False equivalence.

I don’t get it? Why are these protests not anti government? Do they consider everything else that is going on OK?
Cutting healthcare, the obvious corruption, and destroying the American economy in multiple ways, and making Americans poorer by devaluing the US Dollar.
But apparently Americans are OK with losing their democracy, and people working 2 jobs living in poverty without healthcare!

Protesting ICE is of course a place to start, but despite the protests ICE is still active in Minnesota!

Unfortunately USA is not a free country, and secession is illegal.
History shows that military force will be used in case states try to secede.

Is it fair that immigrants are punished twice? IDK, but this is what it seems most people want.
If the sentence is only 1 year, is it really that serious though?
“Simple” violence is 3 years. And we recently had a case where the sentence for rape was 16 months, despite the woman admittedly never said no, but it was rape because the man couldn’t prove she said yes. Rape is up to 8 years, so it is very unlikely to only get 1 year for rape. I can’t imagine being innocent and going to jail without evidence.

IDK I think this sounds harsh, especially considering we have had cases with fake rape accusations, one woman alone had 4 men in jail for rape, but it was revealed by a family member of one of the victims that she had admitted to her it was a lie while she was being recorded!

These cases are not clear cut, and I hate that innocent people can go to jail completely innocent and without evidence!!!
Now immigrants risk being thrown out of the country too, even when they are innocent!

I don’t think I like this development.

Not an expert, but logically the shorter chain makes it easier to handle and relatively more precise.
A longer chain however, allows for a greater swing, resulting in a much heavier impact.
That however can also be achieved using a heavier ball on the flail. But that makes it heavier to lift and carry.
Using multiple balls however seem counterproductive, as it will make the flail harder to use compared to the impact you can achieve.
I suppose the idea is to make it harder to defend against, but if the defender has a shield, I think multiple balls are utterly inefficient.

So as far as I can tell there is no single optimal balance. It depends on the persons strength and agility, and I suppose it also depends on what type of enemy it should be used against. For a heavily armored opponent, a longer chain will be better to smash hard against the heavy armor, and the armor will make the opponent relatively slower to avoid attacks.

In short I think the bottom left or the one above seems best all round, if you want something more precise, other weapons will probably be preferable.
The best would probably be the bottom right, but with one of the balls and chains from the top left.

An advantage with the chain is to avoid a hard hit straining your hand and wrist. And that part can also be achieved with a short chain. But the chain also has the function that it can pass a defense that would block a cane. If you block the chain, the chain will bend and allow the ball to continue a short distance further. With a shorter chain the flail is easier to defend against.

WTF?!
I know Sweden is way more liberal with what is considered street legal than Denmark,

systemet kräver i sin nuvarande form ständig förarövervakning

Translation: The system in its current form requires constant driver supervision

So it’s more like “assisted self driving” which of course is an oxymoron.

I åratal har Tesla sålt funktionen ”total självkörningsförmåga”

Translation: For years Tesla has sold the function “fully autonomous (self) driving.”

I wonder why they are allowed to advertise that?
But it seems it is following EU regulation, so I guess we can’t blame Sweden for it. But those shitty Tesla cars shouldn’t be street legal in EU even without FSD.

45% Failure rate!

A 4 year old model Y revision just reached the age of mandatory safety check here in Denmark.

Article in Danish:
https://fdm.dk/nyheder/nyt-om-trafik-og-biler/tesla-skandalen-fortsaetter-naesten-hver-anden-tesla-model-y-dumper-til-syn

Translation of the headline:
The TESLA Scandal continues, almost every 2nd Tesla model Y flunk safety check.

The previous record was held Buy Tesla model 3 with about a third of the cars failing!
The average for all brands is about 7%.
And a similar priced VW ID.4 is less than 2%. LESS THAN!
Without question the VW is way better quality, and even the cheapest Chinese cars we can get here have way lower failure rate than Tesla!

So very obviously Tesla and safety are not things that go together.

This is what many of us warned against already 20 years ago. It’s one of the inherent dangers of ALL proprietary software.
Back then most people didn’t believe or understand it, now that such dangers are out in the open, nothing continues to happen about it.
Everybody knows today, but (almost) nobody gives a shit.

No reason to worry, everything is going according to plan.
-White House

I’ll never forgive the assholes that voted this piece of shit into office

You shouldn’t. These are the new Nazis. Sociopaths completely without respect for anything.

