guwonder.bsky.social
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The “source” you & other MAGAts rely on: neo-Nazi-adjacent media.
4200% increase coming from a very low base. Sweden’s Catholic services around holidays have over 10,000% increase compared to 1975.
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There are Swedes who know words in English for which they don’t know what’s the “best” translation in Swedish. Then when an English-speaker or Swedish-speaker asks the Swede, Swedes quickly use online apps/tools to translate when communicating with their older relatives, young children, foreigners.
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The Trumpublicans are fully into lawfare, even against law firms.
As is usual with the Trumpublicans, their accusations are typically confessions of their own plans.
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This “ideological policing of your co-workers” is straight out of the Fidel Castro playbook — a playbook he used to criticize.
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Japan is such a big holder and traditional buyer of US Treasuries that the Trump regime is freaked that they will disentangle from the US diversify away from our bonds & the dollar. Higher interest rates + a weakening dollar even with high rates? A sign the Trumpublicans failed the US yet again.
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You mean the Trump regime’s ally.
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Trump regime’s allies in Europe (beside Putin): neo-Nazis (including The Base whose American head is based in Moscow), other far right rogues, and Putinophiles. Their allies elsewhere in the world are rogues too.
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If Trump’s abused lapdog Rubio called up Bukele, Bukele would release the illegally imprisoned person and let him fly back commercially on American Airlines to the US with a letter from the US embassy in El Salvador. That’s if — big if — Trump, Musk, Vance, Biondi or Noem don’t want to drag it out.
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It may depend upon how much “dirt” a publicly-exposed senior party member has on other senior party members.
Some political parties seem to have more scandalous types than other political parties, and tolerance for sleaze is higher if the seniors in a party are more cliquish & thus stick together.
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But the closer you live to a Whole (Paycheck) Foods in these cities, the higher the housing prices also tend to be per square foot.
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I give a bit of credit also to Chicago & DC as being pretty easy places to live nicely enough without relying upon a car as long as you pick a place within reasonable walking distance to a proper grocery store.
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Rich or poor, Indian-born parents traditionally try to pick up all or most of the educational expenses of their kids even years into adult education. This is typical even when it means the parents end up heavily indebted until they die.
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All those of the Hindu caste system — even those at the top of it — arguably become untouchables (below the lowest caste) upon leaving South Asia & crossing an ocean.
Brahmins, the highest caste, are the priest/scholar caste. The ruling/warrior caste is lower. The business caste is lower still.
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It was never about academic freedom and free speech. It was always about wanting to smother and snuff out voices and expression that so-called “conservatives” found inconvenient to their desired agenda …. the agenda we are seeing put in place now.
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Just $44 per hour for this over SAS Plus/Premium Economy is worth it. I have no use for SAS Plus on TATL flights other than for better upgrade chances at lower costs.
To which airline frequent flyer program did you credit these SAS flights?
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Is Wurman an Alan Dershowitz wannabe? Dershowitz has been quite a fan of the idea of sending people to third countries to be locked up and tortured even in the absence of due process before being packed off to a third country.
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Enjoy the free in-flight internet — for those in biz.
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Is it because of the consumed caffeine in the coffee, or is it because people with such a habit are addicted to going for their caffeine kick earlier, feel a boost of energy earlier in the day and thus move about more than people who don’t?
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Where is the video of Biden saying those words?
MAGA fans/enablers — and that is what your posts signify — are not big into facts. They are mired neck-deep in lies of their own creation or that of their Lord Trump and can’t stick to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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How much did the upgrade from PremiumY/Plus to Business cost for the long-haul flight? Hopefully you got it for under $450.
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To get IDs costs time and money. Given how states have cut back on services/service hours/staffing and raised “user fees”, it’s actually gotten more expensive and less convenient to get photo ID in the past 25 years than it used to be — that’s even as we have become a “show me your ID” country.
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Getting a certified copy of the original birth certificate from the birth state can be expensive in time and/or money. And if you’ve been flagged as target of identity theft before or because of getting birth certificate copy, then ….
Updating name with SSA takes longer now, thanks to Republicans.
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Taking the 13:25 to Boston?
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Yes, the premium “cabin” section being the back of the flying bus. Other than with some ATRs, I can’t recall that being the case on any other planes.
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A lot of swimming pool and beach lifeguards working the summer in the US are temp foreign workers. Without enough lifeguards, the pool hours will be slashed. For those with pools at home, expect more loud pool parties at home or in the neighborhood instead.
