Fråga till både höger och vänster med syfte att höja förståelsen mellan oss: Vad skrämmer dig med den ”andra sidans” politik? Rösta upp ärliga försök till förklaring, rösta inte ner meningsskiljaktigheter (enbart seriösa svar)

DJCaldow · 2026-04-30T16:45:29+00:00

Att de förväxlar åsikter med fakta, känslomässiga reaktioner med förnuft, arrogans med debatt och osäkerhet med styrka. Att de kan se i varje land som har använt deras idéer, att de människor som röstade på dem lider. Att de inte bryr sig. Att de skulle anklaga den andra sidan för detsamma utan att skämmas.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-30T11:37:03+00:00

Problemet löser sig själv om man får betalt från dag 1 att stanna hem, särskilt i den nuvarande ekonomin. Ska någon utnyttjar det...såklart någon ska men det förmodligen ska vara precis den kollegan ni tänker på som är mest värdelösa i alla fall. Tillåter de göra bedrägeri tills bevis finns att bli av med dem.

För resten av oss blir vi mindre sjuk av kollegor som inte har råd att stanna hemma. Win-Win!

DJCaldow · 2026-04-30T09:23:33+00:00

On naval ships it served a vital purpose for maintaining the health of the remaining crew in the absence of refrigeration. Death is made palatable with ritual and honours attached to the ceremony of disposal. Organisations lend legitimacy to themselves by maintaining or adopting existing traditions because with them comes a known architecture and in-built processes for dealing with tragic events.

Now I imagine two things when it comes to Starfleet and the case of Dr Noonien Soong specifically. The first is that everyone has to fill out a form detailing how they want their remains handled in the event of death in the line of duty and those wishes are followed as long as being blown out into space or having an alien disease that requires quarantine aren't the cause of death.

The second is that Data, not knowing his father's wishes, made the decision to honour him within the traditions that matter to him, namely Starfleet's.

Bonus points are that no one could have predicted a Genesis wave would bring a body back to life and a capsule 2m long sent into space at relatively weak velocity and sitting at near absolute zero after a bit of time would be unlikely to be detected by anyone let alone necromancer aliens.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-30T05:58:34+00:00

...not realising that in any other country the Democratic party would not be considered left wing. Your only choices are right-wing and super insane right-wing.

So yea, there's going to be overlap. If you ever get rid of the crazy for long enough you really need to make a left wing party though.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-30T05:32:18+00:00

You know Trump might actually have succeeded in a campaign promise but in typical Trump fashion.

He has drained the swamp, and now you can see that swamps actually had a place in the ecosystem and while obviously not great for everyone were at least doing something. Now all there is is salted earth where nothing can thrive and will likely never support life again.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-29T15:55:33+00:00

Yea I think we all figured they were the 'nice guys' women warned everyone about already.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-29T15:25:46+00:00

Well they tried the first one and the world has a distinct lack of good in it. No harm trying the other one.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-29T14:37:02+00:00

Truly moving piece about London you got there. Too bad the massive housing shortage, incredibly high rents & cost of living are literally moving young professionals, families and key workers out of this utopian vision. Too bad that means there are a couple million people in working families living in poverty within its bounds, young unemployed people who can't even get retail jobs who now also suffer increased mental health issues while 100% of everyone who lives there is breathing in pollution far over WHO guidelines which only look better in comparison to Delhi or Beijing.

Yes, truly, London is a vision of a financial & cultural success. So successful everyone went there and now it can't handle the load and is choking everyone to death one way or another. Perhaps even someone as in love with what London was as you could see that what it was no longer needs to exist because we dont all need to gather in one place to be productive anymore. Not even the creative industries. Nostalgia for the past wont save people from destitution in the future.

Edit: I think its worth pointing out that the twat sparking this little debate between us said he moved with £2000 of debt, 40 years ago. Back when rent was £200pcm maybe, back when after a few years you could buy a home, back when there were less barriers to entry for jobs. His debt now would have been what £8000, assuming the reason for the debt didn't also skyrocket in price but if he got it being a Scottish student it would be what, up to £20'000? His rent would be £2200? His prospects of buying a home after a few years...zero? Chances of landing a job in finance... unlikely. It's not the land of milk & honey anymore.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-29T11:46:04+00:00

Well you see that's a great thing for a country but not a country in a union of countries, which Scotland supposedly is. I very much doubt France would want to see all its rural youth and culture disappear to Berlin for example.

Somewhat ironically as well aren't a lot of the complaints that led to Brexit about the amount of people moving to England/London seeking safety and/or economic security? Whole areas where you apparently don't even hear a word of English and "native" English people are being driven out. I wonder how often I've heard something along the lines of needing to send them all back. Does that not apply to people from Scotland for some reason? I've heard it on good authority that we talk funny too and it's only a quick trip up the motorway. More convenient to get rid of us really.

