Ioper
1yr ago
But they aren't taking "people's" stuff, they are taking your stuff specifically. You the defector is getting your stuff taken, the cooperators keep their stuff.
Ioper
1yr ago
They were called SAP historically, after their full name:
Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetarparti
Sweden's social democratic workers party.
What is a part? Is a chord on a guitar six or one parts?
Is a choir one part, 4-8 or ~8-48?
If I have an orchestra using a bunch of different instruments to produce a single chord is that one or multiple parts?
Is the guitar and bass guitar different or the same part?
This is actually the case in Sweden now, except the reasoning goes the opposite direction.
There was an expectation of a "generation Greta" effect but instead the opposite happened. The leading preliminary explanation is that young people being victims of and knowing victims of violent and organised crime, and having limited ways to protect themselves go to "the right". Older people meanwhile are largely insulated from the crime and grew up during a safer time.
It'll be interesting to see what more extensive analysis will say.
Ioper
1yr ago
I don't think you have to go that far. Just be moderately high status in some way and not a massive sperg, the latter of which I realize is an impossible standard for many.
If we're looking at successful projects Amazon Studios have done then they've essentially contacted prominent TV directors and asked them if they want to do a show for them, offered them a bag of money and some very loose diversity requirements.
This time they started with an extremely expensive and popular property and a very tight deadline and then went shopping for a director.
Is the show woke? Sure, but so are practically all Amazon shows. To the extent it's more woke that could just be symptom of corporate being more closely involved due to how expensive the property is.
For adults i would honestly just go with the Wheel of time. It has all the components such a show needs, with a well realised and visually varied world, politics, magic system, girl power, diversity (except in the very initial main vast), violence and sex (even if this mostly occurs off screen in the books). One concern is the length of the series but I think things can be substantially condensed and all the problems with the current show seems like unforced errors to me.
For children i would do a very high quality animated version of Harry potter. Regardless of what some Twitter people think this is still the world's largest single property for children's entertainment and it is honestly better suited for animation in the first place. One could of course argue that so is the wheel of time but I feel like that might impede broad appeal to an an adult audience.
Ioper
1yr ago
At some point we're going to have to come to terms with the fact that people will have to keep working much longer (or maybe that they ought to want to work longer).
Am I alone in feeling that this is already the case?
While I'm sure there is the occasional retirement community like the one depicted in the documentary, almost everyone I know in pensionable age keeps working to some extent if they're able.
Retiring and not working at all seemed like more of a thing for my grand parents generation (born in the ~1920s), but people realised that was kind of unfulfilling so they've transitioned into keeping working.
For most of the people I know this isn't a financial decision at all, they do it to get meaning and keep active. Doing karaoke and traveling is all fine and well but just doing it is kind of empty.
Ioper
1yr ago
Also, even if people are arguing in good faith you don't really have any good way to tell if they are very young, crazy or stupid from one/a few interactions. Sometimes it's obvious of course but plenty of people are relatively good at following narrative handbooks and deconstructing those just to find a teenager or a moron disabuses you of further in-depth interactions with people just as much as the bad faith stuff.
Ioper
1yr ago
Watching a replay goes very quickly. You're likely interested in specific parts of the game and jump around to those to watch those.
Most of the game time is completely uninteresting because you know exactly what happened and why.
Furthermore, looking at the genres for manga on MAL "Romance" is by far the biggest and "boys love" (readership is not gay men..) alone is bigger than "action".
Ioper
1yr ago
A point i feel like people sometimes miss in these discussions is how weird yaoi/boys love is. It isn't just gay rom-coms, it is essentially porn, regardless of whether there is any actual sex or not.
One obvious aspect of this is that the characters clearly aren't male, just like women in porn aren't really female.
This is often kind of the case in regular rom-coms as well characters being so idealised but in Boys love it's turned up to 11 and humanity is left behind.
But his third use of the notwithstanding clause is the most bizarre, norm-upsetting, and (to me) infuriating of all. The contract for the province's school workers (janitors, early childhood educators, school monitors, basically the blue-collar school employees) is up. The average employee in this union makes $46k CAD (33k USD). Their wage increases over the last decade was lower than last year's inflation. And meanwhile the cost of living has exploded, especially in the province's most populous areas. So obviously the province owes it to these critical workers to give them a good deal, right? This is not a case of some fat public-sector union, and the provincial government and society at large has spent the pandemic fêting the heroics of these essential "front-line workers".
Seeing as the median salary is 40k it seems to me that, unless I'm missing something here, these people are getting a very good deal for unskilled, safe labour.
Ioper
1yr ago
I'm not disputing that it's a bad use of the law, I'm objecting to the appeal to emotion in an otherwise interesting post.
You might not be aware of this but the US has over 30% higher GDP per capita than Canada.
40*1.3=52 which is roughly the American average.
I misunderstood what early childcare assistants were. I thought the teachers were called preschool teachers and that the assistants were just that, assistants, an title inflated way to say childcare worker.
Ioper
1yr ago
What are you talking about? Most people in Stockholm do not take their car to work and travel far more than 2 stops.
I used to go 10 subway stops and 5 bus stops on my way to university for 5 years and that was completely fine.
Ioper
1yr ago
Comparing to Sweden, whose numbers I'm very confident in, we get:
American workers compensation of GDP: 76%
Swedish workers compensation of GDP:
78%
Ioper
1yr ago
There was one in Stockholm recently where two "ambulances" were held up and one person died, possibly as a result of the holdup.
The activists have now been tried in court and sentenced to jail sentences. Everyone will appeal of course but it seems likely to me that most will spend some time in jail, the question is mostly how long.
Ioper
1yr ago
One was a state ambulance and one was a private person driving someone very sick to the hospital. Both were referred to as ambulances in the press initially and it technically isn't incorrect to refer to the private vehicle as "driving ambulance" but it's a bit strange and old fashioned.
Good write-up.
It should be noted that this includes a lot of intra Europe migration, it's not just refugees from Africa and the middle east/central Asia.
A complicating factor is that Social democrats (S) still stand to lose more voters to the Sweden Democrats (SD) than they do to Nyans. We have to remember here that S lost over two whole percentage points of voters to SD, while nyans got 0.44% of voters that may or may not have voted for S before. When the journalist Niklas Orrenius investigated the party and it's voters many claimed that they were choosing between Nyans and SD, implying that they were mostly protest voting in areas with very low voter participation.
Nyans is a heavily controversial party even among Muslim immigrants. Perhaps they can reform themselves like SD but I find that unlikely. Perhaps another party with a similar platform but with less controversial candidates will be formed, if so that would be a much bigger threat.
I would imagine that the left wing party (V) would be the primary destination of voters dissatisfied with S if they move rightwards on immigration and social issues. I furthermore predict that V will try to outflank Nyans on the issues they promote if they have continued relevance.
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