Tuuktuuk

@Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The US instituted a mandatory draft to fight that war.

  But that was an offensive war, and most countries don’t do those.

  Finland was much much safer before.

  Depends on how you define “to be safe”. The Russia had declared that its goal is to return the borders of the Russian empire. That sounded a bit scary, but we shrugged it off, because it would require a war and that would hurt the Russia so much that such a war would be idiocy and therefore will not happen.

  In case you don’t know where the borders of the Russian Empire were, they included for example these:

  • Finland
  • Estonia
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • half of Poland
  • Ukraine
  • Moldova

  So, we were not in danger, because the Russia would not be stupid enough to begin a war in Ukraine or in Finland, as it was clear that it would hurt the Russia’s economy more than it could ever be of use to it. The Finnish defence doctrine was based on the concept of credible defence. We were told in school that “they can attack us and they could most likely even take over all of Finland, but our army is able to incur such big losses to them that they will not want to do that.” But then, it turned out that the Russia does not care about losses.

  So, we found out two things:

  • the Russia is really interested in acting to its declarations. They are not just empty words as we had assumed
  • the Russia does not care about losses – therefore the doctrine of credible defence does not protect from the Russia

  You can say that we were not in danger because we didn’t know that we are in danger. And in some way that’s true. But, once we found out that we are in danger, then, well, we were. Since the doctrine of credible defence went down the drain, meaning that Finland effectively did not have a defence that is able to protect it, what else than joining NATO do you suggest we should have done to gain a level of defence capability able to keep the Russia out of Finland? Name one other option that we had.

  Your idea that the Russia has a right to defend itself by preemptively taking over Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, half of Poland, Ukraine, and Moldova is, well… It would be impolite saying what it makes you look like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think we could implement your suggestion. Our wartime maximum strength is about 700 000 soldiers and our population is around 5 600 000. That means, in wartime, one out of 8 inhabitants will be in different forms of military service. There’s no way we could pay an adequate salary for that many soldiers. And, that number is still a third less than how many soldiers Ukraine has, and Ukraine is just barely able to keep the Russia from advancing.

  I’m not sure why you’re taking Vietnam war as an example, as it’s an offensive war and for example Finland has no plans to do anything like that.

  Our military – numbers are public.

  Yes, but the speed at which one can recruit soldiers in an emergency is not public.

  maintaining offensive and diminishment operations

  This is irrelevant, because most countries do not have any offensive operations to maintain in the first place.

  You may not know what the phrase “proxy war” means, because in this context it’s rather insulting. And I do not think you meant to insult me or others. But do tell, why and how would Finland wage an offensive war?

  Yeah, this is getting a bit off topic, but you’re making wild claims that would really need some clarification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You could directly vote against being sent to die. You might not care about a ski hill funding request.

  Uh, people choose when they are 18 whether they want to go to civil service or army. If they choose army, they will obviously be drafted if the Russia ever attacks. To make a decision on how many soldiers we’ll need to defend is actually an extremely good example of what kind of decisions absolutely cannot be made by a broad public vote. You need a military person relaying secret strategical information to the Ministers of Parliament. It cannot be relayed to all 5.6 million people without compromising the information. If such an amount of people knows about our military strategy, so does the Russia.

  So, at least for that kind of decisions something else must be at place. Maybe there could be a restricted set of representatives that are allowed to vote in case we are attacked and you could then choose which one of those will handle your vote in this precise case – before they have talked with the military specialists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no concept of a parliament majority leader being able to block a proposal from being voted on.

  I didn’t get what this is referring to. Is it some Canadian or US-American concept? I’d be happy if you could elaborate a bit!

  You can change your delegation after disappointment with vote on an issue, and can choose to not delegate your vote on a mandatory military draft proposal.

  I am already able to change my delegation after disappointment. Luckily I’ve never had to exercise that right. Also, another thing that flew far over my head: why is an exception specifically regarding mandatory military drafting important?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a very interesting tool/game someone made in Finland. You got shown the same problems the actualy Ministers of Parliament have to vote on, and all attachments that are available for public.

  The idea was that it shows that direct democracy can work just fine.

  I spent an evening trying to make my mind on whether I want to support expanding a ski centre in Lapland or not. Both sides had very good arguments! In the end I ended up thinking “Damn, this is a huge amount of work! If there was a system like this in place in Finland, I’d definitely want to outsource my part. I’d find someone that thinks more or less the same way as I do and I’d pay them to do the research and use my vote. It would make sense that people would sell that service to several citizens at once, bringing down the cost per person. I would not want to spend several hours each day researching something like ski centres 800 km away from my home – yet if only few do and vote, then the result is really random. So, I would definitely want someone to represent me.”

  And then I figured that “damn, this is actually the system we have right now!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, on Lemmy things also depend on your instance. I got banned fromba group by a mod that is at the same time a lemmy.ml admin for mentioning that China is putting Uyghyrs to concentration camps.

