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[Sakksen @Schelinux]

My wife beamed at me with pride and said, "Wow! I never thought our son would go that far!"

I said, "This trebuchet is amazing! Go get our daughter."

[Christer Sfeirكريستر @ChristerSfeir]

Demonstrationen utanför Karolinska var förstås ingen slump. Det handlade inte bara om att uttrycka en åsikt, utan om att lägga beslag på vårdens moraliska auktoritet. Budskapet var underförstått: Den som arbetar här förväntas stå på vår sida. Det är klassiskt aktivistiskt dominansbeteende, att ockupera en institution med högt förtroende och göra den till kuliss för den egna politiska agendan. Sjukhusentrén förvandlas från en plats för patienter till en scen för opinionsbildning. Nästa steg blir att den som inte deltar förväntas förklara sig. Det är så neutral mark eroderas: inte genom beslut, utan genom socialt och symboliskt tryck…

[VEO @vrexec]

There’s this recurring trope that Europe is overregulated and the US is this sort of free-wheeling world where anything goes.

As with everything, the reality is far more nuanced. I used to believe this trope myself… until I actually lived in Europe and experienced it.

In Europe, regulation often operates at the collective level.. think healthcare, labor protections, food standards, infrastructure. These regulatory frameworks are heavy by design in that they create stability by increasing broad citizen-level confidence in them actually functioning.

But at the individual level, daily life can be far looser. There are playgrounds in Europe that would be illegal in the US due to their “danger.” People rarely wear helmets.. not even toddlers.. on bicycles in many places. Kids climb trees higher and parents barely care or even notice. Farms are open.. kids can climb all over haystack mountains and nobody asks if their farmer is insured.

There is a playground in the NL of *literal* piles of discarded shipping pallets and construction debris with rusty jagged nails sticking out everywhere… and little kids climb all over them with hammers connecting random pieces together. One false step and you’re slicing an artery or losing an eye. Yet there is barely any adult supervision, parents don’t care, and nobody is signing any paperwork or waiving liability.

We bring American friends there and they literally cannot believe what they’re seeing. And they don’t let their kids.

Activities proceed on the assumption that risk is visible, understood, and partly if not mostly your responsibility.

Menanwhile… in the US we paradoxically flip this culture.

Collectively, we resist broad social regulation writ large. Individually, though, life is wrapped in micro-regulation everywhere… liability waivers, warning labels, signage, insurance restrictions, endless legal disclaimers. Every activity sees to have some paperwork. Everyone is covering for something.

This is a cultural thing. The US actually uses the legal system as a cover for social risk-sharing.

In much of Europe, the downside of injury or bad luck is partially absorbed by healthcare systems, disability supports, and social insurance. The cost of risk is basically capped for you. The system carries some of the shock.

In the US, harm can be financially catastrophic. When something goes wrong, someone has to pay, and courts become the primary mechanism for redistributing that risk after the fact… not “the government.”

The you had to layer in contingency-based personal injury law and jury trials, and blaming someone else for your problems becomes economically logical. There’s little downside to suing, meaningful upside if you win, and enormous unpredictability for defendants.. hence why insurance costs have become comically absurd.

So what happens…. Businesses respond long before anything reaches court by engineering out risk in daily life… more warnings, more forms, fewer “at your own risk” type playgrounds or other environments.

So Europe can feel more regulated on paper… but in actual lived experience that matters to your day to day existenxe, in the US we are often navigating a far narrower acceptable window of risk.

In many ways, the US is the most highly regulated place in the entire world, by far, it’s just not “the government” doing the regulating.

[Christoffer Jonsson @kurrejonsson]

Sååå klockrent av Ulf Kristersson!

[Rob @_ROB_29]

The next time you dislike your life, remember it's all about perspective. I have a friend who reads 2-3 books a week, works out twice a day, has no financial worries, and has people who want to have sex with him all the time. And yet he constantly complains about how much he hates prison.

[RitaGamer @RitaGamer]

Every year, I like to take a moment to thank the man who made this holiday possible.

Have a great 4th of July, folks!

[Lj Priest (Formerly Trader Jill) @RealTraderJill]

I love everything about this!

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

so wholesome 🩷

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming.

Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.

1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.

2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.

3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.

4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it.

5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.

6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country's imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.

7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left's reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.

8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.

9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.

10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.

[Adam Danieli @adamdanieli]

Socialdemokraternas riggande av den svenska spelmarknaden har nu slagit tillbaka med full kraft. Men faktum är att det inte är första gången S driver ett korrupt bolag.

Häng med på den fantastiska sagan om sossarnas reklamimperium – ARE-bolagen.🧵

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Instagram comments are actually insane 😭

[Carla Filt 🇸🇪 🇵🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @HALLONSA]

Är det okey att sprida judars egna judeskämt?

[“paula” @paularambles]

my main theory for why atlassian products look and behave the way they do is because the people responsible for them are twenty minutes away from places like this

[Jonas Cronholm-Lundin @phraggel]

Kolla taggarna!! 😅

[Susanna Silfverskiöld @susannasilfver]

Dagens socialdemokrati sammanfattad på 28 sekunder.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Oxford University mathematician reveals how to avoid spilling your coffee ☕️

[📹 Oxford Sparks]
https://t.co/p2kE3dTdkd

[Peter Sellei @PeterSellei]

Direkt från collegevärlden, här är Columbia Untisemity:

[Jared Huckaby, Prefers to Like Things @discolando]

Everyone should learn a foreign language. 👍

CREDIT: @Mr_Tov1 from his Instagram.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Mind blown.