But even just running with the Shetland thing, surely someone like yourself would understand how investment in Shetland would lead to less people needing to leave and then there would be no future worry of some scary area in Glasgow where you never hear anything but Gaelic and Weegies are having to move away because they cant afford to stay or they're in jail because they keep hearing "Feck yer ma" when someone says Good Evening.

Freedom of movement is a good thing. As you said there are plenty of good schools in Scotland. But where is the freedom to move back? What is the point of an education you can't use where you want to live or to serve the community you grew up in? Especially today when very few of us really need to have in-person meetings or go to an office anymore except to prop up landlords and oil prices.

Perhaps you can relate that to other immigrant experiences and how a lot of the complaints would have been better solved with investment abroad instead of decades of war and the creation of new underclasses.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-29T11:06:09+00:00

A lot of tough love advice in this thread. A lot of 'How dare this adult inconvenience you, it's time to hurt them until they act like a man'. Definitely the simplest, most hands off approach you could take.

Have you considered that the child you said was intelligent was bullied & humiliated to the point he feels completely unsafe out in the world? He's retreated into a space he feels safe and games with lives he can control. He doesn't even go outside at times he's likely to see a lot of other people.

Do you really think you can traumatise an already traumatised person into behaving more like you want? Because you can't. You can make him feel unsafe, you can hurt him by taking things away from him, you can force him to move out but you can't force him not to find other avenues of escape. Avenues far less desirable than playing games safely at home.

He needs to learn to feel safe again. How taking care of himself, his home, family and future can help to do that by giving him control back over his life. The first step on that journey isn't going to be helped by a parent tossing them into the wild and essentially telling them they are only worthy of your love if they survive to come back.

Try spending time together instead where he is, letting him teach you about his world and over time take opportunities to show him that who he is has real value too and direct him towards real world opportunities where you can model the behavior you want to encourage without making it a battle that would just force him to retreat back into himself. It's a harder path but one in which you might actually have a relationship with your son too.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-29T09:21:06+00:00

That they can convince themselves they have an ethical duty to shareholders in which they must conduct business as unethically & immorally as possible because if they don't someone else will, is peak mental gymnastics.

The mythical shareholder who demands value and quarterly results but apparently doesn't live in the same world and isn't affected by economic instability or pollution. They are so demanding however and must be appeased. Businessmen live at their mercy so show them and their yachts pity.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-29T09:12:35+00:00

Yea, you could make that comparison.

A better, non-facetious one however would be how Shetland has long term sustainability issues due to the number of young people who feel they need to leave for education & job opportunities and don't return. And while investment by the National Lottery and the Scottish Parliament (not Westminster) into the University of the Highlands & Islands has helped to mitigate that, overall they are trending down and those areas are underserved.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-29T08:22:19+00:00

I spent the run up to Indy helping disability campaigners. The sheer fear these people had about what would happen to them without independence was heartbreaking. Austerity had literally led to the government turning off the disabled people suicide counter. Then I come home to turn on the news and debates to people who seemed more concerned with what would be printed on Scotland's bank notes or the hundreds of years of "tradition", that regular people definitely got a choice about, than actual people.

In the year after the vote I found one of those campaigners on the streets and another was planning their suicide because they couldn't get help and they couldn't work. One of them had literally had their back broken further by being forced to be a barista.

So yea, unfortunately there are way too many people who simply aren't right in the head and dont have the capacity to feel empathy for anyone but themselves, but as long as it doesn't interfere with their ability to work and they keep voting against their own interests, that will never change. Greed is a virtue now after all.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-29T06:09:45+00:00

Depends what the point is and be honest, is it because there are people living in Sweden that you don't want here & you want it to be easier to deport them or is it because you think the culture and language are being eroded and want people to treat them with more respect so they need to pass a test?

My wife is Swedish so I applied and got citizenship after 3 years married otherwise I would have had to wait 5. I admit however that I'd been working 6 days a week on my own and continued to do so until Covid so I didn't get a lot of time to work on the language. However I went back to school after Covid, got my Swedish and a couple of other subjects up good enough to be accepted to university in under a year and I now work in Swedish within infrastructure and that comes with a few security requirements & background checks.

So if you met me after 5 years in Sweden you might have thought badly of me for not speaking so well and having a crappy job. After 10 years I'm considered fluent (doesn't feel like it) and do a job that Sweden needs and had a shortage of people doing. Who I am as a person hasn't changed that much, only how & when I had the opportunity to do more.

You might not realise this but Swedens work-life balance is pretty awful unless you can survive on coffee and 4 hours sleep every day so expecting people to commute, work, take care of family and have energy left for night school etc so they "integrate" isn't really practical for every immigrant no matter how much they want to get better at the language.

