The panels are glued on. The glue fails when the temperature changes.

I can’t believe that this car is legal to drive in public.

The idea that you’re suggesting is called union busting. It only works in USA and very few sectors in Europe where sector agreements are not mandatory by law.

I’d argue that it also doesn’t work in USA, since the companies end up spending more money on avoiding an agreement than what they’d save on salaries. They also waste a lot of time and resources on the individual bargaining, which provides no value for neither the company or the employee.

If the employers pay people more to not join a union, the union might even say: “Mission achieved without a fight. See ya’ll next time inflation catches up.”

because of pay incentives to leave the union

I believe you missed the part about how the employers negotiate. They don’t. Their union does. A single employer can pay all the money it wants to its own employees to make them quit the union, but the employer is still bound by the agreement that is made on their behalf by all the other companies in the same employer union. They will never be able to agree to pay off an entire sector to do what you suggest, because these companies are competitors. Unlike the businesses that are competing in a race to the bottom by lowering wages, the companies that have union agreements are competing in a race to attract the best employees. It’s not uncommon for businesses to pay more or give better terms than the union agreement describes. That is their edge against their competitors. The only businesses interested in “escaping” the minimum pay are the unsuccesful bottom feeders.

Technically, yes, on paper, they do expire, gets cancelled and renewed every 2-3 years.

In practice, no. They can’t not be renewed. If the employees don’t accept the agreement there will be a strike, and if the employers don’t accept the agreement they can make a lock-out. If the strike or lock-out leads nowhere, and society comes to a halt, the government can sign a law to require the work to resume on previous terms.

The individual employer has no more say in the negotiations than an individual employee. The negotiations happen between the employer union and the employee union.

Keep in mind that some companies actually want to have a union agreement. It’s really only the most unprofessionally run and privately owned companies who believe they can somehow save money from not having a proper agreement with their employees.

Professionel companies focus on making money instead of wasting resources fighting their own employees.

In my case, even that wouldn’t matter. The only way for an employer to get out of a union agreement is to shut down the business completely.

Windows 11 sleep mode is causing all kinds of issues for me too on one laptop. Especially WiFi.

It shuts down WiFi to save power and never wakes it up regardless of what power save settings say. I’m also using a cellular WiFi and have to disable one of the modes in the netadapter for that to even work, but the driver keeps resetting the choices made in the device manager and such. Complete garbage.

It’s my daughters brand new laptop for school. She needs to open the lid and use the pc for browser applications. My youngest doesn’t have her own laptop, so I gave a beaten up 20 year old laptop and installed Mint, because windows 10 couldn’t even boot properly with only 4 gb of ram. She does the same thing. Open the lid, use the browser. It always works.

This is not a special case. This is not me being to dumb to use it or too smart and demanding. I think it’s perfectly reasonable for anyone to expect a laptop to function as intended when opening the lid and using the browser. Windows just doesn’t do that.

De har også spurgt Holland, Sverige og Finland. Sikkert flere. Finnerne har givet samme svar som Danmark.

Det giver vel sig selv at intet enkeltstående europæisk land pludseligt kan trække millioner af ekstra æg ud af hønerne,

Der er ikke nogen tvivl om at producenterne gerne vil levere æg til USA hvis prisen er rigtig, men jeg tror de fleste vil tøve med at investere i en øget produktion, fordi det forhåbentlig er en midlertidig situation, og der er risiko for at et andet land f.eks. Tyrkiet går all-in på at få en deal med USA.

They can’t cut union rates.

It’s always going to be more difficult challenging the “winning” strategy.

Democrats seem to be more open to change and internal democracy.

Whatever shed of ideology is left in either party is also pointed in different directions. Roughly described, the ideologies are (supposed to be) that left wing is taking ideas from the masses and sending them upwards through democratic elections, while right wing only accepts top down decision making. Seeing the many “Trump regret” clips, it’s pretty clear that his policies did not originate from his voter base.

Another case of point is when politicians flip flop and change party. Democrats allow right wing politicians to infiltrate their party dragging them to the right, whereas you don’t see someone like Bernie Sanders joining GOP to drag them towards social democracy.

