amergin

1929 pts ยท September 17, 2012


Your democracy won't survive 4 years at this rate.

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Somehow I feel projects like these should be run and funded by government to store Internet history. In Finland, by law, published content (such as cd's, dvds, magazines, newspapers, books, even printed ads) are stored in three copies for future use. The national library also has web crawlers that index domestic websites and store snapshots of them for future study purposes, as defined by law. The website crawling started in 2006.

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Parasite is a term straight from Hitler's playbook. And that's no coincidence.

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Yep.

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Have double or triple glazed windows as is common in Europe, and you'll see this won't work.

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Mandatory by EU law since 2006. Yet again one of those "good to be an EU national" things.

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Also met a neurosurgeon who smoked several packs a day with no intention of quitting. He operated on numerous stroke victims. Someone who smokes 20 cigarettes a day is six times more likely to have a stroke compared to a non-smoker.

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Our work place had a nurse who took covid nasal swabs fulltime. Turned out she wasn't vaccinated and was reassigned to other post (national vaccination mandates for health workers).

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It's from the new Skrillex album.

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Also literally.

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Here in Finland, Finnish Food Authority states that "The freezing requirement applies to all fish species except the following: 1) herring and skipjack; 2) Atlantic farmed salmon and rainbow trout; 3) Rainbow trout and sturgeon farmed in Finland. Other species can also be exempt if 1) the fish have been raised from embryos in a fish farm and 2) only industrially produced feed has been used to feed the fish. Most of the salmon sold in stores here are cultivated in Norway and thus exempt and safe.

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Here's the front page of the biggest newspaper in Finland from yesterday, having the printed ad of Musti & Mirri, the fourth largest pet chain store in Europe and the largest pet chain store in the Nordics. It features a Tom of Finland type of charicature of two male dogs dressed in leather.

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impawster*

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Just remember that food grade plastics do have an expiry date, which varies depending on the material, and should not be used for ever.

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Here in Finland the state has compensated typically around 400-800 euros per day in
wrongful convictions/incarcerations. Depending on the case and the circumstances, such as the media coverage.

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Plus they come with asbestos, or at least used to.

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He was on student exchange in the US in Baltimore in 2000s. As a foreigner, he didn't understand it was not socially acceptable to do so.

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