White house getting cold feet? 🤣🤣🤣

False. Europe is working on providing security guarantees for Ukraine without USA.
USA is near irrelevant for Ukraine now, they are merely a weapons dealer, with the audacity to charge extra when the coalition of the willing are buying weapons for Ukraine.

So just piss off USA, we don’t need you anymore. Maybe come back in 3 years and maybe we can speak again, but things will never go back to how they were.

I’m never gonna drink a coca cola with American whiskey or bourbon again. Or for that matter use anything American I can do without. American society is collectively mentally ill, and USA cannot be trusted.

Absolutely he has already done that. And I just saw a new speech he held for Canadians about the government plans for 1926, and there was a lot of things to help the average Canadians economy. It seems like a very active and qualified government that is actually working for the people.

Yes in the speech he mention that Canada has made 20 international deals on trade and/or security.
For instance Canada has made both a trade deal with EU, but Canada has also joined the EU SAFE partnership. Which is about development and appropriation of military equipment. Designed to speed up defense independence of USA.
But 20 such agreements in a year is insane, because usually such agreements take many years to negotiate. And although some had been negotiated for years already, it is no coincidence that they all suddenly fall in place within a year of Trump taking the presidency of USA.

Absolutely Trump is the reason other countries don’t trust the American economy anymore, I’m from Denmark and we have already had Pension funds selling off American assets.

The point was that despite USA being the bigger economy, and threatening Canada almost constantly for the entirety of 2025, it’s very well done of the Canadian government and people to withstand that pressure, and not just being able to stabilize the economy against it, but to even grow the economy at a reasonable rate, AND at the same time keeping the Canadian dollar strong.

But yes I think for many Greenland was the last straw for many, he simply went too far when he threatened to invade Greenland claiming nobody can stop him.
The Greenland situation may also have been a factor in why Mark Carney made the speech he did. As USA invading Greenland would obviously destroy NATO, and some claim it’s already destroyed by the mere threat by USA to invade a trustworthy unprovoking long term NATO ally completely without a shadow of a valid reason.

Awesome, I’ve seen bloggers warn that the amazing speech held by Mark Carney at Davos put the Canadian economy at risk, because it angered Trump.
But he was 100% right, and the invitation that Canada is the international reliable partner, looks a lot like when Ursula von der Leyen declared EU open for business, has probably hit home internationally way better than Trumps threats of taxing Canadian goods 100% as punishment for making a deal with China.

It’s absolutely amazing that Canada is able to hold their own against USA, and not be harmed much by it, while the American economy seems on the brink of tanking, and already has lower employment rates/job creation than before Trump became President.

Actually at 100% humidity the highest survivable temperature for a human is 35 C° wet bulb temperature.
But that is with everything else being perfect, being healthy, in the shade, and perfectly hydrated, and zero physical activity.
A more realistic maximum survivable wet bulb temperature is closer to 30 C°. But 35 C° is the absolute maximum, where above that everybody dies.

American-controlled CPUs

and fucking invest into not needing to use American-controlled CPUs as every single one of them contains a backdoor.

China has been working intensely for at least 2 decades to catch up, and they are still about a decade behind!

Netherlands has ASML which is a huge advantage for European independent manufacturing, but even with that it’s an insanely expensive investment to make a realistic competitor to AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom etc. because they have loads of patents that are hard to avoid, and they have decades of know how. This is not even accounting for the software infra structure that would have to be built almost from scratch.
Chip production is a global enterprise, and even USA isn’t independent anymore. They depend on ASML and TSMC for their most popular products in AI, Smartphones, servers, laptops and desktops. And more and more Arm is taking over from Intel/AMD.

What we may be able to do would be using Arm and have TSMC help us with manufacturing. But to make such a project succeed is not an easy thing, we had European computer companies in the 70’s and 80’s that were heavily subsidized by governments that dominated home markets for several European countries, and they essentially all failed against international competition.
So what we risk if we were required to use a European product funded by EU/European governments would be to have to use an overpriced under-performing technology, that would be a millstone around the neck of all of Europe, making Europe not catch up, but instead fall further behind.

He would just have proved he was drinking water with something salty.

Your description of circumstances are lacking, but what you imply is impossible and ridiculous.