Finnish Saksa is a reference to the Saxon tribe from Old Saxon in Northern Germany, not the current Sachsen.

I think it’s very neighborhood dependent.

The worst places are in rich neighborhoods where all the bored middle managers act like queens and kings of the grocery store.

He is from Syria.

I’ll assume you’re from USA.

Imagine you’re taking care of your farm in some rural area in Iowa, minding your own business far away from the city and all the politics and all that shit. However, one day, out of nowhere, your farm got bombed in a civil war that had nothing to do with you. Everything is gone. No place to stay, nothing to eat, no work to get and nowhere to go.

Someone offers to help you out of the country, to Mexico, and get a new citizenship and a place to be and work. The catch is that you have to enroll in the Mexican army temporarily. Ok, so they have a small military operation against some other country that you’ve never heard of, but don’t worry about that. If you have some cash you can bribe yourself to nice safe paperwork position far from the action, so no risk really.

That would a reasonable thing to accept for someone who has nothing to lose and everything to win.

Except that you got sent to the front line with no training and no way out.

Sure the guy is an idiot, but the real asshole are the Russians.

The GIMP user would never have paid Adobe for Photoshop anyway.

If anything, it actually helped people get into photo editing and ended up using Photoshop at their work.

Thousands of tourists? In northern Finland this time of year?

This is the experience they came for.

I wish it was just a website. You can’t even download Android Studio or any other starter package without being forced into some kind of AI bloated IDE just to write “hello world”.

On every single skateboard post or short video, somebody will mention Mullen too.

But anyway, outside of skateboarding, millennials also know of Bam, Sheckler and maybe Dyrdek.

Gen-z probably knows of the YouTubers that show up in their feeds. SkateIQ (Mitchie Brusco), SkateNomad (Mike Boisvert) and probably Andy Anderson because he’s everywhere.

I think it’s safe to say that skateboarding isn’t as mainstream as it used to be when MTV was the main youth cultural feed, but it also allows for a lot more unknown people to rise up. Nobody cares about what young dude Thrasher and the industry wants to portrait as a professional. The skate scene these days basically consists of old men and young women watching footage on YouTube.

If they want to starve out Greenland, they should remember that there are more American soldiers in NATO bases in Europe than the population of Greenland.

I’d rather not. I can’t watch his speeches without throwing up.

It also doesn’t matter what he says. Words means nothing to him.

Headline needs to calm the fuck down.

The whole thing is so absurd. How exactly would an American invasion happen? What are they going to attack?

There’s a meeting between Denmark and USA next week. Anything you read on news and social media in the meantime is speculation or fear mongering.

That’s a valid point.

What I’m addressing is that after the EU mandated schools to include everyone in the same classes, things just don’t work.

It used to be one class with “normal” students and one class with *special " students, each with their own teachers. This was highly ostracizing to a lot of pupils who had a mild ADD diagnosis, and that number keeps increasing as parents become more accepting and take their kids for diagnosis.

The current strategy is include everyone in one class and then use supplemental teachers where it’s necessary. Big unsurprising shock is that it’s necessary to have a speciel teacher attached to every single class and they can’t find neither funding or qualified teachers. Surprised Pikachu!

It would be easy to say that we should go back to the old system, but that is also wrong. What they need is to educate every teacher to be able to include the “special” students.

I’m not saying there shouldn’t be a “special” class, but it should be reserved for the pupils who are further out on the spectrum.

When I was a kid myself, the special class was for kids with Downs. That hardly exists anymore, because of the option to abort after the chromosome test, and because these kids are funneled into special institutions to begin with. Kids with ADHD or autism would be in normal classes and failing because nobody recognized it as a handicap. They do now, but prior to the EU decision it was the opposite problem. The special classes were full of kids with mild diagnoses. The EU decision addressed this issue, but it wasn’t the right way, because there was no money given to update the qualifications of the teachers.

What I am suggesting is that we accept the inclusion, but also that we to ensure that all teachers are capable of handling it. We shouldn’t ostracize kids with mild diagnoses by putting then in special class or having special teachers. If we want to include them, which we should, we need to go all in on making the mainstream education include them.

