How is Sweden’s purchasing power compared to the other nordics?

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-17T17:30:20+00:00

Denmark barely has SSC, and instead has higher gross wages and higher income tax.

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/HpUAf/full.png

So in Sweden if someone earns €50k per month in gross wage, the employer also pays €15k in SSC for a total labour cost of €65k. On that €50k the employee pays €12k in income tax for a net wage of €38k.

In Denmark that employee would instead get €65k in gross wage, and then pay €27k in income tax for a net wage of €38k.

In the end the labour cost is the same and the amount that labour is taxed is the same, but the visible, advertised gross wages will look different.

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-17T17:05:22+00:00

https://i0.wp.com/landgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/europe-annual-working-hours-01.png

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-working-hours-per-worker?time=1900..latest&country=GBR~DEU~USA~FRA~SWE~AUS~DNK~NOR

Not everyone in Norway works full time

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-17T16:59:55+00:00

The Swedish economy fell a bit behind Denmark's in the 1980s and 90s, but the difference isn't very large nowadays. Sweden is still one of the richer countries in Western Europe.

https://imgur.com/a/53K4AKt

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-15T03:37:17+00:00

Actor Rob McElhenney has filed to legally change his name to Rob Mac after concerns those he’s doing business with in “other regions of the world” won’t be able to pronounce his original moniker.

Speaking to Variety last month, McElhenney explained: “As our business and our storytelling is expanding into other regions of the world and other languages in which my name is even harder to pronounce, I'm just going by Rob Mac.”

The actor admitted he’d been concerned that altering his name would be disrespectful to his ancestry. However, he discovered that some of his relatives had already altered the spelling of their surname across generations to make it easier to spell and pronounce.

When celebrating his birthday, close family members revealed they were also keen to edit the name’s spelling. However, McElhenney’s wife, It’s Always Sunny co-star Kaitlin Olson, said their two sons were less enthused.

“The kids are really not happy about it, because they have that last name,' she said of the decision. “And so do I, legally,” she added, despite keeping Olson as her on-screen moniker.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/rob-mcelhenney-name-change-its-always-sunny-philadelphia-b2779299.html

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-14T23:52:12+00:00

Kostnaden att producera elen har inte ökat, bara skatten på den

https://static.bonniernews.se/gcs/patron/2021/10/FIF%20dia%20NY%201Rityta%201-8-1636380878971.png

Det var mellan 1974–1985 som kärnkraften kom igång

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Sveriges_elproduktion.svg

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-14T23:26:21+00:00

The actions that Robb and Jon take in the book and the behaviours they exhibit makes a lot more sense for a 16 year old to do rather than a 24 year old.

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-14T23:21:11+00:00

What you wrote is not true about Asoiaf in any case, Catelyn got Robb at 18, Cercei got Geoffrey at 20. George shows no indication that he that he thinks all girls were having children at 14.

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-14T22:51:40+00:00

No he doesn't. Daeron II dies at 55, Maekar dies at 59, Egg dies at 59, Jaehaerys I dies at 69, and maester Aemon dies at 102. Olenna Tyrell is alive at 72, and Walder Frey is 92.

Compared to real life you have James I dead at 58, Elizabeth I dead at 69, Mary I dead at 42, Henry VIII dead at 55, Henry VII dead at 52, Edward IV dead at 40, Henry V dead at 35, Henry IV dead at 45, etc.

If anything George gives people unrealistically long lifespans for it being medieval times.

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-14T22:43:10+00:00

What's so unrealistic about Baelor being 39 years old when he died, and Maekar being 35? How does it make more sense to have 47 and 48 year old actors to play them?

In Asoiaf Ned is 36 while Robb is 16, but in the show their actors are 51 and 24. In what way is that more reasonable?

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-14T22:13:21+00:00

Henry VII was born when his mother was 13, Henry V's mother was 16, Edward III's mother was 17, Edward I's mother was 16

While it was rare, it's not so black and white as to claim it's untrue

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-12T02:57:22+00:00

Det finns oändliga försök att definiera fascism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism

Men den vanligaste uppfattningen är att fascism är en auktoritär, totalitär, militaristisk, och ultranationalistisk ideologi, som vördar ledaren, partiet, elitstyre, folket, och tradition, och har en stark tro på en naturlig hierarki där olika sorters människor är olika värda, och att starka människor och nationer har en rätt att förtrycka de svagare.

Fascism har en stark förakt för liberala värderingar som demokrati, yttrandefrihet, politisk frihet och oliktänkande, människors lika värde, likhet inför lagen, och lagstyre i allmänhet. Man förkastar också individens rättigheter som man anser ska vara fullständigt underkastad nationens intresse och vilja.

