Well Switzerland is hardly doing it to appease NATO “allies”. Yeah I know they are sort of allied adjacent.

I am not saying that the countries are not doing these things. But are they doing it to curry favor with TACO Trump?

The fuck we are. This sounds like psyop

I live in Norway and have 21 sick days. That means days that I can self report as sick. (Influenza and such) I can do this for three consecutive days I think. Then I have to get a physician to write a sick leave. For anything serious you have one year on sick leave before more long term solutions will have to be found. Sick days does not include doctors appointments (its their own quota) or home with sick child (10 days) Pregnancies are their own thing, but often you go on sick leave before birth because being pregnant while not an illness makes you feel ill. We have one year of paternity/maternity leave first three months are reserved for mother, then shares but both parents MUST take three months. (Can get around by company paying for the leave of the one supposed to go back to work.) Father gets two weeks just after birth to settle things at home.

Jesus. Any phone is a huge security liability. Cant be that hard to issue them with some decent burners. Anyway. Hungary can just buy the I formation from the 378 app that they voluntarily installed.

So… Same as the US these days. Minus the insults, slurs and rudeness.

As a Norwegian I am reminded of our “reply” to the American first slogan.

We are OK with Norway fourth or even fifth, but Sweden LAST!

Aye. Also Norwegia. The sale of the new Y is the benchmark. And still the Y is number four in numbers of cars sold.

Not really kept up on developments, but you can probably have a detonator that degrades. In rock blasting electronic detonaors are more and more prevalent. But might defy the purpose of being dirt cheap.

As a former mine clearer the world does not need more mines. But as a former combat engineer mines done correctly (with proper mapping, fencing and marking) is way to control an axis. That’s why it still has its uses. Problem is 10 years down the line when the maps are lost, fencing gone and no markings.

The word gard still also means fence in Norwegian. Still in use i the words “Skigard” (using the original meaning of the word ski as wood split lengthwise) and “steingard”.

Also in the word “manngard” as a line of people moving forward when searching for something or someone.

It also means the word gård.

It’s Miklagard (old Norse name for the city)

"Gard"means wall/fence and is incidentally where you get gorod in Russian/Slavic languages I think.

Also friday (Frigg, wife of Odin)