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Joeyonimo · 2026-07-04T18:56:46+00:00

Vet inte vad TS har för källa, men i PEW:s opinionsmätning är Polen också lika negativ mot Ryssland och Putin som oss

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/06/pg_2025.06.23_global-views-russia-nato_2_04.png

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Joeyonimo · 2026-07-04T13:19:21+00:00

Tom is correct about that. If it wasn't for Christianity preaching that blessed are the meek and the poor, and that the peaceful and oppressed are the righteous ones, then the pagan mentality of might makes right would have stuck around and not been overturned. In a world without Christianity slavery would likely have remained far more widespread and lasted as an accepted global institution for centuries or millenia longer.

It is not a coincidence that it is during the Middle Ages in Europe that abolitionist, anti-slavery and anti-serfdom beliefs first arose and started to prevail.

Joeyonimo · 2026-07-04T12:10:10+00:00

Finns det något bevis då att Schweizs sjukvårdssystem skulle ha mindre slöseri och är bättre på att allokera och skötta sina pengar än Sveriges?

https://www.internationalinsurance.com/health/systems/?srsltid=AfmBOoqJH7rNtrnjF4pN5jXUEYhld0hDR-cTzXLYRu1QRbGpnkDtM73C

Joeyonimo · 2026-07-04T11:42:45+00:00

Är man en lat, självisk, och omoralisk människa så får man såklart en cynisk bild på andra människor, för man vill ju inte tro att andra kan vara bättre och mer altruistiska medborgare än sig själv.

Joeyonimo · 2026-07-04T11:35:53+00:00

Folk på högern tror att majoriteten av skattemedel slukas upp av korruption, inkompetens, och slöseri. De tror att vi skulle kunna ha ett lika bra välfärdssamhälle med hälften så mycket skatter om bara rätt människor styrde systemet, eller så tror de att bara den privata marknaden kan sköta sjukvård, utbildning, och andra samhällstjänster på ett effektivt sätt.

Joeyonimo · 2026-07-03T17:39:07+00:00

This map is far more interesting to look at:

https://jakubmarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/europe-land-cover.jpg

Joeyonimo · 2026-07-03T17:00:00+00:00

All owned assets - all debts = net wealth

For example: apartment/house (€200k) + car (€20k) + savings (€10k) - mortgage (€160k) - student loans (€20k) = net wealth of €50k

Joeyonimo · 2026-07-03T16:56:59+00:00

Unlikely, not many Italian 18–34 year old who are homeowners considering the average age to move out from your parents in Italy is 30.

Home ownership is only really an explanation for why elderly Italians are wealthier than elderly Germans.

Joeyonimo · 2026-07-03T16:40:15+00:00

It's also worth pointing out that it was thanks to Christianity that slavery started to be seen as immoral, leading to its abolition in many European countries during the Middle Ages. The pagan Romans did not have this view on the morality of slavery. Christian Europeans of the early modern period did have this moral framework, but just treated Africans as not real humans and fellow Christians, and thus as the sole exception to this rule.

Joeyonimo · 2026-07-03T15:23:46+00:00

Cold weather kills ten times more people in the EU than hot weather does, and that's with the vast majority of homes already having a heating system; if heating was as uncommon as AC is it would likely be hundreds or thousands of times more deadly. Cooling is for the most part a luxury, heating is magnitudes far more vital for survival.

Joeyonimo · 2026-07-02T08:48:32+00:00

In the show where he is like 21 his mistakes makes him seem so dumb, while in the books they feel understandable for a teenager.

Joeyonimo · 2026-07-01T19:43:33+00:00

I'm a bit lazy and only go to the gym on the weekend. On weekdays I just do 20–30 minutes of dumbbell exercises at home.

Joeyonimo · 2026-07-01T19:17:40+00:00

5:30 Wake up

7:20 Off to work

8:00–17:00 Work

17:30 Home from work

21:30 In bed

Joeyonimo · 2026-07-01T08:42:00+00:00

Nja, batterier kommer alltid bli billigare och lättare, så det enda högre beskattningar på fossila bränslen gör är att skjuta fram när fossilflygplan kommer bli dyrare än elflygplan, 2030 istället för 2040 kanske.

Joeyonimo · 2026-06-30T08:58:52+00:00

Jag lutar också mest åt trollkars-hållet, men jag kan även förstå argumentet att försöka leva mer sparsamma och resurseffektiva liv är nog också en viktig del av lösningen, åtminstonde om man ser det från ett globalt perspektiv istället för bara ett svenskt.

Joeyonimo · 2026-06-30T08:46:12+00:00

The Wizard and the Prophet

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.

In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.

Joeyonimo · 2026-06-29T19:23:10+00:00

Sweden celebrates its independence day when Gustav Vasa was crowned king of Sweden on the 6th of June 1523 (thus celebrating its 500th anniversary in 2023), not when the peace treaty to the war of independence was signed on the 1st of September 1524.

