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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • mumblerfishtoWikipediaDay Fine
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    11 days ago

    Swedish day fines have, contrary to its Finnish counterparts, a maximum limit so as not to render too excessive of a fine should the offender have a very large income.

    This is such a joke. One of the good features is to force rich people to also respect the laws. But politicians have to get away with stuff I guess.


  • I think this has existed as an intentional goal for a long time, albeit from another point of view. I’m thinking of like the piracy days of early 2000, then there was talk about how to lock down devices to prevent any sort of copying of media. The discussion sort of died when Spotify came. But I’m worrying that this development will trigger a reemergence of such a goal. As your self built computer will be more and more expensive, a new possibilty may open up to sell prebuilts that are more locked down. Similarly to how Android is moving from a more open device to a locked down one. HDMI forum locking down their protocols. This may become reality for your general purpose computer. Companies controlling compute and media streaming have a similar motive here, if they do set their mind to it to have this as a fully intentional goal… sigh






  • The “Marxist” bit for ÖrP is like “Marx said that under capitalism wokers are alienatied cogs in a machine therefore we should have full control over the reproduction of none pure swedes, through mandatory birth control, so thay we can churn out cogs to the swedish industrial machine, just like Marx said”. That is the type of “Marxism” they talk about in their pod.




  • A Commission spokesperson said in a statement that it “has not given in to anyone’s pressure,” adding that its proposals “follow a broad public consultation with consumer associations, industry stakeholders and the Member States.”

    Does that mean, “we did not listen to the ambassador saying we should allow metas smart glasses, we only asked metas local lobby group if we should, and they said yes”.