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CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPto Europe@feddit.org•Tesla Sales Plummet 80.7% in Sweden Amid Elon Musk BacklashEnglish20·2 days agoPaywall? https://archive.is/nygWP
Do you enjoy dark and cold weather?
https://www.thelocal.se/20201103/how-americans-can-move-to-sweden-usa-permit
CAVOK@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency will give €384,000.00 to OpenStreetMapEnglish74·5 days agoOSM is a wonderful project and something I support.
Help out by mapping your local area with the StreetComplete app. It’s like PokemonGo, but actually helpful.
CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPto Europe@feddit.org•Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson saysEnglish01·10 days agoNot sure what that is, but the place I’m going to later today has a common toilet for both sexes. Sinks and bins are common, then there are lockable booths. Works well enough, at least for me as a CIS man.
CAVOK@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Rock The Spring Release – OpenMandriva5·11 days agoNice to see that Mandriva is still alive and kicking. Used it when it was still “Mandrake”. Started as a recompile of RedHat optimized for 586, iirc.
What’s the USP for Mandriva these days?
So it’s another bing front-end. Like ecosia. Aren’t there any european indexes?
CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPto Europe@feddit.org•Sweden sees strongest support for joining the Euro in 15 yearsEnglish0·2 months agoThey could do it because we were a small currency, and it it didn’t quite work, at least not the way it worked before. The currency is now “floating” against other currencies which it wasn’t back then, and we had a recession at the time. I agree that Sweden would be giving up a few tools in the economic toolbox, but on the other hand it gains a few others. I can’t say which ones are more valuable because I’m not an economist. I suspect you’re not either.
CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPto Europe@feddit.org•Sweden sees strongest support for joining the Euro in 15 yearsEnglish0·2 months agoWhile that’s certainly true, we also had businesses speculate against the Swedish currency in the early 1990s, driving up interest rates to over 500% for a few days in order to stop the outflow of capital.
So there are arguments for adopting the Euro too. But like I said, I’m not informed enough to say which is better. It’s a very complex issue.
CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPto Europe@feddit.org•Sweden sees strongest support for joining the Euro in 15 yearsEnglish0·2 months agoThe government has to balance the budget anyway, and devaluing your currency is a bit like peeing your pants. It’s nice and warm for a bit and then increasingly uncomfortable.
Inflation goes up, you see capital fights because you’re not a reliable currency, you increase your national debt, and you instantly make the entire population poorer than their neighbor countries.
So while there are some benefits, most economists argue against it.
I can’t say if Sweden going for the Euro is good or bad for Sweden, and there’s a paradox in asking people about it, because if the SEK is weak then support goes up, but it’s a bad time to join because of the low value, but if the SEK is strong then support goes down, although we’d be in a much position to join.
Apparently sales are up in Norway by about 11% for April.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-sales-key-european-markets-plunge-april-2025-05-02/