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  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneHeavy Is The Rule
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    3 days ago

    I’ve been seriously thinking a lot of countries need an official jester. An appointed official who gets to hang with the president/premier/prime minister and has full absolute security clearance. Not to disclose anything, but to know all of it, and is allowed speak publicly on any public forum or topic. Always require them to be appointed by the opposition.


  • I understand that since you’re working 400 less hours per year, with a months more vacation, and paid parental leave on a job that’s much more difficult to get fired on you might still have complaints.

    But seriously, the tiny fractions of a problem that still exist in the Swedish labor market, wouldn’t even make rounding errors in the US. There are always going to be problems, and lots of arguments about how to fix them. Most people in the US, would much rather have Swedish labor market problems to argue about.




  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldtoElectric Vehicles@slrpnk.netPrivacy
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    6 days ago

    It’s still on the books, but isn’t really being funded. Most likely it won’t happen until there’s some political event to give it a push. Also it’s going to be tied to fully automatic driving being considered safe, which it’s not, and is likely to be a ways off.









  • Because it’s always accompanied by human trafficking and rape. Even in countries where it’s legal, the laws are shaped around an idea of allowing it, while preventing the worst aspects of it. The efficacy of various systems is still under review, as none of them are as effective as anyone would like.

    It’s a similar issue with polygamy. No one really cares what a group of consenting adults gets up to, but it always ends up devolving into some ones twelve year old daughter being married off to an old geezer, or a cult leader, or both. So it ends up getting banned.

    They’re both non problems that cause problems. And yes, a hundred ways to control the real problems have been tried. No one has really been happy with the results so far, there have just been various levels that local societies have decided to accept.