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You should google 40% of police..

For many immigration statuses in Sweden, you must leave and apply outside of the country (outside of Schengen for non EU-citizens) to change status. This was even the case before the current right wing government was elected.

Despite politics, TARP was arguably an economic success story for the US treasury despite public sentiment. Whether it created moral hazard or not I suppoae is up for debate.

GM on the other hand should have been left to die.

However, I was obliquely referring to the open transactionality and patronage encouraged by the current administration, and how the AI / big tech players have, with few exceptions, gleefully joined in.

Unless they run out of money for bribes, I think it's inevitable that current government will bend over backwards to prop them up.

Bold of you to assume competency will overpower politics in our current era.

So why do so many people want to keep coming here?

They don't, in fact, at least not anymore:

"We estimate that net migration was between –10,000 and –295,000 in 2025, the first time in at least half a century it has been negative."

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/macroeconomic-implication...

I would argue those at OpenAI or Anthropic are making considerably more than just "regular tech"

I would say to you who would equivocate and dither about lending your skills to a morally and ethically compromised war machine in exchange for a fat paycheck, the same thing that I teach my children:

"Everything and I mean everything can be taken from you except your integrity, only you can give that up"

Most reasonable take in the entire thread. Thanks for writing.

peace is something that requires cooperation.

Funny that many people consider peace as simply being left alone, forgetting that we are fundamentally social animals and there are many very real benefits of being part of a (functioning) society.

Yes, its a treasure hunt every single time when some project has most of their discussions on discord. It's awful imo.

And discord is a terrible tool for knowledge collection imo. Their search is ok, but then I find myself digging through long and disjointed message threads, if replies/threading are even used at all by the participants.

An algolwiki is a great idea, but I just wanted to say I got a good chuckle from this, thanks :)

May I suggest "PASTE": Patterns, Algorithms, Solutions, Techniques, and Examples. "Just copy PASTE", they'll say.

It's very out of context and so obviously coordinated.

It is also very strange to see the repeated attempts to import US culture war issues to Sweden. Often completely unrelated to Swedish national issues, just blindly throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks and capture headlines for a few weeks.

The far-right Sverige Demokraterna party does this regularly, but other parties often fall for it too.

A more paranoid person might say it resembles Active Measures operations of a hostile foreign government that wants to distract and sow chaos in western states, but who knows...

This has been a moral panic in Sweden recently too. It came out of nowhere and seeing the news now in the UK, it sure feels coordinated.

The Liberal Party (what's in a name, anyway?) are campaigning to make it illegal in Sweden, go figure.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/liberalerna-kriminalisera...

75% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, per their own stats. This isn't goalpost shifting.

Immigration is a civil issue in the US, full stop. Immigration courts are administrative courts, not Title III criminal courts.

You are obviously a brand new bot account so I will mute you and move on.

75% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions per ICEs own stats, however they conflate "immigration offenses" like filing errors with illegal entry so its impossible to tell from their own statistics to answer your question.

I might also add that, like it or not, asylum claims are a positive defense to illegal entry under US law and you can ONLY claim asylum upon US soil.

ICE has extreme arrest quotas now and are routinely exceeding their authority and violating the due process rights of of immigrants in thr US to meet those quotas.

In those cases yes, but ICE is disappearing people who have entered legally and are awaiting a CIVIL immigration hearing on status changes, etc. The cases you reference are a small minority of those being detained and deported.

It is not a lie, immigration, is primarily a civil issue with civil enforcement. You don't get a lawyer, you don't get your case heard in Title III courts. There are a few things that are capital C crimes related to immigration, but the bulk of the current enforcement is related it civil immigration matters.

Immigration is a civil matter, not a criminal matter.

For what its worth, this like the out of office email autoresponses is likely an illegal use of public funds. Portland, Oregon's airport has refused to show it claiming as such.

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/kristi-noem-vide...

I've found a lot of utility in this. Small throw away utility apps where I just want to automate some dumb thing once or twice and the task is just unusual enough that I can't just grab something off the shelf.

I reached for claude code to just vibe a basic android ux to drive some rest apis for an art project as the existing web UI would be a PITA to use under the conditions I had. Worked well enough and I could spend my time finishing other parts of the project. It would not have been worth the time to write the app myself and I would have just suffered with the mobile web UI instead. Would I have distributed that Android app? God no, but it did certainly solve the problem I had in that moment.

In zero tolerance Sweden, nitrous is oddly perfectly legal. In fact, I recently got a cheerful flyer from our municipal waste disposal company announcing that empty 1L nitrous bottles can now be left with common household hazardous waste.

Bold of you to assume that the goal of the current administration is to maintain USD hegemony. They've stated explicitly several times that they feel the dollar is too expensive and gone on at length about the trade "deficit". Even going so far with Trump and Musk hinting that they will renig on US foreign debt obligations ("lots of fraud in treasuries"), which would destroy the value of the USD overnight if they followed through.

It seems clear to me one goal of the current admin is to transform the US into an export economy, and the strong currency is one major roadblock in reaching their objective.

Would love to see more analysis on this, as their trial balloons around tanking USD seem to have gotten lost in the noise.

The US is a net energy exporter and just the columbia river main stem system generates enough power for washington, idaho and oregon 10 times over.

Hydroelectric is not green, has a limited service life and even has significant greenhouse gas emissions from its reservoirs.

Go troll somewhere else.

I'm not sure this is true.

I have a Samsung with this feature. It rebooted overnight and this morning it was in BFU state with several mail and sms notifications. It was also connected to wifi and the cellular network.

Ballot boxes were only burned in majority D areas, and Republicans are the only ones pushing election tampering conspiracy theories so they have a reason to riot (again) if they lose this time too.

They are the only party thay would benefit from this action. Qui bono?

Harm reduction should include quality control. In the Netherlands, for example, publicly funded harm reduction clinics will test any drug sample for free and anonymously as a public health measure. However, hard drugs are still illegal.

Generally the legislature is loathe to do this, they are elected positions after all, but it does happen.

I wish I could upvote this more. Its proven to be cheaper, too.

The main issue is that Portland was ground zero for a lot of the BLM protests and defund the police campaigns - not without good reason, either. The cops, who mostly live in the suburbs, essentially threw a collective tantrum and refused to do their jobs in Portland. This coincided with covid, newly decriminalized "hard" drugs, the rise of cheap fentanyl, and created a an explosion unprosecuted property and nuisance crimes.

Fundamentally the justice system is just broken in Oregon, and this is merely a political move to please cops and conservatives, that won't fix anything. The state just released a report that they will be short 1800 public defenders due to just this law alone.

"Catch and release" will continue, cops will cry for more budget and less oversight and the human misery of those caught up in addiction will just increase with further legal entanglements.

Yep, using a middleman is the easiest way to go. No need to incorporate in the country, understand local taxes and labor laws and you just get a check. They usually even handle invoicing and collection, if you're a contractor. Fees tend to be reasonable for the services offered imo.