Notices tagged with sweden
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 15:29:34 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64986744 [www bbc co uk]
#Turkiye leader Erdogan signals approval of #Finland joining #NATO ... still hesitant on #Sweden's application
After the fall of the USSR, I was in favor of abolishing NATO. Frankly, I was too idealistic. I imagined Europe becoming a sort of demilitarized zone but without conflicting armies on each side of said zone. But clearly, I was wrong.
People grumble about additional countries joining, and I say that those countries must have felt the danger growing. They could have steered a course that did not put them in union with either the "Western nations" nor the "former Soviet bloc" ... but instead, many sought to join the European Union ... an imperfect democracy, but still more democratic than what they saw on their Eastern borders. And even the EU, a non-military nation of nations, wasn't always enough.
So when #Poland and #Slovakia, both former Eastern Bloc / CENTO members, joined NATO, I don't see it as them being under the sway of Washington and Brussels, but them seeing something menacing to the East of them and wanting to join with a force large enough to meet and exceed that menace's force.
That's also why #Ukraine (which *twice* forced out governments because their leaders wanted to remain in #Russia's orbit) also applied to join both the #European_Union and #NATO ... despite NATO's clear intention never to admit them to its membership. So when Finland and Sweden finally decided that the threat of invasion was greater than their longstanding neutral stances could overcome, they too applied to join NATO.
Not because they want to lengthen the war, but because they clearly see that war is coming their way whether they want it or not, and that they need to prepare for it. And I think this is something anti-war folks need to understand. You're too late to stop the war. The war is here and Mr Putin and his cronies intend to expand it until people in Berlin and Paris have to either fight or beg for mercy. He's already trying to find excuses to engulf #Moldova in the fighting.
Whether Russia's leaders are motivated by empire or paranoia, they're looking to expand the war to other nations, not to end it. And thus, any negotiated settlement that doesn't flow from kicking their forces entirely out of Ukraine will be a temporary pause while they rebuild their forces and try to integrate what they've learned from the current war. -
clacke: looking for something ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 11:30:24 UTC 
clacke: looking for something ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐
If you are in #hongkong and want to see some #Swedish #Christmas stuff, tomorrow is your last chance at K11 for this year. The St #Lucia choir will have their procession and performance at 15:15 at the K11 Piazza, that's outdoors G/F at the main K11.
There's also some other Swedish stuff, like Christmas wreath handicraft session, see full program at www.swedenabroad.se/en/embassiโฆ . That's also all at the Piazza. But as a Swede, I'll say the Lucia thing is the attraction and the other stuff not so important.
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clacke: looking for something ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2022 11:03:43 UTC
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TIL Norway and Denmark allow testimony in special cases with permission from the court.
After many years of debate, the new government in Sweden is now going to allow this in Sweden as well.
www.eurotopics.net/en/174230/sโฆ (2017)
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clacke: looking for something ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 23-May-2022 07:02:06 UTC
clacke: looking for something ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐
People would sometimes ask the Swedish esoteric progressive synth punk pop band "Doktor Kosmos" if they're sincere or what. The answer is in their song "Pรฅ lรฅtsas och pรฅ riktigt" ("Pretending and for real"). Translated from Swedish: Then a guy came up and asked
Are you for real or are you pretending
And I answered: "Hey, can you imagine"
"We are pretending and we are for real"
Pretending and for real
Pretending and for real
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Doktor Kosmos: Sincere shitposting since 1991 (TIL, I really thought they were 80s โ it's the extended 80s era I suppose)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doktor_Kโฆ
#sweden #DoktorKosmos
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-May-2022 13:11:39 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#Russia labels #Sweden as Nazis for seeking NATO membership https://nu.federati.net/url/286267 [www dailymail co uk]
What did you expect? When you invade your neighbor and everyone can see that there are two reasons (they gave up their nukes and they had not been absorbed into NATO) why it happened, what else are your other neighbors going to do? -
clacke: looking for something ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 14:02:22 UTC
clacke: looking for something ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐
Witg 86% of people over 12 vaccinated at least once and Omicron having milder symptoms than previous strains, Sweden's Public Health Agency is lifting almost all pandemic measures, while recommending the government to reclassify covid-19 as no longer an illness presenting a danger to society.
www.thelocal.se/20220203/breakโฆ -
clacke: looking for something ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Dec-2021 10:52:10 UTC
clacke: looking for something ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐
Oh. Sweden reclassified as risk zone A, quarantine on return bumped from 2 weeks to 3 weeks.
As of Friday this week, 2021-12-03:
www.news.gov.hk/eng/2021/11/20โฆ
#hongkong #sweden #covid #quarantine -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Feb-2021 00:24:28 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://nu.federati.net/url/279707 [www express co uk]
Rumors say #Sweden is considering following the #UK out of the #EU. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Dec-2020 00:46:36 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://nu.federati.net/url/278751 [www wsj com]
#Sweden ends its #COVID-19 plan and sets a different course.
