Skip Navigation

Dasus

@ Dasus @lemmy.world

Posts
17
Comments
4691
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • This bridge in Finland has hooks to hang explosives from in case it needs to be collapsed to stop Russian advance

    Jump

  • I should've thought so as well but unless you can come up with better reasoning or source for these being for bombs, I still find it more probable. I'm not saying it's a good explanation, but it's more probable to me.

    Anything I found was discussing "charge pits" and I can't imagine any explosive you'd want to hang on the outside of what you're demolishing with that sort of frequency.

    I'm not saying it's not true, but I'm not convinced.

  • This bridge in Finland has hooks to hang explosives from in case it needs to be collapsed to stop Russian advance

    Jump

  • I genuinely just think it's the construction crew just bending the rebar that they had as extra when building it, instead of spending time cutting these off to make it look nice.

    As in they needed like x meters of rebar so they used x +0.5m to make sure there is enough, and in the end just couldn't be arsed to cutt off the extra, sand it down, paint over it, etc.

  • This bridge in Finland has hooks to hang explosives from in case it needs to be collapsed to stop Russian advance

    Jump

  • but I can think of nothing else that would aid a rapid demo more, that wouldn't also be prone to problems

    Literally drilled holes? I googled this a bit and they call them "charge pits". I find it weird they'd call them "pits" if they're just rebar they hang explosives off of.

    You don't decide to blow a bridge willy-nilly, and they need to have explosives anyway, and since the bridges are blown in advance, I don't think they'd be in the middle of a tactical retreat.

    Blowing up bridges with methods you decide during peacetime is strategy, not tactics.

  • This bridge in Finland has hooks to hang explosives from in case it needs to be collapsed to stop Russian advance

    Jump

  • It's the military. I was there, and remember everything usually being done as efficiently as possible. What would you get by hanging explosives on the walls? A big boom which isn't even guaranteed to take down the bridge unless you use an excessive amount, whereas with the so called "charge pits", you only need a few sticks of dynamite or an equivalent amount of a modern explosive.

    Why do they call them "charge pits" if they're actually just nails you hang explosives from? And why go through the trouble of hanging them ouf of something when they're gonna be practically identically efficient from the ground?

    Idk man, I just don't accept these mutu-based posts. (That's "mutu" as in "musta tuntuu" as in "well I feel like this is so".)

    It might be they are for them, but I'm not going to believe it, because they don't seem to be "pits" of any sort.

  • Facing threats of war, Denmark turns to a new weapon: women

    Jump

  • I'm Finnish and did do my service, and we had quite a few women.

    Most women get placed as drivers or leaders, but "enlisted" ranks (sergeant etc) instead of officers. This isn't to do with sexism, well mostly not, it's just that the officer training really is also physically very demanding and goes by scores from all sorts of different tests (mostly physical) so usually they don't end up there.

    However I do have a slight issue with your plain statement of "a woman can aim and pull the trigger just as easily as a man" because you're implying a frontline soldier, and that shit is physically demanding. Google "syöksyen eteenpäin" or "tetsaus". Basically a fronline soldier is equipped with some 10-15kg of gear and a rifle and you have to be able to crawl then jump forward, then crawl then jump forward, and that's your method of progressing through the territory under enemy fire. And if your fighting partner (fighting partners arr the smallest unit, below a squad) or squadmate of 100kg gets shot, you are supposed to be able to evacuate them.

    And while I could list a lot that the women did better then men or at least as well (most), evacuating men isn't one of the things they're really as good as. Ofc there are small men as well, but there's no denying the difference in muscle strength, and the scrawniest guys usually wouldn't necessarily be in the frontlines if there was a better place to put them.

    Which is why most of the women I served with ended up as things which aren't frontline soldiers. Drivers and leaders of supply and medical squads. Ofc there might be fighting but it's less likely.

    Which I think is pretty good, as, well, I'm not gonna argue women are better at organisational stuff (I think they might be but positive sexism is still sexism), but they're definitely not worse than men. So makes sense to use them where their strengths shine and weaknesses don't show.

    In Finland every male musters the year they turn 18 and roughly 75% end up going through military service all the way.

    But yeah in like >90% of stuff definitely equal. But no they weren't better shots despite the myth. Although my sample size was only a dozen or two but none of them were especially crack shots. They weren't bad but they weren't anything special either

  • Crossover hours?

    Jump

  • Most carnivorous plants don't actually need to eat bugs to survive

    Source pls.

