šŸ‡øšŸ‡Ŗ Sweden | Impressions of Sweden

They needed use more tin cans that replace plastic.

Here some for winter time now, suggestions

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/sweden/sauna-etiquette-in-sweden&ved=2ahUKEwibt-DntJuKAxW9K0QIHXmYBI44ChAWegQIDBAB&usg=AOvVaw3fSE4954H8U_l4SysAnt__

Thatā€™s for gay people

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Yes, some are. I will ask for more recommendations

Taiwan has too
https://tw.forumosa.com/t/gay-male-spas

That thread is so old that any update to it would be a gravedig. A lot changed since then.

I thought Olga was a girlā€™s name.

Yes. Some man friends can help with spa gay info, are you gentleman or lady

Im a dude

What is updated?

Love the farting in the sauna. God, Hale and Pace were great!
Hale and Pace Swedish Sauna

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So sad to to see the mass killing in Sweden, Sweden needs contain it crime wave.

I had thought Northern Europe was as safe as Japan and Taiwan, but Sweden recently has higher crime.

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I wouldnt judge Sweden on one nutter going on a rampage.

I would judge it on the crime stats which, like most of Europe, demonstrate how everyone is just getting along great. Living in a multicultural wonderland.

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Yes, one off event, but crime is high as far as murder by Euro standards (maybe the worst)

For the news below:
Sweden has been plagued by gang crime that has escalated over the last two decades and has seen the Nordic nation top the rankings of deadly gun violence per capita in Europe

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-eyes-sending-inmates-abroad-prisons-full-due-gang-crime-wave-2025-01-29/

When I am in nearby Estonia and Finland, some Swedish visitors mention it and concerned about it.

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Yesterdayā€™s killing seems to be a lonely nut case, terrible news, sad pictures and scary videos from that education center :cry:

But the larger problem is all the gang violenceā€¦ Sweden is nowadays very different from when I lived there, I left Sweden when I was a teenagerā€¦ so 40+ years agoā€¦. At that time Sweden was a safe place, nowadays not so greatā€¦

In my own opinion, the problem with Swedish law has always been that if a kid (below 15) commits a crime then almost no punishment ā€¦ So the gangs utilize kids to do the shooting, and if no clear evidence then the older men who ordered the killing goes freeā€¦

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Sweden reports their crimes differently to other countries.

For example, if someone repeatedly raped someone else over a long time period, some countries report this as one incident, however in Sweden they report it per instance that it occurred.

See the Crime Statistics portion here

They canā€™t format their data to create a version thatā€™s comparable with everyone elseā€™s?

Why should they? And who would set the precedent?

If someone has done 100 rapes, why record that as only one crime? Thatā€™s not the reality.

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Create two databases, one for yourself, one for the international community so we have apples/apples. Is that so hard?

If Sweden wants to hire me as a consultant, Iā€™ll show them how to do it in Python.

There are crimes that might be prone to data errors.

Gun violence is usually not prone to data error and Sweden has a huge issue in that regard. Overall, Sweden, as well as much of Europe is pretty safe compared to much of the world. But Sweden is so much worse compared to Denmark.

Here is an older research paper before the current crime wave: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-deadly-violence-between-Sweden-Norway-Finland-and-Denmark-A-comparison_fig4_331869471

But it got much worse and a large part of gang-related crime in Denmark is due to Swedish (migrant) gang member activity in Denmark. Denmark is pretty fed up with it as well:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/denmark-pressure-sweden-over-gang-violence-2024-08-12/

Gang related gun violence in Sweden is as bad as in Macedonia, Albania and Marseille. Hope that they can turn their country around. Could be so easy: Just have a look how Denmark does it with much less resources. Or Norway!

Quite sad to see more gangs there

There need follow USA and save money in the gov with less staff not more. I saw the Japan news as Japanā€™s president meets USA president and how he try to reduce USA overstaffing.