Source: https://mastodon.social/@simsa02/105336088128888922
#2019-nCoV | #SARS-CoV-2 |#coronavirus -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 27-Nov-2020 17:55:17 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
NZ Herald: #Sweden's herd immunity strategy has failed, hospitals inundated https://nu.federati.net/url/278422 [www nzherald co nz]
That's silly. Even when they were first talking about herd immunity, it was expected that 60%-80% of the population would have to have been infected before there were noticeable protective effects.
AFAIK, no nation on earth is anywhere near that point yet, and that's even without the possibility of re-infection.
It's more likely that their strategy wasn't about reaching herd immunity, but about using only techniques they believe are both effective and non-invasive. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 12-Oct-2020 15:22:41 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/10/10/the-real-lessons-from-swedens-approach-to-covid-19 [www economist com]
#Sweden approached #COVID-19 differently. Here's why ... and how their respinse is changing. A good article for #anti-maskers to read if they're open to learning something. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Aug-2020 00:24:20 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@clacke Contrasts #Hong_Kong in 2003 responding to #SARS with #Sweden in 2020 responding to #COVID-19.
Admittedly, I was barely even aware of SARS at the time (and completely missed MERS a few years later). But at the time, I was working full time, attending a college and a university, teaching a class at church, and trying to work out custody of #sonTwo. I was running full tilt for around 20 hours a day, drinking around 4 twelve-cup pots of coffee each day.
I'm really surprised I remember those years at all. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 29-Mar-2020 06:54:39 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#Norway: 4032 total cases ( 4002 active; 23 deceased; 7 recovered ) ... about 0.57% fatality rate.
#Sweden: 3447 total cases ( 3326 active; 105 deceased; 16 recovered ) ... about 3.05% fatality rate.
#Finland: 1167 total cases ( 1148 active; 9 deceased; 10 recovered ) ... about 0.77% fatality rate.
#Denmark: 2201 total cases ( 2135 active; 65 deceased; 1 recovered ) ... about 2.95% fatality rate.
#Iceland: 963 total cases ( 847 active; 2 deceased; 114 recovered ) ... about 0.21% fatality rate.
#Greenland: 10 total cases ( 8 active; 0 deceased; 2 recovered ) ... about 0.00% fatality rate.
#COVID-19 | #2019-nCoV | #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus disease
Based on the same source. -
N-5-O-body (n5admin@n5.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 29-Mar-2020 06:54:12 UTC 
N-5-O-body
#Norway: 4032 total cases ( 4002 active; 23 deceased; 7 recovered ) ... about 0.57% fatality rate.
#Sweden: 3447 total cases ( 3326 active; 105 deceased; 16 recovered ) ... about 3.05% fatality rate.
#Finland: 1167 total cases ( 1148 active; 9 deceased; 10 recovered ) ... about 0.77% fatality rate.
#Denmark: 2201 total cases ( 2135 active; 65 deceased; 1 recovered ) ... about 2.95% fatality rate.
#Iceland: 963 total cases ( 847 active; 2 deceased; 114 recovered ) ... about 0.21% fatality rate.
#Greenland: 10 total cases ( 8 active; 0 deceased; 2 recovered ) ... about 0.00% fatality rate.
#COVID-19 | #2019-nCoV | #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus disease -
maloki ๐ต (maloki@elekk.xyz)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2019 15:16:14 UTC 
maloki ๐ต
Today it's 100 years since women gained the right to vote in #Sweden!
If you haven't voted in the European Elections yet, please go out and make your voices heard!
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Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Sep-2018 21:16:56 UTC 
Douglas A. Whitfield
Got another one way over the char limit: https://datamost.com/dw/note/M_cHX-mTTCaNlMLp3dHs3g
It's a job in #Sweden, so I'll save most of you the click. -
maloki (maloki@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-May-2018 17:53:02 UTC 
maloki
Visste du att det nu finns en SVENSK Mastodon instans borta pรฅ
!!
Jag fรถredrar att inte prata svenska, men lite coolt i alla fall!
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maloki (maloki@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Apr-2018 15:47:12 UTC
maloki
So.. My boyfriend tried to search for #Sweden/ #Swedish today... He ended up mainly finding #switter listings, not people speaking Swedish so he could practice.
I saw someone else bringing up that location hashtags in general have been swamped with switter.
Suggestions came up about something algorithmic to deal with it. Which is an issue in and of itself. Something we don't want to do.
Question to @switter are the listings feature you added separate, or federated?
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Kuro Sawai (kuro@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Mar-2018 08:57:57 UTC 
Kuro Sawai
Opinion: Proposed law change threatens to erode #Sweden's press freedom ogy.de/5cjd -
Kuro Sawai (kuro@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2018 08:15:13 UTC
Kuro Sawai
In #Sweden the network Kontantupproret
(en: cash uprisal, dt: Bargeld-Aufstand) fights for more hardcash for 3 years now.
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