Idk about others, or if this counts, but I know for a fact that social security in Finland or use AI to transcribe discussions.

I’ve tried how well they transcribe and would never ever ever let them transcribe something as important as social security meetings etc.

I’m so waiting on the third season.

I watched TNG so…

Or rangers, as these are probably animal companions rather than wildshaped druids.

Literally everything in Africa has evolved to run away from humans, because when animals hear human speech and don’t run away they get eaten or domesticated.

When you look at a map of domesticated animals origins, not a single one comes from Africa. All the animals there know what humans are like no matter how we try fooling them.

Oh yah here’s the video sourcing that shit I just listened to today https://youtu.be/EqGxxWvDXsM

It really helps gathering capital if you’re too stupid for empathy.

Well despite it, I think his bombings still kinda pale in comparison to the ones US pulls.

Wolf populations were functionally controlling deer population as late as 200years ago

In some places. In some places, they were functionally controlling it as late as 30 years ago.

but the same is true for any ethos/identity

And I oppose all of them which are inherently irrational.

Whenever I see an article with something I’m not sure who it’s being pushed by and why, I tend to check the profile.

If there’s several posts a day but several weeks since they last commented on anything, I usually disregard the article, because I’m too lazy to find out what agenda the account is pushing.

No. Humans replaced wolves in these parts extremely slowly. So slowly in fact you can’t say the population was “devastated”. In roughly the same time for the population numbers to go from wildly plentiful to practically none, some of the wolves became dogs.

The wolves aren’t a tool for managing deer populations. Sure they would help, but if deer population and vegetation is the concern then they’re part of the overall management strategy. Wolves prey on many animals.

Yeah, obviously. Including domestic animals. Which is why the wolves have slowly disappeared as human populations have extended here.

But lots of vegans still make the argument that hunters only hunt for wanting to kill things, instead of any actually beneficial reason. Which is wildlife management, as overpopulation of deer would be devastating to the ecology.

Yet still you find vegans who moralise hunters while saying that we should just release packs of wolves into what are low-density population centers. I’m not too worried about them snatching kids or whatnot, but just the fact vegans do make the argument frequently is what gets me.

Amusing onesself doesn’t necessitate delusion though.

It’s just a bonus to be able to amuse yourself. I for one like it.

Or maybe this is the streaker winning his bet, hmm?

“devastated by”?

Please do give an example. Humans have been the apex predator around these parts for literally thousands of years. We manage the deer. We don’t devastate it. If you threw in a pack of wolves, never even mind about the social effects of throwing them into what is now a population center has, the wolves don’t have an understanding of how many deer are supposed to be killed and how many aren’t.

I would love more wolves around my area, I’m not afraid of them at all. But it’s just not feasible anymore.

Might be hard for you to understand but not all human actions destroy nature.

You’re not wrong, cash does have more mistakes, but it evens out at the end, since you usually make mistakes both ways. Cash is riskier, yeah. But it’s also a lot cheaper depending on what the services and machines cost.

I remember a time when people were hesitant to use cards for small payments, and some places wouldn’t take them for small purchases.

Then cards became more popular and in recent years cash has been going away at least here, when it used to be that you had to be able to take cash.

But yeah mistakes happen with cards as well. They’re just way harder to fix from the client end. (Client as in the company/person using a card machine to charge someone something.)

But yeah it’s marginally easier to just take card payments but you have to keep the receipts from those as well just like you need to keep cash so there’s not that much of a difference in very small scales. (Like driving a taxi.) The bigger the scale the more it matters.

That they’re going about it in a potentially counterproductive way doesn’t mean I join the opposition.

Okay this is getting a bit off-topic I guess but I get what you mean but the logic when taken to the extreme is silly and non-functional and creates more animal- and human suffering.

For one hunting as a way to control deer populations as controlling the population is a must since one of our ancestors went and replaced wolves hereabouts and bringing them back (I wouldn’t mind it) wouldn’t be as good population control and also not good for the wolves. Also also a deer suffers more when run down by a wolf than when one-shot killed by a rifle.

I support vegan products all the time and don’t really consume non-game meats if at all possible.

But like I said, offtopic. I agree with you that I wouldn’t go and troll the vegans, I do like arguing with them, as their ideology, while kinda naive, is at its core trying to help animals. And that I do too. So I just want to make them better at it and thus point out the flaws in their worldview. Not to mock them, to help them.

Meh, invention seems something a tad more in tentional. I think nature sort of gave us the solstices, we used them for some reason or another, but then they were too far apart and that’s when we invented holidays.

Defense Attorneys more interested in looking out for themselves

Oh man. If I’d had had any attorney for most if it, could’ve helped. I eventually got some help from some law-firm intern. He rang the police up after the jail thing, after they had sent me the accusation of vandalism as well. Based on that we asked “surely you have video of the crime” and I had put in GDPR information request as technically the video on me was under it as well and I had a right to it. The intern said “he’s never heard the cops being so weird and awkward”.

We hear about how racist our country is and how Europe doesn’t have these problems but it seems like we’re the only ones even trying to see the bigotry and classism inherent in the system, much less do something about it.

Basically yeah. It’s sort of weirdly paradoxical a bit, but I definitely agree. As in I would say our police are better trained and do generally behave well. (And only used their guns like once in 10 years, although there’s a massive population difference, it’s still a magnitude or two lower than in the US.)

