Oh good.

That the plan got frozen wasn’t nearly as publicized as it initially passing.

Meanwile, in Finland, we outsourced our fucking vote counting system, to god-damn AWS.

It’s bleak, but I’m pretty sure we’re headed towards some form of collapse in terms of food production.

Right now we’re fighting over fossil fuels and rare earth metals. Those are solvable problems, you can have civilization with none or just a small amount of these things, and renewable production will mean that you can have energy without needing fossil reserves or fissiles in your soil.

But I think the next several decades are going to be defined by the international dealings that will occur over arable land, the resources and technology to keep it fertile, and the infrastructure and water sources to irrigate it. Up to and including wars.

The simple fact is, farming is getting harder. For now, the technology is keeping up. Despite corporations in the relevant industries prioritizing profits and intellectual property over national food security.

And even though there’s theoretically more than enough land on earth to feed all currently living humans, there are already individual countries with more people than what their land area can feed.

Worse, there a countries who share the same sources of water, who are increasing their water use in ways that will cause droughts for their neighbours.

I think of them as on the same spectrum.

A thin skinned person, is someone when you stab verbally or try to otherwise harm them in a non-physical manner, it goes straight through, and they are hurt by it. It affects their confidence, behaviour and health.

A thick skinned person, is someone you can insult, and they can dismiss the meaning of the words, and be unaffected by the intended harm.

But that is not mutually exclusive with going “wtf, did you just try to stab me?”. They are opposites, in the sense that the word describes whether malicious words or actions can “pass through” and have the intended effect.

But if someone tries to shoot me, and I’m wearing armor that means it won’t kill me, that still leaves the fact that they tried to shoot me. That I was able to survive it does not make the attempt on my life ok. Being thick skinned, or “wearing armor”, doesn’t mean you react to attacks with inaction.

It describes whether you suffer harm when under fire. Not how you behave in reaction to it.

A lot of people think of being thick skinned as synonymous with turning the other cheek. But being able to take BS doesn’t mean you have to passively allow it.

You don’t sound thin skinned.

Having a thick skin doesn’t mean being unbothered by people trying to walk over you, and thereby letting them.

I get accused of being thinskinned sometimes because of starting a confrontation over a problem or behaviour I’ve noticed, but that makes no sense. Being sensitive to issues is not a weakness, and being numb to them is certainly not a strength.

I can push for change precisely because I’m unbothered by the stress of working against the status quo.

But like others said, you don’t always need to convince. If you say you won’t cover a task because it’s not your responsibility, then there is nothing to discuss. If they expect a task to be done even when you said it won’t, that is not your problem.

It’s theirs.

No?

I get that clients might break, but the web portal running inside vaultwarden isn’t gonna suddenly stop working.

Vaultwarden itself is self-contained. An API change won’t do anything to it.

My moms password manager, is just my password manager. (That’s not entirely true, she did figure it out eventually, but for a while there I was simply saving all her account passwords in my manager.)

Except that “fake” voting patterns become impossible to spot.

The way they are now, you can look at how an account votes, when it was created, as well as their posts and comments, to determine whether an account is a legitimate user.

Creating fake accounts that look like legit users is a lot of work. Creating just one, then setting a number a really high, is much, much easier.

Wow! Absolute gold.

undue burden on small developers

Uuh, more often than not, the small devs already make their games indefinitely playable and preservable, just out of a love for the medium.

No actual artist wants their work to have an expiry date.

Legal enforcement is only needed for the passionless big publishers that shutter games just to funnel players into purchasing their latest releases.

It’s mentioned in the parliament presentation. Only a small minority of game publishers engage in this BS, but it’s ALL the big ones, meaning the problem is experienced by the vast majority of consumers.

It’s because he knows how screwed OpenAI, actually is.

He acts like he’s surfing the wave. He looks like he’s exactly as deep in the hole as he actually is.

ChatGPT is the next Theranos.

He hasn’t just scammed consumers. He’s scammed investors. And that’s the one crime that actually lands people like him in prison.

I usually go with Kubuntu.

Set up flatpak, share internet from my phone via usb to install broadcom wifi drivers, and modify the KDE desktop to work more like MacOS (add top bar with search widget and alt menu, turn bottom taskbar into a dock, move window buttons to top left).

Hand it back to the post-MacOS-user. No complaints so far. In fact one came back with another Mac and asked me to do it again.

See, I don’t see a difference between what you are describing and most corporate leaders.

I didn’t say a good job.

Nah. It happens when you let an idiot run things.

Mobsters are still organized businessmen. Just criminal ones. They’d do a much better job.

“You know that thing we sell? Buy a shitload of it.”

What makes you think I haven’t? I’m not talking about why we dream.

“As for why we do” refers to “why do we remember dreams” not why they happen.

Too complex to cite figures like “1/15th”.

That’s the kind of thing, unlike what parts of the brain are active during sleep, we can’t even guess.

We usually don’t.

As for why we do… The brain is a chunk of biology. You probably can’t just hit “shift+delete” on stuff.

Our brains do few things with perfect accuracy.

Scans have shown that dreams basically use the same parts of the brain as doing whatever is happening in the dream for real.

Waking up, especially abruptly, isn’t gonna “clear” your RAM so to speak. You’re gonna have access to the “state” your brain was in during sleep. And even then you have to make an effort for that stuff to end up in long-term memory, as the vast majority of the time dreams just kinda slip out of your mind without being retained.

It’s been looked at closer before, but the questionnaire doesn’t really ask “how happy are you” it’s more “how dissatisfied are you”.

Finnish welfare policies mean people here tend to have less complaints. That doesn’t mean none, but when it come to a lot of common problems (which the questionnaire specifically targets) like unemployment, healthcare, education, homelessness, debt, we have policies in place that mean they aren’t something people generally worry about. Individual people to whom it might be relevant, do.

And that’s not to say the policies are flawless and there aren’t traps that will screw you… What they do do, is provide a real sense of security that means people don’t live their lives in fear of losing what they have. We can be unafraid that some sickness or accident will come along and completely ruin our lives.

I don’t personally know anyone who has been ruined by an injury, losing their job or debt. Set back, or had their lives changed, sure. But not ruined. Someone losing their job, their healthcare because of that, then their home due to the debt, and falling to drugs at the end of their rope, is something most people only ever hear about.

Those problems do exist, but Finnish society is such that you almost always have some options. Stuff that ruins lives in other countries, is an inconvenience here. The threshold for random chance ruining your life is much lower.

That said, I would not rate us the happiest. As already mentioned, suicide rates are high. That’s because the policies make sure you’re alive, and whenever possible, able to work.

What they don’t do, almost ever, is make sure you’re happy. If you are miserable, that’s entirely on individuals to solve. Mental care is not what it should be, and for some it is straight up harmful to engage with the public system if they need help. The state is pretty good and not killing people, except by coldly making sure you’re alive, homed and employed, even as you fall apart inside.

The most finnish gif in the “tori”