Thanks! Was just reading about the Norwegians in the news so I don’t know about everything, but I think the voting was determined before the release of the Epstein documents and the trial of Marius. It was some parties on the far left who wanted to have the voting and they knew that they would not be close to a majority.

I’m from Sweden and people here like our king and also Victoria so I’m sure they will also handle a lot before there are any serious discussions about going for a president instead of a king.

Thanks, I didn’t know it increased that rapidly. However, I still think some people was buying gold after they saw that it increased a lot and they could have lost money.

Seems like the prices are increasing again so it was a good call to buy more.

Not only did she send texts to Epstein, she also visited him and stayed in his house in Florida. And all this was after Epstein was convicted in 2008.

They had a debate and voting in the Norwegian parliament today about the future for the royal family. 84% voted to keep the royal family.

It’s a nice guide, I used it last year when switching on several apps.

The second biggest purchasing was noble metals, which must have hurt with the big drop during the latest week.

In Sweden, the Central Bureau of Statistics publish the import and export from all countries. So far the numbers for 2025 has not been published. There it will be possible to see how the trade between Sweden and USA changed during 2025.

I assume similar statistics are available for other countries.

During the last weeks I have seen in the news that the wines from USA decreased 20% and the travel to USA decreased around 20-30 % during last year. And since the dollar became cheaper the normal behaviour would be that the travel to USA increased.

To join EU, a country needs to comply with several conditions. The conditions for economical and political stability are OK, I assume. But Canada would need to adapt to EU laws. How big is the gap between the laws in Canada and what EU requires?

Is it anything that stops EU and Canada from agreeing on free trade, open borders etc. even if Canada is not a part of EU? That would be weaker since one side can elect a weirdo and suddenly stop all agreements but it could be faster to implement and Canada could join later.

They have learned to say the right things for the voters, but they have not understood what it means and are continuing like before because of that.

Yeah, I also understood the headline but not the other text.

Mandatory reference to Protondb, which lists how well every game performs on Linux. 84 % of the top 100 games on Steam are rated as gold or platinum.

Yeah, more trains and public transport will reduce the need for cars.

Deepl translation to English:

Dutch petition: Stop big tech and make the Netherlands digitally sovereign before the end of 2027

The US has become an unreliable partner under the Trump administration. Yet our government, healthcare and education still rely on American Big Tech. Through this petition, we demand digital independence: invest in Dutch and European infrastructure, protect our data and build our own technology. https://stopbigtech.petities.nl/

Sounds like something every European country should go forward with.

Northvolt could never ramp up the production and Lyten has some issues which might cause Northvolt to go bankrupt again.

During the autumn, when Lyten started to hire people, they violated the money laundering laws.

Some weeks ago Lyten had not raised the necessary funds for completing the purchase.

Way too many people, around 35% uses Apple as their phone.

94 % of all Swedish municipalities are using Microsoft’s services and in most of the cases it is cloudbased. And still some people think we should stop shifting to European services.

The biggest threat is therefore not that we use American clouds. The biggest threat is division. That we deliberately reduce our digital capacity for political reasons.

Good news, but we will be more dependent on Chinese batteries than we were on Russian oil. We will continue to be dependent on China for the rare earth metals even if an European battery factory like Northvolt is successful.

The Italian police wont allow that because of pressure from the US and Meloni who likes Trump.

I’m not sure if it is applicable in other countries but at least in Sweden a reasonable switch would be:

Cote d’Or -> Lindt or Anthon Berg Milka -> Fazer or Tony´s chocolonely Toblerone -> Fazer Häagen-Dazs -> Lejonet och björnen or Sia glass

I’m thinking that other countries might rush to withdraw their gold even if Germany get their gold. Because Trump might very well say something on social media about how awful Germany is when they are taking back their gold and that he maybe should stop it. Which could trigger other countries since no one will be the last one with large gold reserves in USA.