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  • Yeah, I agree that’s probably how this is going to play out; Ukraine cedes some territory to Russia and is allowed to join NATO, hopefully safeguarding it against further Russian imperialism in the future.

    In the meantime, we should of course keep supporting Ukraine as much as we can to give them as strong of a position in these potential future negotiations as possible.









  • A couple of things.

    • Our defence has historically been coordinated to a high degree with Finland, and with only one of us in NATO it makes this coordination more difficult. So, in some ways, we are worse off than before the process started.
    • As it is now, Sweden is generally not worried about a land invasion. The danger is how exposed we are from the baltic.
    • A large part of why we want in is for continued solidarity and support of Finland. It is much better for Finland if we are in than if we are not.

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    I agree with you.

    Instances can defederate from meta at any point they choose, should it become necessary in the future. Until then, it is a huge boon to the more decentralized parts of the fediverse to get content from where all the “normies” are, as well as giving more visibility to non-meta instances and giving said normies a road to the less data-hungry parts of the network.


  • Some people seem to frame the shooting as justifiable to prevent the potential danger the kids reckless driving would pose to others. While I personally think this was a completely undefensible escalation of violence on the police’s end, I think there can be some reasonable discussion on what the appropriate level of force to stop the kid from speeding off would be. Sure, why not. Would I argue a person who is speeding away from the cops while shot is likelier to cause an accident involving others than one who isn’t shot? Also yes.

    But having a crowdfunder for the individual that did the shooting, in practice rewarding someone for executing a kid for speeding without a license? What the actual fuck?




  • I think this is on balance good, but the swedish context makes it a bit problematic in some aspects.

    The right has essentially weaponized some sort of perfect utopian image of nuclear that makes it the answer to all questions on climate policy. The unstated gist of it is this: “Since we’re doing nuclear, we don’t need to take any other actions to mitigate climate change”. This allows them to take populist positions on carbon taxation and other “green” reforms that cause more harm than their push for more nuclear mitigates.

    So yeah, as I said, this in itself is good, but watch out for the results on non-nuclear environmental policy.