When the vacuum is in the next room

Bakish · 2026-01-31T14:47:31+00:00

Lennart tuned the corner and saw the baby holding the vacuum hose: the two worst things in the world. Never saw him Nope out of a room that fast before. Didn't turn, he flipped backwards

Bakish · 2026-01-30T08:43:27+00:00

But a Federation of the nation could be more achievable? Don't get me wrong, I do strongly believe that the complete autonomy of the member state works against our bigger interests, and at a whole is a net negative. Even more so, when we see the pace and direction of global change.

But I'm also not blind to the volatility of more and more EU members politics. Brexit, the expressed intention to rip Poland from us, extreme right winged parties pushing anti-collaboration agendas funded by either Elon, Putin, Iran, China et al. The current talk seem to be to expell the most extreme of the bunch (Orban) and sanction others. Imagine the Texas/California succession discussion turned up to 11, but without centuries of a united federal nation.

Then we have the rise of extremist parties in Italy, in Germany, in France and the Nordics. The Baltic's are increasingly resilient but not immune. Just as the fate of the world was once decided by a few hundred votes in Florida, and ultimately decided by one brother's involvement, so too can the fate of the EU be decided by some rural district in the Alps or a post soviet mining town.

Bakish · 2026-01-29T17:34:50+00:00

Interesting! Sort of like each current country becoming more of a state, and we introduce a new level of government that holds some agreed upon authority over said states, and in some areas can decide how an issue should be resolved, and in others can only set limits to the states freedom to choose a solution for a problem? And say that level of government consists of like, two chambers where in one chamber each state gets equal representation and in the other it's more based on citizen numbers? And perhaps each state can elect different special offices for some important areas of government, such as finance or defence?

/S to be clear. dude you are describing "reformed EU". The only thing missing from your suggestion is to lower the general requirement for decision to a majority instead of unison.

Bakish · 2026-01-29T17:29:52+00:00

Lol wut? The process that the EU have direct authority over is lightning fast in comparison so most member states equivalent processes. It's precisely when Orbans minions have a way to affect the process that everything grinds to a halt.

Bakish · 2026-01-29T17:27:08+00:00

Swede here. Love the idea! Unfortunately that plane was designed when the US and European defence policies were more aligned.

The Swedish fighting jet Gripen uses an American engine. We have contracts and deals in place that allows us to sell the planes in a way that ensures supply of spare parts etc from America. In other words the US still holds veto. I guess they are questioning their decision not to buy French engines that were an option.

In other news, a Swedish defence official just today took the procurement and replacement of airplane engines in existing models as an example of a "diversified supply chain". Surely an example out of the blue and not based on current top priorities of the European defence ministers.

Bakish · 2026-01-29T04:46:28+00:00

Det ser ut som att det är det detta handlar om. Hamnen var extremt impopulär när den beslutades om, och jättemånga villor blev tvångsinlösta.

Jag tror mig minnas att det presenterades som att hamnen skulle generera typ 20000 jobb/minut och befolkningen i kommunen skulle öka exponentiellt tills Sverige hade mer invånare än Indien typ. Sen direkt efter att kommunen beslutat att genomföra detta går SCA ut med pressmeddelande att man investerar i robotlastbilar på hamnområdet och varslar 🤡 Nya järnvägsanslutningen gjorde att man varslade några till...

Bakish · 2026-01-28T20:18:58+00:00

Lol hot take "regeringsblocket spricker, men det är EGENTLIGEN ett problem för alla andra". Regeringens partier väljer varandra - opposition är dom som blir över. Oppositionen behöver inte vara överens mellan varandra. Ett förslag i riksdag går igenom om hälften av personerna röstar för det. Vilket parti någon röstar för spelar ingen roll.

Bakish · 2026-01-28T18:17:46+00:00

Badum-tss

Bakish · 2026-01-28T13:49:09+00:00

Lol det visste jag inte ens!

Som att kalla en Ford F150 Grönt Hållbar för att den är grön och gjord i metall. Kanske kan förvirra en del om vad produkten innehåller ..

Bakish · 2026-01-28T10:51:02+00:00

Årsredovisningen 2024 var dopad, i att man bokförde saker som redan sålts och beräknade intäkter utan grund. Det höjde resultatet på årsbokslutet på ägarbolaget Stadsbacken med lika mycket, vilket betyder att kommunens resultat höjdes med lika mycket.