    Most of those plants live in extremely nutritionally poor ground, so when you grow them at home and they have nutrition, they wouldn't require eating I guess.

    But evolution did not make flycatcher plants just for the lulz.

  • This bridge in Finland has hooks to hang explosives from in case it needs to be collapsed to stop Russian advance

    Jump

  • Yeah I've seen them as I've driven Turku-Hki highway 1 and the old nr 1 as well.

    For me it'd be much more believable if we we're talking about eastern cities. The road infra around the eastern border, no matter how clearly designed against an invasion from the East, was not talked about for decades. But they've since loosened the policy.

    I understand the logic. I just don't buy into it. I understand I can be wrong but eh, until further evidence is presented this is my opinion.

    Drilling is slow, yes, but explosives not in a structure just hanging on a hook outside are very much not efficient at destroying the structure. So if that's the case, you'd pre-drill holes for explosives. Which they apparently do do in the East.

    I do find confirmation of plans to destroy the bridges, but the words used are "charge pits" or panostustila/panostusaukko in Finnish.

    I just can't believe it'd be silly hooks like that so close. That to me seems just like the steel that's strengthening the concrete.

  • This bridge in Finland has hooks to hang explosives from in case it needs to be collapsed to stop Russian advance

    Jump

  • Yeah but I don't see those hooks as being related. You don't really need hooks like that to blow a bridge and that's a small underpass of a regular road. You could cave that with a few sticks of TNT. And drilling them into the wall is much more efficient than hanging them off the wall.

    I just suspect these hooks are just remnants of building it, and not for any specific purpose. Don't really care if I'm wrong but I won't be dissuaded unless someone actually proves it properly.

  • It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État

    Jump

  • Yeah I wouldn't know about that aspect, the only time I've ever had a "normal schedule" were in the army and a few months of day shift as a taxi driver. And if I had to do something in the middle of the day I just did it between fares.

    So I don't I now if people working 8-16 in Finland take personal days but it's possible at least. Not that it's even necessary for most I think. There's not many places you still have to physically go to to apply to things and whatnot. Mostly online.

  • This bridge in Finland has hooks to hang explosives from in case it needs to be collapsed to stop Russian advance

    Jump

  • Could you give me a source for this?

    Preferably a Finnish one. Not by language (although am Finnish so not an issue) but like a reliable source in Finland documenting that's what they're for?

    I know we do have lots of infra designed "in case of Russian attack", mainly the direction of roads on the eastern border, but I'd like to read up on this blowing bridges shit.

  • accused of being a man pretending to be a woman, CCP incel, ragebaiter, let know i've been blocked... but i'll keep going on here🫶

    Jump

  • Okay and what happens nowadays?

    I mean I'm not disagreeing, I was there as a teenager back then as well, I 'member. But what happens to them now?

  • The Taliban’s new penal code: Two weeks in jail for breaking a woman’s arm and five months for mistreating a camel

    Jump

  • It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État

    Jump

  • You're not wrong in most of what you've said but equally in the EU you got to apply for one and pay for it, and an ID card is ~40€. Passport is a bit more. But yeah you could actually take your own passport photo with a mobile as long as it fullfills a few requirements. Most people just use a photographer who sends them directly to the police and then you just go online and pay and wait a few weeks and get your ID in the mail.

    But yeah I know how different it is in the US especially because it affects different populations differently.

  • 😢 😭 😿 😢

    Jump

  • Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer, a major study found

    Jump

  • I would love some al dente carbonara right now. Unfortunately I think I'm oversensitive to gluten and dairy proteins. I've been trying for a few years now and that's the conclusion I somewhat have to draw. Which sucks balls.

  • Research suggests mating direction bias between Neanderthals and humans

    Jump

  • Anyone bother to copypaste the articles content?

    I ain't accepting nor paying.

  • Evil Ultra trying to split the vote 😠

    Jump

  • What are things that bring you joy?

    Jump

  • I didn't mean to offend or anything, thanks for the kind words but....

    Yeah that's kind of the bitch about depression. You lose faith.

    And I had it a looooooooooooong time.

    There's nothing I can personally do anymore, but no-one in my society will recognise that and aid me. Thus this will just continue and worsen.

    I've even started to disregard personal hygiene to a point. I still shower and wash my teeth, but showering used to be daily. Now I don't even get up from bed every day.

