Tuuktuuk
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- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 4 days ago:
The US instituted a mandatory draft to fight that war.
But that was an offensive war, and most countries don’t do those.
Finland was much much safer before.
Depends on how you define “to be safe”. The Russia had declared that its goal is to return the borders of the Russian empire. That sounded a bit scary, but we shrugged it off, because it would require a war and that would hurt the Russia so much that such a war would be idiocy and therefore will not happen.
In case you don’t know where the borders of the Russian Empire were, they included for example these:
- Finland
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- half of Poland
- Ukraine
- Moldova
So, we were not in danger, because the Russia would not be stupid enough to begin a war in Ukraine or in Finland, as it was clear that it would hurt the Russia’s economy more than it could ever be of use to it. The Finnish defence doctrine was based on the concept of credible defence. We were told in school that “they can attack us and they could most likely even take over all of Finland, but our army is able to incur such big losses to them that they will not want to do that.” But then, it turned out that the Russia does not care about losses.
So, we found out two things:
- the Russia is really interested in acting to its declarations. They are not just empty words as we had assumed
- the Russia does not care about losses – therefore the doctrine of credible defence does not protect from the Russia
You can say that we were not in danger because we didn’t know that we are in danger. And in some way that’s true. But, once we found out that we are in danger, then, well, we were. Since the doctrine of credible defence went down the drain, meaning that Finland effectively did not have a defence that is able to protect it, what else than joining NATO do you suggest we should have done to gain a level of defence capability able to keep the Russia out of Finland? Name one other option that we had.
Your idea that the Russia has a right to defend itself by preemptively taking over Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, half of Poland, Ukraine, and Moldova is, well… It would be impolite saying what it makes you look like.
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 4 days ago:
I don’t think we could implement your suggestion. Our wartime maximum strength is about 700 000 soldiers and our population is around 5 600 000. That means, in wartime, one out of 8 inhabitants will be in different forms of military service. There’s no way we could pay an adequate salary for that many soldiers. And, that number is still a third less than how many soldiers Ukraine has, and Ukraine is just barely able to keep the Russia from advancing.
I’m not sure why you’re taking Vietnam war as an example, as it’s an offensive war and for example Finland has no plans to do anything like that.
Our military – numbers are public.
Yes, but the speed at which one can recruit soldiers in an emergency is not public.
maintaining offensive and diminishment operations
This is irrelevant, because most countries do not have any offensive operations to maintain in the first place.
You may not know what the phrase “proxy war” means, because in this context it’s rather insulting. And I do not think you meant to insult me or others. But do tell, why and how would Finland wage an offensive war?
Yeah, this is getting a bit off topic, but you’re making wild claims that would really need some clarification.
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 5 days ago:
You could directly vote against being sent to die. You might not care about a ski hill funding request.
Uh, people choose when they are 18 whether they want to go to civil service or army. If they choose army, they will obviously be drafted if the Russia ever attacks. To make a decision on how many soldiers we’ll need to defend is actually an extremely good example of what kind of decisions absolutely cannot be made by a broad public vote. You need a military person relaying secret strategical information to the Ministers of Parliament. It cannot be relayed to all 5.6 million people without compromising the information. If such an amount of people knows about our military strategy, so does the Russia.
So, at least for that kind of decisions something else must be at place. Maybe there could be a restricted set of representatives that are allowed to vote in case we are attacked and you could then choose which one of those will handle your vote in this precise case – before they have talked with the military specialists.
- Comment on It could just have been a cop's "sniper" with bad trigger discipline and now they try to cover it up with gay bullets or whatever 6 days ago:
A hit in the neck is definitely a miss from an intended target anyway. Can’t say how much or to what direction. It could have been that there’s been a target where the bullet would fly 30 cm behind the person to be guarded, but the bullet is taking a trajectory 10 cm off the intended and the person happens to their head 20 cm backwards just at the crucial moment.
But, I do believe that someone wanted that guy dead. I can imagine someone figuring that “he’s actively advocating killing politicians you don’t like, and I don’t like him. Therefore I am following his own instructions and this is acceptable.”
I personally think it’s a bad idea to kill a person like that, because it probably causes other people to get shot as well. It’s not a culture I want to see spread. But at least I do not see it morally as a very big problem that a person explicitly says that something is acceptable and then that thing is done to him. He wanted a certain kind of society and he got the kind of society he wanted. If there is life after death, he can spend that time being content of having changed the society.
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 6 days ago:
There is no concept of a parliament majority leader being able to block a proposal from being voted on.
