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In plenty of countries, there is already a tax system to punish "bad consuming choices": e.g. tobacco, alcohol, and in some places even products with excess sugar are taxed more th…

According to current consensus, the Finnish population has gone through several bottlenecks. There might have been just two surviving paternal lineages from the bottle neck 4000 ye…

What's interesting and per my present knowledge not yet explained is the fact that the modern Mongolian horse and Finnic horse are genetically and phenotypically the most related m…

I can not only understand some species of birds, but they can understand me. Developed this habit during the COVID-19 lockdows, and I happen to have blackbirds and ducks as neighbo…

I thought "doing hard things" would be something like a running Marathon, studying or working while having toddlers, learning to be a pro coder as an adult, taking care of your clo…

This is very cool! I've been looking for an to keep track of my routine for getting my back in order after a broken vertebra. Many of exercises I'm doing can be found in this app a…

I found the article somewhat misleading. Burnout is not classified as a clinical disease per the latest International Classification of Diseases. It is clumped together with other …

VSCode is free if you self-host it. There are corporate tiers with virtual desktops etc, and you can pay for services as GitHub pilot if you want. Anyhow there a wealth of free ext…

Yes exactly: tools/libraries such as R, D3.js, or even Tableau can go over the top for the simpletons as, me who don't code for a living. There are many data visualization and anal…

Sorry for failing to understand the sarcasm and taking your comment personally. During the Cold War plenty of the "Western" countries were truly afraid of the Communist powers, and…

Yes, we in Finland are not scared. But it is only rational to ally with forces that can protect our sovereignty. I would not bet my life on it, as I live in a country which has the…

Yes I agree with the previous comment. I volunteered to teach Finnish to the refugees during the last "refugee-crisis" Finland faced, when Russia opened it borders and "dumped" Cen…

Just please flag this if you see this comment as being too political, as in this forum we are mostly spared of these wrangles. But anyway, I would encourage reading "The Revolution…

Yes, this was exactly the reason why I, as a Finnish person, changed my view on joining NATO by 180 degrees the day Russia launched its war against Ukraine. Before that, I wanted F…

Same-gender compartments in trains or whatever simultaneously make sense and do not. E.g. for "cis-gender hetero woman" - as myself - these policies give me privileges such as more…

Yes sure, but I don't categorise these episodes as losing the plot. Per my perception I've gone "missing in action" for some months or even a few years during my life. Did not chec…

Yes sure, but I don't categorise these episodes as losing the plot. Per my perception I've gone "missing in action" for some months or even a few years during my life. Did not chec…

Yes the concept is from Lauren Berlant, who is quite distinguished in her field, affect theory. She has a feminist viewpoint and tends to be blame neoliberalism for of everything a…

In Finnish we still use word "mesi", which is a synonym for honey. The word has the same meaning in Finno-ugric and Uralian languages still spoken in Siberia and Volga areas such a…

The crypto business seems to be a bit on a "Winter is coming, and it will last for years" -phase in EU. An European Parliament vice-president and law-maker who was the most promine…