I think he is one of the stops on the granola to MAGA pipeline now, if you’re into woo woo spirituality babble and are politically ignorant he is there to lead you down a path.
There’s others as well, even without the aid of Brand that’s a well known pipeline. At least for me. I know several girls who went from slightly pissy and into spiritual bs to pretty much HC right-wing.
Yes.
And I was old enough to remember going to the movies in 1995.
Not by myself, but dad took us to see some.
Right wing?
Really?
I mean I haven’t followed the guy’s politics at all, I just know him from some British panel show appearance from like 15-20 years ago.
Obnoxious, but I would’ve guessed far left instead of right wing.
Got banned for antisemitism around the time the genocide ramped up in Gaza.
And I was just criticising Israel. Things got a bit heated for the other guy apparently, and then I got brigaded and reported. I didn’t defend Hamas or advocate violence, just criticised Israel.
a Polish person will pronounce every finnish word correctly and a Finnish person will pronounce most of Polish words correctly.
I’m Finnish and I’ve had a Polish friend for 15 years and I can say you’re most definitely mistaken.
You are saying you never read two vowels in a row?
No. I’m saying the ones which are umlauted don’t go with their umlauted partners. You can äiti easily. That’s mom. But you can’t have Äati. That’s not a word. Ä + a don’t go together.
I may be wrong because of how flexible Finnish is, but I don’t think a Finnish word exists where there is either äa oe öo combination. Äo maybe, but not likely. (edit def no äo either, just not a thing, I checked the exceptions and now I’m sure)
Its something calmed vowel harmony, which is sort of why I don’t see Polish as being any where near Finnish. The amount of consonants you guys use is unnatural to a Finnish person.
Finnish pronunciation is definitely not a “subset of Polish”. Polish is a PIE-language. We’re not even in the same language tree bro.
https://www.sssscomic.com/comicpages/196.jpg
coöperation.
I come from Poland and we read in a consistent way.
Okay I don’t doubt yours is consistent, but it’s really hard to grasp. I come from Finland and in the Nordics you would never get oö öo aä or äa combinations I’m pretty sure. Å can go with a but a doesn’t really go with ö I don’t think and uhm.
Anyways my point is I’ve no idea how you would go about trying to pronounce coöperation. Or rather what your idea of it is.
I’d couldn’t argue which is more constant, but Finnish is every consistent. And pretty much in line with IPA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Finnish
hevonen [ˈheʋonen]
hernekeitto [ˈherneˌkːei̯tːo]
tule! [ˈtuˌle]
Example of words with their IPA pronunciation. When something like “geography” in English is “ʤɔ́grəfɪj”.
Those don’t look alike at all. So I’m sure polish can be consistent, but to me at least, I’d be afraid of how complex that consistency is.
In Finnish wr say “kentauri” and in ipa that’s pretty much the same.
In Finnish we say kentauri and you can go ahead and imagine Japanese pronunciation for it and it’s mostly the same. Finnish is just more neutral in tone imo
I believe, internationally, lots of places which have saunas also have pools or even cold pools. I imagine. Like high class gyms or smth.
But I’ve heard several stories of Finns being abroad and going to a sauna and being prevented from tossing water on the stones (löyly = it’s sort of the water and the heat that results from throwing it, roughly how you’d use “gas” in relation to cars, more gas can mean more petrol or pressing on the gas pedal harder, that sort of word), and the employees saying “you can’t do thaw to it’ll break the stove” because they don’t understand how saunas work.
And to do this to the best effect you need a proper löyly to the point you pour cold water from the löyly bucket on top of your head to bear it for a while longer for all the muscles to really warm up. And then for maximum shock quick jump to cold water, or sometimes just a snowbank. That’s common as well. Hurts like bitch though if you do it with the wrong kind of snow, like jumping on a bed of freezing razors. (The top of snow that was quite soft earlier had frozen and I didn’t see it in the dark and jumped into the bank and there was like a half an inch of raspy ice on top before I broke through to the softer snow. Or I just didn’t care being either so young as not to or so drunk as not to. Probably both.)
And if you’re gonna throw a strong löyly, or even löyly at all in a public sauna, it’s proper etiquette to ask for consent from everyone. Although now that I wrote that I have a feeling asking for consent in some non-Finnish public saunas may have a different meaning, as far as I’ve understood from popular media.
It’s not just Gitmo, either.
It’s perfectly commonplace to have at least a 100 degree sauna.
I think something like 140 is around the hottest I’ve been in.