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Way more common than non-citizens voting illegally in US elections: US citizens claiming to be residents of Florida for voting and tax purposes while primarily living and working in a different state within the US.
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His wife is making excuses for him. No one forced him down this path. He did it to himself by choosing to be how he is. A forked tongue chameleon who throws his own wife + children under a racist “normalize Indian hate” bus so as to serve his master Musk & Thiel? The definition of “bad company”.
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Where are they on boosting privacy rights in general? The mass collection of consumer and other public activity by businesses is out of control and needs to be controlled regardless of whether the company is American, Chinese or whatever.
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Companies & unions should want to go where consumers go. And given consumers like inexpensive when it comes to automobile operating costs, it’s going to be electric power since your own solar power-generated electricity for driving is typically going to be cheaper than driving on hydrocarbon fuel.
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A lot of the obsessed George Soros haters would be in trouble if this kind of performative banning were really about protecting the rights of a religious minority in the country.
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SAS to CPH? SAS bought Bra’s flight capacity to use for itself as it wished. Did SAS not buy all of Bra’s flight capacity?
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Especially after he licked Musk’s shoes and defended Musk’s guy who wants to “normalize Indian hate”.
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There is no material amount of voter fraud in the US, so this isn’t about fixing a voter fraud problem.
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Women in India walk 100 miles to get ID? Let’s assume 20 miles a day. That’s 5 days of not working, 5 days of having to be somewhere beside home & the related expenses — and risks in a country with a big
sexual assault problem
— of being away from home. And you want to use that as justification. 🙄
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Yes.
They feel perhaps a bit like Hamlet: “Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me, it is a prison.”
They know their political schtick is at risk of coming to an end as a result of fired up voters, so they circle the bandwagons.
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She chose to clerk for Kavanaugh — before he got to the Supreme Court — and then for Chief Justice Roberts. That says enough to me.
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Her parents supported & donated money to Hillary Clinton in 2016 election & Biden in 2020. They were liberal Democrats. Usha also used to be a Democrat, but then she changed after getting involved with JD and has been doing the Republican thing since he wanted to be electable as a Republican.
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Chinese car manufacturer BYD is selling a series of luxury hybrid SUVs that cost over $150,000. The beast even can float in a lake and sort of operate for up to 30 minutes while partially submerged.
China has moved up the manufacturing & tech value chain.
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They will draft financial service providers & internet service providers. They will conduct warrantless searches — the latter in so-called “security zones” — of electronic devices. They will conduct investigations on the basis of “informants”, some of whom have wild imaginations or want to harass.
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Stadium is the name of a chain of athletic goods stores in Sweden.
Arenas in Sweden have gotten into the business of selling temporary naming rights to businesses (or other parties), and Stadium probably paid for naming rights in order to get attention over competing chains (XXL & InterSport).
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It’s a tax of sorts on Americans who want to vote if they don’t already have the documents on hand needed to get new ID or if they have to get new ID just to vote.
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He wants to fire all the DOD medical corps?
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Until Sweden became social democratic the majority were poor laborers. Before that, it was only the royals, aristocrats, sizable landowners, some favored business owners & a small, educated middle class that lived an ok life. Also senior clergy for the Church of Sweden, big landowner it was/is.
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BYD seems to be a much better deal than Tesla.
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But as a country gets into crackdown mode on this, there ends up being a bigger black market for identity sharing and identity theft and that black market makes for problems too.
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The use of other people’s social security/national ID numbers for work purposes has never really ended. But this kind of stuff can be a nuisance for those whose numbers are misused without their knowledge — that’s because the taxpayer-filed tax returns tend to not match the filed W-2s and/or 1099s.
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As he managed to land four seats, he probably had good chances to get one of those wheeled vehicle spots.
Some people taking the S-bahn in Berlin beyond zone C (?) try to avoid going through the bike boarding doors for ticket control reasons or because the bike areas mean more capacity controls.
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I didn’t notice any actual money changing hands yet from the appeasing law firms to Mafia Don. They agreed to do free work for him, but that’s quite different than paying $100 million on average.
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The guy could have gone down to using 3 seats (or maybe even fewer) pretty easily.
The issue — beside the questionable lack of courtesy toward other users of mass transit — is that mass transit/buses and trains haven’t caught up to the demand for such kind of multi-modal transport.
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Where is he on the guys wasting the country’s money golfing? Or the man-child floating around Trump who seems more focused on his video games and tweeting on his phone than on his dozen+ children?