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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • The US may think they are invulnerable, but they are far from it, the world can crash the US economy in a couple of hours.
    Problem is it would hurt the rest of the world too, although not as bad as it would be for USA.
    But there needs to be very strong arguments for doing it. Still there has already been hints of the “nuclear” option by EU against USA if USA continues to behave as poorly as they have this past year. The nuclear option being a 10 point EU plan to retaliate economically against USA. Needless to say that before Trumps 2nd term, such a plan didn’t even exist! But with Trumps 2nd term EU has moved surprisingly quickly, as have many European countries individually.
    Also China has its own nuclear option in just selling off US treasury bonds. That would make it very hard for USA to finance the federal deficits, and could collapse the American federal government.
    But apart from that China could sanction USA on for instance rare earth minerals, that would make it impossible for USA to compete in several high tech products. The threat of this made Trump pull back on trade hostilities against China very quickly.

    The US economy depends on the rest of the world to be the size it is. And without the economy to finance the military, USA will not be able to maintain a military the size they currently have.




  • Friendly nations do not meddle in each others elections. Russia did to USA because they are NOT a friendly nation, and to sow discord. Israel does it to USA also because they are not a friendly nation, they are focused 100% on their own agenda, and that includes ensuring USA supports it.
    Trump/MAGA has already intervened in elections in for instance EU, and that’s because USA is no longer a friendly nation to EU.
    But I seriously doubt most of USA’s traditional allies will meddle in USA’s election, because it’s just not something you do as a civilized country, because it violates that country’s sovereignty.



  • In Sweden, every package is individual;

    Same here in Denmark.
    The only place I’ve ever seen pills given out of the package is at the vet and in hospitals or by a doctor, and it’s for obvious reasons dictated by circumstances.

    If we need 10 of some pill, they come in boxes of 10. I have no idea wtf is going on with splitting up packages to get 20?

    PS: The example with the vet was worm treatment, those pills were in individual blisters, and you can get only one at a time I think due to EU regulation. It was then put in a package made specifically for that. And there were no sharp edges.

    We used to get 3 at a time, to administer as needed, but apparently we aren’t allowed to get more than 1 at a time now.
    Also the price has trippled to buy 1 compared to what 3 used to cost. So a 10x price jump!!!








  • The article doesn’t seem to show any context to this, are equally poor countries on other continents better or worse?
    My guess is the main problems are probably poverty inequality and corruption. Catholicism may also be a problem, as every crime can be absolved by the church, and Catholics may believe themselves free from the ultimate personal consequences of their crimes.
    So the corruption and inequality may create a sense of need for many people to need to balance the injustice, and combined with a lack of perceived ultimate consequence may be a toxic cocktail that stimulate violent crime.

    This however is pure speculation on my part. But it seems evident there must be some kind of social factor to cause things to be so bad. And it seems to me that statistically poverty and Catholicism combined promotes this.