Tuuktuuk

The main job of a parent is to produce experiences of safe disappointments for their children.

Show limits, show love. Make an effort to be interested in whatever is interesting to them. And then make a bit more effort in that, yet.

I guess that line is there. Either in the middle or as a part of the edge?

…and Iraq, true.

Though, at least Finland sent the absolute minimum to both of those shitstorms, and that only after being blackmailed by USA. But zero conscripts were sent to either one. Especially the shit about Iraq is something I am really angry about.

USA is only waging wars of aggression. It would be horrible forcing people to that shit, IMO.

In Finland or Germany it’s very different because our armies exist strictly for self defence. When the US military should see military action, is decided in D.C.

But when the Finnish military should see military is decided in Moscow.

If your wars are something you fan decide about, it would be extremely immoral having compulsory military service.

In countries that cannot decide when to not have a war, it’s immoral to not have compulsory military service, as that would mean only the poorest having to bear the brunt of the war.

Well, the purpose is to be denied by the foreign country. Or, to be accepted by it, depending on your perspective.

Typically your own country doesn’t (shouldn’t) care of shit about your passport, because according to the declaration of human rights, you are allowed to come and go to/from your country as you please. But other countries don’t have to give you that privilege.

(I do think they should have to, though!)

I think it does. At least I kept hearing “als ich mein Zivi gemacht hab” when I lived there. Most people elect to serve in the form of civil service instead, but civil service is a type of military service (as weird as that sounds).

But maybe it’s very easy avoiding the whole thing altogether? I don’t know all that precisely, really. My “military service” was done in the form of civil service in a children daycare centre by the time I moved to Germany. And I’ve never been a German citizen anyhow.

That’s a rather standard thing in any country with compulsory military service. Typically you get that done with right when you’re 18-year-old and then you’re free to travel.

In Finland it’s handled so that you cannot get a passport before you either finish your military service or have turned 30. That meant that when I wanted to travel with my brother outside the EU before they were 30, we were limited to countries such as Albania and Georgia that allow entry with just an ID card. (And also, had we wanted to destroy the climate by flying, we would have needed to fly the flight out from the Schengen area from some other country than Finland!)

You get to choose which country you serve your military service in.

After that, you are affected by the laws regarding military service that that country has. But not of the other one.

Imagine if this picture was taken in Ukraine. The church would have been bombed, because in the opinion of the Russia, churches are always a military target. Just like blocks of flats are.

If all MAGAts and people like the guy mentioned in the article were indeed to go to that place halfway between US and UK, I would be delighted! ❤️

The article says (even though, weirdly, between the lines) that the man had been spewing out anti-immigrant rhetoric and told that the flags are there to show that foreign-born people are not welcome on his island.

It’s not surprising that flags put by a person saying “I am putting these up as a form of showing the middle finger” are interpreted as being a form of showing the middle finger. Or in other words, causing alarm and distress.

“Oh, that’s a big one!”

If that was here in Finland, I would of course be scared because you need a lot of explosives to produce a mushroom cloud, and that would probably mean that:

1. our military has been storing a sizable part of its munitions in one place AND
2. one our eastern neighbours has apparently developed a will to rid our army of its munitions.

…which would mean that some country would be planning to attack us soon.

So, I would probably start preparing for a war. Maybe go buy a lot of food, at least?

In some country further from the Russia I would probably assume it’s something non-military. Maybe some form of a very large fertilizer storage? It would be kind of less scary, but of course that would mean a decreased farming output for the next season, and that would be shitty.

• make using public transportation more feasible and more comfortable than it is now
• maximize the walkability of people’s everyday environments
• the part of private car usage that is not necessary should be heavily taxed
• enable people to commute by bicycle in a way that is actually comfortable
• make sure villages’, towns’, and cities’ development is done in a way that supports building good public transportation (especially: don’t build cul-de-sack neighbourhoods)
• the part of car usage that is necessitated should happen with electric vehicles

These are measures that are being taken in various other cities around the planet. The Netherlands started doing moat of these in the 1970’s and is now a tourist destination because of that. People really like the urban environment that has produced.

That has taken some resources to build. They have essentially filled the whole gorge with bricks.