous, America is going to get destroyed if we’re not mainlined into that $1 trillion/year ‘defense’ budget!”

That was an expensive fix. You could have just gotten this instead https://www.ikea.com/se/sv/p/knalla-paraply-svart-60282332/ ? Or was the cable already broken?

But props for repairing stuff instead of buying new.

Sympathy? No. But no parades either, because most bad actions are still bad, even if that particular victim deserved it.

Pussi is Finnish for “bag”.

I get it, you don’t think anybody should have cars.

Who has said that I think this? It’s a privilege to drive, not a right. No one needs to accept someone else’s idiotic decision to buy a vehicle that’s too large for the streets’ zoning.

I’m not big on victim blaming either, but I do think it’s weird to consider Sweden your primary home, and yet not apply for citizenship much earlier than that.

Prior to the law change a couple months ago, he could have become a citizen after just 5 years (or 3 if cohabitation with a Swede). Both the UK and Sweden recognize double citizenship as well, so there’s really no reason not to…

He has also missed out on all non-local elections his entire adult life, because non-citizens can only vote for local government, and now he’s paying the price. It’s very sad.

I mean, that’s probably part of the reason why Sweden is an outlier in the number of UK deportations. We got a right-wing government a couple years back, and they obviously want to please their constituents by saying “we deported this many criminals, remember to vote for us again!”

Britons are an easy target to pump those numbers up. There is usually nothing that hinders deportation to the UK, unlike to other countries with more instability/wars/etc.

Crazy how I read all that in the pacing of Tubthumping.

if the truck didn’t back all the way in, the smaller cars would have a problem getting out

Then they shouldn’t be parked there from the start.

If there’s no parking for full-size vehicles

Then, again, they shouldn’t be parked there from the start. It’s not a difficult concept.

No one has forced them to buy an oversized vehicle. And if the area is obviously not zoned to allow oversized vehicles, they shouldn’t even be driving it there.

if it’s not in my way

It is obviously in the way for all pedestrians, as there’s like less than a quarter meter free space behind the truck, and people need to be especially careful to not fuck up their legs on the hitch.

You don’t need to be enraged by idiots, but you don’t need to defend their behavior.

The icing on the cake is having the hitch ball mounted when they’ve probably never towed anything in their life. Make problems, and destroy some people’s knees at the same time.

He got caught pissing with his pants all the way down, because it “feels good man”.

“only 3 left at this price!” for several days. A fool and his money…

I’ve always wondered why group boarding takes such a long time…

If you aren’t the only one with the keys, it’s basically unencrypted. Bake in your own encryption (rclone, cryptomator, etc), or treat it as unencrypted.

Yes, the government, not the EPA. The EPA didn’t have the funding nor legal mandate to tackle such a problem when it was first discovered. It doesn’t justify calling them useless.