SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
I can't help thinking of a recent Ladbible Stories video I watched where they interviewed a British porn director named Dick Bush. That's not a stage name. His parents Christened him Richard Bush and nominative determinism took care of the rest.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
In terms of policy, how is Trump any different than Bush 2.0
Bush didn't go out of his way to alienate every other US ally than Israel. That's a pretty major policy difference.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
This would be more convincing if the Maori weren't well ahead in civilizational terms, despite being even more remote from Eurasia.
You are aware that the Maori only arrived in New Zealand in the 13th century, right?
Taiwanese indigenous people had agriculture back in 3000 BCE and took it with them when they spread to Philippines and around Melanesia (and then in the 13th century to New Zealand). The distances in Melanesia much smaller, so a bunch of related cultures with centuries / millenia of seafaring had no problem exchanging ideas and technology between them. That situation is completely different to Australia.
The revisited Harry Potter by Balenciaga is both hilarious and surprisingly a genuinely good parody. There are still AI tells all over the place but they honestly don't distract from the short film itself.
It also desperately needs a fanfic that tells the back story of how
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
5d ago
I can read the wikipedia article on gun politics in the EU.
I don't think you can because there is no such thing as "gun politics in the EU" (something people on The Motte very often fail to realize). There's gun politics in country X that happens to be in EU but those are all different between the countries.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
5d ago
cloud of violence
That’s climate change for you.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
What did Azatoth ever do to hurt you so much that you have to compare him to Trump? That’s just rude, man.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
Best to just go with "rained in".
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
in most of Europe that still requires Russian gas
In what alternate reality?
Most of Europe is very much not dependent on Russian gas for generating electricity, particularly for electricity that is at least somewhat time flexible.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
11d ago
Comrades, we found the fake Russian!
SkoomaDentist
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13d ago
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
13d ago
Not only is it not the greatest Irish song ever, it's not even the greatest song by the Cranberries: "Dreams", for one, is obviously superior.
Zombie doesn't even sound like other Cranberries songs and is a clear outlier.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
15d ago
This is the first I’ve ever heard of such campaign.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
15d ago
the “happiness surveys” that show that Finland is the happiest country in the world.
FWIW, the reaction here in Finland to those surveys is always ”Lolwtf? Are you fucking kidding me?”
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
16d ago
If they were ”as the writer intended”, they would be unedited. Clearly there is significant benefit for books to not be literally as the author wrote and abridged editions are just another point on that continuum.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
16d ago
If that was actually the case, editors wouldn’t exist. Frequently the author is blind to their own follies and very often one of those follies is not knowing to cut things that are irrelevant and pointless digressions (see Scott’s writings for an extreme example).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
20d ago
as there is no person on earth worse at MS paint than me
I bet I could challenge you in that...
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
20d ago
Thanks. Now I just need to figure out how to do that on ipad and make it persistent...
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
20d ago
That site is close to unusable due to the spoilers being hidden unless you make an account. All for no good reason.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
22d ago
I don't know, man. I'm not really convinced. They really should add blockchain there somewhere to ensure the security.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
22d ago
Having just spent the Easter weekend with my brother’s small kids, there was a lot of kid stuff but remarkably little of it was anything I’d call ”dumb”. Occasional silly (and TBH fun) stuff as you’d expect but mostly helping them get toys / puzzles, dressing for outdoors, pushing them in the swing and making sure they didn’t run into the water without rubber boots on.
5/5, will do again.
Yes. Alas, we can't change history, but better to start now than never.
Of course this has nothing to do with the parties being populist, communist or whatever.
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