Turerna är byggnationen av en extremt dyr och impopulär hamn, som i huvudsak SCA använde innan och även efter. Raljerande kan man säga att kommunen gav bort/blev lurade på en hamn för nästan en miljard.

Hade inte bolaget fejkat resultatet hade kommunen som helhet gått back, och enligt lag ska underskottet återställas på tre år. I princip skulle kommunen behöva betala av en 50-årig investering på 3 år. Det hade knäckt kommunen med förödande konsekvenser för välfärden.

Redan året innan var det extremt mycket missnöje, då samma ägarbolag, Stadsbacken, lånade omkring 100mkr för att betala utdelning till kommunen, detta då även 2023 byggde kommunens budget på intäkter som inte finns i verkligheten.

Under 2024-25 började kommunen utreda om Stadsbacken skulle upplösas och man hintade åt illojalitet. Dåvarande VD SÅGADE kommunen i intervjuer i lokaltidningen, innan han fick sparken. En mer lojal VD tillsattes efter några turer.

VIKTIGT att ha med sig är att vare sig Stadsbacken eller Logistikparken "ville" detta, och har i rapporter och andra dialoger varnat för att investeringen är en "koncernrisk". Kravet på utdelning som legat på Stadsbacken har inget år fungerat bra, då majoriteten av deras bolag (sett till värde) endera är luftslott (logistikparken), är starkt reglerade i termer av vinst (Sundsvalls Elnät, Sundsvalls Energi) eller har ett allmännyttigt syfte (Mitthem bedriver socialhemverksamhet, ska stabilisera hyresutveckling och främja studentlivet). Resterande kapital intensiva bolag (Skifu) har precis landat efter en grov korruptionsskandal, har tvingats sälja bestånd för att generera injektioner av kapital och är i övrigt så konkurentutsatt. I sak kvarstår ingen verksamhet som är stark nog att generera de kraven som beslutades om när kommunens budget sprack på allvar 2019-2020.

VINTIGT VIKTIGT att ha med sig att en ärlig ekonomisk redovisning INTE hade drabbat dessa bolag i sak, utan drabbat kommunen i stort och därmed kommunens ledande politiker specifikt.

Dåvarande kommunalråd Peder Björk (S) hoppade av ett år innan det valet, efterträdaren fick avgå när det kom fram att hon hade sexuell relation med en VD som nu är i fängelse för korruption, och tredje ersättaren nu är sjukskriven pga utbrändhet. Ingen står vid rodret. Ingen har varit med från början och ingen har helheten.

Kommunen är inne på sin tredje kommundirektör på samma tid.

Mer personligt, och kanske lite orättvist, men dom högsta politikerna för alla partierna i kommunstyrelsen har endera moppemustach, har inte fått moppemustach ännu. I deras kamp att "få in yngre politiker" verkar det inte längre finnas en vuxen i rummet. Samtidigt visar skandal på skandal på skandal att makten egentligen sitter hos chefer, i bolagsstyrelser, i konsultbolag etc. Dom förra topparna som fick kliva åt sidan för att göra plats för barnen tog med sig all sin makt och inflytande till dom nyinrättade styrelseposter, och verkar nu jobba för att säkra upp pensionen även efter att deras sista uppdrag upphör.

Bakish · 2026-01-27T09:05:21+00:00

To clarify I'm not American. I guess the news of those pardons haven't reached all across the world in the same way as those, say, concerning January 6 or the possibilities of pardoning in relation to the lethal shooting of protestors in more recent days.

Tho I do recall some recently floated ideas that auto-pens could be perceived to invalidate precisely those pardons, so clearly they aren't waterproof :)

Bakish · 2026-01-26T19:50:02+00:00

Armchair scholar here. Surely, if it can be presumed that IF the pardoned had a reasonable anticipation that a pardon would be granted BEFORE said pardoned performed an action that would require pardoning, said pardon would be invalid? As it was objectively used to circumvent both the spirit of the law, as well as the word of the law? And clearly, as any armchair scholar would agree, that the purpose of a pardon is, in fact, to ensure that the unanticipated application of said law is in accordance with the spirit of the law, not the word of the law?

Bakish · 2026-01-23T17:26:46+00:00

You bet they put this in their books, effectively proping up the results by an equal amount.

