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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 8h

New Zealand seems to have done a similar right-wing government trashes things turn recently, is also far away.

Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 8h

Thinking of this, in many situations they don’t have ”almost” the same utility, but are in fact superior to cars. In any moderately sized city an e-cargobike will be decidedly faster and more convenient for grocery runs etc. of ~5km.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 8h

Which countries are looking like good options for relocating these days? Norway?

Finland’s major parties seem bent on debt austerity for the foreseeable future.

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Anni Marttinen @annimarttinen.bsky.social · 11h

Tämä on jo aivan ihmeellistä. Talouspolitiikan arviointuneuvostolle ja VM:lle lisää valtaa jopa hallituksen yli. Mistä tässä enää äänestetään?

yle.fi/a/74-20187958

Analyysi: Puolueet hyväksymässä historiallisen velkajarrun – näin se muuttaa suomalaista politiikkaa

Vaaliväittelyissä keskitytään jatkossa enemmän puolueiden vaihtoehtoihin talouden sopeutuksessa, kirjoittaa politiikan toimittaja Hannu Tikkala.

yle.fi

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 10h

It might be speculative, but e-bikes are beginning to compete with cars (also BEVs) if the infrastructure exists.

Why would I pay for ten times the dealership price, repair and maintenance, and a hundred times the fuel costs when the e-bike has almost the same utility?

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 9h

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 4d

continuing the sausage topic:
at the workspace we tried to help EU a bit in figuring out what a sausage is.

the Makkara (sausage) alignment chart
Form purist row: ingredient purist: 100% meat sausage, ingredient neutral: HK Blå, ingredient rebel: veggie sausage
Form neutral row: Wiener, Jagdwurst, Egg sausage
Form rebel row: Minced meat, Spam, Falafel

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 9h

I chatted with the owner of this thing in Mariehamn many years ago. Built with regular off-the-shelf solar components. Said that it isn’t unlike sailing.

From some web searches it seems there’s some options for ready-made solar boats now, even Terhi makes one.

www.merarkkitehdit.fi/aila

Aila vene | mer-arkkitehdit

www.merarkkitehdit.fi

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 9h

[Picture of Peter Thiel]
"This is your brain on cocaine, twelve unregulated testosterone-like substances, and the methylated trans-isometer of a Soviet de-icing agent rejected for excessive toxicity in sled dogs".

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 9h

Been meaning to get one of these for the rowing boat. For small outboard motors these are already superior tech. For one thing, no two-stroke fuel that goes stale in storage! Apparently popular on sailing boats.

www.torqeedo.com/en/home

Electric Boat Drives | Torqeedo

The number one for sustainable outboards and inboards - Torqeedo offers electric outboard motors up to 100 kW, inboards, hybrid-systems, intelligent battery technology and accessories

www.torqeedo.com

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 16h

CARTOON/K_GONZO.GIF

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 9h

There’s also the covered e-scooters. Anecdotally already popular with people losing their driver’s licenses for various reasons (if you are born before 1985 you can just drive one)

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 13h

Thinking of the sosig again

EU: sausages must be meat based
HK Blue: the puppet monkey looking worried meme. HK Blue is a Finnish sausage with fairly low meat content

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 16h

I feel people may not have liked the idea of telling the government what they did with their time.

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 20h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 17h

The great tits (Parus major) are loudly knocking at the windowframes of the inlaws. Happens every autumn, apparently. They find insects there.

Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 17h

lets seee if this thread gets deleted

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 18h

the sirens in the Odyssey are of course also related, as in their song being a sensory input that produces an effect that the person exposed to cannot resist. Kind of fascinating that this sort of thing doesn’t really seem to exist. Maybe with the exception of epilepsia-inducing video?

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 18h

reminds me that Monty Python’s 1969 ”funniest joke in the world” also is a ”Basilisk”. Are there older examples of lethal memetic agents? Kind of feels like something that should exist in some esoteric traditions?

Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

The Macintosh PowerBook BLIT was definitely safe for looking at all possible images.

For a little while, anyway.

$A photo of a Macintosh PowerBook BLIT, with eight separate small and chaotically sized screens on its display where there would normally be one. Designed not to show all of an image at one time, it's showing some probably completely innocuous fractal-like design in part across the screens.$

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 19h

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 1d

I find it impossible to make aesthetic judgments about Taylor Swift. There's a quality of candor in her delivery that bypasses the whole "art" thing and causes me to respond as if the song were a person (who I happen to like). I know this is itself a staged effect? But that doesn't help.