This meme is what happens when rodents eat beans after midnight.

… that is why you need to join and elect other politicians.

I’m not American but I will promise to support you if it comes to that.

The workers unionisation in my country against land owners in the 1800s would not have succeeded without international support. I’d gladly chip in for anyone attempting to do the same.

So…if that’s your only option… when are you going to start a revolution?

I’ve seen a lot of similar comments lately. People wanting to start 3rd parties etc, because the Democrats suck so bad.

Yes, it’s true. They suck, but if you’re going to beat the Republicans, you’ll need to look at what Trump did. He didn’t start a 3rd party. No, he took the existing party and changed it into whatever the fuck it is now.

You need to change the democratic party from within too, because 3rd parties will always lose because of the first past the post. 3rd parties also have a tendency to branch out, because quite frankly, not being Democrat or Republican isn’t enough of a politic in itself, and you guys don’t get along well on anything else. The Republicans had this issue for a long time until Trump came along providing them with something that united their voters more than the previous politic of simply being not Democrats.

The democratic party already has a framework for running politics and they actually have some kind of democracy within that allows people to change it. Yeah, it will require a lot of work to get enough people engaged in politics to make the change, but it is absolutely much less than what is required to start a successful 3rd party.

it’s necessary so the Saudis can livestream all the blowjobs and asslickling happening in the oval office.

Jeg tror forskellen i antallet af arbejdspladser for cola tapperi kan tælles på én hånd. Vestfyen skal ikke bruge hundredvis af mand for dække efterspørgslen på Jolly og Carlsberg fyrer heller ikke hundredevis. Det er jo maskiner som laver det hele. Carlsberg kan i princippet også bare fylde dansk vand i flaskerne og sælge det i stedet for, så de behøver ikke bekymre sig om fyringer.

McDonalds er noget andet. De kan blive nødt til at skære i bemandingen, mens de lokale grillbarer og Sunset kan blive nødt til at ansætte.

Det er vel også primært unge mennesker som ikke er super afhængige af om deres studiejob er hos McDonalds eller i Netto.

Danske virksomheder burde hellere fokusere på at finde andre markeder end USA. Det er jo ekstremt usikkert derovre.

De nuværende tendenser med boycotts og tilvalg af Europæiske varer stopper ikke i nærmeste fremtid uanset hvad der sker i amerikansk politik.

Hvis de vælger at følge anbefalingerne fra Dansk Industri for at føje Trump, så kan det have den konsekvens at de kommer bagud fra start på de egentlige markeder fordi de ikke har fulgt udviklingen, og der er jo heller ingen garantier for at de bliver belønnet fra amerikansk side på nogen som helst måde.

Retorikken bør i højere grad være baseret på europæiske værdier. Det vil være mere sikkert for den fremtidige handel.

Easy. We often use idioms for comparisons.

One old way would be: “Trump and Hitler are both 2/3 yards from one piece” which means “They’re cut from the same (bad) fabric”.

Fabric was cut in an old measurement"alen" which was 2 foot or 2/3 yards, so simply stating the length would be understood as fabric, similar to how everyone knows that a 2x4s is a piece of wood and such.

English also has words like dozen (12) and score (20).

I guess it came from the physical counting in trading. Imagine counting 96 small items. It makes sense to group them into scores and then count the scores. 1 score 2 score 3 score 4 score and a half score. Then there are few remaining that didn’t fit it neatly in scores and then counted last. That’s a total of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 plus the 4 and a half scores.

Lack of cash in a crisis might be an issue, but cash itself is not the solution.

In a complete breakdown, cash would only work for a few days and there’d be all kinds of other more serious issues than someone not being able to pay.

Securing a domestic infrastructure of power and network is obviously crucial, but I think it’s worth remembering that people survived just fine before it was possible to swipe a card, even in times or places where cash was useless. Food stamps and ration sheets were used all over the world in times of crisis. I’d be surprised if the Swedish government doesn’t already have such a plan for the worst case scenario.

Sure, go ahead and save some cash in your doomsday bunker, but I bet you’ll be eating the cans of tuna long before the cash bills provides anything of actual value.