Totally Random

People just don't appreciate all the artistic skill involved in thinking of words and writing them down. It's not easy you know.

Forget about words. Thinking is hard, period.

(Sorry, I've been reading the news)

That sounds nice. Swedish elections are on Sept 11th and it seems the largest left wing party is moving further and further to the right. As are all the already right wing parties. And they're competing about making the least democratic suggestions possible.

Language tests and possibly mandatory preschool for kids with foreign parents. But not for kids with Swedish parents.
Using DNA samples from babies to catch criminals. (Not sure how that's intended to work, but I think we already have rules that prevents us from storing the DNA of everyone born.)
Letting cops search premises even when they suspect no crime (which I don't get... if they suspect nothing, what cause do they have to make a search? )
Exile whole families if one person in the family commits a crime
Consider things such as sexual orientation and religion as invalid grounds for asylum (apparently you can choose your sexual orientation these days - or maybe they just think people should hide it if they live in a country where their particular preference is punishable by death) - Luckily even the other right wingers objected to this suggestion.

And as of today there are only two (small) parties that are still saying no to nuclear power. We held a vote in the 80ies where it was decided we'd get rid of it, but... more and more people think it's "clean" and "safe", though I'm willing to bet they don't want the power plants or the waste sites in their own neighborhood.

I just hate how opinion seems to sway with the wind... Just now, we're short of electricity so everyone wants more nuclear power in spite of the fact that we can't possibly have that until way after the current issues have passed anyway. And there's a war in Ukraine which is relatively close, so suddenly the military needs more money and soldiers. The parties are competing about suggesting varied increases in the number of soldiers while the Military itself is trying to point out that they don't actually need any more than what has already been decided... The politicians want more cops and longer punishments while "Criminal Care" (or whatever you'd call it) points out that the prisons are already full and they're lacking enough staff to handle it and it all becomes unsafe.

But Tjernobyl and Fukushima are forgotten and apparently nobody worries about Zaporizjzja either. Nope, nuclear is perfectly safe even if Russia apparently is dangerous enough that we need a stronger military, but you know, they'd never shoot at OUR nuclear power plants.

And meanwhile the world is drying up, burning and flooding all at once, but why care about climate change? There are still a percentage or so of scientists who claim it might not be caused by humans.



Sorry for the rant.

 

27 new emails? Why do I keep getting bunches of emails like this, that say they arrived days ago when I check my email every day!?