The air is that temperature, but there’s also a ton of moisture in the air. You can take it for a few minutes at a time, then optimally you go take a dip off a pier into a lake or the sea. When I was in that 140c sauna it was a proper wood heated large sauna at my confirmation camp, it was on an island in the Baltic so we could run out the sauna and jump into the Baltic Sea. It wasn’t warm at all, but the intense heat of the sauna having warmed all the top tissues and muscles, you get a sort of immunity to the cold. Which lasts for a little while, and when you start getting cold enough, you go back to the sauna, and because the cool water has now cooled the skin and muscles, you get a resistance to the heat for a while.
Rinse and repeat. Literally.
This cycle supposedly has benefits for circulation and muscles.
And having done it ton in my life I don’t doubt that at all.
Usually I have to settle for the sauna in my apartment though. (I live in a cheap rental but a sauna is default in pretty much all buildings built after the 90’s.) And then either going to balcony to cool off a while or take cool shower. It’s not as nice, but it’s more or less the same.
Although I don’t rip the most out of my electric stove to get the most heat. I have it set on pretty low and I just use a lot of löyly. Probably I’d say my normal saunas are maybe around 90-110 degrees at the most. A sauna below 80 degrees is considered a “Swedish sauna”, which is to say we mock them as not being strong and manly as us and so Swedes would be afraid of having a “proper” sauna.
And to be honest the Swedes are pretty on board with this whole stereotype I guess, seeing us as mute emotionally distant brutes. Here’s a cool Swedish commercial featuring a Finnish man. They made it. (that’s not the real title though just the yt video title)
minus the TERF nonsense, and wizards shitting on the floor.
I get the TERF stuff, but why go after such a highly regarded part of official canon lore?
You know a nation of people who may not be able to articulate their understanding, but definitely have a high intuitive understanding of that?
We Finns.
100C sauna and no problem sitting on wood, but happen to touch something metal and oooh-weee.
Also same thing happens the others way around when it’s - 20c outside. I don’t think there’s many people in Finland who don’t have a core memory of what cold metal tastes like in winter, because of the resulting trauma. And it doesn’t even need to be metal to stick.
Nicely explained.
Elon and Trump are fucking cowards.
They stand no chance when some actually bad people turn up.
“I’m arguing bigger picture”
No, you’re specifically doing the opposite.
You’re taking what you did as a novelty, niche hobby in the 90’s and saying “it’s just the same now”
It literally isn’t. The difference in users is about 5.5 billion and constant access in your pocket.
over semantics of what videos were in ~95 (very low res and shit quality fyi)
Consumer digital video cameras didn’t even exist until 1995.
I’m just saying they were always there
You arguing that the “it’s the same now” is exactly the same thing as saying literature was “exactly the same” 500 years and 5000 years because they share some very base level features.
Again, the difference is users is 5.5 billion to the 90’s. Wireless connections are everywhere.
Imagine how dumb it would be to argue cars are the same as when they were invented. “They still have wheels and an engine and you steer them to go about. We had the exact same thing in 1885!”
Has your clan had a bronze orientation day yet?
That’s like saying cuneiform on small tablets is the same as writing after the Gutenberg press. “It’s all just symbols marked on a medium.”
But I think you know that there’s quite a difference in being able to print books on an industrial scale and a few priests knowing how to write down taxation in cuneiform on stone tablets.
I actually do have(and still use) the same computer I had in the late 90’s
My point exactly. You’re saying things haven’t changed because you’re stuck. The world has changed in 30 years. Arguably more than in any previous set of 30 year cycles.
30 000 hours uploaded every hour. In 1995 there weren’t even 30 000 websites. >5.5 billion users versus 16 million. Do you have any idea just how huge that difference is? Here’s a hint, the difference is about ~5.5 billion people.
Like what’s your crusade in arguing that “it’s all still the same” when it’s obviously completely different.
My guy, wtf were you doing in the 90’s on a computer?
Playing games.
there were video files all over the place to download and watch.
The amount of some 3 second quicktime clips doesn’t even begin to compare with today’s videos. And you’re pretending like downloading videos on a 56k modem isn’t complete garbage.
Sometimes it would take minutes for a regular html site to load. People were not browsing videos, lol. Maybe in 99 you’d have some sites for the people who had ADSL but a few clips here and there is barely comparable to 30,000 hours of material uploaded to YouTube every hour
Not really sure why you even feel the need to doubt any of this
Because you’re pretending like an incredibly niche experience you had with a thing that doesn’t even begin to compare with today is “exactly the same as it was”. No it’s not. Literally a majority of the world, ~5 billion have a smartphone. Instant access to HD videos, in their pocket, 247.
Back in 1995 there were about 16 million users, now it’s more than 5.5billion. 23,500 websites back in June 95. Now it’s more than 1.1 billion.
I’m not doubting anything. I’m calling bullshit on you pretending like there hasn’t been absolutely massive global change just because you still live in the same garage and have the same keyboard and screen.
I don’t own a house.