I didn’t get what this is referring to. Is it some Canadian or US-American concept? I’d be happy if you could elaborate a bit!
You can change your delegation after disappointment with vote on an issue, and can choose to not delegate your vote on a mandatory military draft proposal.
I am already able to change my delegation after disappointment. Luckily I’ve never had to exercise that right. Also, another thing that flew far over my head: why is an exception specifically regarding mandatory military drafting important?
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 6 days ago:
There was a very interesting tool/game someone made in Finland. You got shown the same problems the actualy Ministers of Parliament have to vote on, and all attachments that are available for public.
The idea was that it shows that direct democracy can work just fine.
I spent an evening trying to make my mind on whether I want to support expanding a ski centre in Lapland or not. Both sides had very good arguments! In the end I ended up thinking “Damn, this is a huge amount of work! If there was a system like this in place in Finland, I’d definitely want to outsource my part. I’d find someone that thinks more or less the same way as I do and I’d pay them to do the research and use my vote. It would make sense that people would sell that service to several citizens at once, bringing down the cost per person. I would not want to spend several hours each day researching something like ski centres 800 km away from my home – yet if only few do and vote, then the result is really random. So, I would definitely want someone to represent me.”
And then I figured that “damn, this is actually the system we have right now!”
- Comment on As a man, the easiest way to get someone to care about my feelings would be to transition to female. 1 week ago:
I don’t think I’m contradicting myself. If I am, please tell how.
And yes, the majority of men are shit. That’s because they were actively raised that way.
- Comment on As a man, the easiest way to get someone to care about my feelings would be to transition to female. 1 week ago:
You’re acting like it’s a physical impossibility…
Why would it be a physical impossibility? Doesn’t seem to be for me. Or have I just thought what I do is hugging while in reality it’s not? Please elaborate.
Men secure in their own masculinity don’t have any problems hugging other men. And insecure men likely have toxic traits that make them bad friends.
Yes. How many men are secure in their masculinity? 5%? If the remaining 95 % can only have those 5 % as their friends, how do they find sufficient time for all that friendship?
For most men non-toxic men are not available for friendships. And especially: I don’t want to be friends with a toxic asshole, regardless of how much he moght (unbeknownst to himself…) need my friendship.
- Comment on As a man, the easiest way to get someone to care about my feelings would be to transition to female. 1 week ago:
Most have no idea they need a hug.
They don’t want to because it would be gay. They want to be real men. And they feel sad and lonely and lost. If someone somehow got them to understand that all we men really need to do in order to be actually happy is to hug each other, this world would stop being a nightmare for us all.
- Comment on As a man, the easiest way to get someone to care about my feelings would be to transition to female. 1 week ago:
That’s not really enough.
Also, such a small part of men are able to hug other men that if everybody needed to have those few as their friends, they’d very quickly run out of friendship capacity.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 1 week ago:
Of course, on Lemmy things also depend on your instance. I got banned fromba group by a mod that is at the same time a lemmy.ml admin for mentioning that China is putting Uyghyrs to concentration camps.
On lemmy.ml you can get banned for things you wouldn’t get elsewhere. The solution for that is to join a group for the same theme but hosted on another instance. I’m in three communities hosted on .ml, because their alternatives are not active enough. But, of course I always prefer the non-.ml alternative when available.
- Comment on Just realized, ACAB in Finnish is KPOP 1 week ago:
“All cops’ fathers have been married to people other than the cops’ mothers during conception”? Is that what “Out of wedlock” means? So, basically ACFHBMTPOTTCMDC?
- Comment on Just realized, ACAB in Finnish is KPOP 1 week ago:
Isn’t that the translation of ACAE, though? 🙃
You have a printing error in the right side of the B!
- Comment on Just realized, ACAB in Finnish is KPOP 1 week ago:
How about KPOÄ 🤣
::: spoiler Translation here That would mean “bastards”, but only in the literal sense, meaning that “No policeman knows who their father is.” ::;
- Comment on Just realized, ACAB in Finnish is KPOP 1 week ago:
Paskiaisia.
- Comment on What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?) 1 week ago:
Their first electronic device for an android tablet for playing Ekapeli.
Then my phone for pretty much the same.
And now the bigger one is playing Minecraft on my desktop computer.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
I would say this is one of the things EU is doing quite a good job.
It would be difficult making Linux de facto illegal in EU. It could happen but most likely it won’t.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
Moat of servers run Linux, and servers are just computers.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
Has Fairphone failed in this regard, in your opinion?
