Sorolainen

joined 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Check BBC. They have pretty cood coverage of global news. Other might be Deutsche Welle, which despite the name is in English.

The best option would be to follow the news in Italian if at all possible. I actively follow the news in four languages and it really helps to show how differently they report on the same events. If you ever wonder why, for example, Sweden, Germany and USA have so different opinions on Palestine vs. Israel, just checking how their respective medias report about it in their own languages makes it clearer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you have the means to reach this place? Lets say that you get the warning tomorrow, are you able to reach the island?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well... My health conditions mean that I am unlikely to survive long term after apocalypse. Even if no zombies get me. The first week would be fine, the first month maybe, but I wouldnt be alive to see the second year. I could try to do a camping trip to see if the "apocalypse" passes over quickly. If not, then there is no point trying to plan for long term survival.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If a country gets away with not having a mandatory military service, then it sholdn't have one. Forcing people (usually just men) to spend a substancial amount of time in something, they might have zero motivation to, is unjust.

That being said, I absolutely support the fact that we do have a conscription based army here in Finland. There simply is an existential imperative for an army that is wastly larger than what could be achieved with volunteers. Maybe an initial fighting force could be mustered, but we would have problems refreshing it throug years of heavy attritional combat. Like Ukraine could most likely never maintain a fighting force through volunteer only.

That being said there is an option of civilian service here in Finland. I hold no grudge against anyone choosing that option. I agree that the system is fundamentally injust. I just see no alternative.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm douptfull that such a list exists. At least not in a comprehensive form.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Very traditional sleeping schedule you have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I try to be asleep by 22, but that doesn't always work out. As I get older it gets harder and harder to stay awake long in the evenings. I have also begun to enjoy early mornings more.

Unfortunately I'm employed so that I have three nightshifts every week. So my sleepschedule is somewhat problematic.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

"Betrayal" might be a wrong word for it, but I find this disappointing because the current events are the reason I have tried using Proton instead of Gmail. A tweet wont ruin the functionality of Proton, but it goes against my personal rationale for making the switch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Very good question. Where I live they are supposed to be separated as "dangerous waste", because people are not trusted to empty them themselves.