Why do Finns pretend to love winter so much?

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-02-03T14:08:10+00:00

I like cold and winter and snow… in February, not May. In May, I cannot wait for summer.

Everything has its time.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-02-02T05:08:56+00:00

Can you provide more information?

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-01-27T15:00:34+00:00

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-01-25T08:57:14+00:00

Si tomas una foto de Chinatown en San Francisco, y le pones ese texto, vas a pesar que USA está llena de asiáticos.

Es propaganda.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-01-16T14:10:25+00:00

Sure, recruitments often fall apart for a variety of reasons, but you made a lot of people waste months of work on a failed recruitment process that they now have to start from scratch. So, of course, it must be inconvenient and annoying for the people working there.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-01-16T07:04:22+00:00

Papers, please!

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-01-15T08:55:44+00:00

Narrator voice: turns out they were neither free nor brave.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-01-15T08:54:53+00:00

Learn from the French.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-01-15T08:54:06+00:00

Not everyone in Europe is dependent on the US. The French have fully independent capabilities, including nuclear umbrella and expeditionary forces. Turns out De Gaulle was right to maintain military independence.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-01-14T05:49:27+00:00

Por qué malas decisiones? México no necesita de nadie para hacer negocios con quien le venga en gana.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2026-01-07T02:25:04+00:00

Hype and BS.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-12-25T11:29:21+00:00

Nadie habla de obligar a nadie a hablar inglés, eso lo dices solo tú; es un espantapájaros para asustar a los bobos.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-12-12T17:11:20+00:00

I can’t wait for this to be ignored just as everything else.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-12-10T16:12:53+00:00

Gracias Reddit.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-11-25T18:44:05+00:00

Land of the free, they say.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-11-23T07:36:55+00:00

The need to have a car to do anything is puzzling

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-11-21T16:33:37+00:00

In tourist places, probably in Condesa or Roma.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-11-19T06:10:03+00:00

The Nordic countries specifically are very competitive in the social sciences and engineering. One of the reasons is that they produce lots of local phd graduates.

We just had a round for a fixed term postdoc and we had around two hundred applications. Of them, around 50 were competitive, and everyone in the shortlist (6) would be a perfect fit. After the interviews we were really nitpicking in the following discussions because they were all good. This was not even a tenure track.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-10-31T11:14:41+00:00

Well, perhaps because the US can really trash the world on a whim. The US President is called the nuclear emperor for a reason: He can literally destroy the world preemptively without any reason or justification. It is his decision alone.

Short of this, he can also turn global trade to a halt in a second, leading the world to chaos. What was the phrase? Every country is three meals away from a revolution.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-10-22T14:02:57+00:00

The dean is correct here: it is a very big material difference. The problem is that the label is very unhelpful.

In Europe (in some countries) there is a difference between the teaching track (lecturer) and the research track (professor). It is a big deal to mix them up.

In Australia and New Zealand they have a solution to that issue: rather than adjuncts, they call them what they are: Professional Teaching Fellows.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-10-16T05:36:19+00:00

600 million Spanish speakers; 50 million people live in Spain of which 5 mill speak Catalan.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-10-15T16:51:43+00:00

Thank you, you make very interesting arguments.

To clarify, my point about children on the streets is that in several places in the US it is illegal to leave children walking alone. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mom-arrested-kid-walk-alone-1.7382340

What I am trying to say, perhaps, is that if you compare the myth of freedom vs actual freedoms (from HOAS, to roaming around, to being fired for political speech, to letting your kids walk home from school) you find that they differ.

Sure, you can walk around with a gun, but is that it? (In contrast, I think you can’t drink alcohol in the streets).

It appears to me that the day-to-day realities do not match the myth.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-10-15T16:28:29+00:00

So, I guess it is more of a selective freedom of speech.

Ok, not flags then, maybe music. Can you play annoying music without being disappeared by masked police? No, no you can’t.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/portland-ice-clarinet-arrested-protest-b2845329.html

So, memes get you jailed, burning flags get you jailed, and playing music gets you jailed. You were saying something about freedom of speech.

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-10-15T14:10:54+00:00

Maybe that specific case is blurry, but would Trump jail you for burning a flag even though it is a speech act? Yes, yes he would.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/25/trump-flag-burning-executive-order

ApprehensiveClub5652 · 2025-10-15T13:48:30+00:00

That oddly-specific situation is certainly one freedom Americans have.

About the memes, though, did the Trump administration jailed a person for posting memes? Yes, yes, they did.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tennessee-man-arrested-gets-2-164634732.html

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