EvilCartyen

Well that's the deal, that's asylum. There are options to stay here in Denmark, but it's difficult, of course.

There are plenty of cases where the Danish authorities make dumb or cruel decisions, like claiming Somalia is safe but refusing to send inspectors to check due to safety concerns, but I don't think this is necessarily one of them.

We always get criticized, often rightly so, but it seems like the new regime is pretty stable and a lot less genocidal than Assad's regime. So depending on the region and the ethicity of the Syrians they refer to it should be fine to repatriate them... right?

I imagine almost everyone who's not American, like 95.5% of the world population.

Have a cup and live a little then

So am I 🙂 for many of the similar services for plane tickets I still use them, since they're so much more convenient than booking yourself, and sometimes have access to better priced tickets than I do so it evens out.

This is a beta, so we'll see where it ends up going i guess.

No problem, I hope they succeed - cheaper and easier to use trains in Europe would be wonderful.

Saw this announced on Mastodon and figured it would be of interest to everyone here - at least if you've ever tried to book train tickets to go across the continent and discovered how complicated it is!

My wife worked for Siemens-Gamesa for a long time, and German managers were always surprised how the Danes would just straight up decline meetings after 16 and leave early if they had to pick up kids.

They didn't worry about that at all, of course, because their wives generally didn't work full time.

Thank you for not contributing with anything meaningful to the conversation, I guess!

I am not referring to a string you hold, I am referring to a leash like this:

I find them dehumanizing and humiliating because they remind me of a dog leash. Look, people parent differently across the world, I remember a British-Indian comedian who was married to a Dane who said that every parenting practice she regarded as healthy and appropriate was basically illegal in Denmark.

The leash will never not be weird to me, but it is what it is. I don't think everyone who uses a leash is literally going to treat their kid like a dog, I know they probably love and cherish their kids like I cherish mine, but the fact remains that it feels off to me and I'd say most other people from my neck of the woods.

Lemmy, like reddit, skews American and you're referring to Europe as well, Europe, which tells me you're not European. You're welcome to correct me, of course.

Even if you've seen leashes on all continents, they're definitely super rare and not common now. If you decide to be informative instead of assertive you are welcome to educate me on your experiences and expand on which fronts exactly I am wrong and why.

One of my co-workers expatriated to Sweden for a few years. There were tweens just hopping on the bus and going to the museum miles away. But I get the feeling that one could trust the average Swede would prevent harm to a child from a pedophile.

In contrast to what many people think, Nordic people are fairly strict with what kids are allowed to do when they are small. We spend a lot of time and effort to ensure that kids are well behaved and can be trusted and don't act out when they are small, and then, gradually, they are allowed more freedom as they grow older. By the time they're young teenagers we generally feel like they've demonstrated that they can be trusted and they are often allowed to bike or take the bus around town and live with a lot more freedom.

Maybe you're thinking "Duh, that's how everyone does it!", but the reason I mention it is that I've experienced that many cultures do it differenty; when the kids are young they are allowed a lot of freedom and very little responsibility, then as they grow older their parents will restrict them more and more. It's pretty much the opposite of the Nordic approach.

We're veering off course (or I am, at least), but I find the differences in parenting across cultures very fascinating.

One commenter said that the leashes are for safe toddler independence, not control, and I guess I can see that. It makes sense, even if it would be cultural taboo in my part of the world.