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Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Alhazred posted:

Prominent Norwegian politicians:

The season when Balky Bartokomous moved to Norway was when that show jumped the shark.

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Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Zudgemud posted:

Denmark has been ruled by German kings and nobility for so long that actually joining Germany proper would make little difference.
It would make beer cheaper.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

+1 in København NV for sex swings and flaccid dick pics

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Jan 15, 2005

BigglesSWE posted:

Tbf tror jag det är mer att USA har som generell policy att ingen av deras medborgare ska ställas till svars inför andra länders domstolar.
They won't let members of the military get tried by foreign courts.

If a civilian gets arrested:

quote:

We Can:

- Provide a list of local attorneys who speak English
- Contact family, friends, or employers of the detained U.S. citizen (with their written permission)
- Visit the detained U.S. citizen regularly and provide reading materials and vitamin supplements, where appropriate
- Ensure that prison officials are providing appropriate medical care
- Provide a general overview of the local criminal justice process
- Upon request, ensure that prison officials permit visits with a member of the clergy of the religion of the detainee’s choice
- Establish an OCS Trust, if necessary, so friends and family can transfer funds to imprisoned U.S. citizens

We Cannot:

- Get U.S. citizens out of jail
- State to a court that anyone is guilty or innocent
- Provide legal advice or represent U.S. citizens in court
- Serve as official interpreters or translators
- Pay legal, medical, or other fees

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Just looking at the episode titles of the Borgen Unplugged podcast for the last month is pretty fun. Five episodes in a row of things like "Blood in the water! Is this the end of Mette Frederiksen?!?", and then today's episode: "Polls are in - nobody gives a poo poo about Minkgate".

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

big scary monsters posted:

Quarantine in this case means that for instance you have been in contact with someone who has had a positive test, or have recently come to Norway from abroad, but have not yourself tested positive. You can still leave your house and go for walks, go shopping, or to the doctor. People who have tested positive are instead in home isolation, and are not meant to go to the shops or use public transport. I agree that the terms are confusing.
It's confusing because they are redefining the word "quarantine" to something it is not. If we started calling apples "bananas", and continued calling bananas "bananas", there would also be confusion.

I'm all for language changing over time, but a word can't just be redefined suddenly by declaration.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

SplitSoul posted:

:stare:

Build the wall!

It's too late. We're already here. :getin:

Brev i min eboks posted:

Udlændinge- og Integrationsministeriet har nu færdigbehandlet din ansøgning om dansk indfødsret.

Du forventes at blive optaget på det lovforslag om indfødsrets meddelelse, som forventes fremsat for Folketinget i oktober 2021.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

BonHair posted:

Oh yeah, name every Olsen Banden film in order of Børge screen time! Congratulations!
DR posts the indfødsretsprøve the day after applicants take it, and only like 10% of native Danes pass.

So to fully assimilate, it was important that I promptly forget all of these kinds of things as soon as I passed the test.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Randarkman posted:

Well, some fringe politician recently was recently standing outside a high school offering students money if they promised they would not take the vaccine.
At least in Denmark, that's a waste of money. The ones that haven't gotten it already are not going to get it, even if the vaccines come directly to them.

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/pop-vaccinationssteder-paa-ungdomsuddannelser-har-uddelt-ned-til-nul-stik

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Flere skal vaccineres, og derfor er der oprettet pop up-vaccinationssteder målrettet forskellige grupper.

Det gælder blandt andet på flere ungdomsuddannelser i Region Hovedstaden.

Men det er ikke alle steder, der har været travlt. Langt fra.

I sidste uge gav det nemlig mellem nul og 57 flere vaccinerede per sted, som fik besøg af vaccinationsbilerne, viser tal fra Region Hovedstadens akutberedskab.

Den knap så store tilslutning ærgrer Lars Gaardhøj, der er socialdemokratisk regionsrådsformand.

- Vi kan ikke tvinge folk, og det skal vi heller ikke. Vi kan håbe på, at nogle af dem, vi har snakket med, forhåbentligt selv beslutter sig for at henvende sig til et vaccinationssted og få stikket, for det er vigtigt, siger han.
It seems the younger you are, the less likely you are to get vaccinated. The vaccines are now available everywhere to everyone 12 and older with no appointment necessary, but we've been flatlined at about 75% of the total population for the last month. I was hoping for a bit of a jump after summer vacation, but that hasn't happened. I think this is as far as we're going to get.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

lilljonas posted:

That said, I've also had friends from Norrland that were surprised that I store cheese in the fridge an not in the cupboard, so maybe I'm just a soft and cowardly southerner.
Soft cheeses definitely need to go in the refrigerator. Hard cheeses don't need to be, especially if it is not pre-grated, but will last longer in the fridge than outside of it.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Alhazred posted:

https://www.dagbladet.no/meninger/dansk-arroganse/74548764
Returning a drum that Denmark has no use for seems like such an easy way to earn some goodwill. Even FrP, who's policy on sami people is that the Norwegianization didn't last long enough, understand this.
That article has quite the sentence:

quote:

Han risikerte dødsdom for trolldom, men før han fikk dommen ble han brutalt drept med øks mens han sov.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

lilljonas posted:

I just checked, and yes, the US has 12.4 car deaths per 100 000 people per year, while Sweden has 2.2. Giving out licences in the corn flakes packages has some disadvantages. Norway and Sweden are the safest countries when you discount weird outliers (Hong Kong, Monaco and Micronesia). I can live with that.

EDIT: loving Turkey and "Dash Cam Craziness" Russia are safer for driving than the US when you look at car deaths. God drat.
Deaths per capita is not a useful metric. Deaths per billion km driven is better, because it accounts for driving frequency and average trip distances, which are much, much higher in the U.S. than Scandinavia. Then it is 3.9 deaths per billion km in Denmark, and 7.3 in the U.S.

I would argue that the discrepancy is less to do with driver skill, and more to do with the U.S. having some areas of extremely hazardous driving conditions compared to Denmark (16 lane highways, treachorous mountain passes through the Rockies, etc.), and poo poo tons more drunk driving fatalities, which is a very real problem, but separate from the average driver's skill. My gut feeling is also that the "safety" arms race that pushes Americans to buy huge SUVs and pickups results in more overall fatalities per collision (but the ones dying are the ones in the smaller car, so the unscathed SUV driver doesn't give a gently caress, even though everyone probably would have lived with minor injuries if the same crash happened with two average-sized sedans).

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Your graph is showing infection rate, while they were talking about hospitalization rate. I've been keeping an eye on the high 0-2 hospitalizations for the past few weeks, and wondering why nobody seems to be reporting on it when it is right there in the daily numbers screaming to be noticed.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

They've been ahead of the slightly older kids for a long while, which I just attributed to doctors being more cautious with newborns when it comes to hospital admissions.

But the hospitalization rate for all kids were well below the 80+ cohort until recently, and now the 0-2 range has shot out way ahead of every other group. Something has changed.

I didn't have luck finding a good time history of Danish COVID hospital admissions split by age range, so I it is mostly me mentally constructing it from the occasional snapshots I saw in the daily numbers I happened to look at over the past few months/years. I'll admit my brain is not exactly the gold standard of data retention, though.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Rust Martialis posted:

I think if you combine:
- 0-2s have higher hospitalization rates as a base
- vaccination rates of teens+ are like maxxed
- overall case levels are high as crazy from omicron
- boosted people go to hospital less with omicron than unvaxxed

The combination means the base high rate for 0-2s is going to be even *more* elevated relative to vaccinated groups.
If these were the causes, you'd expect to see the same for the 3-5 year olds; that is, the ratio of 0-2 year old hospitalizations to 3-5 year olds should remain about constant, regardless of what is going on in the older vaccinated groups. But I don't think the 3-5 year olds have had a proportional change in hospitalizations compared to the 0-2 year olds recently.

But it isn't really worth speculating about until I can dig up the time histories of this rather than basing it off of memories of snapshots I've seen. I'll try to find the relevant data tomorrow.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Feliday Melody posted:

My dad had lung cancer and went for treatments about every two or three days.

One morning he couldn't get out of bed, was completely disoriented and had trouble breathing. I called an ambulance and the ambulance medic told me that they could take him to the emergency room but that he might catch covid there and asked me what I wanted to do.


I told them to bring him to the hospital because he's delirious, and he can't walk, and he has trouble breathing.

So they brought him to the emergency room and there he caught covid and died. (he tested negative every which way until a few days after arriving at the emergency room)


I am going to go insane thinking about it.
That really sucks. :smith:

For what an internet stranger's opinion is worth, I think you made the right call, and you shouldn't beat yourself up over it. From what you're describing, the outcome of that situation could very likely have been the same regardless of your decision.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Danish government is having a press conference announcing an expected 100,000+ refugees from Ukraine.

The first press questions are making me think that the recent empathy for Ukrainian refugees is officially over, and we can return to our regularly scheduled anti-immigrant politics.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

SplitSoul posted:

Enhedslisten have now effectively laid to rest their opposition to both the EU and NATO. They think they can "change the EU from within" and are afraid of being "hunted wildly" if they maintain.
No, they haven't. They changed their party platform from exiting EU being a "goal" to it being their "perspective". Simultaneously, a proposal saying that exiting the EU should be removed from their platform was voted down. They also voted that it would be better to exit today rather than tomorrow. If all this sounds like contradictory meaningless gibberish to you, you are correct.