Like because you’ve had these problems and you’ve actually had civil rights movements and also basically the “real” American spirit, as in freedom liberty equality (which is what the French have on their money btw) is at least chased in the US.

In Finland it’s just sort of apathetic and no-one “wants to make a fuss” so I get literally no attention to these horrid miscarriages of justice. My mom lowkey victim-blamed me for them essentially torturing me. It’s just impossible to convey the simplistic Finnish take on these things. But if we don’t pay attention to bad justice at all even if it doesn’t happen that much, then authoritarianism will be on the rise.

And don’t even get me started on the racist thing. I’ve gotten into social trouble for pointing out to adult people that perhaps using the n-word isn’t the most politically correct thing anymore. But once I did that and this elderly lady got so fking mad at me. I was driving a taxi, and she kept using it so liberally. I didn’t comment, just refrained from using it. Which made her (80-something) go crazy, then I explained i just don’t personally want to use the word and she started demanding I say it “call them what they are”. Almost hitting me from the backseat.

Anyway that’s genuinely one example out of hundreds. The shitty racist bullshit “jokes” I had to listen as a kid. Pfff. Our racism is different but it’s very much there even if the laws don’t have as much systemic racism in them as the US with its history.

I’m sorry your own experience was so bad but I’m not surprised.

Eh, I’ve had wilder weekends. It’s not the experience itself which hurts me so, it’s the fact people think I’m exaggerating or making fuss out of nothing and just “trying to blame others the junkie fuck” and I say junkie because in Finland even if you just smoke weed, you’re considered a lowlife junkie no-one wants to associate with, despite their weekend rituals consisting of getting black-out drunk and vomiting and fighting. For decades now.

So I’d say while you may have more problems you also definitely acknowledge at least most of them, unlike here where we might have less but acknowledge none.

Yeah, sure. But you can see how that could lead to very open-ended logic of “we’re just gonna have to check now.”

I live in Finland. I had a videomeeting with a nurse a few weeks ago. I got rather upset and have a loud voice. Anyway, about 20-30 min after the videomeeting, cops arrive at my door. I don’t understand why. Apparently a neighbour had called and “heard yelling”. To specify, by the time the police arrived, there had been no yelling for almost half an hour. Still. They demanded entry. I politely refused, asking what for. They said “we can’t know that you haven’t murdered someone in there.”

If that’s all the authorities need to enter your private apartment, then you see how no-one has privacy, actually, right?

I mean, if the burden of proof is put on me and they demand I prove a negative, then that’s quite the impossible standard to reach.

So having a loud voice and living in an apartment building is enough in my country for your privacy to go bye bye.

Wouldn’t have mattered as much, but I grew me own weed. One autoflower nothing large, just my own smokes. Mild strain, CBD heavy. But still illegal in Finland.

Last time this happened, it took like 2 months for me to get the warrant they supposedly used and it was dated 2 months after the search.

So you know, while I agree with the public safety angle, there has to be a very clear limit set on when and how the cops are allowed to do what. Granted the US does that a lot more than we do. As in, things may not be objectively going as great in the US, but at least there’s two sides in the fight. In Finland no-one wants to recognise our university-educated police can have anything wrong with them, especially on a systemic level.

I mean, I also agree our cops are pretty decent, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have some severe criticism of them. Fuck the police and ACAB, but you’ll notice I did smudge the visible face of the officer here. And it’s because I promised them at the time. I know promises cops make to you don’t matter, but the ones I do, do. And this was the first “house-call” for this young lady. And while the police who originally entered (older constable) did make it very clear I’m allowed to video, he just asked if I could avoid faces. And I don’t see a point as to why not, since none of them did anything to personally offend me, and the older constable even called his superior after I explained him what happened last time they took me to jail. So he managed to convince his superior there was no need to jail me for it. Last time the guards didn’t give me my meds ended up being awake for 72 hours in isolation where they watched me go nuts and eat myself and draw on my own blood on the walls. 3 days lights on constantly I didn’t eat or sleep but they thought my “take as necessary” antipsychotics and relaxants weren’t necessary. I also didn’t even have a mattress. And there’s not a single Finn who believes me despite me having photos of the cell. The cops conveniently lost the videos when I asked for them after they tried accusing me of vandalising the cell with my blood. Here’s the cell. (But the mattress and blanket weren’t there when I was. Not for 90% of the time anyway.)

So yeah when that happened some years ago, I also tried filming the cops coming in. The cop took my phone away ans said “you can’t film the police when they work”. Which is complete BS ofc . So luckily I had the few s clip of him saying that while taking my phone away. Me complaining about that went to the supreme Court of Finland who did incidentally agree with me (ofc.) The cops even tried the argument of "no but it was a private apartment so I’m not allowed to film them due to their privacy… when they’re coming into my private apartment to invade my privacy.

You prolly won’t read the article in Finnish so here’s the screencap translated.

So yeah, I agree it would be wild if an active wrestling match with two guys fighting for a gun with bad intentions in mind wouldn’t be enough of a reason for the cops to go in, I URGE you to consider the other side of the coin as well.

I love the implication that the Rapture happens via balloons and harnesses.

I don’t know, but I need to see that.