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18 hours ago, splbt said:
i mean he's just showing us what everyone else is wearing during their zoom meetings
I've done a video call job interview without pants. No fear.
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There's a ton of speculation here about the Swedish mentality and why they are doing this. Like Swedes try to avoid conflicts and challenge authorities so that's why nobody is asking difficult questions that might embarrass somebody or question their authority of experts. Other is that the Swedes are just going about with their usual Darwinian politics letting the virus kill the weak, old and poor, which frankly put might seem like a weird idea to anyone outside the Nordics seeing how Sweden is more egalitarian than vast majority of countries, lol. But yeah, this is the Nordics and their complicated history and relationships coloring the perception.
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5 hours ago, goDel said:
I mean, look at Europe. Compare Sweden to other countries, for instance. They have a bit more freedom, but it doesn't look like it's worse over there. At least, not that I'm aware.
Erm, you might want to compare to other Nordic countries.
Deaths per 1M population:
- Denmark 76
- Finland 37
- Iceland 29
- Norway 38
- Sweden 244
There's a lot of speculation in the Finnish press why the fuck Sweden is not more concerned about the corona virus and horrified Finns living in Sweden asking what the fuck is going.
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Starting to feel that Trump is a Democratic deep agent on a mission to covertly kill of the Republican voter base.
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38 minutes ago, Rubin Farr said:
The Future Sound of Manchester, innit
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What I've started to get most scared about in this pandemic is that how much a virus with an estimated >1% mortality fucks up everything. When the eventual 10% mortality pandemic hits then it's RIP western civilization. Let's not even talk about something like the Black Death that killed estimated half of the population of Europe. Maybe we need to start to prepare for these things a bit better?
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Then there's Legowelt's Shadow Wolf Cyberzine http://legowelt.org/cyberzine/
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Touch has a subscription available for a series of 20+ exclusive ambient tracks for 20GBP/year called Touch: Isolation.
Currently the series has tracks from Eleh, farmersmanual, fennesz+sakamoto, Mark Van Hoen, etc.
https://touchisolation.bandcamp.com/
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The worst features of every nationality, ethnic, political and religious group
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Unnecessarily complicated puns that require niche knowledge to understand and only 0.1% of you will get
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3 hours ago, darreichungsform said:
I always wondered why British English is taught at schools and not American English. I guessed it was because BE is somehow considered "more proper" but the actual reason is simple: There simply are more British people available in Europe to teach our teachers English.
In high school we had a couple of classes about Australian English also and then the text book decided to get really woke about the aboriginals and we had to listen to the "Beds are burning" by Midnight Oil in the class. Funnily enough the British colonialism or Ireland never came up when the Brits were concerned. Also I think learned much later that UK has actually more than one native language and they are not just all "English".
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I'm originally from a part of northern Finland that maybe compares to something like, I don't know, well whatever part of US is sparsely populated, with cold harsh environment and high unemployment and crime rates. The attitudes back in the 90s were that all the Americans are super dumb, ultrareligious and materialistic, Swedish are all rich, effeminate and gay and Russians are just plain criminals and evil. (I could go on with these stereotypes, but let's not offend everyone.
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Sometimes I wondered why everybody was so anti-American and sort of weirdly anti-city, but I was looking at old Finnish documentaries from 70s and early 80s and they paint a really fucking bleak picture of US, especially the big cities like New York. I remember teachers at schools also having this attitude towards US and cities. So, I don't think it was just the general attitudes in the population but the anti-American sentiment was institutionalized to some degree and US was associated with anti-culturalism, anti-intellectualism, greed, materialism and over-urbanization.
Also I remember having my first English text book at the second grade and all the English text books were of course about British English, not US. Because, you know, obviously the US English is inferior to the original UK English. The book had a kind of story arc and at some point they introduced a kid from US and all the other characters found his English funny and laughed at him.
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Most of the shops in Finland are still open, some are closed and some have limited hours. Anyway, I went to buy new sneakers and the shopping experience was quite nice because there were very few customers and the sales people left me alone to browse instead of trying to push some products. A+ experience.
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21 hours ago, very honest said:
In 2013, Maddow did an MSNBC documentary called "HUBRIS: Selling The Iraq War" about evidence indicating that the stated rationales for the invasion were cooked up as pretense, as well as what the real intents may have been.
Just based on a gut feeling and some conversations I've had I'd say most of the world outside US thinks that the official reasons for the Iraq War were a huge pile of bullshit. And now we have fucking ISIS thanks to that blunder. I for one am not nostalgic for the Dubya years even with the current shitshow going on.
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8 hours ago, dcom said:
Our son was born eight weeks ago here in Helsinki, Finland; the public healthcare delivery with all the bells and whistles, including two days in a private room in the maternity ward, four meals a day for both parents, 24/7 on-call nurses and doctors and anything else we needed cost us about 200 € (billed afterwards) - that's about $215 - no insurance needed (or required); this is what gets labeled as "socialism" in the US, where the starting price for just the delivery is upwards from $10000. And don't get me started on the paternity and maternity leave, I've already had four weeks, fully paid, and with this social distancing thing and working remotely I've been able to be with my son almost 24/7 since his birth with zero financial impact, and I still have 36 optional-use paternity days left where I'll be paid about 60 % of my monthly salary. In addition I have the Finnish standard five fully paid vacation weeks - per year. There's a reason why Finland's been ranked the happiest country in the world for three successive years.
I just recently learned that you have to pay to deliver a baby in a hospital in US and was actually shocked..
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Finland has (almost) free public healthcare. That being said I've had to use it very little in the past 20 years because it's mandatory for the employers to provide health services for employees and when I was studying at the uni the student council provided the healthcare which cost something like 70e/year for the students.
So in the past 20 years I've had to call myself an ambulance from the public healthcare which ended up costing nothing because the paramedics could help me already and they didn't have to take me to a hospital. And I had to go to ER about a year ago to get stitched up which cost me maybe around 30e or something I guess.
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I don't actually want anything super expensive I guess. I just wish somebody would give me a few of million euros so I could live comfortably without having to work for pay and could just dabble with any projects that I feel like.
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There's also the good ol' ninja mask from a t-shirt
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post something controversial about you
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I guess the first third pretty much follows the manga and then the movie kind of spins into it's own story? After the story gets going the manga has a different plot and the endings are nothing alike really.