I got to know about this only from this article (I send Wikipedia’s take on the info, since it is more accurate):

Since 2009, Weidel has been in a lesbian relationship with Sarah Bossard, a Sri Lankan-born film producer who was adopted as a child by a Swiss couple. Since 2019 the pair have lived with their two adopted sons in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Weidel works in Berlin and says her official residence is in her electoral district in Überlingen, on the German side of the German-Swiss border, allowing her to avoid Swiss taxation.[100][101][102][103]

In terms of religion, Weidel identifies herself as an agnostic.[104]

She represents so well many far-right voters who simply vote against themselves, thinking that they are “special” and even if they do the same things they despise, they will be spared from the prosecution.

Russia accounted for 39% of allegations

I wish…

We have 999 problems and migrants ain’t one

Yeah, that’s true. But their production seems to be almost fully for their internal market. Which shows how crazy the scale of the green energy transition within China.

China accounted for 65% of global wind capacity in 2023

So basically, China also installed twice as much wind power as the rest of the world in 2023

It’s similar with solar, but there China has a bit lower percentage of the demand, and more of manufacturing. -> It is a major exporter. See, e.g., https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/solar-pv-manufacturing-capacity-and-production-by-country-and-region-2021-2027

Great search, thank you!

When you make a CitizenWatch article into a meme (congrats OP):

https://citizenwatchreport.com/sp-500-just-hit-an-all-time-high-meanwhile-60-of-americans-use-afterpay-for-groceries-first-time-homebuyers-have-fallen-to-24-from-50/

One buttock XD

Smart! I use Joplin and Koofr for shorter notes. Switching to LibreOffice Writer from Word, and shared files, for longer texts. But all depends on how you like to write ¯_(ツ)_/¯

https://koofr.eu/blog/posts/how-to-backup-your-joplin-notes-to-koofr

I think the difference is that, while both Russia and Germany are federations on paper, Germany is much less centralized.

• to the best of my knowledge, 3.5% would be military spending, and 1.5% could be other “defence” spending (as others have already written).

Still, not fun with the 3.5%/5%. Overshooting, typical for “weapons as war repellent” strategy (and unfortunately, expanded military often does not want to stay idle…)

Nice, but still, use GOG when possible:

https://www.gog.com/

Money is increasingly needed by the federal treasury, which spends every third ruble on the war

Woah, 1/3rd of the budget is a lot.

LanguageTool as cloud storage?

So cool! I would also love to see a day train from Malmö/Stockholm to somewhere in Germany ^‿

BTW, Grammarly is a sad story. They started out in Kiev in 2009, and sometime in the 2010s, they moved their headquarters to San Francisco. Idk if they gave official reasons.

How has LanguageTool been working for you? We have very similar journeys - the only other difference being that I used Firefox before, so I stay with it for now - but the move away from Grammarly I could not (yet?) make…

Maybe it is not all caused by CC

It is a common thread that multiple anthropogenic stressors, including climate change, have more-than-additive effects. In other words, many climate change-related problems would be mild if not for other stuff we do.

See, e.g., 10:07 here for savannization of the Amazon: https://www.ted.com/talks/johan_rockstrom_the_tipping_points_of_climate_change_and_where_we_stand?subtitle=en

In the case of flamingoes, it is probably land use change as well.

Mid-winter, there is usually quite some wind. See the graph in the link.

There are challenging moments, though. But storage for weeks, not months, might be robust enough.

ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-is-eus-biggest-power-source-for-the-first-time-ever/

Well, there is something to it, and I think we talk about different parties.

Moderaterna, who have the PM, are just classic libs (though there is the true neoliberal Liberalerna in the ruling coalition as well). They are in the EPP, for those who follow European politics. Their program is, tbh, like that of the Democrats under Biden and Kamala. This is where the minister comes from. I think you mean them.

Now, to get a majority in the government, Moderaterna (and two other parties) made a deal (Tidö avtalet) with Sverigedemokraterna. They are not in the government, but the government made an agreement with Sverigedemokraterna, vowing to implement some of their program in exchange for their support in the parliament. I call them far-right. They are in the ECR (European Conservatives and Reformists) in the European Parliament. Their main thing is being against migration. Generally, you could compare them to Trump vol. 1.

I understand why others might think this is not far right. I come from Poland, the two largest parties come from EPP and ECR, and they are followed by even further right. Similarly, Sverigedemokraterna is not as far right as, for example, AfD in Germany. Or as Trump vol. 2. But others going even crazier does not exclude Sverigedemokraterna from the far-right.

Swedish government be like:

Officially endorse far-right party

Push xenophobic agenda

A mentally sick person organizes the largest school shooting in the country, targeting specifically migrants >

Youth joins far-right groups

That includes a son of a ministry working on how to deport as many migrants as possible, making visa process as painful as possible, even for high-skill workers

But WHY?!!?