It's also their position that they want to leave NATO and create some alternative nordic alliance (which has already gotten a "lol, no" from Sweden and Finland). And they want to do this while disarming, or at least not ratcheting up further military build-up.

Just reading about it is as cringey as the British version of The Office.

I've considered voting for them in the past, but I am going to be far more hesitant in the future.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

The police aren't speculating on motive, but they have said that it ~*might be a terrorism*~, so I think we know the skin tone of the guy they arrested.

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Jan 15, 2005

Nenonen posted:

I propose the formation of a committee to discuss what kind of power structure is desirable, and then another committee to discuss the results of the first one. I'm positive we will get to see recommendations by 2025 and then after a round of hearings a committee can make a draft proposal on how to progress from that.
Just lol that you think we can just form a committee.

We first need to send out a letter of intent about the possibility of creating a scanditrådsforening, sent with at least two months' advance notice. At the first meeting, a vote will be taken by those present on whether the group should be created at all. If that passes, then a foreman, deputy foreman, treasurer, and deputy treasurer must be appointed and approved by those present. Their first task will be to write the charter and to call the first official meeting (at least two months' notice, naturally), where the charter must be adopted and approved. If the charter is approved, and depending on its exact wording, a vote could be taken regarding whether funding should be allocated for a feasibility assessment of the potential costs and efficacy of a committee for discussing what kind of power structure for the thread is desirable.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

BonHair posted:

Trick question: you take the train to Nørrebro and go to whoever won the Nørrebrogade kebab championship latest.
Eh, Kösem kept winning for a few years there, and it is incredibly mediocre. I think throwing in some shredded red cabbage was enough for idiots to think it was "fancy" and vote for them.

The best spot is Kösk, which is one of the few places west of Nørrebro Station.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

His word choice and him saying he is from Europe make me think that English is not his first language, so I am guessing it's not a bit.

The nuance of "North Americans call something 'moose' that most Europeans call 'elk', and North Americans also use the word 'elk', but it's a different animal entirely" is not something I expect non-native English speakers to know or care about.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

His Divine Shadow posted:

The elk / moose confusion seems like a thing most people here know about these days because it's happened so often.
I get that, but as someone who has put in a lot of time and effort to learn a foreign language as an adult, the "are you joking or just a total loving idiot for not understanding this particular linguistic idiosyncracy?" rubs me the wrong way.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

So many stories lately in the Danish press about the crisis in the healthcare system due to nurses quitting and no young people being educated for it in the pipeline, and so few of the stories bother mentioning the context that the government stepped in last year and forced a stop to a nursing strike that met none of their demands for higher pay. But all the stories have quotes from candidates of the same parties that shut down the strike about how they will handle the problem, as though it just blossomed into being for no reason at all (certainly not as a direct result of their actions).

SD deserves to lose, but the only possible replacement on the table is even worse. And SD knows it - they are cheering on Alternativet getting above the mandate threshold, because they know that they will be obedient lapdogs and vote for Mette and not cause any waves.

Where is the communist socialism hellhole I was promised?

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Jan 15, 2005

Winklebottom posted:

who are all these people turning out for SF, the party known for doing absolutely gently caress all
They look like they're doing almost exactly the same as last time? In fact, all of the red block is basically unchanged from last time so far, with the exception of Radikale, which is getting massacred.

As of right now, compared to last election, it is looking like Moderaterne took 10 mandates from the red block (exclusively from Radikale), and 6 from the blue block as a whole.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

SplitSoul posted:

Exactly, so why do people keep voting for them?
No joke, probably because of the candidate quizzes on all of the major websites. SF candidates have a vast array of vaguely leftish notions, and there are a lot of them, so an SF candidate can be the top match for anyone taking the quiz that is not solidly in blue block.

Whatever intern programmed the weighting function for the DR kandidatquiz has probably had more of an impact on Danish political power than any single politician.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

With 80% reporting, there aren't really enough outstanding votes now for major shifts.

What I'd like to see from here are a few tenths of a percent shifts. Get DF from 2.7% to under the 2.0% spærregrænse. And for Alternativet, currently at 3.2%, to outperform Radikale, currently at 3.7%. Neither is particularly likely, but they could happen.

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Jan 15, 2005

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Unless they miscounted the first 80%, I'm not sure how you'd get 2.7% under 2.0%. Even with no more votes, they'd end at 2.2%.
It was 80% of the voting locations reporting, not 80% of the votes counted. Smaller locations tend to get their votes reported faster. The dramatic last-minute addition of red's 87th mandate came because locations in Nørrebro and Vesterbro were the very last to report.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

cinci zoo sniper posted:

Hmm, e-Boks will not longer forward mail from authorities?
You have to log in a second time inside of the e-Boks app with MitID specifically to receive posts from public authorities. The app also needs to be a somewhat recent version (this started around February, I think), so if you don't do automatic updates for your app, you may just not get them at all.

