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  • Purra wants to close Finland's education agency following her party's accusations of 'woke ideology'

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  • To be fair, this mainly seems lika Purra being Purra, or in other words, a lunatic. This is only her proposal for new budget cuts and none of the other government parties have agreed with them so far.

    In fact, even the NCP have said this proposal doesn't seem reasonable and will need a lot of negotiation to even become somewhat feasible. Let's see this autumn where the negotiations lead us, but I don't believe most of it will make it into the budget plan.

  • Men, am I right

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  • Translation: "You better wipe the bottom of the ladle against the edge of the pot so that it won't drip on the table".

  • Cosmic Horror

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  • For anyone else who's still confused, Horton Hears a Who! is a book by Dr. Seuss about a speck of dust that's also a tiny planet and some elephants that try to destroy it.

  • Got emotional thinking about this

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  • "Somewhere"? Time to call in Rainbolt

  • Thai PM says dispute with Cambodia could 'escalate into a state of war'

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  • As far as I understand, it's still a bit unclear.

    Thailand claims Cambodian troops were approaching a Thai border guard station and started firing towards the Thai soldiers, leading to the Thai soldiers firing back.

    Cambodia claims the patrol was walking the regular route, and Thai soldiers suddenly opened fire towards them.

    Obviously one (or both) is lying, and the situation escalated quickly.

  • 🚨 New York City is holding a public hearing on Mayor Adams's controversial proposal to cap e-bike speed-limits at 15 mph. People can file a written comment until 5 p.m. 📢

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  • Why not just add speed limits to areas where higher speeds are an issue? That's been the approach to cars -- no car is limited to 140 kmh despite speeds above that are illegal pretty much everywhere...

    Regular bikes can easily go above 15 mph as well, so why should this only affect e-bikes?

  • Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.

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  • Finland notifies UN of withdrawal from landmine ban treaty

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  • Yes they do. This is a deterrent, not a last-ditch effort to protect ourselves if war breaks out.

  • Plant Slurs

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  • Herb is ört in Swedish. Gräs is better translated as grass, so ogräs is non-grass. This also enables a funny way to insult someone's lawn -- since lawn is gräsmatta (grass carpet) -- by calling it an ogräsmatta.

  • The dream

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  • I don't think they literally meant journeys from one end of the country to the other, but rather travelling distances of 100-500 km. Maybe even up to 1000 km would be preferable by rail, especially with night trains.

    I do agree that if you for some reason specifically want to travel from Orlando to Detroit, plane is by far the superior option. But Orlando to Miami? Or Orlando to Atlanta? High speed rail would be perfect.

  • I wish more cities were built around the Dutch "autoluw" concept. There are zero downsides, except for auto manufacturers I guess.

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  • Yup, that's even easier to implement and could be done in any city within a few years. I just can't fathom why almost every single street in almost every single city MUST support through traffic. Even in cities with great public transport and great infra for walking/cycling, with only a fraction of the citizens driving cars, somehow cars are still allowed to drive through basically everywhere. Looking at you Helsinki...

  • I wish more cities were built around the Dutch "autoluw" concept. There are zero downsides, except for auto manufacturers I guess.

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  • Also, the size of the city is irrelevant. Even in the video, NJB describes how this concept could be implemented in any city. You don't encircle the whole city with a ring road, but you create these rings with a diameter of ~2 km around train/metro stations. Even Houten consists of two such rings nowadays. Larger cities would be dozens, if not hundreds, of rings.

  • Me? Nor.

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  • I kid you not, this is called förgätmigej (förgät mig ej) in Swedish. I was today years old when I found out "förgät" actually is an old word meaning, you guessed it, "forget".

    (The common translation for "forget" would be "glöm".)

  • Helsinki opens new bridge for trams, cyclists and pedestrians

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  • Also, there are some plans to connect this bridge to the land barely visible on the right edge of the picture. Not sure if that also plays into the curvature, or when this bridge connection will actually be built.

  • That's a work of art

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  • 'I am against Ukraine's entry into the European Union,' Polish president-elect Nawrocki says

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  • The Parliament would decide to ratify Ukraine's accession to the EU, but the official papers are signed by the president, so he could use his veto to block it.

    The decision goes back to the Parliament, and if it passes with a 2/3 majority the president is forced to sign no matter what he thinks.

    Again, I'm not 100% sure it works like this in Poland, but it does in several countries.

  • 'I am against Ukraine's entry into the European Union,' Polish president-elect Nawrocki says

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  • As I understand, the president can still use his veto, forcing the question back to the parliament requiring 2/3 majority to overrule the veto.

  • Japanese queue for hours as rice shortage deepens

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  • Rice shortage?

  • Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit

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  • The general rule is that the larger symbols come first in Roman numerals, so 12+10 (22) would be written as 10+10+1+1 or XXII.

    If you literally meant the arithmetic 12+10, I'd assume they used some symbol for addition, so it would be written as XII+X, but I can't say for sure.