Stefferi
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Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
24d ago
People calling them "shots" or "jabs" (like for Covid) instead of vaccines probably has less to do with anything like that and more with it being shorter to say words with one syllable instead of two.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
24d ago
The implication with "Wuhan flu"/"Chinese flu" etc comparisons was that it was comparable to the Spanish flu, which is our primary modern point of reference for a communicable disease that kills a lot of people.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
24d ago
On the other hand, this was probably the first time in history when technological development (mainly the things enabling WFH including studies from home, also tracking etc) would have even allowed movement restrictions like the ones implemented from time to time, which is probably one of the reasons why it was only suggested and then implemented now.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
24d ago
Again, I'm not sure why people are insisting on this. Is there something particular gained, apart from - again - the geopolitical interest?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
25d ago
Not to forget being primed before that by loads of disease-related apocalyptic fiction (sure, that stuff generally doesn't show lockdowns as something that works, but there's still indications that they would work if you just locked down earlier and harder).
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
25d ago
The closest comparison here is the influenza vaccine, and I don't recall anyone saying that the influenza vaccine makes you immune from influenza.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
25d ago
I'm not sure why there are so many people insisting that we should have used a more inexact name for this disease just because it fits a certain naming scheme (or geopolitical interest).
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
26d ago
You can see all this commentary about how the aesthetic of the happy smiling white family is racist, fascist, possibly nazi - it comes from the left. I've yet to see any right-wing critique of such imagery. Discourse about liberating women from the burden of motherhood comes from the left, while discourse about the 14 words and fear of demographic replacement comes from the right.
While anti-natalism is indeed generally left-oriented, this is a bit of an odd argument. Have a happy smiling mixed-race family or an immigrant family in the West, and the negative commentary is going to come from a different direction. Fear of demographic replacement is related both to non-natality of one group and (often over-perceived) natality of another group. Heck, "billions must die" is a far-right meme.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
27d ago
I think it's just personal deep depression compared with some form of a myopia that makes you think everyone else is suffering and joyless all the time too and is just faking otherwise. Psychological condition expressed as a figleaf ethical view.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
27d ago
If you go through Wikipedia's anti-abortion violence list and take bombing literally, that would appear to be 2012. The chief method of anti-abortion violence/vandalism since then appears to have been arson.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
29d ago
Again, I don't think it's as much "the right" as a political movement as it is evangelical religious communities, which are of course generally often related to "the right" but not the same thing.
Also, probably the most Eurovision thing at yesterday's contest, and in long time generally, was the Baby Lasagna / Käärijä interval show.
There genuinely has been concerted, ideological voting for Israel in this and previous Eurovision, I don't know how one could deny this. At least last year, people were organizing "vote for Israel" campaigns in evangelical Facebook groups at least here with indications that many of those voting didn't even watch the contest. The primary motive isn't as much political as religious, ie. Christian Zionism, though of course politics and religion overlap here. This is helped by Eurovision allowing people to vote as many as 20 times for their favorite.
At least last year's Israel entry was quite good musically. This year's was the height of mediocrity.
This year Finnish media didn't even focus on Israel that much, as the main topic of interest was the fact that there were in practice two Finland entries as far as the media was concerned - Finland's own entry Erika Vikman and Sweden's entry KAJ, sung by a group of Finland-Swedish comedians from rural Ostrobothnia. This was actually a topic of a mini culture war, contrasting Erika Vikman's hypersexualized "feminine empowerment" style favored by liberals with KAJ's national-stereotype-oriented light rural comedy favored by more conservative/normie types, though the entrants themselves got along quite well at the contest.
I'm also pretty sure the jury votes were rigged to favor the Big Five funder nations. Nothing else can predict UK's absolutely dire entry getting so many jury votes. I also lost a bet on this exact topic.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
I generally write standard 5-paragraph essays in the PolSci exams I'm currently taking and have been getting 4s and 5s (on an 1-5 rating scale).
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
It might do exactly that, yes. Language learning becomes a niche specialist skill, maybe Finns now in elementary school will wonder how the younger generations don't even know any English the same way Millennials wonder how the Zoomers can't even use computers properly.
As I've mentioned previously, I'm at a Finnish university right now, doing a new degree (PolSci) since the future in translation is, well, uncertain, and I'm seeing a potential niche in the "political implications of AI" field that could be potentially seized upon.
Since I already have a lot of old studies I've been able to take in to the new degree as credit transfers and since I no longer get subsidies and student loans I have to work while studying, so I haven't taken a lot of "actual" courses. What few I have had seem to be at some sort of a paradigm shift point regarding AI where it's still uncertain how it should be handled; mainly, I've taken two courses of Russian, and it seems to be taken as granted that the students will use AI to look up Russian words and their forms, but there's still a "preferably don't do this, and if you do, at least tell me" instruction for longer tasks. In any case, the Russian courses were pass/fail and otherwise the professors generally indicated that coursework isn't that important and would mostly count for edge cases regarding grading.
The book exams are done at a student's leisure by booking a room at a special exam class without phone and with computers that basically only allow the specific exam software to run and are done as essay questions, which is good compared to the old pen-and-paper exams, since my handwriting is atrocious.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
You can be arrested in Ukraine for questioning Holodomor. Does this falsify Holodomor?
This seems like a fairly odd rule in general. People have been arrested throughout history for advocating claims that are not true. For instance, it is literally impossible for the claims of all religions (or the central claim of atheism) to be true, and yet, throughout history, it has been typical for people to get arrested for advocating all and sundry religions or for advancing atheism.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
In the acclaimedmusic.net list of most acclaimed artists by critic consensus, cataloguing and adding together by some ratio a huge number of "best albums/songs of..." critics lists, Kanye is number 13, the best result by a hip-hop artist they have. The site was last updated in 2020 as the guy running it has had a number of personal and work-related issues which have pushed the planned new update forwards to some indefinite time, I wonder how Kanye's position is going to be affected if/when the new update rolls in. Of course there's a huge amount of acclaim already grandfathered in.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
I know it's not the same thing, I was just playing around with the literal meaning of the words.
It has always struck me that the American belief that the most likely chance to have to face down an oppressive government from the inside is a belief enabled by the fact of belonging to the most powerful country in the world without any conceivable external enemy that could defeat it in warfare; in a small nation with a powerful authoritarian neighbor, the threat matrix and the perceived ways to combat that threat are obviously different.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
I would say the number of Brits who believe that people should be armed so they can fight bad guys and their oppressive government is approximately 0.
I'd say that a clear supermajority of the Finnish people hold this belief, at least - with the caveat that the definition would have the armed people being the Finnish nation as represented by the conscription-based Finnish Armed Forces and the bad guys and their oppressive government being Russia and Putin.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
Isn't it just a reversing of the "When you think about it, LoTR has a powerful queer subtext" style of thing?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
For Millennials, it was more overtly a sea change in gaming (constant updates, a rise in indie titles, graphical reversion), more directly creative as a more adult/late teen outlet, with nerdy overtones. At least in this viewing, Jack Black's Steve represents on some level the disconnect between the two generations that are so close, yet so far.
I've never played Minecraft, is this more of a late-millennial thing? (I was born in 1984.)
What does "push" mean here, concretely? Generally, in cases of ethnic cleansing, it means "threaten people with lethal violence unless they move", which is why the term is often just taken to be mostly equivalent to genocide. If the Gazans say "hell no, we won't go", what happens to them?
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