You comment was written closer to a year ago, and much water has flown in the Vantaa after that, but… Wouldn’t it be already possible to enable pulling group members who are on PieFed instances? Either including asking for a permission or without asking, as seen fit.
That would of course be only a small fraction of most groups’ users, but definitely better than nothing! It might also semi-accidentally create a standard that other platforms might implement as well.
Ai, kiitos muuten näistä vinkeistä vinkeistä!
Mihinkään noista paikoista ei päästy, mutta noihin tarkemmin tutustuminen tuotti tietoa siitä, mitä Sisiliasta voi hakea ja löydettiin saarella ollessa (ja bähän Amalfin rannikollakin) mun lapsen kannalta relevantit osat siitä samasta menosta muualta noiden ehdotustesi ansiosta! Kannatti siis kysellä! 🐳
When starting here, I found it a nice way for finding interesting communities to go to different instances’ pages with my web browser and browsing their Local. A lot of communities I would never have thought of!
So, go to sopuli.xyz and see what their Local has to offer, then go to piefed.social for the same. And suppo.fi and Solarpunk (is it slrpnk.net or what?) and what is there still? Blåhaj at least. You can see what instances interesting commentators are coming from and check out the rest of that instance’s atmosphere by just writing that instance’s address in your browser’s URL bar.
How is it a nightmare that I’m allowed to say “I’m not consenting to this shit”?!
Now they’re planning to revoke that right. Nightmare gone?
The oldest one I regularly use is this one: https://web.archive.org/web/19961108115333/http://www.kela.fi/
It’s the Finnish state organ for giving people their welfare benefits and operating the national health insurance system. So, if you get a child, you get an amount of money per month from Kela for having a child. (Because they want the population to grow).
Or, if you end up unemployed for a longer time, it’s Kela that will pay your unemployment benefits.
Of if you break your leg, it’s Kela that pays for your hospital care. I don’t know how many forms I’ve already filled on their website :D
But yeah, the site’s been around for a while now.
There is an it. And then there’s another it. And some more its, perhaps.
I don’t know what the life of their own is, though. I am also not sure if I do want to know.
But rest assured: It was surely not a mistake.
The its are coming. I, four one, welcome our it overlords!
I keep writing this here and there, so I’ll reiterate it here.
When the Soviet war in Afghanistan ended, some 70 000 absolutely mental soldiers returned straight from the front, and there were another 400 000 or so that had been rotated away from frontline duty and were a bit less of lunatics but doing bad all the same. Those 70 000 + 400 000 were too much for the Soviet Union of 300 million people.
One of the most important causes for Soviet Union’s collapse were those Afghan veterans who were accustomed to extremely violent way of doing things. The crazy years of 1990’s and the famously violent Russian mafia were a result of those 500-ish thousand madmen having been freed to roam the Soviet Union and later the Russia. All that instability eventually led to the total economical collapse of 1998.
So… Now there are some 700 000 soldiers more or less on the front, and another 700 000 doing other military duties. Those 700 000 + 700 000 will have quite an effect on the Russia of 140 million people. Once the war ends, ten times as many lunatics will return to the Russia of only 140 million as returned to USSR of 300 million. That will be absolute carnage and the 1990’s will look like a walk in a park compared to what’s coming up.
This is already unavoidable, but if the Russia is victorious, it can still avoid being ripped completely apart by that carnage. That’s the main reason the Russia cannot end the war. It will wage the war ad infinitum, unless made physically unable to continue. And if they some day cannot get any more soldiers, then that’ll finally the physical barrier they’ve been looking for.
I’d like to add: Almost all Russians think the same as Putin regarding what is a number of casualties that will be too much. To the question “what is a number of casualities that makes you think the war is a bad thing instead something that hurts but will bring glory?”, their answer is: “There is no such number. Our leader will [read: should] only stop once we reach victory!”
But, they do care about a certain other thing: a number of casualties exists that will be too much for people to want to let their children be forced to the front.
They will not stop supporting the war no matter what the casualties, but they will stop going to the front once the casualities have reached their target number. And that will of course end the war.
Also, there’s another relevant number: How many percents of your salary is bread allowed to cost before you start opposing the war. This has to do with the death toll, because the more deaths, the more salary must paid to each soldier, and the more the other industries have to increase their salaries in order to remain in competition for the workforce.
For your information:
This community is operated on a server operated by a Finn and physically located in Germany. You are using lemmy.ca, but this community, ukraine@sopuli.xyz is not on lemmy.ca, but on sopuli.xyz, a whole different site on a different server in a different country :) Sopuli is a server operated by a Finnish person, and physically located in a country known as Germany.
Also, you were talking with supersquirrel, who is using this network through sopuli.xyz (which coincidentally happens to be the same instance this community is running on). Supersquirrel is not touching lemmy.ca in any way. The two server computers, those of Lemmy.ca and sopuli.xyz, tell each other what new comments have appeared, and then show each other’s comments.
I am very happy that your canadianness happens to be partaking in this conversation, because you’ve good plenty of knowledge and very good argumentational skills.
And, the Latvian language test is hilariously easy. I have learned Latvian and listened to the test material.
In listening comprehension you hear a phone call to a bus station. The worker answering articulates more clearly than anybody ever would.
And then the multiple choice question is:
Where did the caller call?
(I don’t remember the other two variants, but the point stands: the question was super easy to answer)
And then, you need to write the first verse of Latvia’s anthem, in Latvian. That means having to learn a series if sounds as horribly long as 28 words.
The only way to fail that test is to have a strong principle not to want to learn Latvian or wanting to NOT know the anthem’s lyrics.
There are a few more exercises, but all of them are identically ridiculously easy.
It’s made so that russophiles will be unable to make themselves fill the test and everyone else will pass with flying colours.
