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Try searching for these three in some image search or video platform:

• Telttasauna
• Saunavaunu
• Saunalautta

The carbrains are mad indeed. They are super annoyed that “we built a bridge for one billion euros and then blocked cars from it for no reason!”

Of course the bridge cost a bit over 300 millions. But, there was a larger project where they included everything they needed to build in the vicinity of the bridge project, so that they wouldn’t need to dig the ground open, fill it, dig it open again, etc. And everything included, the project did indeed cost a bit over one billion. That number includes the four-lane Hakaniemi bridge, built mainly for cars and without any public transportation routes. And it includes the groundwork for many new houses. And some 10 km of new tram line. And a tram depot. And a block of flats that will be built right overneath the tram depot. Of course, when the flats will be sold, much of the costs of that house will be paid back to the city. And then there are two further tram bridges.

There is no space for more cars in the street network on the cape where the city centre of Helsinki is located, so they would have needed to spend at least 500 million extra to accommodate for the cars that would come from that bridge. Plus, the bridge itself would have had to be built three times as wide as it was built now, which would have cost some hundreds of millions as well. For anybody not going for the centre, there is anyway a better route through another bridge on the northern end of the Laajasalo island. So, not spending some 700 million extra, bringing the total cost of the project from a bit over one billion to a bit under 2 billion, meant that money was wasted.

I’ve been wondering, why do they not complain that no cars are allowed in the metro tunnels? Why dig tunnels and then prohibit driving cars in the perfectly good tunnels??

Why? This is Finland. Saunas used to be a type of shrine here before we were converted to christianity. They are seriously important in our culture.

I honestly don’t see anything weird in having a sauna in an event like this. But, I am a Finn.

Absolutely!

The bridge cost a bit over 300 millions, but the car brains are super angry that they “built a bridge for bicycles and that bridge cost one BILLION euros!”

It’s really crazy watching the argumentation! There’s nowhere for the cars to go in the downtown end of the bridge – the traffic there would turn into an absolute porridge.

I’d guess they don’t want to sit on the toilet seat and put their shoesolesnon the ring and crouch. Combine that with being extremely drunk… Easy to lose your balance.

Where do the balls and the penis actually go in those?

Hyenas know what you are talking about.

You should have seen how loudly my back then 6-year-old screamed (screeched?) when she was walking on an iron railing and fell off it, legs on different sides of the railing.

I bet everyone in the nearest three blocks felt her pain from hearing that.

A lot of people wipe their butt, flush the toilet, wqsh their hands, dry them, and leave the toilet.

This means that at least the toilet flushing button is often very dirty with poo germs. Depending on how you two and people visiting you handle the flushing, ut might make sense to always wash hands after flushing the toilet.

Otherwise… Whatever.

7,5 is read in Finnish as “seitsemän pilkku viisi”. 7.5 would be read as “seitsemän piste viisi”.

The rule is that if it’s in decimal system, you use comma; if in any other system, you use dot. And you read what you write.

How about translating this to English and using the following as the standard?

…and whales are closely related, even if one step further separated – they only have three stomaches instead of four, for example. But ungulates all the same!

Lets hope that eventually Belarus and Russia will rejoin the European family.

That will take time.
The Russia is now politically about where Ukraine was around year 1970. And it took Ukraine until 2008 to start seriously becoming democratic, and even then it seemed to keep regressing again and again. Only the aggression by the Russia in 2014 stabilized Ukraine’s path towards democracy. This took Ukraine altogether about 40 years and the Russia won’t be able to be faster than that. The couple decades of extremely immense propaganda have taken their toll. If the propaganda somehow ends this year or the next, then the children born now will still be imbued by it because of their parents’ thinking, and the children of the children being born now are going to be reasonably okay, already. But still not really ready for EU. But the grandchildren of children being born in 2026 might really be able to feel European. So, when those are adults, then maybe. If the Russia ends the propaganda now.

But the Russian propaganda is something that has existed for several centuries and from conversations I’ve had with Russians in Russian language, I don’t really get a feeling that they will be letting go of that anytime soon. A Russia without Pushkin… What would that even be? Such a huge part of their literature is so toxic that whatever they try to achieve, their old literature will pull them back into what they have been for centuries.

We can always live in hope, but I really don’t think the Russia can become anything humanely thinking anytime in the next two centuries at least.

Conservatism means wanting to keep the society as it is. It is the antonym of being progressive. And that’s it.

A party that wants things to to just remain stable as they are is a conservative party. A party that wants to make dramatic changes is a progressive, or maybe also regressive, party. But absolutely not conservative.

Yes, in USA some people have started using the word “conservative” in a different meaning. That doesn’t alter what the word really means. Those who want to conserve what exists.

(And in USA the Democratic party has taken the conservative role, whereas the Republican party has taken an anti-conservative role, driving radical changes to things. Changes to a direction I see as very damaging for everyone, but changes all the same. Wanting such huge changes makes you an anti-conservative.)

A centaur has explicitly horse features until a certain point, then explicitly human features from that point onwards.

That would mean the upper part not being allowed to divert back to horseness/giraffiness, as the left pic does.

Cows are short giraffes, though… (And both cows and giraffes are just forms of land whale)

I… what the fuck am I looking at… ?

It’s the human centipede. But giraffe.