If you're not currently doubly logged in and your app is current, you should see a little banner at the bottom of your inbox saying to click on it to receive messages from public authorities. Your brain will automatically filter it out, thinking it's an advertisement.

Ask me how I learned this. :eng99:

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Everyone just get all-season tires and stop pretending that southern Scandinavia has harsh enough winters and warm enough summers that trying to min/max your tire performance is worth the effort and costs. Stay home or use public transport in the rare event of significant snow (do this even if you have winter tires).

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Remember all that excitement on election night, when red block got the 90th mandate, and then in the following days Mette told every party that thinks maybe immigrants are people that they can go gently caress themselves? And now Venstre and Liberal Alliance are in the driver's seat and making demands?

Votes already didn't count.

I would say she is worse at negotiating than Amy Wong buying a thundercougarfalconbird, but I think "reluctantly" caving to the right is what she wanted all along.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

SplitSoul posted:

But nobody could have predicted that! :downs:


Also, nobody could have predicted this:

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/ssi-corona-rs-virus-og-influenza-giver-betydelig-overdoedelighed-blandt-saarbare

Guess we're just gonna let it happen.
Sure, a bunch of people are going to die needlessly, but the health system won't be overloaded as they succumb to these preventable and horrific deaths. The important thing is that Lucy is able to wrap each chocolate and put it back on the conveyor belt without needing to stuff them in her mouth and shirt.

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Jan 15, 2005

Jon Pod Van Damm posted:

I don't know who sabotaged it. There are multiple suspects but Sweden or Denmark could have been involved or could know who did it. It would be interesting to find out why the Swedish government decided to keep the findings from their investigation a secret. What did the Swedish government know and when did they know it?
And then Denmark yells "Wildcard, bitches!", and jumps out of the back of the van.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Floating wind turbines are bleeding edge, with only a small smattering of test turbines out there. We'll probably see a lot more of them in the next few years, but basically all current installed offshore turbines are anchored to the seabed using monopiles or jackets.

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Jan 15, 2005

His Divine Shadow posted:

I really don't like the idea of making a large grid where we're all dependent on each other. It really reeks of treating electricity as a market commodity instead of what it is, a strategic resource. And in practice what this policy has lead to is our electricity production being less secure and more vulnerable to foreign intervention. The market thinks shortsightedly and choses the cheapest and easiest, which is gas + renewables. It also allows some nations to basically leech of others (italy for instance).

I think it's actually better to decentralize the grid and mandate instead that countries be as self-sufficient as they possibly can, instead of integrating the grid. I also don't really care for giving power to the germans after they shot themselves in the foot multiple times over despite being warned about it. I have no solidarity with Germany to be honest, they have for too long used the EU for their own gains while harming others for me to have that. I wouldn't care if we cut the cables tomorrow. I might care about german/EU repraissals though, but that's different.
A country that is part of a large, interconnected grid could still isolate itself easily, if it wanted to. It's not a problem to maintain the capacity for self-sufficiency for some theoretical and unlikely political situation at some unknown point in the future, while also taking advantage of all the benefits that a large stable grid brings in the meantime.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

As someone who has, at different times, been a regular shopper at SuperBrugsen, Meny, Netto, Lidl, Irma, Rema1000, Kvickly, and Føtex, here is my expert opinion: go to whatever's closest, they're all the loving same.

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Jan 15, 2005

Rust Martialis posted:

You are *so* wrong lol.

I don't like Meny or Irma as brands, they carry better quality stuff I like the others (looking at the truly poo poo tier stores like Netto) do not. Rema is *great* - if you have utterly zero interest in non-Danish cooking.
Nah. Might be a few items here and there that a particular brand has that the others don't, but they're all the same. If you stick to basic staples, even prices aren't all that different.

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

All else being equal, I'd go into Lidl because of their apple pockets. Pretty good if you eat them at room temperature, but amazing after a few minutes on a rister or in an air fryer. Like the McApple Pie of old, but in the superior triangle shape.

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Jan 15, 2005

Feliday Melody posted:

Great to eat.... above the sink, haha.


I ate one in my car once, and it was the worst idea ever.
I've known a few people who could eat flaky pastries without making a huge mess. I just assumed they were skilled practitioners of dark magick.

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Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

Late stage capitalism at its finest: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/maersk-har-modarbejdet-skulle-betale-mere-i-skat-af-overskud

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