I remember back in 2014 or so, I found a YT channel about companies an tech with very high production values on their videos, they had several videos on Elon and his companies.

And in just about every time they spoke about Elon, they said it like this

Entrepreneur Elon Musk

It kinda became a weird mantra they repeated as if being an Entrepreneur made him some kind of expert.

I noticed that at the time, and it has pissed me off since.

Oh absolutely, not only that we have separate licenses for motor bikes, the standard car (max weight is 3500kg, including cargo, passengers and possible trailer), and several more:

Here is a list of categories of licenses in use in Sweden:

https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/en/road/driving-licences/im-going-to-take-my-driving-licence/driving-licence-categories/

Here are some more details about driving licenses in Sweden, the restrictions section is interesting.

https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/en/road/driving-licences/im-going-to-take-my-driving-licence/

My standard B license comes with the following restrictions:

1. I must wear my glasses
2. I may only drive a car with an automatic gearbox

Other than those, it is a standard license.

Please feel free to ask if you have further questions about driving and driving licenses in Sweden, I passed my test almost 3 years ago at 35 so it is still fresh in my mind and probably still valid knowledge.

Yeah, I see my 2021 Seat Leon FR PHEV hatchback as an appliance, it takes me where I want to go, I am only licensed to drive an automatic, but do so well.

Now, after two and a half years of driving, I am thinking about learning the paddle shifter, but eh, it just seems like another distraction.

I mean, I have tried to learn the manual gearbox, and I would have gotten it given more time, but it took me about a year to learn to drive an automatic, this was while working full time at the same time. So I decided that with the rise of EVs and automatic gearboxes, I didn’t want to spend another half a year learning something that is going away.

I agree with you to a point, if you got the same kind of license taking the test in an automatic car as in a manual car, then I agree that a critical component is missing, but here in Sweden you are limited to only being allowed to drive automatic cars if you took the test in an automatic car.

If I need to, I am absolutely not against learning a manual gearbox and taking a new test later.

Me relying on an automatic gearbox does not make me a worse driver than the average driver.

I saw a comment in a car thread in a general interest community that claimed that if you couldn’t drive with a manual gearbox, you shouldn’t be issued a license.

I am a Swede and this was on a Swedish forum.

Most people here knows how to drive manually, I don’t, and I drive far better than plenty of manual drivers.

So what they are saying is that under RFK Jr, the FDA has taken a decisive stance on overpopulation.

Correction:

There is an ocean of software alternatives, however there are few alternatives that offer a direct alternative to Microsoft when it comes to being able to put the blame on them.

With most open source systems, the buck stops with you.

Now, I know there are companies that offers to take that buck and accept the risk, though they are not plenty when it comes as a realistic competitor to Microsoft.

Then you need to consider what alternatives exist to all third party software you need to run a company, the vast majority only run on Windows.

I work in the IT department of a company in the finance sector, show me an open source alternative to the Bloomberg client that runs on Linux and is approved by Bloomberg with an add-in that is as integrated into Libre Office as the official client is with Excel.

I guarantee that it is the same in basically every company/sector, they all have workflows that are simply not possible without Windows/Office or Microsoft as a whole.

Ok, so you start a new company, with all computers running open source software, Windows/MacOS is banned, that will only last until you notice that you can earn more money, while wasting time and money, while hiring new staff easier by running Windows/Mac.

Would you rather shutdown you company than accept reality and use Microsoft software.

I want open source to win, but ignoring reality is dumb

This made me think about how the Swedish left party does things, if you are a member of the left party and hold an elected position, you are only allowed to earn X SEK, if the held position grants you a higher income, anything above X goes to the party.

I don’t remember S and MP complaining when shit was sold out.

Both the left and the right sold off and privatised far too much as they were in power.

Remember that an intelligent population is dangerous for fascists, they don’t care about intelligence or knowledge, they only care that you are doing what they say.

This is correct, as I am looking at the situation right now, I don’t see a realistic way for Ukraine to kick out Russia from their land completely, unless something big happens, I believe we are looking forward to a negotiated peace.

As a Swede, who gladly supports all aid packages with supplies, weapons and materiel we send, I wan’t nothing more than for Ukraine to kick Russia to the curb, but I don’t see that happening.

I’d rather prepare for a bad negotiated peace, if ever so short, and be surprised by Ukraine succeeding, than the opposite.

I fully agree, but we are talking about two different things.

I said that currently I don’t see an end to the war that doesn’t include Ukraine having to give up land.

That is all that I said, I actually forgot to add what I wrote in a comment a few days back, where I said that any agreement where Ukraine looses land is bound to lead to a new conflict relatively shortly thereafter.

My earlier comment specifically called out that Ukraine loosing land is unfair.

I truly wish that Ukraine can muster the strength to kick Russia out baldy enough that Russia learn their lesson.

I am a Swede and I smile every time we give more aid, weapons and other related materiels to Ukraine, I gladly pay my taxes for this.

At the same time, if I try to look realistically at the conflict, at this point in time I don’t see Ukraine kicking Russia out, it looks more and more as the end of the current conflict will come in the form of a negotiated peace, if only for a relatively short time.

I commented about this yesterday.

I currently don’t see Ukraine getting out of the war with her borders intact, as it stands now I don’t see a way for Ukraine to retake Crimea, I also doubt that Donbas will fully be liberated again.

As long as there is no restriction put on the size and capability of Ukraine’s military forces in the eventual peace treaty, it should be treated as a win.

This is not fair, it is war.

Yeah, this seems very odd…

No I didn’t, I am not the person the previous post replied to

That is not a good reason, that is software built to compensate for a stupid hardware design

Hehe, yeah, I was a bit worried about how to separate them in the quote in a realistic way, and I just could not believe that Trump would bother remembering the name Volodymyr, he would just default to a name he knows very well.

He just wanted to install NetBSD on it…

“You know, this guy — Vladimir, whatever his name is — total disaster! Total disaster! He’s in Ukraine, causing all kinds of problems, and frankly, he’s been very disrespectful. Very disrespectful!”

“We gave them a beautiful deal — beautiful! We delivered Putin’s peace plan right to Kiev, hand-delivered, like Amazon Prime, and what do we get? Nothing! Just whining, complaining, fake accusations — the usual nonsense!”

“If they had just said yes — just said yes! — we’d have peace, we’d have stability, and quite frankly, I’d be getting the Nobel Peace Prize. Everybody knows it. Everybody!”

My imagined quotes from a possible Trump rant about the situation.

This is exactly what will happen without FPTP, the local districts become irrelevant for the election process, meaning that the Gerrymandering stops being relevant as well.