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  • Får får inte får. Får får lamm.

    sheeps don’t get sheeps. Sheeps get lambs.

    Får = sheep/to get

    var tog vägen vägen? Ute på en åker och åker

    where did the road go? Out in a field and driving

    “Tog vägen” = literally “took the road”, meaning “where did it go”, sort of. And åker = driving and a farm field.

    I got a t-shirt from the Swedish Society for People with Anxiety. It came with a print on the chest.

    “print on the chest” would be “tryck för/på/över bröstet” having the double meaning “preassure over the chest”.

    Then there are endless of jokes from Gothenburg which all do not translate.

    Who is faster, Eminem or Taylor Swift? Eminem, he is a rapper

    “rapper” in swedish is “rappare”, meaning also “faster”.

    In stockholm a snake escaped the zoo and has not been found. The zoo is missing him a lot

    The last bit in swedish would be “saknaden är enorm”, “saknad” being the emotion of missing someone, “enorm” being large/a lot/great. But also enorm=en-orm=a-snake.


  • Really? Swedish government:

    [G]rants may be paid in the amount of SEK 350,000 for those who have reached the age of 18 and SEK 25,000 for those who have not reached the age of 18, but not more than SEK 500,000 for spouses or cohabitants and not more than SEK 600,000 per family

    https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2025/04/ett-kraftigt-hojt-atervandringsbidrag/

    So that is a litte less that 35,000 USD (after this proposed increase). This is liberal politics in Sweden.

    Also to note, the first statement from the minister there in that link, Johan Forssell, his son is active club neonazi. He is still in the party and a Swedish minister. That, and how his party is collaborating with a full party of “ex” neonazis, is how far separated our governments are from nazis in Europe.





  • I have a friend, whom I have like a very small common circle with. For some reason, they mentioned me to a coworker, like “I have this friend who does this and that”, mentioning some strange quirk I have. The coworker goes “Yo, do you mean <my name>?! I’ve met him once!”. Apparently I weirded them out enough to remember me years later.








  • You are not uploading, others are downloading. The direction of traffic is the same, but the incentive is different.

    Before torrents, there were services where you just announced “there are all my files just download what you want” and some places had quotas on how much you should make available for download. People were sharing all kinds of random trash and also downloading that trash.

    A joke was – was it on like bash.org? – that you have some file you want to backup, you have to make people want to download it, so you just call it leaked_celebz_nudez.zip or something and it would be downloaded forever, even if it did not work because so much trash was shared and if could help your quota.

    So you’d have to use the strategy in that joke. Make a torrent of your stuff, just encrypted so it is trash for anyone who wants to download it, but you’d have to make the torrent content so imcredibly desireble that even if the comments and ratinfs of the torrents goes to shit, people will still be downloading it in the hope it works. What would be that desireable though, I do not know.







  • I do worry though for a sort of dig in in their policies. Similar to Putin before the invasion. A lot of the far right said that “yes, a strong autocrat, masculin, anti-woke, homophobic person like Putin would be the saviour of Europe”. Now some of them, like almost split in the middle, stopped saying “those things are good, look at Putin”, but lost no support after the invasion. With Trump its going to be a similar thing, is my worry. “Yeah, but Trump is a bafoon, but massdeportation, autocracy, and capital’s control over the government are still important, we will just to ot the proper way” is what it will move to. And of course a lot of europeans, even on the far right, will breath a deep sigh of relief that they can call Trump a bafoon. I think, or worry more like it, it will marginally affect the support for the fra-right, if at all, the liberals that has not already joined the far-right or the socdems will try to shoehorn in a comparison to Trump at every argument, and they will get nowhere.