Tuukka R

Yes. The government officials are representatives of the state. Whatever they do, the state does. The state’s (or county’s) doings are consequences of the elected council members’ decisions.

You vote wrong, your tax money might end up spent unwisely. (And often, you vote in a sensible manner, but most of your neighbours don’t. And then the money gets spent the way most of your neighbours had wanted. By doing stupid illegal raids and paying their consequences.)

This lead me to wondering: Do the Fahrenheit people talk about sub-zero as well?!

I had never thought of that possibility. 0 degrees is just generally cold, but -17,778 degrees is already in the area of “seriously cold”.

Klarna can also be used for payments directly from your bank account. They probably didn’t have another platform for handling that internationally. Much nicer than using a bank card for the payment!

(Well, okay: That site has elected to disable that feature. I tried choosing Helsinki, Finland as delivery location and payment by Klarna, and all I got was this:

Kiitos kun harkitsit Klarnaa

Arvostamme kiinnostustasi fiksumpaa maksutapaa kohtaan. Valitettavasti joustavat maksuvaihtoehtomme eivät ole juuri nyt saatavilla tällä alueella tai tälle valuutalle.

Tiedämme, ettei tämä ole paras mahdollinen tilanne, mutta toivomme pian tarjoavamme maksuvaihtoehtojamme useammissa paikoissa.

So, they don’t want to use Klarna for what would actually be a fair and sensible thing, only for the bad stuff. Heh.)

Why does this work?

Or, more precisely: Why does the dirty plate cause this balling-up?

My experience from hitchhiking in China was that people are genuinely helpful to each other. It was clear that if they see someone who could use and deserves help, they will give them all that is needed. Even if they cannot, by all logic, even afford to give that much.

If a Chinese person ever needs to go from Helsinki to Rovaniemi by train but cannot afford it, then I will buy them the ticket, no matter whether I can reasonably afford it or not. Because I know they’d do the same to me in China.

They are in many ways extremely vane, but still, a Chinese person can absolutely trust that common people around them do genuinely want their best, as long as they don’t prove themselves unworthy of that. It’s really weird that a people like that has managed to end up with a leadership that is the complete opposite of that!

Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (of these, Kyrgyzstan more than Kazakhstan) had a bit of the same, but Laos, Burma and India absolutely did not! Nepal, then again, did. And I think Thailand was also okay, although I didn’t spend enough time there to really get the feel of it regarding people’s helpfulness. These are simply my personal observations from hitchhiking those countries, not anything very scientific.

All in all, the map somewhat reflects my own experiences.

If there’s any risk you might lose something you’ve printed while outside, it’s very good if the material is biodegradable!

Ukraine also developed its own missile, called Flamingo, with a very nice range! No need to ask for permissions to use those!

When trying out mbin it worked out best for me to write the community’s full name (such as [email protected]) in mbin’s search bar. For some reason writing it on the URL bar didn’t work like it does elsewhere.

Drop the u and o away from between and you’ve got it :)

I sometimes see people saying “pronounce it like it’s the name of a Greek philosopher” or “pronounce it as if it was Spanish”.

There’s a “p”, a “w”, an “n”, an “e” and a “d”. Say those in a row. “As if it was Spanish”, to make sure that e is really e and not i.

As it’s written. Pwned. No need to stick an extra “o” or “a” or any other vowel in between.

It says “pwned”, so “pwned” it is.

It hurts me that y isn’t th like it was in the past, or that x is not sh like it is in in Portuguese and Chinese. Why did they reverse those two in the otherwise excellent proposition?! :(

Why would it not work?

If it fits you operator’s SIM card, it will work. Or?

But why only one spot per household? Where are the two other cars going to be parked?

Withholding that amount of resources from others when you have no need for them yourself is a political position.

You also have to take rather extreme measures in order to become a billionaire.

In a different part of this same city. I have children who have lives that I cannot break by moving away from here just now.

Hm, yeah. Metallica does kind of sound like Beyonce, when you give it a thought! :)

(*duckundweg*)

Most do, many don’t.

Most blind people are not told by anybody that you can use a computer in text form, because most sighted people don’t know you can. The user experience is on a whole another level when you have an interface that is basically tailored to you, instead of using something made for people with wildly different abilities than yours! At least, when I watch my friend browse the web in those two formats, the difference is daunting.

It’s not okay to block them from using an otherwise much better option. Even if not everyone knows about the better way.

The same has happened in something like 25 % of countries, and they haven’t gotten sanctioned for that.
Most of our diamonds and cobalt and cocoa come from countries that have similar problems as USA now does.