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Currently between olives

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The v2.0 changes were actually pretty good, made me want to start another playthrough. I really like the new metro system even though it’s such a small thing considering everything else they changed, but it’s fun to be able to hop onto a metro to get somewhere. The game is already pretty immersive and that small detail just adds to it

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Up until very recently most housing in Finland was co-ops, and it’s still extremely common although many new developments are built and owned by corporations which then rent them out.

I live and own shares in a new housing co-op (proportional to the size of my apartment), and all of us together own and run the building and we’re renting the property from the city (although you can buy your share of that property off from the city if you don’t want to pay that rent.) It’s not a perfect system by any means but it’s better than corporations owning everything; ideally the people who live in a building are the ones who decide how it’s run, but of course that’s sort of gone out the window too with rich people just buying properties speculatively and to rent them out. If enough of the shareholders in a building are rent-seekers, upkeep of the building is going to go way down because they don’t live there themselves and don’t give a shit about whether it’s a nice place to live in, they care about making a profit.

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the people earning a lot of money (suggesting responsibility) are wimpy losers who cannot solve this problem.

That’s not the problem, but I really wish it was. The problem is that the people who are actually in charge are psychopaths who don’t give a shit about doing anything to the problem, and are more motivated to actually make things worse

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Wait we do? I didn’t realize we even had one official animal, let alone 4

Edit: the Finnish Wikipedia claims we have 6 official animals, one of them being ladybugs:

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/5210ae9a-ddcb-4bcf-9c06-31ab03be856e.webp

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True! For all you non-Nordics, that’s a Finnish Spitz and they’re certified good boyes. My personal favorite is the Finnish Lapphund because they’re so incredibly floofy, and it’s an interesting breed because it was originally bred by the Sámi for herding reindeer:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Finnish_Lapphund_Glenchess_Revontuli.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Finnish_lapphund_Elbereth_Norppa_1.jpg

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So not great but much better than Stalin

Although admittledly “better than Stalin” isn’t exactly a high bar, considering how spectacularly awful of a person he was. Some level of “excess brutality” is pretty much expected when it comes to Russia and Russian leaders, and Lenin doesn’t stand out particularly much in that regard, and he wasn’t a sadistic psychopath like Stalin and did genuinely seem to want to bring about a better society for everyone, instead of what they got after Stalin was through.

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XML has a bad rap because people went a bit (ok a lot) overboard with it in the early years, pretty much like what happens with a lot of other technologies, but as far as structured and human-readable data formats with good schema and tooling support go, it’s pretty much unbeatable. Now that JSON is the New Good Tech and XML is the Old Bad Tech, too many developers use JSON where XML would absolutely make more sense, and then we end up with unholy abominations like Portable Text, which is JSON pretending to be XML, and is so incredibly verbose and monumentally stupid that it feels like some sort of joke esolang data format rather than something being used in a production system. But no, here we are, god is dead and JSON is XML.

XML is terrific for building eg. structured markup languages with more complex markup than what something like Markdown can provide, and have the resulting files be comparatively readable, at least in comparison to the JSON-based alternatives – compare HTML to Portable Text, for example. XML has such a bad reputation – partially deservedly – that people just automatically assume it’s not a valid tool for anything modern, even when the modern “NoSQL”, “structured and typed data is for nerds, suck it” JSON solution is a giant pile of shit compared to the XML alternative

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Probably why he’s calling for more dialogue

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Drinking aviation alcohol has long traditions in Russia. Generally I think fuels aren’t drinkable (at least more than once) but ethyl alcohol (ie. ethanol) is used in eg. cooling and air conditioning. The Tu-22 is known as the “supersonic booze carrier” because the cockpit air conditioning used 40% ABV ethanol / water mix for coolant, and air and ground crews would drink it and even sell it.

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They are an existential threat as this point. Not only are they the biggest opposition to climate action, they’re also inevitably going to produce more Breiviks (or Hitlers for that matter)

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But only if you get caught! Rule , “the riskier the road, the greater the profit”

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I congratulate you on your attempt, but I honestly don’t know how you lasted this long because holy fuck did it look like you’re trying to argue with a particularly dim houseplant

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users can modify their useragent string, and sometimes they have to because some webdevs are morons.

The minority of users do this or even know about UA strings.

some browsers actually default to using chrome instead of its own.

Sure, but Firefox isn’t one of them

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Doesn’t seem too likely that’d be more than a few percentage points. Which non-Chromium browsers even do this?

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More cost effective solution: space (verb) billionaires (noun)

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I don’t know why but people who call themselves the “mom” or “dad” of their pets somehow creep me out. It’s just so… weird.

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One of the benefits of living in the Nordics is tap water that can literally be of higher quality than bottled water (assuming you don’t have bad pipes.) The only time I’ll ever buy bottled water is if I get really thirsty when I’m on the go and don’t have a bottle of tap water with me

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let’s not talk about my camera-buying habits lol

Ah, that’s the perfect hobby if you really hate having money 😅

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What is it with UN*X stuff and ridiculously wanky initialisms

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Onnea vaan läpi pääsemisen kanssa. Viime vuonna yritin tuonne soittaa, ja automaatti ilmoitti että linjalla on ruuhkaa ja minulle soitetaan takaisin, mutta yli 2h odottamisen jälkeen totesin etten pysty enempää odottelemaan sitä että joku joskus soittelee. Kun sieltä tunteja myöhemmin soitettiin olin päässyt jo päässyt lääkäriin ja sieltä poiskin

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The same thing is happening globally, and it’s becoming clear that moderate conservatives are very much in the minority. It worries me to no end that fascism seems to be winning, and there doesn’t seem to be much we can do about it

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You are a nerd with a CS degree

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You are a nerd and your back hurts

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That’s certainly a take. So eg. Finland is an imperialist country because we have a military, which is definitely not meant to just keep the Russians from rolling over the border and doing a Ukraine / Georgia / Chechnya to us. I take it your view is that if we or the Georgians or Ukrainians didn’t have a military, we wouldn’t be in any danger?

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