Tuuktuuk

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Well said. If they did, they wouldn’t really be humane. Allowing unnecessary suffering is inhumane.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Same in Finland: a Californian or a Hawaiian is a Yankee (in Finnish: jenkki) here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It might be that’s because I went to India by hitchhiking, and did that through South-East Asia, and that took quite a bit of time 🙂 My body had plenty of time to incrementally adjust to the climate as I was making my way southwards. I’m guessing that you mostly spend your time in spaces with AC and your body never gets acclimated to the 40°C temperatures? Or maybe those temperatures take place so seldom where you live that you’ve has no chance to adapt? I’m not really used to AC, so I keep it off if possible even where it’s available.

Anyways, if you look at videos of everyday life of locals in Goa, they aren’t really constantly dripping sweat. At least I don’t have any memory of having sweated very much during my time in Laos, Thailand, Burma and India. Even if there was some level of constant sweating, it absolutely hasn’t been enough to disturbing in smell or visually, because otherwise I’d have a memory of it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nah, I don’t have anything like that against US. But out in the rest of the world it just makes sense to use standard units. Live the way you live in the US, but when you come elsewhere, including the parts of Internet not meant for US inhabitants only, do in Rome as Romans do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not my experience. I spent some 4 months at Goa in India, and it was usually around 40°C. I rented a bicycle there and rode it for distances of over 100 km in a day. And I did not sweat.

That temperature should not be a problem for a person living in an area where that’s a common temperature. And if it’s not a common temperature, then it’s not common, and it’s not really a problem to have to pay the taxi if you need to go to an important meeting precisely on the one scorching hot day :)

I was assuming from the context that it would translate to more like 50°C or so.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Heh.

It’s impolite to use only Fahrenheits on an international forum. Most readers won’t be able to make heads or tails of “103 degrees”, so a person posting on an international forum should definitely bother checking what that’s in Celcius. It’s much less work for the person writing the text to check that than thousand individual readers checking the same thing on Google.

If it’s somehow “okay” to ignore the 95 % of the world that has no idea of Fahrenheit, then it is similarly okay to be as if Fahrenheit didn’t exist.

I simply let the impolite person taste his own medicine. And no, I still don’t know if “103 degrees” equals 30°C, 45°C or 55°C. But the description “very uncomfortably hot” is absolutely enough to get what the person was talking about. So, some temperature that is unusual where the person writing the comment lives.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
“103 degrees” means that it’s hot enough for water to boil. Water boils at 100 degrees, unless you’re deep underground.

But okay, it sounds like that’s a very rare temperature, then?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Then what does the bike have to do with it? (Also, how hot is a 103 day?)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Why would a person ride their bike so fast that they end up dripping in sweat? Is there a reason for that?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You probably meant this is an answer to me, so I’ll reply.

What I mean is that for example France supporting undemocratic regimes in Africa in order to get cheaper minerals and cheaper cocoa and cheaper bananas is colonialism. It does not mean that it is as bad as what France used to do in the past. And it’s not even as bad as France still retaining several actual colonies. But it is still bad. And it is colonialism. It would be colonialism even if France did not have any formal colonies around the world.

And when China does in 2025 what France is now, in 2025, doing with now-independent countries that used to be its formal colonies, then both of those are colonialism in the same manner. If what China is doing is okay, then that part of what France is doing is also okay. And I do not like the idea of accepting European countries’ colonialism, not even a little bit.

Being bombed is worse than being economically abused, absolutely. But it does not mean that abusing a country economically is okay. I do not like it at all that cocoa and bananas are as cheap here in Europe as they are. That luxury of low prices is coming from other people’s lack of well-being. And someone doing something even worse does not make this bad thing any better. At least in my opinion.

For what I understand, in reality we two think much more alike than you think we do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m sorry but you sound pike the people who call DOGE “auditors” who “look for corruption and end it”.

China has been trying to get into big infrastructure projects in Finland as well, with the precisely same kind of loan arrangements. And it’s very good that we declined the offer. We were a colony of Sweden for 600 years. We don’t need to become one of China’s now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What you’re saying suggests that France’s current behaviour is not colonialist. What are your thoughts on that?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nothing’s wrong with building infrastructure. Why would it be?

What’s wrong is the financing scheme that makes the infrastructure effectively Chinese national property. And when China can decide how and when a country’s infrastructure can be used, China gets a lot of influence in that country’s domestic politics. And it does use that influence.

USA destroying Iraq doesn’t make China any less colonial. China helping rebuild Iraq in a way that will make Iraq a vassal of China… That does make China more colonial.

USA should absolutely focus on itself. And it will do it much more than before, because now that it has decided to cut its international soft power, it does not really have other options, does it? :)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
How do you know everyone knows its bullshit?

When I was in the Russia – my last time was as late as 2019 – the shocking thing was to notice that people there really think their country is somehow a good and exemplatory place! At least in the Russia people should by all logic understand it’s all bullshit. But in practical terms they don’t. They go with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Does he not have a way to replace the state agents with ones that will do his bidding?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
How is humanity not in its senses?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s some very good news if he’s indeed dramatically downsizing the military. Give’s Canada and Mexico a fighting chance! Will Canada be USA’s next Vietnam experience?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
With Belt and Road, and all the colonialist projects China is doing in Africa, I would absolutely not say that “China is focusing on itself”. Or, at least: Even if it’s mainly focusing on itself, there is a very noteworthy imperial and colonial project going on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Until November 2024, there was actually a good chance for Trump’s plans to be foiled. But yeah, after that the case’s been quite clear. Those were the last presidential elections of USA. Or, at least the last ones were the votes matter.