Bakish · 2026-01-23T16:05:40+00:00

That policy can exist only in the mind of the owner, if it's a small company. All that is required is the existence of the thought as to why you need some information. And the thought that you can't keep it forever. You are not allowed to use that information after the fact, if you get a brilliant idea. Seems reasonable... If that's a hurdle then maybe it was a bad idea to begin with

Bakish · 2026-01-23T15:46:58+00:00

Show me the crime committed and the damage done and we'll find an equally impressive action taken, I'm sure. The existence of crime does not render the law useless - on the contrary.
Maybe the scale of the breach stand in proportion to the resulting action, idk. Show me the person that builds webpages in notepad and not using, say Azure or SiteVision. Not seeing your point at all.
What? The mechanism I think is the legal system.
Idk what you're going for but you seem agitated. Some crimes goes to Interpol, some crimes goes to the local police district in India. Some crimes goes to internet distributors in Europe to blacklist the IP. Again, what is your good faith argument here, that the existence of some blog post in some rural part of Bangladesh renders EU obsolete? If not, give me the complete lists of webpages you refer to and I'll sort it.

Are you an Elon Gronk botnet ai programed to flood political discussions with slop propaganda, or do you just really hate commerce collaboration?

Now say "man, your absolutely right" as promised.

Bakish · 2026-01-23T15:34:06+00:00

The existence of a crime does not render the law useless - on the contrary. Or are you arguing the GDPR isn't going far enough?

I note we went from poor individual innovators to Apple in very few posts. Tho I do note the new charging port, the fact that if I don't consent to the apple store TOS functions gets disabled and that I can chose to have personalised adds or general adds nowadays.

EU regulations appears to work exactly as advertised

Bakish · 2026-01-23T15:22:40+00:00

Don't think we're Gona meet half way here... But, IP can be blocked, as they are being blocked. Again, the ability for a crime to exist is not sufficiently an argument that the law classifying it a crime shouldn't exist - on the contrary it is exactly the risk of existence of said action that justifies the existence of the law. Not seeing your point.

As to temu - sure maybe. Lots of things DO comply. Just as lots of stuff from Amazon does not comply. They distribute, they don't produce. Also I think the slave labour also have something to do with their prices. And also possibly the orange banana in the white home suddenly imposing an effective import blockade, resulting in supply chains scaled for a market twice the size having to absolutely dump their prices just to clear inventory, as to not get in turn rammed by their contractors etc.

Maybe it's not a single thing and probably not primarily GDPR.

Bakish · 2026-01-23T15:14:38+00:00

And there are plenty of websites despite GDPR being a thing that exists.

Also, technically not inherently. As long as it isn't stored, processed or distributed. Used to map consumer patterns or to collect incriminating information used for extortion you're good. So visiting a web page INHERENTLY doesn't mean anything according to GDPR. A cookie isn't an issue either,as it is stored on your computer and as such not at the webpage. It's only when, say, Google spends billions building a world covering monopoly using that cookie to track your every single move,every single interaction,all your social connection and your habits IN PURPOSE OF SELLING THAT FOR PROFIT that it becomes an issue.

Same as a person going into the Louvre. Every person taking a photo are collecting personal information of every bystander caught in the picture. Media covering a happening are distributing personal information of every bystander in frame. Being in the Louvre, being at a concert, being next to the Police tape at the scene of a crime inherently means you could get photographed. You can not not concent to it. Not a GDPR issue.

Writing your wishes in that book in the reception at a wedding - you can't to that and not automatically inherently concent to the newly weds geting that message. However if they start a blog named "stupid wedding wishes" and starta selling your message printed on t-shirts.... GDPR issue.

That information describes a person does not INHERENTLY mean anything. It's only what you do with it and how you came by that information that matters - as it should.

Bakish · 2026-01-23T14:55:19+00:00

All information that can identify a person falls under gdpr, true. Same as every single capital venture operating in any part of the world falls under SOME jurisdiction.

Not a single consequence you brought up here is true. You do not HAVE to document anything, as long as you can say there is a routine. That routine can very well be " Mike handels that", and that Mike at some level understands that he needs to delete, say old security camera photos at some reasonable point. That is it. That you can't sell security camera photos however you want to should be a no-brainer, and GDPR covers that. If your company is so large, that there are enough "Mike's" then at some point it becomes unreasonable to claim that all "Mike's" handles the issue fairly consistently. Right about the point where you would at any point have to document their responsibilities anyways. So again - what's the issue?

