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Jul 22, 2019, 11:44 am
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I have to say I have lost a great deal of respect for US seeing how you guys let trump do whatever he likes.
Jul 22, 2019, 11:52 am
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At the same time they were building a new office building next to the Clarion hotel. They managed to add all floors on the building during the time it took the elevator guys to refurbish 2 elevators.
Jul 22, 2019, 12:16 pm
#4983
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I've lived abroad too. Complaints about how the locals do things are quite common everywhere.
Btw, the number one complaint I hear from foreigners is that there are too many foreigners around.
And it's quite silly to both complain about planned maintenance and lack of maintenance.
Btw, the number one complaint I hear from foreigners is that there are too many foreigners around.
And it's quite silly to both complain about planned maintenance and lack of maintenance.
Jul 22, 2019, 12:18 pm
#4984
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Given that he keeps losing court cases I'm not clear on the whatever he likes, but it would be nice to see the back of him, even if certain members of this thread seem to have similar histrionics.
Jul 22, 2019, 12:38 pm
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The child was not playing any irritating games at full volume. The child was actually less irritating than the trash metal music being listened to by the overgrown child whose headset was bleeding more noise to my ears than the little U2 child.
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Jul 22, 2019, 1:36 pm
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Americans who are or have been resident in Sweden seem to be no more corpulent than Swedes in the Swedish countryside for areas that aren’t further north than Uppsala.
Some North Americans are Canadians or other non-US persons.
For some reason a lot of Swedes think I am Canadian. Even some Swedes who lived in the US for 10+ years. Maybe it’s because I wear shorts in March-October and don’t often use a coat for cooler weather unless it’s November-March.
Complaining about where you live or have lived has more weight and likelihood of taking place than complaining about things which you’ve not experienced a lot if at all. And people tend to complain about what they experience first hand more than about things they never personally experienced.
Complaining about the pace of repairs/maintenance of some sort and complaining about the lack of repairs of maintenance of a related sort isn’t incompatible or ridiculous. It could be that the circumstances being complained about are not exactly the same.
For some reason a lot of Swedes think I am Canadian. Even some Swedes who lived in the US for 10+ years. Maybe it’s because I wear shorts in March-October and don’t often use a coat for cooler weather unless it’s November-March.
I've lived abroad too. Complaints about how the locals do things are quite common everywhere.
Btw, the number one complaint I hear from foreigners is that there are too many foreigners around.
And it's quite silly to both complain about planned maintenance and lack of maintenance.
Btw, the number one complaint I hear from foreigners is that there are too many foreigners around.
And it's quite silly to both complain about planned maintenance and lack of maintenance.
Complaining about the pace of repairs/maintenance of some sort and complaining about the lack of repairs of maintenance of a related sort isn’t incompatible or ridiculous. It could be that the circumstances being complained about are not exactly the same.
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Jul 22, 2019, 2:58 pm
#4987
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I have a concealed carry permit in the US, even in retirement.
As you weren’t there, nothing would appear to you in terms of what I did do.
The child was not playing any irritating games at full volume. The child was actually less irritating than the trash metal music being listened to by the overgrown child whose headset was bleeding more noise to my ears than the little U2 child.
You didn't really elaborate on what you did do, besides spectate.
Jul 22, 2019, 3:02 pm
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But he still became president despite the electoral college are there to prevent insane people becoming president, and it seems like everyone on both sides in the congress and the senate are to scared of him to give him any real opposition, so he basically can do whatever he wants.
There have been idiots in all governments, but I don't think we have ever come even close to having someone like trump as prime minister.
He likes the attention. Win or lose doesn't matter as long as he is the focal point. He will find a way to tell everyone he is the winner no matter how big he loses.
Me too. I actually have a college in US who told me he voted for trump. The reason was he didn't like the supreme court justices Hillary proposed and he didn't thought trump could make that big a mess in 4 years. Boy have regretted his vote many times.
Me too. I actually have a college in US who told me he voted for trump. The reason was he didn't like the supreme court justices Hillary proposed and he didn't thought trump could make that big a mess in 4 years. Boy have regretted his vote many times.
Jul 22, 2019, 3:17 pm
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Do I need to write that no one really listen to him anymore?
Jul 22, 2019, 3:20 pm
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But he still became president despite the electoral college are there to prevent insane people becoming president, and it seems like everyone on both sides in the congress and the senate are to scared of him to give him any real opposition, so he basically can do whatever he wants.
There have been idiots in all governments, but I don't think we have ever come even close to having someone like trump as prime minister.
He likes the attention. Win or lose doesn't matter as long as he is the focal point. He will find a way to tell everyone he is the winner no matter how big he loses.
There have been idiots in all governments, but I don't think we have ever come even close to having someone like trump as prime minister.
