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CAVOK

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  • US and EU strike trade deal setting 15 percent tariff

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  • As far as I understand it, no. It's just American consumers that gets taxed. Sucks for EU businesses though because all their products will be 15% more expensive.

    This might be a good time to remind people to #buyeuropean

  • What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?

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  • You should. It's an interesting article. Not sure why it got voted down.

  • US and EU close in on 15% tariff deal

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  • Europe avoiding the worst hit while it takes steps to de-risk its economies, ie don't see the US as a reliable trading partner.

  • Europe Can Build Its Own Social Media

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  • Ok? Then where is it? Give me a Facebook that isn't shit. I want to connect to a small group of friends, share photos and stories and not be "profiled".

    People i haven't met should not be able to see anything I post, even if we share friends. I'd make it so you'd have to connect with NFC or something before they could see your stuff.

    This influencer crap would not exist there. Nor should it anywhere, but that's just my opinion.

  • Anti-immigrant rallies staged across Poland

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  • No. But if you give women the choice you have to create the conditions that having a baby is the best option.

    Assuming the freedom to choose, I don't think those conditions exist. I think that people that want children will have them, and people that don't won't. I think the new normal is a lower nativity.

    It is, if you give women the choice.

    In countries where women get to choose, nativity goes down. In Bangladesh the nativity dropped with improved living standards. There's a great video about it.

  • Anti-immigrant rallies staged across Poland

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  • So the latter two can still be improved.

    All three are vastly superior in most of the west compared to most of Africa, yet women in most, if not all, African countries have more kids than western women. Do you honestly think that's because they're happier? Women in Afghanistan have more babies than women in the nordics. Do you think it's better to be a women in Afghanistan?

    My argument

    Your argument makes no sense. Living standards are abhorrent in Afghanistan and fantastic in the nordics, generally speaking. It's not about the living standards.

  • Anti-immigrant rallies staged across Poland

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  • You think having a newborn is a "vacation"? Oh dear.

    Having a baby is risky for a woman, physically, financially, emotionally. Perhaps the outlook of the world isn't great either. Combine that with women realising that they have choices, that they don't have to have children, and you get the decline.

  • Anti-immigrant rallies staged across Poland

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  • We're not forcing people to come here you know. Also the nordics are generally winning the "happiest country" award, so I don't get why you think people here aren't happy.

    The decline in births is a global phenomenon. It's down everywhere except Africa, parts of Asia and parts of South America. I think 1-2 countries in S.America and a few more in Asia.

    Wouldn't surprise me if countries will beg migrants to come in a decade or two.

  • Anti-immigrant rallies staged across Poland

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  • Sweden has one of the highest living standards in the world, and you think we should let that go just to avoid immigration? I hope I misunderstood, because that's just dumb

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  • How easy is it to get housing for a family of 5? How is child care if a child is sick? How high is the expectation for women to lose weight after birth and look good?

    Housing obviously depends on where you want to live, but for the most part it's accessible, and you get handouts from the government if your salary isn't enough. Child care is free as I said, and you get paid if you need to stay home to take care of sick children. Not sure how to measure the expectation on women to look good, but I don't think it's a major factor in society.

    If people have 2 children but not 3 then something is missing. It could be that a third child is simply too expensive, even though almost all resources were bought for the first two children. It could be that parents are already too old and don't want to lose more sleep. Maybe all TV shows just show two children.

    People aren't having even 2 children, but for those that do have 3 or more, you get extra money from the government to cover extra cost.

    What I'm saying is that there are massive incentives for parents here, but people aren't having children. We're having more than other countries, but no where near enough. So we need immigrants.

  • Anti-immigrant rallies staged across Poland

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  • One year paid leave per kid per parent, almost free child care, free health care, free dental for kids, free education up to and including university, both parents expected to be on leave, can't get fired for taking leave. Oh, and you get a government alimony of about €100 per month. This is for Sweden, other nordics might differ slightly.

    Having kids in the nordics is insanely good, I don't know what else we could do.

    If we didn't have immigration our population would decline, along with our living standards.

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  • The fewer workers exist the higher the wages rise. Look at the compensation for people after pest waves.

    That's only true if either the work can't be moved elsewhere. The other option is that output drops to match the available workforce, like in Britain after brexit for fruits and vegetables for example.

    Immigration allows the elite to avoid the consequences of their bad politics. If living conditions were good enough people would have children.

    I don't mind better politics or living conditions, but look at the nordics. Best places in the world to have a kid and we still can't manage to have 2 kids per couple.

    Now people are moved instead of moving production processes to where the people are.

    That's been happening for the last 200 years, which is why most manufacturing is in China and other parts of Asia now. But if we want to keep people in work here we need workers, and there's not enough of us.

  • Anti-immigrant rallies staged across Poland

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  • The anti immigrant stance confuses me. I get that this is being used by bad actors to drive a wedge between people, but how is it that people can't see that migrants are needed to keep the standard of living?

    The amount of working people compared to the elderly or sick is diminishing, so you either have immigrants, raise taxes, reduce welfare or raise retirement age.

    To me, immigration seems like the obvious choice.

  • EU Targets Russia With Toughest Sanctions Package in Years

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  • Not really. The world needs the oil unfortunately, so someone needs to transport it. Who should do it? The option "nobody" isn't really realistic.

    Do I wish we didn't need oil at all? Very much so.

    Do I wish we could just say no to all Russian oil? Absolutely.

    Sadly reality gets in the way.

  • EU Targets Russia With Toughest Sanctions Package in Years

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  • Who would you prefer make money on the logistics? The EU27, or Russia?

  • EU Targets Russia With Toughest Sanctions Package in Years

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  • So in other words, the EU doesn't want to end Russia's money stream, if they can strike a good deal out of it...

    Not quite. They realise that the world is dependant on oil and cutting it out completely world cause a massive recession, so the next best thing is to make sure Russia makes next to no money on the oil that the world needs.

    I do wish we could just stop using oil, but I also like to eat.

  • Trump says Ukraine should not target Moscow

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  • They shouldn't rule it out. Make the capability a problem for Moscow. The fact that they COULD strike means that Moscow now needs better defence, which means less in other places, such as Ukraine.

  • Syrian boy goes on trial over alleged role in Taylor Swift concert bomb plot

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  • I wonder what it is that draws boys and young men into radical organisations such as IS. I doubt they are more religious than girls or young women.

  • EU eyes retaliatory tariffs against US aircraft, cars and bourbon

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  • Some are.