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All in all, it cost me around $80,000 to get out of the country and get all of our stuff back. I suspect it cost me around $200,000 in lost revenues, having to stop everything on a dime and build a new life, house, and career. But to be a man is to be responsible for all things.

This is the story of how I nearly lost everything to activist Swedish Social Services. In 2017, my family and I were living in Sweden. I had lived there before as a single man. We thought it was the safe, stable, open society everyone in the West keeps praising. What happened instead nearly destroyed us. I am a former Marine with a couple combat deployments to Afghanistan (this detail matters) and was part of Marine Corps Forces European Command in Germany. I worked for Amazon Web Services with a Nordic focus, staged in Stockholm I managed teams across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. We lived in the countryside, paid taxes, followed every rule. We even insisted on speaking the local language. We tried to be the ideal expat family.

@clansman77 @bankertobuilder You're new here, aren't you?

@bankertobuilder Please stop with these fakes (no parking for a Target) and high rises where there is zero demand or prove you are not fake by listing the name of the town. If you really did this, the location would be the first thing you named for marketing.

It's sad to see former thriving towns in Middle America decay No one wants to move here Real estate is dirt cheap So I bought up land and redeveloped one Now we have hundreds of new citizens moving in, property values are rising again, and the residents have access to luxury amenities like a brand new Target This is the template for what we're going to do all over the Midwest

@dilanesper Leftists have had a lot of practice tearing down statues over the past few years.

It is morbidly funny that we take 25 years to build a transit station but we can get all the Cesar Chavez memorials down in 12 hours.

@lorddrey The Suez Canal is entirely within Egypt. The Panama Canal is entirely within Panama. The Bosporus Strait is entirely within Turkey. The St Lawrence Seaway is mostly within Canada but partly shared with the US. The Strait of Hormuz is not entirely within Iran.

Iran has kept the Straight of Hormuz toll-free for decades despite being vilified, sanctioned, and Isolated. Egypt charges $300,000 – $700,000+ per transit through the Suez Canal. Ultra-large container ships or tankers can exceed $1 million. Panama charges $150,000 – $450,000 per transit. Large Neopanamax ships cost up to $500,000+ to pass the Panama Canal. Turkey charges fees for the Bosporus Strait. Canada charges fees for the St Lawrence Seaway. The United States charges for the St Lawrence Seaway. But Iran is a bad country.

@WallStreetMav A real hospice wing or an imaginary California hospice wing?

Congress needs a hospice wing soon. 1. Nancy Pelosi - 85 2. Maxine Waters - 87 3. Bernie Sanders - 84 4. Mitch McConnell - 83 5. James Clyburn - 85 6. Angus King - 81 7. Chuck Grassley - 92 8. Hal Rogers - 88 9. James Risch - 82 10. Steny Hoyer - 86 Term limits?

@problogger Tried it again and now it's loading. Not sure what was going on before.

@problogger I can't get it to work. When I click "Sign in", nothing happens.

I've been quietly building a Bible reading tracker — it's called Chapter by Chapter. Free, simple, works in your browser, no account needed. If you're trying to read more of the Bible and want something to mark your progress, this might help. Find it at bible-trackz.pages.dev

@SAshworthHayes Hey, man, price of living in a vibrant, diverse city.

Got on a train this morning with a man who spent the journey screaming threats and spitting in the face of someone he took a dislike to for "looking at him". Deeply unpleasant.

@problogger ☦️ I like this!

@DanFriedman81 I assume his shirt continues "...CAN CONVICT ME."

This guy gets arrested so much he has multiple mugshots where he is wearing the same outfit. He was on public transit with a hammer in each hand screaming about how he was going to kill white people, and he is currently roaming free in Chicago. Why do they keep letting him go?

@PlatoonPod "I forgot my wallet...but I do have a bag of brand new Goth clothing."

How exactly does one come up with this business plan?

@Civixplorer My favorite part of this graph is how it points out that English is no longer the national language of the UK.

🎶 Do Europeans listen to music in their national language?

@Chlopodo_ What that half-closed E brings to mind:

Terrible orthography idea: In languages with a letter <ɛ>, just use <E> for its majuscule rather than the giant-lowercase epsilon. Then invent a closed <E> to use for capital <e>. You know, like how Turkish insists on having dot-consistency between capital and lowercase i/ı.

@haugejostein For your convenience, here's a link where you can read up on it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_…

@haugejostein The building is blocked on other sides by walls, concrete barriers, etc. Perhaps you're not old enough to remember the Oklahoma City bombing 31 years ago. If you were, you'd understand what a truck bomb can do to a building, and then you'd understand why this is necessary.

I live right next to the US embassy in London. They built an actual moat around it. Who builds a moat around their embassy? Countries that do bad things and expect retaliation. Or countries who do diplomacy as if we’re in the Middle Ages.

@SrenK6 @TheCinesthetic Definitely agreed on Airplane and Top Secret. The Naked Gun...tried to watch that recently with my family, and throughout the whole thing it felt like the timing was off. I felt like I was having to make an effort to laugh.

@TheCinesthetic Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker has a filmography that is up there with the greatest. I mean Airplane, Top Secret and The Naked Gun are probably all in top-10 comedies of all time

Anyone dismissing comedy should take a look at Top Secret! (1984), where an entire sequence was performed backwards and then reversed in post, creating one of the most inventive gags ever put on screen.

@cremieuxrecueil Are there _any_ drug trials that actually compare to the prevailing drug rather than to a placebo? I had the impression that companies prefer testing vs. placebos because when they test vs. an existing drug they might lose.

I think what we have to do is clear: Semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) needs to be treated as the standard of care for weight loss and it needs to be an active comparator in trials going forward. Everyone knows these drugs work, so we can't do inert placebos anymore.

@AdamDraper Here's the attempted domain takeover case, for people who are curious and don't mind a bit of legalese: wipo.int/amc/en/domains…

accidently typed in gail.com instead of gmail, and its my new favorite website.

@GigaBasedDad Raised Churches of Christ. Flirted briefly with Messianic Judaism. Now Eastern Orthodox for over a quarter-century.

Let's have fun here What Christian denomination are you right now? Under what Christian denomination were you raised? Curious to see the results

@cremieuxrecueil Hmmm, I remember this story line from House.

This is not good: People have learned that GLP-1s are really effective, so if they're not losing weight, they know they're in the placebo group. So these people getting placebos are getting mad and leaving the trials.