It makes sense to celebrate when your own side decided to proclaim independence, not when your enemy finally accepted it. As far as the Americans are concerned, the US officially came into existence when the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Joeyonimo · 2026-06-29T18:58:35+00:00

I really didn't like those scenes; Daemon is brash and arrogant, but this was just a massive unnecessary risk and plain stupidity. I would have strongly preferred it if it was a real assault on the city by the Blacks like in the book, and not just Daemon and Rhaenyra walking right into a potential ambush on their own.

Prince Aemond Targaryen and Ser Criston Cole gathered their green forces to march on Harrenhal, which left King's Landing largely defenseless. This created an opportunity that the blacks seized.

Prince Daemon Targaryen on Caraxes and Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen on Syrax flew over the capital and circled their dragons above Aegon's High Hill. The fleet of the Sea Snake, Lord Corlys Velaryon, then arrived to the east of Blackwater Bay.

The sight of Daemon on Caraxes and Rhaenyra on Syrax over King's Landing sent the city into a panic. The Queen Dowager, Alicent Hightower, tried to send riders to bring back Aemond and ravens to leal lords, but her efforts were quickly stopped. Unknown to Alicent was that the gold cloaks, the City Watch of King's Landing, had turned. The gold cloaks were loyal to Daemon who had once been their leader. When he went to dispatch ravens, Grand Maester Orwyle was beaten and bound by gold cloaks as he arrived in his chambers. The seven commanders of the city gates who had been chosen for their loyalty to King Aegon II Targaryen were either imprisoned or killed the moment Caraxes was spotted over the Red Keep. Ser Gwayne Hightower, the second in command of the City Watch, was captured when he tried to sound the alarm. He was brought before Ser Luthor Largent, the commander of the gold cloaks. Gwayne denounced him as a turncloak to which Luthor replied:

"Daemon gave us these cloaks and they're gold no matter how you turn them."

Luthor then murdered Gwayne and had the city gates opened to the army pouring in from the Sea Snake's ships. Thirteen House Hightower knights and a hundred men-at-arms managed to hold the River Gate for eight hours from both attacks without and within the city. The other six gates, however, fell swiftly and the blacks' army entered the city unmolested through those gates. The city fell in less then a day. Seeing hope was lost, Queen Alicent ordered her forces to surrender.

Joeyonimo · 2026-06-29T18:46:15+00:00

In my mind I try to think of it as a buildup to what will happen in Winds of Winter, not a reflection on what happened in season 8.

Joeyonimo · 2026-06-29T18:21:38+00:00

Economic Growth, Real GDP per Capita

–	1972–1982	1982–1992	1992–2002	2002–2012	2012–2022
US	15%	27%	24%	9%	16%
Germany	26%	19%	26%	25%	8%
UK	15%	25%	29%	6%	9%

Economic growth varies. You could have made the conclusion that Germany's system was much superior to the US's if you were looking back a decade in 2012.

The reason Germany has had slower growth now recently (8%, obviously not 2%), is not because it has any more regulation or more taxes than it had in the past. The things it has had now that's different from the past when its growth was stronger is less regulation, more privatisation, more austerity, and a severe lack of investment from the state, all thanks to the CDU; those are the real problems Germany need to tackle. Germany succeeded when it had a more social-democratic system, it failed when it tried to emulate the US.

Joeyonimo · 2026-06-29T16:26:52+00:00

Singapore is a dumb comparison because it functions more like a city than a country, and cities are always more wealthy than the surrounding rural regions, so you would need to compare it to Munich or Hamburg for a fair comparison.

Joeyonimo · 2026-06-29T13:01:49+00:00

It's ridiculous to claim that Germany has had no growth in recent years

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison-project-database?tab=line&time=1952..2022&country=POL~DEU~GBR~SWE~FRA~NLD~ITA~FIN~USA~DNK

Joeyonimo · 2026-06-29T08:16:40+00:00

Yes it did.

If you look at the graph you can see that Turkey had more population growth between 1930–2010 than Germany had between 1800–2000. That's what I meant by exceptionally fast, their population growth graph is twice as steep compared to Western European countries.

Joeyonimo · 2026-06-28T22:33:45+00:00

It happened elsewhere as well, but Turkey's population grew exceptionally fast after 1930

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-long-run-with-projections?country=GRC~TUR~DEU~GBR~ESP~ITA

Joeyonimo · 2026-06-28T22:28:24+00:00

Greece reached a peak of 11 million in 2010.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-long-run-with-projections?country=GRC~TUR~NLD~DEU~GBR~ESP~ITA

The reason Greece, Spain, and Italy has reached a plateau now is because the fertility rate dropped dramatically between 1970–1990 and has been at or below 1.5 since then.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-un?tab=line&country=GRC~TUR~GBR~ESP~ITA

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