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YeahTubaMike posted:I'm pretty sure "suomi" is the country & language and "suomalainen" is the people, but my knowledge of Finnish does not extend far past Korpiklaani/Teräsbetoni songs. Yeah, Suomi is the country and the language, suomalainen/suomalaiset are the people. Finland and Finnish are just how other people call the place. http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180225-the-mysterious-origins-of-finlands-true-name unfortunately no-one knows the exact meaning of the name, one theory is that is Suo-maa (land of bogs or shallow lakes), or variation of Sami (which are the indigenous people living in the Northern parts who used to live a fair bit southern than they do nowadays). And the older national shorthand SF meant Suomi - Finland, not Soviet Finland, which was also somewhat accurate. Historically the coastal areas and western part used to be basically a normal part of Kingdom of Sweden, and the middle/northern/eastern parts not immediately at the coast or easily accessible by waterways were at best barely organized network of castles, fortifications and inns in the middle of wilderness, spotted with more or less fucks-giving villages of farmers and stuff. And no, we are not magyaroks, our emblem is a can of beer with hockey sticks and puukko, not a white hand on a badly forged door from Ford Escort. Der Kyhe has a new favorite as of 22:42 on Nov 22, 2020 |
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John Steinbeck was a Soviet Union fan boy who wrote mostly just poverty porn and tankie fan fic to justify everything Stalin et al. did.
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Aramek posted:That's actually what you're supposed to do especially when you do not have a protected turn signal. It's to ensure that at least one person gets to turn left per cycle. ...So that the rear end in a top hat BMW which floors it the moment his light goes to Red-Yellow can smash in through your passenger side door. In most places "no separate phase for turning left" might as well mean "no turning left".
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It’s easy now to pay 10-15 bucks for a legit windows key, which makes warez feel kind of pointless for Windows. I’d rather drop the little bit of money and save the time/aggravation for a legit copy that’ll update. Unfortunately everything is going backwards now that everything is aggressively becoming monthly service, so in a future that'll be 5 bucks per month and if you stop paying you will get hosed.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's a beverage. This as a chaser for ice-cold light lager is the best thing ever since central heating and daylight-tinted light bulbs.
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silence_kit posted:I think after the novelty wears off, nobody, even the World’s Biggest Internet Space Nerd, would enjoy living on Mars or would want to permanently live there. Maybe it could be a tourist attraction. Unfortunately as the current understanding of physics goes, its one of the only places where we in theory can expand into, and most likely a place which we could make more habitable by creating a some sort of atmosphere. The other possibility is more or less Venus, where ironically we need to find a way to make the atmosphere to calm the gently caress down.
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Captain Monkey posted:those places have air. Moon and Mars have air, its just under the surface and embedded into ice, which also gives us water.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
This is quite much true also towards modern Russia. They have that one burned-out aircraft carrier they can tow to sink slowly anywhere around the world, but actually going meaningfully anywhere that isn't immediate neighbor to a friendly territory is a problem for them.
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Gripweed posted:OK, what's your third choice for breakfast? Because the waffle maker still can't see the wifi and now the toaster is going to be downloading an update for the next 45 minutes. You also need to make it in the dark because the Smart lightbulbs are doing a DoS attack against the vacuum cleaner and/or the washing machine which are trying to mine bitcoin for someone in Russia.
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Shibawanko posted:the azores are an underrated holiday destination and i dunno why people dont just flood there every summer. its like the european hawaii and its right there Because Canary Island, South coast of Spain or Italy, the Greek islands and Ibiza is closer, and the Azores is pretty loving expensive compared to those places because their regional government does that on purpose.
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Gaius Marius posted:I don't think anyone who's actually seen rocky has a low opinion of it. People just assume it's just some lovely sports movie. Its like the first Rambo, an actual movie, not a summer no-brains sports/action blockbuster.
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Solice Kirsk posted:It's weird how that happened to him. What do you think started twisting him more and more towards action-y roles. Money. "Do you want to use your jacked-up appearance and name recognition on making cerebral stuff for a paycheck of 50 000 USD per movie and fade out when your health starts to fade, or make Action poo poo like Arnold and get paid 50 000 000 per movie because you star the movie and are one of the producers/writers/own part of the IPR via your production company?" But in any case it should be remembered that Sly was *really* close to getting an Oscar for Rocky and on a year with lesser competition would have won one. Der Kyhe has a new favorite as of 20:02 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Solice Kirsk posted:He should let James May host Jay's Garage. May has like the opposite affect where even boring stuff is interesting. Maybe Jay could come in, give a short "funny items"-talk at the beginning of the show and then James May did the rest? 
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Gaius Marius posted:Why don't they just build more schools? Now that's just crazy talk. Next you'd recommend funding mental healthcare and restricting access to firearms.
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