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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yep. Getting hit means you are burned.
    Back when I was a kid, polttopallo was always what the US calls “Circle dodgeball”, and not the team variant. We have one like that too, with the twist that when you get hit, you run behind the opposing team and can start throwing them in the back. It’s called Kahden Tulen Välissä - between two fires.

    In Sweden they have a variation called Killerboll. You probably don’t need a translation for that :)



  • “All Russia fed us are lies. They’re fake. Russia isn’t as strong as they claim, and Ukraine isn’t as backwards as they say.”

    And, nothing has changed. Two weeks march to Helsinki to save those poor backwater Finnish boys from oppression and starvation and all that.

    Did you know: the famous molotov cocktail is named such because when ussr was bombing the Finns, they publicly claimed to be dropping humanitarian food aid, and definitely not incindiary bombs. The Finns decided to give them the name “Molotovs Bread Basket” - after the foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov - and named our incendiary weaponry consisting of a bottle of booze the Molotov’s cocktail, a “drink to go with the bread”.

    Also the official name for it is polttoPullo, burnBottle. Definitely not to be confused with polttoPallo, which is dodgeball.




  • In a few years most of the world probably won’t even be able to. It took Chinese cars decades to come to the worldwide and especially the EU market because nobody in China was developing and manufacturing cars that would pass western safety regulations.

    If the only way for Tesla to stay competitive in the US is by loosening the US regulations, they’ll end up with an ecosystem that can only be sold and used in the US. For example, how the Cybertruck is entirely unroadworthy in the EU.

    I’m just waiting for the day EU declares that self-driving systems need to be able to detect a wall, even if there is a picture of an open road on it, and stop. It would mean Tesla wouldn’t be able to pass it due to Musk insisting on only using cameras and removing all other sensors.






  • At least 5 million, depending on how you define rural russia and how skewed the gender & age structures actually are.

    Population of russia is 143 million, 35% of which are between 18 and 44, half of which are men. That comes to 50 million, 20% of who live outside the European Russia, bringing the final count to 5 million.
    And as only 21.5 million people live in the Moscow metropolitan area, so if everything outside that is counted as rural you’d have over 20 million.

    In both cases the issue is logistics, equipment and training, not the lack of bodies to throw in the grinder.