I’ve come to the conclusion that everyone is somewhere on the spectrum.

The question of whether to get a diagnosis is more about handling any issues that come from it. Some people need medication, some people needs extra help with certain things and some people just needs to know about it - in order to function in the way that makes sense to them.

If you need those things to function, it will help to get a diagnosis, because it can make it a lot easier to get that help, especially if it’s medical.

But, make no mistake. Everyone has something. It’s only a question of whether you need to treat it.

In a perfect world where there was no prejudice, we could be screening all school children and hand out paperwork along the grades, so you’d get an 8 in Math class and a 4 in ADHD. You know, just to get a full picture of the person.

But joking aside, there’s no reason why teaching can’t be more inclusive of these issues and just teach everyone as if they have autism and ADHD, even if they do not have a diagnosis. More often than not it’s only a matter of being allowed extra time for certain tasks or a slightly more pedagogical approach. Everyone can benefit from that, so it’s completely wrong to place diagnosed kids in special classes, when what is really needed is better educated teachers.

“Nippon” isn’t hard to pronounce for Germans, either.

I don’t know about that. Even if Germans are not shy of pronouncing letters wrongly (using V as F for instance), the P in Nippon makes no sense in German. It would have to be spelled with an H to make the right sound.

Without marked spaces it’s impossible to say.

Someone can park perfectly in the morning, but then with everyone else moving their cars during the day, it can easily appear as a shit parking later on.

It’s the same grid as most of Europe. AC 3 phases 50 hz 230/400 V.

Other places can do the same, but it’s a legal issue rather than technical. It’s difficult to tax.

I was surprised when I read about it too, but it’s true, they quite literally just plug them right into the normal plugs.

It works because there’s a certain tolerance on the German breakers that allow for power to reverse. The balcony panels take advantage of this. However this also limits the possible output to whatever the tolerance is, otherwise it would overload and shut off or worse.

It’s a depiction of what happens when Grok writes the kind of soft porn that is sold in paperbacks in airports. This kind of trivial writing is slop to begin with.

A secondary joke is that the story is about a woman who looks over the shoulder of a man watching porn on his computer, while we the reader of the comic is also watching her over the shoulders as she reads her pulp fiction.

Do you think they’ll accept a loss at the next election, or are they going to start a bloody conflict anyway?

I think the proper way to handle the Chinese/Russian shadow fleet would be to sink them as soon as possible.

If they don’t register on AIS and don’t respond when called on radio first time, just send a torpedo without any further warning.

See who responds afterwards, and if they don’t, just wait and see how many more they want sunken.

There’s little point in arresting them just to listen to their lies. If they had any legitimate reason to sail around there, they’d have answered the call the first time.

It’s certainly possible to drive from Finland to Portugal. It takes a little more than two days of constant driving. About the same as Seattle to Miami.

I’m not sure I follow the importance of this, unless you’re into long road trips. I would choose a flight in both cases, or a least spread the drive over several weeks for the adventure.

Most people only ever know their local area. And even that can be more than enough. People who live in New York or London don’t have a chance of knowing every street in their cities. They only know the routes that make sense in their lives. They only get to experience wherever they happen to be throughout their lives. Does it then matter which city is bigger, when you can only ever experience a fraction of it in a lifetime?

Neither EU or USA has any city in the top 20 of largest cities world wide anyway. All the really big cities are in Asia.

My point is that I don’t think it makes any sense to claim any value in being from some place that has the largest land or population or cities. They’re just facts that have nothing to do with the individual person.

It matters a lot more to me how people behave, what they are capable of or what they know. I’m not impressed with anyone who simply bases their self worth or identity on being from some place that has something that is bigger than some other place. Maybe patriotism is the real explanation.

And that’s the thing that annoys me about Americans, because quite a few of them seem to have a superiority complex over it. It’s perfectly fine to be proud of what your fellow countrymen have achieved, but it doesn’t automatically reflect back on the individual.

Or put differently: “Oh wow, the Grand Canyon is really impressively grand. Now, which part of it did you make?”