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  • When one says “criminal gangs in Sweden”, they’re mostly referring only to blue-collar crime. And yes, it is one of their largest income sources after the various types of fraud (tax, welfare, and personal frauds).

    Det uppskattas att 100–150 ton narkotika importeras till Sverige årligen och de vanligaste typerna av narkotika som smugglas in i Sverige är hasch (52 %), marijuana (22 %), kokain (12 %), amfetamin (11 %) och övrigt 3 % (Polismyndigheten, 2021c). Tillsammans motsvarar dessa narkotikapreparat ett försäljningsvärde på 10–15 miljarder kronor av vilket ca 80 % (8,3–12,5 miljarder kronor) årligen uppskattas återinvesteras i ny narkotika. De resterande 20 % är brottsvinster och utgör 1,2–2,8 miljarder kronor (Figur 1), vilket beräknas vara mindre i verkligheten med tanke på transport, logistik, förvaring, omkostnader och beslag av narkotikapartier.

    Source: https://polisen.se/contentassets/98c220457ffa421cb604859eb2f3b142/den-kriminella-ekonomin-240916.pdf

    So 74% is cannabis. And then consider, how many of those other drugs would have reduced exposure if cannabis users weren’t “forced” to socialize with dealers?










  • Regarding the Gripen E/F, SAAB doesn’t own the licences for all the details, so they’d need to get daddy USA to agree to it. Especially the engine, it being a GE F414 (and I think the same rules apply even on the F414 variant, being the Swedish RM16). Everyone’s too scared about committing ITAR violations and such.

    So even if the USA said yes today, it’d still be several years away before we’d see Ukranian-produced Gripen in the air. But to answer your question, it’s not any real problem to have local manufacturing if all parties are on board; SAAB has worked with Embraer to produce Gripen E in Brazil since a couple years back for example.


  • the code is going to be held to the same standards as always, so it’s not like they’re going to be blindly adding slop

    But you think it’s okay that the reviewers should waste their time reviewing slop?

    I’ve had to spend so much time the last few months reviewing and refactoring garbage code, all because corporate whitelisted some LLMs. This group I’ve worked with for many years used to be really competent developers, but they’ve all become blind. It’s a tragedy.

    how would you know the difference?

    Maybe you can’t, but it’s very obvious in many cases.