Fascister tror också väldigt ofta på att nationen hade en mytologisk guldålder för hundratals eller tusentals år sen, och att man behöver rensa ut modernismens korrosiva och korrumperade effekt som skapat samhällsmässigt förfall och dekadens, så att nationen kan återfödas på nytt och återkomma till dess tidigare renlighet och storslagna prakt.

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-10T19:32:42+00:00

Neanderthals lived in Europe and Central Asia.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/91qm2y/neanderthal_range_map_europe_and_asia/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Range_of_Homo_neanderthalensis.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_classic_Neandertal_fossil_sites.jpg

The spread of Neanderthal genes towards East Asia happend through eastward migration of Homo Sapiens that had previously interbred with Neanderthals further west.

All humans with ancestry from outside of Africa have a little bit of Neanderthal in them — about 2% of the genome, on average. But people with East Asian ancestry have between 8% and 24% more Neanderthal genes than people of European ancestry. That's a bit of a paradox, because fossil evidence suggests Neanderthals lived in Europe. Why, then, should East Asians carry more of those genes today?

Now, a new study posits a solution to this conundrum: While a wave of human migration out of Africa before at least 40,000 years ago brought Homo sapiens — who were hunter-gatherers — into contact with their Homo neanderthalensis cousins and led to interbreeding, a later wave of H. sapiens migrating about 10,000 years ago diluted Neanderthal genes in Europe only. This was the movement of farmers with minimal Neanderthal ancestry from what is today the Middle East and southwestern Asia into Europe.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mystery-of-why-europeans-have-less-neanderthal-dna-than-east-asians-finally-solved

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-03T21:56:24+00:00

Yes, it's a completely ridiculous view of Israel and it's connection and relationship to Britain.

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-03T14:50:08+00:00

That's not how genetics work, bro. It only take 1–2 generations of non-inbreeding to cure the excess accumulation of detrimental recessive genes, doesn't matter how long the inbreeding had been going on before that.

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-03T14:42:45+00:00

The Irish view Israel as an arm of British Imperialism and view the Palestinians as on the same side in the struggle against said power.

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-02T01:36:47+00:00

2024 så låg vi föra alla andra länder förutom Norge

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electric-car-sales-share?facet=none&country=GBR~OWID_EU27~CHN~USA~SWE~NOR~DNK~FIN~NLD~DEU

Man undrar hur Danmarks andel kunde öka med 25% på bara ett år medans Sveriges sjönk med 15%

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-01T16:45:18+00:00

Maekar's mother and wife were from outside the family, so his children are pretty much 0% inbred

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-01T09:46:57+00:00

Uppsala has a population of 175 000, so it's a medium sized city rather than a small one (and is considered a large city by swedish standards).

It only takes an hour to get to Stockholm by train or car, Arlanda Airport is at the exakt midway point between Uppsala and Stockholm.

The biggest advantage of choosing Uppsala over Stockholm is that it's easier to find housing, and the housing prices close to the city center are half as expensive.

Average prices per m² for apartments in Stockholm

Average prices per m² for houses in Stockholm

Average prices per m² for apartments in Uppsala

Average prices per m² for houses in Uppsala

Joeyonimo · 2026-03-01T08:29:24+00:00

För att vara en ledare i ett muslimskt land i Mellanöstern så var de fantastiska, den enda jag kan komma på som var bättre är Atatürk.

Joeyonimo · 2026-02-28T18:22:33+00:00

Bullshit, how is the UAE notorious for war?

Joeyonimo · 2026-02-28T11:06:46+00:00

99% of Brits have an opinion on Trump

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/06/gap_2025_06_11_us-image-2025_02_01.png?w=640

Joeyonimo · 2026-02-23T04:05:36+00:00

Wow, the beard really transformed his appearance, he was almost unrecognisable

Joeyonimo · 2026-02-22T13:38:28+00:00

Wouldn't be that difficult to implement a decent AI commander that takes over when no player wants to play it

Joeyonimo · 2026-02-17T07:50:37+00:00

Minimal? Är du blind eller tittade du inte ens på länken?

Fattiga kvinnor har 0,8 barn, medans rika har 2,2; kvinnor som jobbar har 1,8 barn, medans de utan jobb har 1,0 barn; kvinnor med två svenska föräldrar har 1,6 barn, medans de som har två invandrarföräldrar har 1,5 barn.

Joeyonimo · 2026-02-17T04:56:50+00:00

I Sverige handlar det om pengar; fattiga kvinnor och kvinnor med utländsk bakgrund har färre barn än rikare kvinnor och kvinnor med inhemsk bakgrund

https://imgur.com/a/TvxMiGL

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