    But I can't get Finland to recognise I'm not capable of work currently. Spent several years fighting it. And we have an actual legal professor on our family friends but they won't answer me and no-one will ask for me. I've just been actively pushed to this situation by my society while at the same time it's pretending I'm not even in a situation.

    It's like the entire country I'm living in is gaslighting me because they can't accept realty from their delusions.

  • What are things that bring you joy?

    Jump

  • I've done a lot outside my comfort zone.

    And in it.

    I've tried pretty much everything and just had really fkin rotten luck.

    Tried setting up my own business, only to be foiled by "some bug" in the system of a creditor I took a loan from when I went mad for a week or two in 2016 out of work stress and insomnia.

    I just really don't care about even trying anymore. There's only so many times you can bang your head against a wall before you get a headache bad enough that you just have to take a break.

    From what I understand, Finland has a pretty good social safety net.

    Yeah, people like to think so. It's good... on paper.

    But for instance there's a scheme called "social credit", which some municipalities / cities use. It means that for relatively small loans, you can get a loan from the city to cover all your high interest payday loans, as not to get caught up in a debt cycle.

    I had decent credit, I had paid more than 60e a month of my expensive loan (then one I took in during the mental breakdown and don't even recall and someone might have just used me and stolen it no idea) and I was applying for a small loan from this social credit. I was basically exactly who it was aimed at. And the loan I needed would've cost me 40e/month. Yet I didn't get it cause the bureaucrat social ladies didn't like my attitude, essentially. Even after I quoted the law which they use and showed them my bank statements from a few years.

    So nah.

    No money for moving. If I just get a few k from somewhere then that's income and can't get social security nomore, so the extra becomes not extra.

    There's a reason they talk of Finland's record-high unemployment numbers. We're living in a fucked up bureaucracy and no-one here cares.

    I've also switched my services to the next town over. Hasn't helped.

    A lot of this is discrimination just because I've been for legalising cannabis for the past 20 or so years and anytime anyone reads it it's like "oh, heroine shooting junkie scum whom we shouldn't help, no matter what". Despite me not being any sort of junkie. But Finland views random cannabis use as shooting up or like smoking crack.

    Honestly I'm kinda tired of people even suggesting that I can do something about this. If only I could communicate the amount I've done and variety of things I've tried. I just need to get the fuck out of here, really, I think.

    Finland is not as great as people think it is. The nature is nice, systems good on paper, yet...

  • News @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    Kyiv says Russian troops need Starlink so badly they're trying to get Ukrainians to register terminals for them

    www.businessinsider.com /ukraine-worries-people-register-starlink-terminals-russia-2026-2
  • Europe @feddit.org
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    Results of pro-Russian information manipulation and disinformation monitoring targeting Ukraine-EU relations during June – August, 2025

    www.eeas.europa.eu /delegations/ukraine/results-pro-russian-information-manipulation-and-disinformation-monitoring-targeting-ukraine-eu_en
  • Just Post @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    Artemis II orbits the Moon.

    eu.usatoday.com /story/studiog/life/2025/10/24/artemis-ii-orbits-the-moon/85725468007/
  • Just Post @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    Why Siberia Might Actually Secede From Russia

  • World News @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    Sweden accuses Russia of GPS jamming over Baltic Sea

    bbc.com /news/articles/clyx3ly54veo
  • World News @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    ‘For Russians, Nato is next to Satan’: Finnish guards on alert at Russia border

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/aug/25/finland-fence-nato-border-russia
  • Cooking @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    Saturday cooking thread?

  • Ye Power Trippin' Bastards @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    Eire / Ireland also modded by Russians it seems

  • Ye Power Trippin' Bastards @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    Banned for "bad faith" for validly calling out a spam-bot

  • Just Post @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    Who is paying for ads like these and why?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    "Wario" is a Japanese portmanteu of Mario and "warui" (bad), but in Finnish "Wario" is also a homonym of "varjo", "shadow".

  • Just Post @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    Why do you have these three dots on your forearm? (Yes, you.

  • Just Post @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    They say Reddit is filled with bots, implying Lemmy isn't...

  • Star Trek @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    I love how someone on ST: Enterprise set crew loved Finnish glass design.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    Hostile Government Takeover (EDM Remix)

  • AssholeDesign @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    You can't make out a single sentence from this screen grab I took while reading an article.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Dasus @lemmy.world

    Isn't "MAGA" an admission that currently, America is NOT great?