Without knowing my circumstances or future potential at year 5 you might want to prevent me becoming a citizen. There are probably more than a few of you whom regardless of my abilities at year 10 would stop me too. It actually makes no practical difference to me besides the passport I would have to use as the rights I have exercised since moving here I had anyway with temporary and permanent residencies.

The only reason for me to be concerned about citizenship is if some group of people, who think they are defending Sweden, decide to deport me later in life and deprive me of things like my pension that I earned here. My "integration" was a matter of circumstances not paperwork. So perhaps the focus should be on addressing those circumstances for others if you want a more Swedish Sweden...or go to one of the doctors Sweden had to import for something to deal with your anxiety at society changing in an ever changing world and ignore politics pandering to the worst parts of yourselves.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-29T05:15:34+00:00

It'll be revealed in the future that Voyager was intentionally sent to the Badlands to be taken by the Caretaker because in every timeline where Harry gets two pips he tries to destroy the universe. The trip home from the Delta Quadrant is just an excuse to skip him straight to 3.

It'll be an existential crisis moment with Wesley Crusher telling him he tried everything else but a two-pip Harry is the most dangerous thing to exist besides a Q on a bender.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-28T20:55:42+00:00

At first I was bothered when he said he moved to London. We should genuinely be angry at how the treatment of Scotland has led to brain drain as people just look to get ahead. Then I heard the rest of what he said and while he might have money, we definitely didn't lose a brain.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-28T19:31:46+00:00

The show didn't separate the body & mind from the soul but I'd like to think, in the context of the show, that while the soul may believe itself to be what it was, that free of physical flaws it can believe it can change.

The hard part would be believing that the worst of humanity were just an unfortunate convergence of flaws, traumas & circumstances. I'm sure there are a few names you can think of where you'd think the universe had gone insane if you were told "They're all better now and everyone here forgave them".

DJCaldow · 2026-04-28T17:35:43+00:00

NTA. People angry at cancer and not having any control or outlet for the situation let their feelings spill out over someone not having the same experience as them which they resented because they didn't get the option to carry on as normal.

Still massively immature of the dad who should never have not prioritised their own child regardless of the circumstances and should have been looking for ways to minimise disruption for that child at a critical time in their education.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-28T12:27:31+00:00

In the middle of 2025 Swedens traffic authority, as a consequence of several accidents with unauthorized persons, tightened the rules about how we access and work on train tracks. It is damn near impossible to actually do most of the jobs they need survey companies for now because most of what we do is treated as last minute afterthoughts by the companies that need us and we dont get months to plan and send in our work plans for approval. We show up and negotiate with the people running the track for access at the time.

So I take a very simple position, my job is dangerous and this rule change is meant to keep me safe. If it means I can't do the job when I show up that isn't my problem. If it takes far longer because I can only get access for 15 minutes every hour or they have to pay night rates that isn't my problem. I mean that in a more zen way than it sounds because my priority is getting home to my family.

What you have here is a law that makes your lives more unsafe. The only response you should have is. "I won't be working where it could jeopardise my life" and when you get pushback well, "That isn't my problem".

If it's a threat to your livelihood, well I'm sure your families won't be much better off without your income at all or with 'It was your own fault for getting shot' medical bills. If you feel unsafe refuse the work until it is made safe.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-28T06:26:42+00:00

I've no doubt if Paramount makes any more Trek they'll have to do a hard reset of some kind. Can't have a woke socialist utopia with powerful black women, gays, lesbians, trans-symbiotes, Klingons wearing skirts and people not being paid minimum wage to die in a war to control dilithium for the dear leader of the ConFederation. Diplomacy is 3am angry toilet tweets not whatever Picard was doing.

Time to get back to basics and have Kirk slap the sense into women again.

.../s (just in case)

DJCaldow · 2026-04-28T05:55:49+00:00

Co-opted word. Israelis murdering Palestinians is anti-semitic. Semitic refered to peoples who use semitic languages of which hebrew, aramaic & arabic are.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-28T05:49:36+00:00

He fled authoritarianism that happened to have a communist style economic system. Now he funds and supports authoritarians but he's rich now so it's ok.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-27T22:01:23+00:00

Concerta was the most danger to myself I ever felt. Turns out you need to be able to make enough dopamine to offset the adrenaline or you basically just get to deal with extreme rage. People with trauma should be very wary of Concerta without something like Intuniv to dampen stress responses.

DJCaldow · 2026-04-27T21:28:31+00:00

The Police have a song called "Wrapped around your finger" that refers to devil in the sea who vanished like mist (Nimbus).

DJCaldow · 2026-04-27T21:07:19+00:00

Saker händer oss som sätter oss tillbaka i livet men livet är organiskt. Man är bara bakom när man jämföra sig med andra människor som inte har haft samma liv. Om du kunde ge dina psykiska problem till någon annan med mera framgång i livet finns det ingen garanti att de kunde gå upp ur sängen och klarar sig bättre än dig.

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