<mtsd>
I will let you know when the leaflet ends up in our home
<Regenaxer>
ok :)
<Regenaxer>
It seems just an alarm drill
<mtsd>
Dan Eliasson, head of MSB, used to be head of the police force until recently. Not very well liked, to say the least
<mtsd>
That said, there is a lot of talk about fake news, false information and such in Sweden. This year is an election year, and authorities are warning against "foreign influence", pointing at Russia
<mtsd>
From the polls it looks like some parties might not get enough votes to stay in parliament and a right-wing party may get high results.
<mtsd>
So, all the talk about foreign influence etc might be a preparation to declare the election result illegal, if the "wrong" party is being too successful.
<mtsd>
If I let my thinking revolve around paranoia and conspiracy theories..
<Regenaxer>
yeah, crazy
<beneroth>
this panic and warmongering (not just in Sweden) is horrible
<beneroth>
who would attack Sweden anyway
<beneroth>
Finland, Norway, Denmark? Russia?
<mtsd>
These are the kinds of thoughts you hear, from time to time. Quite depressing
<beneroth>
can someone explain to me why so many EU countries are afraid of Russia (other reasons than mere populist propaganda) ?
<mtsd>
I have no idea. Here, Russia has always been the enemy for some reason.
<beneroth>
e.g. Sweden (I guess), and then countries like Poland (where youth camps exist for teens to learn guerilla fighting - WTF) ?
<mtsd>
Army exercises usually started with the country being attacked from the east ;)
<beneroth>
I can't even see possible motives Russia would have to attack these countries. even less how they should have the means.
<beneroth>
yeah cold war legacy BS
<mtsd>
Most of the wars we fought, hundreds of years ago, were with Denmark
<beneroth>
I tend to believe all this stuff is just mere attention-whoring
<mtsd>
Looks like the same leaflet from years ago, but with added sections about fake news
<beneroth>
lol
<beneroth>
real news is getting buried in all the fake news about fake news.
<mtsd>
i.e "We will never give up, never surrender and do not trust what you read on Facebook"
<beneroth>
sounds like Taliban
<beneroth>
wars are seldom ended by total extermination of the other side.
<beneroth>
also why should they still have access to facebook during a REAL war? common, internet and electronic stuff will be targeted first, even before the shooting starts.
<mtsd>
yes. Even says so in the leaflet.
<mtsd>
Still, it is going to be an interesting year. Hard to say what will happen
<beneroth>
general trend, everything gets more and more complex and interlinked, it becomes increasingly harder to even say what does happen at the moment
<beneroth>
might have the effect that people become care-less and just do stupid things because they're to lazy to even roughly estimate the consequences
<mtsd>
Yes, could be one effect
<tankf33der>
dont remember if already asked
<tankf33der>
check if list contains 3 equal items in the row
<tankf33der>
(1 2 3 4 4 4 5 6 1)
<Regenaxer>
I don't remember too
<beneroth>
sounds like 'seek
<Regenaxer>
There was some "common subsequence" task in rosetta