  On lemmy.ml you can get banned for things you wouldn’t get elsewhere. The solution for that is to join a group for the same theme but hosted on another instance. I’m in three communities hosted on .ml, because their alternatives are not active enough. But, of course I always prefer the non-.ml alternative when available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Their first electronic device for an android tablet for playing Ekapeli.

  Then my phone for pretty much the same.

  And now the bigger one is playing Minecraft on my desktop computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say this is one of the things EU is doing quite a good job.

  It would be difficult making Linux de facto illegal in EU. It could happen but most likely it won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Moat of servers run Linux, and servers are just computers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Has Fairphone failed in this regard, in your opinion?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is of course true, but…

  Americans habe a right to have their own things as well. Not everything they do needs to be global. If someone from there wants to ask other Americans or just other US residents a question and they prefix it with “Americans of Lemmy” or “US residents in Lemmy”, I think that’s fine.

  And similarly, if an European person has a thought they know os connected to them living in Europe, it makes sense that they direct their questions to Europeans.

  What I hate is.when people talk like “what do you think about”, but actually means for the question to be a answered by US residents only, or talk on an international forum as if there was a leftist party in US congress or senate. If you want to ask a US-centric or Japan-centric or Eurocentric question, then by all means, go for it, in my opinion – as long as the question is clearly marked as such.

  And this one is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are. There are also Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article “the” in “the solar system” means that we are talking about one specific solar system. It’s left for the reader to decide which one should be assumed, but in this case it’s actually clear that ours is meant.

  That means, it’s clear that the meme is talking about our solar system, not some other solar system somewhere nor some bunch of solar systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expand North! So much room up there.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, I did already understand this :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lifehack⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations. You’re going to get to wear whatever pants or skirt she has at home that will fit you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lifehack⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, though. You wouldn’t make fun of people wanting to take your shoes off if you didn’t think it’s moronic to keep your shoes on when inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expand North! So much room up there.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome trivia! Thanks! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expand North! So much room up there.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could it be that one source referred only to places with an actual border, while the rest included anything within 160 km of any coast?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expand North! So much room up there.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I understand correctly based on a map and Wikipedia, the concept of “a lot of people” does not exist in North Dakota, though.

  I had never heard of the city of Bismarck, their state capital of more than 70 thousand inhabitants, a bit over 10% of the state’s population. But, now I do. I also had not thought there can be a state capital with that little population. (And then this made me curious and I learned that in Germany the smallest state capital is Schwerin, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and it has about 98 000 inhabitants in a state of 1½ million inhabitants.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you can do pretty much that by using one of the largest instances. That is most likely to have content from the largest amount of other instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ill take a double scoop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh… That sounds disgusting. Toilet paper does zero to protect your hands. It’s so thin and perforated that bacteria pass through it as if it wasn’t there at all. The point of TP is that it collects poop and pee.

  After wiping, you wash your hands with a LOT of. soap, because your hand is full of poop bacteria

  It looks like OP wasn’t taught this by their parents and just walk around smearing shit in every door handle that comes across. Not something I wanted to have to know about…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ill take a double scoop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Toilet paper is so thin that all bacteria pass through it as if it wasn’t there at all.

  Toilet paper’s point is not at all to protect but to collect. You need to wash your hamds afterwards just im the same way as if you had held poop in your hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, what? Something like 80 % of their economy is now government spending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product..⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re still opening it.

  But if you have your friend open it, then you are not opening and consuming the product.

  Of course, with such draconian rules, one should not drink that stuff anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⚡️👇👇👇⚡️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is overwhelming evidence that this didn’t happen in the Jurassic era: Stegosaurs had been extinct for tens of millions of years at that point.

  The theropods (“possibly”) electrocuted contemporary dinosaurs, not dinosaurs that had gone extinct 100 million years earlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But makes a very big difference. Talking bad things about someone publicly is not okay, and the whistleblower is doing the right thing. Well, mostly. It’s not really cool that now the private messages are shared with even more people!

  Talking about anything privately is a private discussion and as such, not a huge problem. Sharing someone’s private messages with a group with more than two or three members is already public to an extent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unleash your humanities⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try oat milk, at least in coffee. Even people who otherwise have nothing against cow milk tend to say that oat milk is better in coffee than cow milk is. I’ve met only some who think cow milk suits coffee better. In my opinion oat milk is also better in cereals and porridge, but that’s something people often disagree upon :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unleash your humanities⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The dairy company Arla would be in trouble if they had to do this :D

  Arla Finland has one of the few most prominent nazis in Finland in their board of directors. There was a bit of a scandal because of this about a year or two ago, but the company said “we already know, but he has promised not to be a nazi during working hours, and it’s every employee’s personal choice what they do in their free time.” And Finland was okay with that (!!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unleash your humanities⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said. If they did, they wouldn’t really be humane. Allowing unnecessary suffering is inhumane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same in Finland: a Californian or a Hawaiian is a Yankee (in Finnish: jenkki) here.