Exactly.

And since you don’t need to worry about releasing any chemicals from heating a dry pan, no need to worry.

The test to see if it’s hot enough is very simple, drop few drops of water onto the pan. If it sizzles and evaporates, it’s not hot enough. If it beads and jumps around, it’s hot enough. The leidenfrost effect.

Also never add too cold ingredients, but take things you’re gonna cook out of the fridge 20min before. So don’t like add onions direct from the freezer, you’ll open the fissures and then the food will stick.

Got my self one recently, it’s fucking great.

Well, I’ll say that most highly thought of European counties don’t do it so, yeah, use fluoride toothpaste and you’re gucci.

Most European countries including Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Scotland, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Switzerland do not fluoridate water.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country

Oh, despite us Finns not fluoridating water, there’s quite a lot of it in well water.

Finland

Kuopio is the only community in Finland with at least 70,000 people that has ever had water fluoridated.[56] Kuopio stopped fluoridation in 1992.[86] In regions with rapakivi bedrock (small, but densely populated regions), 22% of well waters and 55% of drilled well waters exceed the legal limit of 1.5 mg/L; generally, surface and well waters have 0.5-2.0 mg/L fluoride in affected regions.

I too enjoyed the internet more before the normies joined.

Although, to be fair, there’s was a lot less of it.

Since you’re asking that on the internet, I should probably say “no”. Specifically the second question, that is.

(Yes I know he’s joking, so am I.)

Is Finland just as based as I think it i

No, we’re not. There’s a lot of good, and definitely very good in comparison to a lot of other, or even most other countries, but I daresay there are certain problems of our own.

While the systems are all great on paper, reality doesn’t always conform.

I was abused by the police in a manner that I think actually would reach the bar of international crime, as they even cut off my water at one point. I was denied my prescription medication and went psychotic for days on end in a jail cell, while “under supervision for my safety”. I was literally drawing on the walls with my own blood. I didn’t eat. They didn’t care. Now whatever the motivation, the conditions I was kept in and the treatment I got would, I argue, constitute an international crime.

I’ve yet to find a single Finn who doesn’t immediately challenge me when I say that, and then I show proof, they deny it, and I have not gotten a single person to explain to me how on Earth it would be possible for me to self-harm so badly while “under supervision” and why I was not given my medications and fucking urgent medical assistance? I still have scars on my arms and fingers and that was several years ago. Even just according to the Finnish laws, permanent physical harm would constitute a grievous assault, when done on another person. And since I wouldn’t have done that if I weren’t being treated that way (in a cell without a single word to anyone, no knowledge of my rights, which I have a right to hold a physical copy all the time during detainment, lights on all the time, no mattress, no bed, no blanket). The guard even taunted me several times over the radio.

Finns will deny this, just like all the Finnish authorities did. And thus if I can manage to prove that it was actually internationally criminal, then anyone denying it would be a criminal under this law, which sounds kinda nice.

Anyway, the point is that we’re not a utopian democracy, we’re a somewhat socially secure bureaucracy. Like yeah we don’t really have anyone living on the streets, people usually get enough to eat, so “can’t complain”, but that’s just it. Having some things be well doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t strive to improve the things which aren’t.

Personally, Finland is a great country, but all countries are flawed in one way or another. There’s no utopia anywhere.

Also the thing about Finns being introverts is not even an exaggeration. It’d be a massive understatement to say we’re emotionally reserved and generally avoidant.

What’s the benefit to the nation?

Why do you even jokingly use a framework in which you’re assuming the current US government does anything “for the nation” instead of themselves?

And also, they’re just gonna ward off attacks with, uhm… gilded smoothie machines and massaging chairs.

The word you might be looking for is vapor.

Clouds are water vapor.

I’d like a proper wet and dirty one right now, gawddamn

Historically when ‘tyrants’ were killed they were usually inside jobs

If by “inside job” you mean “killed by people they hung around every day, some of whom were just slaves”, then yeah.

The killing of evil powerful people by the common rabble like you and me is such a rare celestial event

That’s just plain incorrect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regicides

Read it through. A significant portion were killed by their “employees” and the people in general. Servants, captains, hell, there’s even one monarch killed by two shepherds.

Ofc kings wouldn’t walk about town like the healthcare CEO did, but the reason the royalty didn’t do that, is because unlike the CEO, the monarchs knew they’d be killed. That is unless you’re with a retinuen armored men and safe in a carriage. And only eat the leftovers from your tasters, because you’re afraid of literally every meal being poisoned by a disgruntled subject.

The new “kings” as in the capitalists, they don’t properly have this fear yet. Whoever Luigi is protecting (because there’s no evidence he did it) just reminded the “nobility” of how things used to be.

Hell, one of the first murderers in that list is a person who’s a prophet in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; Samuel.

Also, have you forgotten what the people did in France a few hundred years ago?

Basically our whole system is based on the people having taken power with a violent uprising against the evil douches.

The killing of evil powerful people by the common rabble is incredibly common throughout history.

Stop spreading apathy.

Andor | Karis Nemik’s Manifesto

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.

Oh, well then the mistake is in the article, my bad. I thought you were saying “they meant to write ‘nm’”, but you’re saying “they meant particles way smaller than 5 millimeters in diameter”.

Those particles are measured on the nm scale, so it’s just a typo from the article more likely. Or like a journalist who doesn’t understand scales and units.

in modern times

As opposed to the whole of human history, when oppression wasn’t a thing…?

He’d displaying his lack of personality.

I’ve gathered some like that. Or I’ve misunderstood and people are easily led morons. One or the other.

Comics can also be empowering to the downtrodden.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Cage

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coagula

They might murder the guy, but that only proves they are far worse than any murderer.

But they’d get away with it, as they always do.

George Carlin on Assassination

Differences?

So I take it you’re not into adrenaline-inducing activities?

I only wish I wasn’t. Like literally an hour ago I changed a dressing on my elbow because of the operation to remove the junk from it after the first operation, and I’m sitting here with my sides hurting from the crashes I had last year on my ebike.

Although to be fair had I had an actual motorbike, I wouldn’t have been drunk on it, so I’d have spared my ribs.

You might be interested in this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder

DSPD is frequently misdiagnosed or dismissed. It has been named as one of the sleep disorders most commonly misdiagnosed as a primary psychiatric disorder. DSPD is often confused with psychophysiological insomnia; depression; psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, ADHD or ADD; other sleep disorders; or school refusal. Practitioners of sleep medicine point out the dismally low rate of accurate diagnosis of the disorder, and have often asked for better physician education on sleep disorders.

That reminds me of a time when a girl I had as a passenger on my 125cc bike as a 16 year old. I was going downhill, behind a full semi. I was annoyed at how slow they are. I started passing on the downhill. Unfortunately, after the downhill, there’s a small bend with trees and you can’t see behind it.

So after I had started accelerating (125cc’s with 2 people aren’t that powerful although mine was the 2nd fastest in town) I saw another full semi coming towards us.

I had to make a split-second decision. To either brake, which would’ve been dangerous, because I would’ve needed to brake so hard as to almost lose control, or, hit it, and hope we make it.

I decided on the latter. We made it so that if she had had he arms spread out, she could’ve prolly touched the mirrors of both those semis at the same time.

When we got to the town centre, some 1.5km after that, she jumped off and started beating me silly.

Ah, adrenaline, how I miss you so.

This would be funny if not for the current political environment.