There’s a whole bunch of shows I may or may not have illegally downloaded, which then were cancelled due to lack of interest or something. If I could’ve made a direct donation to influence that, I’d have happily contributed like 100€ for the shows to continue.

Well that’s a silly result.

“whatever they’re all just as bad”

They propose different challenges. Nothing to it.

Makes sense, thanks.

No cloth can protect you from strong wind.

lots of layers and the outermost as leather, is my go-to. But yeah, wind is a bitch. I live in SW Finland, on the coast of the Baltic Sea, at the sort of “outernmost” part of continental Finland in the part where the Baltic Sea makes that sort of Y-shape.

If you just go 50-100 km inland, the weather is way different. You get nice calm winters. Here? It’s wet and freezing all the time in the winter, with winds raping your face. It’s like tiny ice crystals sand blowing your face. I won’t have a single bit of skin exposed when I bike to the store in the winter. Sometimes maybe a part of my face depending on how bad the goggles fog up depeding on the scarf(ves) I’m wearing.

But if I had like 5000e to spend on outdoors gear, none of that would remotely be an issue.

The saying is basically from my army days. As a Finn, we have conscription, so pretty much all males go (and quite a decent part of females as well) [and I’m using “male” and “female” and not “man” and “woman” because that’s how the goverment would look at it despite your personal gender identity]. And learning the proper way to gear up is a large part of the military service in Finland.

One night I spent in -40 outside (no need for F or C they converge at that temp). One night I spent sleeping in a tent that I wouldve drowned in had I slept face down. Shit like that. Although you can’t really do anything when there’s just too much water. Multiple layers and keeping dry is key.

But yeah tldr I prefer a leather outerlayer. Proper leather jacket will keep the wind out. Although usually they’re not designed to cover all of you, so you’ll need good gloves, scarf, and something to counter the wind through the zipper.

I mean our wind speeds are not like in America I don’t think The record gust recorded in my local area is 41.6 m/s (approximately 93 mph) I think. But dammit my windows used to bang like crazy when I lived some 100m above sea level in a place from which I could literally see the harbor in Turku. And the people who owned it were cheap cunts who didn’t remodel it after I moved out. (I had a thermometer in my kitchen which topped out at 50C and it hit the top. I had candles in my kitchen melt. and they weren’t in direct sunlight.)

No such thing as bad weather, only insufficient/bad gear/clothing.

I’m genuinely too fatigued to figure out the logic behind this brainfart.

Can someone eli5 pls

Venus doesn’t look like a ball in the sky like that. It looks like a bright star.

The moon is what might look like something relatively balloon sized, but Venus? Nope.

Gtfo with this disinfo

I remember once reading that having one beer and then changing to water would be a good rehydration strategy.

And I definitely believe it. Feels like that anyway. But.

Oh man I’d like a cold beer.

Yesterday I honestly had the bot flip and flop on an answer while deeply apologising and everytime saying “now you can actually trust, I checked and rechecked and now it’s definitely correct”.

Like a simple question with two choices.

It didn’t know the answer so then it prompted to choose from two answers. One which confidently said one thing and one which confidently said the other. I called it out on making me choose the answer to a question I asked. Then it decided itself. I then questioned it. It changed it mind. And around and around we went for like 20 minutes, everytime it swearing this time it isn’t hallucinating.

They suck so bad for most things, but they’re useful for some very niche things, but even for those, they still sort of suck at those as well a not non-significant. They’re definitely shouldn’t be used for official shit, but they very much are.

I think an artist saying shit on stage at Glastonbury, even “death, death to the IDF”, is pretty mild in comparison to actually murdering babies.

That being said I’d be all for non-killing rhetoric, but I’ll still join in on any class war and poke some fascist/capitalist piggies with sharp knives. (Like if anti-killing rhetoric which includes killing some killers is more anti-killing than rhetoric with no implied killing, then yeah, I’ll pick the former.)

What would you, specifically, find to be a tolerable amount of ads?

they ever get ahold of a broken egg and realize how tasty they are, they can start eating their freshly laid eggs before you can collect them.

Hello, God? I’d like to report a bug please.

Compared to other systems, seems like it’s pretty high.

Universal basic income would discourage crimes like that.

If I had to get a car in SF, I think I’d go for a small hatchback so you can see into the trunk, if it’s that bad.

The lockers usually have surveillance around them.

So you’d go there, open up an empty box and it would be incredibly easy to show who stole it. Plus even if there wasn’t surveillance, you could film yourself opening the slot, which would then show an empty slot.

So yeah, it does make a difference. The package is never left unattended, it’s never “up for grabs” by anyone.

That being said thieving and whatnot is comparatively rare in Finland anyway. We’re #1 in the wallet drop test. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/least-honest-cities

super rare occasion

The problem is so ubiquitous , they’re commonly known as “porch pirates”.

“~Two million packages go missing every day, 90 000 in New York alone”

And the video is five years old.

https://youtu.be/v90BhbW5_pM

other American was right, they’re really not as common a

He most certainly wasn’t.

He was practically denying that it ever happened, when it’s common as pickpocketing. Meaning more common in some places, less so in others, but definitely a known and existing issue.

Oh yeah, they’re exceedingly common here.

Usually placed inside commercial buildings like stores etc, there are a few just outside as well. They’re quite thin metal so I assume in some places in the US someone would just take a crowbar to a whole station, but if it’s inside a building that’s gonna be much harder.