So what is the latest gossip? Are people happy with the new machines? It doesn’t look as nice as the original platform…

Delar din erfarenhet. Min poäng är nog mest att på en Europeisk nivå så ser länder sällan till helheten utan alltför ofta endast till egna intressen; samarbeten funkar därför ofta bara när det finns tydlig balans. Så ett rent tysk-franskt samarbete skulle förmodligen urarta i maktkamp och byråkrati.

Tyskland och Frankrike har båda tämligen hierarkiska arbetskulturer, så i vissa avseenden har de mer gemensamt med varandra än med oss bångstyriga skandinaver.

Förvisso, men tror inte att Tyskland är att lita på inom försvarssammanhang; industriella eller konkreta. Tyska bolag har ofta ett kolonialt förhållningssätt till andra länder inom samarbeten om de tillåts leda. Synts tydligt på hur tyska bolag expanderat i Östeuropa eller när svenska blivit tyska.

That would be the version of a blue background and white cross with a yellow eight pointed alternating long and short compass rose waves in the upper left corner, but a centered version might actually be nicer. Not super nice illustrations, but it is what ChatGPT gave me… 🙃

Not esthetically pleasing and also isn’t following classical rules of tincture. If not the Kalmar Union flag, then how about something like “Azure, a cross argent, in the canton a mariner’s compass rose of four principal and four secondary points Or.”? Could work also if including more countries.

Glad to see that you at least aren’t openly hostile to the idea. I would personally prefer a pan-nordic confederation over only Finland and Sweden re-uniting, but I would be positive to the latter too; likely an improvement for both. Maybe let the Estonians in on it as well for a better balance? 💁‍♂️

Sounds like you people could do well with some constitutional updates over there. And if amendments aren’t enough, then a complete overhaul every 250 years or so wouldn’t be all that embarrassing either. 🇺🇸🗽

How about instead focusing on reforming the local financial markets and payments systems instead of focusing on that? Then that with some luck the demand for that nonsense might disappear or at least drop… 💁‍♂️

Would be convenient for calming down the Greenland issue I suppose. But why not just create a more clear multi-tiered framework for generic trade agreements that could be applied to any friendly nation and membership aspirants? Give them gold/bronze/silver tiered affiliations to chose from. EFTA++?

It already exist, the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB); just to nudge their mandate a bit in the right difection. www.nib.int/who-we-are/a...

The same thought has occurred to me. Something to crawl the project, aggregate things, and then spit it prettier back out. As a hobby project torn between the idea of either using Typst for managing template hierarchies and formatting, or reinventing the wheel by prototyping some new protocol… 🤓😋

Interesting that you write this today; my Sony XM5:s broke today. I advise against that model unless you only use them while sitting still at your desk! Great as long as they last, but mine broke without good reason, after less than three months and in the very same spot as for hordes of others. 🤬🎧🤬

Or maybe a ”Web 4.0”, 2.0 squared; the cesspool of negativity and fraud that Web 3.0 turned into after being taken over by crypto/blockchain peddlers makes it best forgotten… 💁‍♂️🕸️💡