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Cake day: August 16th, 2023
  • SleepyWheel@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.world•Warring drug gangs turn up the heat on Sweden’s governmentEnglish
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    9 months ago

    There were 103 murders in Greater London last year, which also has a population of just under 10 million and of course is a dense urban environment with a lot of inequality. Of those, 67 were stabbed and only 8 were shot.

    Bomb/grenade attacks are almost unheard of in the UK, outside of terrorist incidents.

    I don’t mean to attack Sweden which is an admirable country in many ways, and I wish the UK would adopt many of its policies. It’s precisely because it’s such a well run country that the increase in violent crime is so shocking

  • SleepyWheel@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.world•Warring drug gangs turn up the heat on Sweden’s governmentEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Yeah idk, I have family in Helsinborg. A car bomb outside elderly relatives flat - in a nice part of a nice town - someone shot dead in another relative’s street, the police station was attacked with a hand grenade… Last year when we arrived to visit a main shopping street was blocked off after a bombing in a flat. Yeah it’s still a nice country and I haven’t literally witnessed any of these incidents, but criminal violence honestly feels closer there than at home in London

  • SleepyWheel@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.world•Dutch embassy warned that Israel uses "disproportionate force" in GazaEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Israel “intends to deliberately cause massive destruction to infrastructure and civilian centers” while taking large numbers of civilian casualties for granted. That violates the laws of war, the memo states.

    I guess you’re arguing the memo only accuses them of intending to destroy “civilian centres”, not civilians. But "“taking large numbers of civilian casualties for granted” is part of the intent. Israel is the arsonist who knows there are children sleeping in the house.

    My view is that the Dutch are, in diplomatic language, saying that.

  • SleepyWheel@sh.itjust.workstoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Will people respond better if you say you're teetotal, or straight edge?English
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    2 years ago

    I actually think it can be harder to communicate moderation. I have a friend who’s a recovering alcoholic and when he says “I don’t drink” he rarely gets any pushback.

    Whereas I do drink sometimes, and even get drunk very occassionally, but can go weeks without it. Some people have trouble with the idea that I drank one time they saw me but are choosing not to the next time. It’s a bit like the way some straight or gay people can’t wrap their heads around the concept of bisexuality… “which one are you? Straight or gay? Teetotal or drinker?” 😂