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
While I disagree with the teenagers’ ability to find my banking passwords regardless of where I hide them, for example because I can make a copy of them that has been altered with a password I can calculate in my head and that takes the location of the password on the table into account in the calculation, the rest is true.
I remember having seen things I really wouldn’t want to see even as adult when I was browsing Internet for stuff that wasn’t supposed to be available. Shady websites can be shady in so many ways! It is true that making an age verification system for a basic porn site will probably direct the youth to other sites with content you wouldn’t see on PornTube. I hope my children won’t ever watch porn, but if they ever do, I hope it’s from a source that doesn’t allow the worst things to be shown. For example PornHub does remove the worst stuff and is quite commonly used. If that one cannot be accessed, then probably something else will. And it’s likely to be worse. Though, PornHub has a lot of really bad abusive things as well. Checked it out now and one of the first videos it showed was something that looked like the woman is really unhappy, even distressed, about the situation she’s being filmed in :(
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Beautifully said. I wish people on Internet could behave like you in this comment. Have a virtual hug, you are awesome! :)
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
You can’t build a completely teenager-proof system. But you can build a system that is almost completely teenage-proof. And that’s definitely good enough!
All such systems exist only to support parents in their parenting. It gets easier keeping your children safe and developing well if the amount of ways the teenagers can be idiots is narrowed down.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Despite what who think? I don’t think there are people who think people in USA are not human beings. (Or if they are, they are less than one percent of the world population… Of course within 8 billion people you will find a proponent for any opinion…)
But yeah, since you care about humanity’s liberty as a whole, you could maybe kindly stop undermining that goal by assuming that what is done by under 5% of the population on this planet is the standard that the remaining 95 % are following.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t being eurocentric. I was being Asia-Africa-Australia-South America-Europe-Canada-Mexico-Central America-Caribbea centric. The only country where most of the right want to reduce gun safety is USA. We are talking in an international forum, so here international concepts count, not nation-specific. Typically in the world right-wingers are for safety and typically in the world the politics of the Democrat party count as right-wing.
When in a conversation not specific to USA it is not okay to speak as if everything was about USA. It is not okay to speak as if there was a left-wing party in US Congress or Senate and it is not okay to claim that the right wants more dangerous gun policies.
And here we’re talking about something that takes place most prominently in UK and secondly in a bunch of other countries, but absolutely not in USA. USA has nothing to do with this, so don’t be as insolent as you were.
(Also, for example Australia is not in Europe. Learn some geography.)
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t change political narrative being pushed by both major political parties in the US, where in the left supposedly wants guns banned, and the right wants everyone armed.
How is US relevant in this discussion?
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Online banking passwords? “Find”? How the hell? Have you lived in a barrel?
There is a 8-number code that I’ve got in my head, then there is a 4-number password that I’ve also got in my head. And then a paper with single-use passwords which work so that when I have given the two correct passwords, it tells me which code to use.
Some banks also have a system where you log in with your fingerprint and then a four-number code using an app on your phone.
I think the money on the parents’ accounts is a much better motivation for the children than an ability to watch porn. And yet, I have not heard of anybody’s children actually having found out their parent’s bank passwords.
And also: Maybe there really is a child that installs a keylogger on their parents’ computer and steals the password paper from the parents’ wallet and also happens to really want to go out of their way to watch porn… Well, then there is. Such a child is already in so many ways in trouble that I don’t think seeing porn will traumatize them at all. Such children are few and it makes no sense trying to build a 100-percent foolproof system. In any case, using online banking passwords is a lot more reliable way than the weird hocus-pocus being done now.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
In Finland you could handle this by having people authenticate using their online bank passwords. A LOT of government stuff already works that way, so it would require almost no extra coding at least over here. I wonder why it cannot be done the same way in England?
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
The right is typically for gun control. Only one country comes to my mind where they aren’t. Which one were you thinking about? Or is it more common than I thought?
(Or did you just happen to forget that 95 % of Earth’s population exists?)
- Comment on Writing was invented before reading. 2 weeks ago:
There may also have been a series of simple pictures that someone had put next to each other, then someone else figuring out “hey, if I make the symbols simple enough and draw a lot of them, I can actually record stories completely accurately!”
In that case, the reading would come first, as the reader would be the first one to interpret the simplistic images as text.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 2 weeks ago:
They’re also not trying to suggest any tactics
But thety are indeed using tactics, and you’re complaining that they are wrong because they aren’t the same you are using.