He likes the attention. Win or lose doesn't matter as long as he is the focal point. He will find a way to tell everyone he is the winner no matter how big he loses.
The electoral college sadly is not there to prevent loons, as we've had quite a few in the past. A parliamentary system would be an improvement, but only if it used something better than a first past the post system.
All that said, there's an abiding issue on both sides of the Atlantic of not addressing infrastructure investments and options for a broader range of people.
SAS is partly bound by state policy, much like SJ. I haven't seen the figures here but I imagine that the train, even with its short term issues, is a considerable competitor to air for large stretches of the Copenhagen to Stockholm route. NRK, VXO, JKG all used to have service from CPH. Service from Stockholm seems hit or miss on how long it survives, out competed by the train. The Northeast Corridor between DC and NYC (and Boston but still different) has taken about half of the travelers in that market segment, even with the proximity of DCA and LGA, although only the former has real proximity and good connections (when WMATA works) to downtown.
Jul 22, 2019, 3:30 pm
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Americans who are or have been resident in Sweden seem to be no more corpulent than Swedes in the Swedish countryside for areas that aren’t further north than Uppsala.
Some North Americans are Canadians or other non-US persons.
For some reason a lot of Swedes think I am Canadian. Even some Swedes who lived in the US for 10+ years. Maybe it’s because I wear shorts in March-October and don’t often use a coat for cooler weather unless it’s November-March.
Complaining about where you live or have lived has more weight and likelihood of taking place than complaining about things which you’ve not experienced a lot if at all. And people tend to complain about what they experience first hand more than about things they never personally experienced.
Complaining about the pace of repairs/maintenance of some sort and complaining about the lack of repairs of maintenance of a related sort isn’t incompatible or ridiculous. It could be that the circumstances being complained about are not exactly the same.
Some North Americans are Canadians or other non-US persons.
For some reason a lot of Swedes think I am Canadian. Even some Swedes who lived in the US for 10+ years. Maybe it’s because I wear shorts in March-October and don’t often use a coat for cooler weather unless it’s November-March.
Complaining about where you live or have lived has more weight and likelihood of taking place than complaining about things which you’ve not experienced a lot if at all. And people tend to complain about what they experience first hand more than about things they never personally experienced.
Complaining about the pace of repairs/maintenance of some sort and complaining about the lack of repairs of maintenance of a related sort isn’t incompatible or ridiculous. It could be that the circumstances being complained about are not exactly the same.
Some work can be done at night, some can't and some isn't advisable or cost effective at night. A lot of regular maintenance needs to fit in the night shift already.
SL certainly is aware, it's on billboards and ads that they know people are angry but they do seem to have forward momentum.
Jul 22, 2019, 3:47 pm
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Swedish rail has indeed eaten up a lot of the demand for flights within Sweden. But a large part of that is because rail tickets tend to be substantially cheaper than flight tickets and because the costs to get to/from the airports exceed by far the costs to get to/from the rail stations. People would fly more if the cost of the air tickets + costs to quickly get to/from the airports were lower than the train tickets+cost to get quickly to/from the rail stations.
I can’t speak to Gothenburg-Stockholm, but for Stockholm to Malmo/Copenhagen, the most reliably predictable means of travel is air travel. And if air travel goes wrong, the train backup is still an option. But when the rail travel goes wrong, it’s too often at a point from which recovery is much, much harder and more inconvenient than it is when things go wrong for air travel within the region.
I can’t speak to Gothenburg-Stockholm, but for Stockholm to Malmo/Copenhagen, the most reliably predictable means of travel is air travel. And if air travel goes wrong, the train backup is still an option. But when the rail travel goes wrong, it’s too often at a point from which recovery is much, much harder and more inconvenient than it is when things go wrong for air travel within the region.
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Jul 22, 2019, 3:52 pm
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I think, and I could be wrong, but the majority of the people in this thread are straight white guys. The view is somewhat different if you're not, on the influence and threat of the DFP/DPP and Fremskrittspartiet and SD. I heartily applaud the continued (if weakening) shunning of the reconstructed Neo-Nazis/the very farthest far right in Sweden. The same cannot be said for the others or Hungary, Czechia, Poland, the UK, Italy etc.
If it's not there to keep insane people from being elected prescient, what is then the purpose?
Jul 22, 2019, 3:56 pm
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To make sure that everyone running for President with intention to wanting to be President knows that people in “flyover country” count too and should get more visits from the candidates who really want to win and not risk a loss.Taking Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin (and soon Minnesota) for granted is not a good idea. Need to press the flesh.
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Jul 23, 2019, 1:00 am
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To give power to small/less populous states.
To make sure that everyone running for President with intention to wanting to be President knows that people in “flyover country” count too and should get more visits from the candidates who really want to win and not risk a loss.Taking Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin (and soon Minnesota) for granted is not a good idea. Need to press the flesh.