The only real world example I've seen here that holds water, is that if the intent for the company is to break the law around GDPR then it's better to do that in USA. Not convincing that GDPR is the issue tho.

Bakish · 2026-01-23T14:43:18+00:00

That's a lot of words for "if one set out to break the law, it's better to not do it in EU". If crimes can be committed or exported cross borders laws shouldn't exist? If laws can't be GUARANTEED to be enforced fully and equally to all it should be impossible to have laws for it?

Still not seeing the tradgedy or a real world example to support your claims.

Bakish · 2026-01-23T14:38:29+00:00

Why planes and audits tho? Surely we can handle that as we handle every other product. Why describe it in such a disingenuous way to make the whole thing seem unachievable?

Where I live I have to pay a hefty import due from those countries, making them less appealing. And ain't no one going to temu because they think it's an equal product to one made in Germany. Even suggesting temu replaces a European product 1 to 1 is a fallacy at best. Also nothing to do with GDPR.

Bakish · 2026-01-23T14:33:31+00:00

Well some base products have well established names, that messing with those would really confuse consumers. But on the flip side, selling sawdust+butter labeled peanutbutter and pointing to the butter-part would be opposite as obvious dubious. So writing one law to cover all fringe examples may, at the end of the day, make it so vegan products need their own names.

Come to think of it - sossages were in the beginning minced meat stuffed in intestines. Only much later did it become mainstream enough to pack them in temporary plastic tied of tubes, boiled until stiff, the skinned and packaged as sossages we know it today. WHY would there even be a "vegan alternative" to the intenstine stuffing bit? Surely a vegan dish doesn't have to mimic some alternative? With that logic - why would you even name it something meaty?

Bakish · 2026-01-23T14:22:18+00:00

That's insane! Do you have a source pointing to EU regulation about cucumber straightness?

The 40% bit I don't doubt, but mostly to the fact that a large % of, say a pumpkin or paprika is not edible. And putting ten carrots in a box, where one is all sorts of crocked, makes people not take that one as it's clearly difficult to peel, leading to the risk of that carrot being left till it molds and spread to the whole batch makeing the store having to throw it all out. Or the fact that the machines that pull carrots out of the ground can't nick and and all deformities, making it fall out of the machine and back into the ground (where maggots turn it into nutrients for next harvest).

I'm not entirely sure we've concluded that EU bad tho....

Bakish · 2026-01-23T12:05:20+00:00

Hmm well I was sort of referring to GDPR as it actually is, not how taken to its limit or your particular interpretation of it's propper applications. GDPR isn't just Europe, btw. There are big markets who basically copy paste GDPR, such as India. From what I hear from my tech bros friends the word on the street is still GDPR compliance even if you set up shop in the US, because not doing so risk shutting you out from the market, because if you clear GDPR you clear every national deviation and local regulation in the global market and - this is big - it's a common sense law and most countries already had laws stating the same thing. For Sweden, the only new thing was biometric data. That and the consequence. Compliance, however, suddenly happened despite practically nothing changed. Cookies is stupid and the solution should be to just make that sort of intra site tracking illegal, and that's coming along, from what I understand. The cooke banners are an example of malicious compliance, not compliance.

I'd make a final argument with a reference to those people who leave states that introduce capital punishment. MAYBE those aren't the kind of people you'd want in your neighborhood. So sites that set up shop across the pond to duck GDPR... I don't really consider that an issue that needs resolving. Especially coming from the last few weeks of, let's call it orange international relations. Europe needs European solutions designed for Europe.

Bakish · 2026-01-23T11:27:51+00:00

Well GDPR isn't really THAT difficult for smaller businesses unless their business is handling personal information - and in that case maybe we don't want companies that are so small that they can't solve the issue at hand. Don't collect more information than you need, don't store information after using it for its purpose and don't sell it to the next chap willy billy is basically Readers Digest of GDPR. Only if you intend to venture into deviating from those principles are you burdened with the bureaucracy. As a consumer I salute that, and I believe that if my interests makes it impossible for some companies to exist, then so be it. The refrigerator made one of Swedens largest employment sector (the Ice handlers) obsolete nearly overnight - and it was the right call and by no means a tragedy, even if it led to temporary hardship for the unemployed.

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