It’s the only exam I’ve ever seen where you need to make an effort in order to fail.
Lopulta tämä lähti 18:28, eli vielä 2 minuuttia aikaisemmin kuin aikaistettu arvio, joka oli 18:30.
Kysäisin konnarilta myöhästymisen syyn: Ravintolavaunu oli ollut viallinen, joten sen tilalle oli laitettu toinen. Ja se toinenkin oli sitten osoittautunut vialliseksi, joten vaihdetitin vielä kolmas. Joka nyt sitten näyttäisi toimivan. Ruokaa möivät, mutta hinnasto oli kirjoitettu kuulakärkikynällä pätkälle kuittipaperia.
Mutta siis: Tästä ei voi syyttää mitään keskieurooppalaista kalustoa, koska tuo ravintolavaunu on tuikitavallinen ruotsalainen ravintolavaunu, joka jää joka tapauksessa junasta pois Malmössä, kun se ei mahdu Tanskan ja Saksan rautateiden kuormaulottumiin.
EDIT: Kysyin konnarilta lähtövalmisteluiden viivästymisen syy, ja syynä oli vika ravintolavaunussa. Joka siis on tavalinen ruotsalainen ravintolavaunu. Vaunu oli vaihdettu toiseen, joka myöskin oli osoittautunut vialliseksi, jolloins se vaihdettiin vielä kolmanteen.
Tämä tänään ottamani kuva taitaa liittyä aiheeseen valitettavankin vahvasti:
EDIT: Ei hitto, nää ihan oikeasti hilaa lähtöaikaa 20 minuuttia aikaisemmaksi! Onneksi en luottanut tuohon 18:50 tietoon, vaan jäätiin asemalle roikkumaan.
I usually like being notified of messages in certain chats. But even with that I’d like to be able to choose which chats are allowed to disturb me no matter what and which ones should make noise but not that damn much!
Like what gets done?
Depends on whether the police like what needs to get done or not. If they like it, it gets done.
A relatively recent small anecdote:
They forbade using spikes in your winter tyres on one throughfare street in the centre of Helsinki. The police said that so many people will be breaking that rule that they cannot fine all of them, so they will refuse to go enforce the restriction. And after they had gone public with that, the signs were removed as meaningless.
I’ve had two cases where a car has hit me. In the other case I was in my thoughts and accidentally stood in a wrong place waiting for the light to turn green. I was technically on the roadway – it just wasn’t very clear that that’s a road. A van intentionally crashed into me with a relatively slow speed and I called the emergency number. He fled the scene, but had to later come to an interrogation because I had seen the number plate. The police then said that I have a possibility to withdraw my demands, and if I don’t they will also fine me for having gone against the red lights. They don’t have enough resources and didn’t want to bother with this case, so they made sure it’ll get closed. I was young and very badly out of money, so I let the thing be and allowed them to close the case.
Here’s a photo from the spot. The place where I was standing is marked with a blue cross, the car came from the direction shown by the red arrow:
Then there was another case, where a car saw me about to cross a street and put the pedal to the metal in order to get past the crossing before I get there, speeding through an intersection at a ridiculous speed. As the car sped very close to me, I decided to hit its back window with an open hand to tell that “that was not okay”. The driver stopped his car in middle of the street, stepped out and shouted “Who are you to touch MY car?!” and then tried to grab my throat, leaving some bruises that I then got documented by a doctor (or nurse, or whatever he was technically). The man had said that I had ran across the street crossing, endangering the traffic, and the police told me we can close the case or they can open a case against me as well. I allowed them to close the case.
Here’s the spot where that happened; the car was coming from the direction of the crane, towards the direction where this picture is made from, and I was crossing the nearest crossing in the picture from right to left:
The police is so extremely under-resourced in Finland that I can absolutely understand they are kind of desperate. If they want to have time to investigate murders and other really serious crime, they have to leave something else undone. Or otherwise murderers can just run free. And because they need to choose things to ignore to save their resources, they tend to ignore things that are done by people that they assume don’t agree with their political views.
Those things with the two traffic incidents would have folded out differently if I hadn’t been an under 30-year-old guy with a long hair and if the the drivers hadn’t been middle-aged men in both cases. The police felt like those people were their peers and symphatised with them, so they wanted me to shut up. They also really sympathise with people who drive cars and typically dislike bicyclers. Of course, in the end, that depends on the individual. Each policeman has their own values and chooses what to ignore based on what they find important.
Here’s how Finland fares regarding policemen per 100 000 inhabitants:
and here’s the same for Germany:
…oh, apparently Germany has cut its police force a LOT. Last time I checked, their number was far over 400.
…and then came Valmet with its Dm6.
And nobody paid anything for the intellectual property. The history of these railbuses is fascinating in how it’s a chain of betrayals.
Well, yeah. Up to a point, we do.
But they tend to be based on people knowing that When I say “count the ticket, it’s hundreding” in the meaning “lower the flag, it’s raining” (based on the Finnish word “laskea” meaning both “count” and “to lower”, “lippu” meaning both “ticket” and “flag” and “sataa” being both the partitive form of “hundred” and “it rains”, the joke is about the Finnish language having funny homonyms.
And similarly here the arse of the joke is English being funny in having to meanings for the word “come”? It’s not usual to make such jokes with words that are actual cognates. They are more usually made with word pairs such as read and read, or read and red. I mean, jokes are goof things to have, but they shouldn’t be based on the laughee being ignorant.
What would be a fantastic name for a brothel, however, is this:
Those trains were blatantly copied by another Swedish company, and then that one was again blatantly copied by a Finnish company, leading to the models Dm6 and Dm7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Class_Dm7
Zero royalties paid!
It has something like 100 times as many users as PieFed+Lemmy+Mbin do together.