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Russia has a population is around 140 million... As for now around 300000 Russian soldiers have been wounded or killed. That's like... 0.2% of the Russian population. With a father, mother, sibling, wife and friends affected with a wounded or killed Russian soldier the percentage of involuntarily negatively affected people would reach beyond 1%.

How big were the wild protests did you say? Did 20% of the population take part in protesting, maybe not because of the innocent people if Ukraina but for the extreme amount of casualties affecting Russian families in this unprovoked aggression? No? Not 20%?

10%?

5%?

Maybe we should just conclude that the majority of the Russian people are not willing to sacrifice anything of their own for the sake of justice...

Because that's where democracy and justice most often starts:

You sacrificing something that benefits you for the rights and/or justice of another person.

I'm not saying that Polestar didn't follow the Swedish modell in Sweden. They most likely do.

However, if the subject is Chinese car manufacturers in the context of working against unions I think it's most honest to put Polestar in the box marked Chinese since the majority of their employees are in fact employed in China and the owning company is Chinese.

I'm swedish and as a Swede I've always been sort of proud of IKEA being Swedish. But then again... Was IKEA really Swedish when the founder was living in Switzerland, the company was owned by a foundation in some other country and a majority of the products were produced in other countries than Sweden?

What I'm trying to say is that Polestar, as many other companies, is Shrödingers Swedish company .. it's both Swedish and not Swedish at the same time ...

I'm pretty sure they are less than "thousands". Wild guess... Maybe around 788?

Polestar has white collar staff here. Finance, marketing, design etc.

Signing a collective agreement doesn't in any way change the fact that Polestar is a Chinese company that manufactures their product in China and that China is not pro union.

Wow... Claiming "a properly educated user" being an exploit free solution is just... I don't even....

Maybe the reason why the Swedish unions aren't having massive strikes with Polestar workers might be slightly related to the fact that the are no Swedish workers in Polestar?

It is headquartered in Torslanda outside Gothenburg, Sweden. Its vehicles are produced in China, home to Volvo's corporate parent Geely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polestar

For you outside Sweden: There is no such thing as minimum wage. It's perfectly legal to hire someone for 0 SEK / month.

The whole idea is that a collective agreement should be negotiated and agreed upon by the employers and employees in each business area (like telecom, healthcare, factory workers, electricians etc etc). The idea is that the employers and employees, not the politicians, knows more about what their market/business area requires and is able to deliver in the form of minimum wage, yearly salary increase, vacation and overtime (among other things) .

Here's the thing that often is different in discusions like the one about Tesla refusing to sign a collective agreement: Collective agreements only limits the minimums. So the only reason to refuse to sign is if you intend to keep some thing below the levels that are the norm in your business area.

Essentially, you're trying to get unfair competitive advantage.

Polestar is Chinese.

TheGrayZone.com according to Wikipedia:

The website, initially founded as The Grayzone Project, was affiliated with AlterNet before becoming independent in early 2018. It is known for its critical coverage of the US and its foreign policy, misleading reporting, and sympathetic coverage of authoritarian regimes The Grayzone has downplayed or denied the Chinese government's human rights abuses against Uyghurs, published conspiracy theories about Venezuela, Xinjiang, Syria, and other regions, and published pro-Russian propaganda during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone

What do you recommend that is exploit free?

It's all about power. The 1% will not give up their power ( = the opportunity to do whatever they want whenever they want) just because it would be good for the 99% to work less.

That's not how the world works.

The 1% will continue to make sure that they are in control of whatever the next thing is that grant them the same or more power.

If owning AI gives them power they will do whatever necessary to own AI and let's not kid ourselves here "they" would be you and me if we had the chance.

Yeah... About that... How's block chain going these days? Solved all the problems in the world yet?

CP/M?

I really miss the times when mods actually were encouraged by the gamedevs. Yes there are games that still encourage modding but it's still not as widespread as it was so a couple of years after Half-life was released.

I know some people who served on Gotland. I know for a fact that it was leased. Twice. The lease was renewed partly because of the US Navy having the problems they had. However, the exercise was never about Swedish submarines.

It was all about Chinese submarines.

Edit: "as Sweden is a part of NATO"... You're kidding, right? NATO is not letting us to become a member. Our application has been blocked by Turkey for like a year now.

It's ok to claim that the US spent millions of dollars leasing a submarine to train on a situation that would never happen. I'm pretty sure there might be some not so insignificant people disagreeing with you though.

Just accept the fact that the only reason the US didn't lose an aircraft carrier was not because superiority...

It was because Sweden was playing.

Swede here. Please tell us more about "Fucking with US boats".

In 2005, USS Ronald Reagan, a newly constructed $6.2 billion dollar aircraft carrier, sank after being hit by multiple torpedoes.

Yet despite making multiple attacks runs on the Reagan, the Gotland was never detected.

This outcome was replicated time and time again over two years of war games, with opposing destroyers and nuclear attack submarines succumbing to the stealthy Swedish sub.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/sunk-how-sweden-sent-americas-uss-ronald-reagan-bottom-sea-126707

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland-class_submarine

To date, the Hamas government is only economically bonded with the Ramallah-based Palestinian National Authority, performing the governing over the Gaza Strip independently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance_of_the_Gaza_Strip

Hollywood put billions into the next generation disc, blu-ray, and you would still pay extra at Blockbuster for being late if it wasn't for piracy.

While piracy isn't without problem it is the closest we get to "supply and demand". Piracy balances the scale.