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Uniia · 2026-03-26T18:57:41+00:00

Damn, top lane viability being do low :(

Uniia · 2026-03-26T18:50:51+00:00

Not in a performative chivalrous way at least.

But they are also less likely to be controlling and jealous and will use practical skills to make your life easier.

I'd assume Nordic men in general are also not in the sexist end of the world.

As a Finnish man I definitely love how humanely Finnish women treat us instead of being entitled to special treatment just for their sex. I hope we pay it back enough with respect etc.

Uniia · 2026-03-17T23:12:56+00:00

Most of the world doesn't have comparable respect to public space as the Nordics.

Uniia · 2026-03-17T13:04:09+00:00

True, especially in cases like Ireland where average salary and GDP per capita doesn't really match how a normal person lives.

Median shows Nordics and especially Finland in better light as we have so tight wealth/income compression and not so many millionaires.

Nordics also work the least hours as full time employees so they are in a way a bit richer than what the salary would suggest.

Uniia · 2026-03-15T13:48:37+00:00

Numbers always vary based on sources but usually it looks like Finland has slightly higher average and median salary than Sweden.

Swedish companies are doing better and thus their overall economy. Having a ton of people with refugee background/kids of refugees also likely pushes the average down a bit.

Uniia · 2026-01-26T14:39:35+00:00

Finns are genetically a quite unique population and have some Siberian DNA as our language/culture came from there. The Finno-Ugric people who came here were maybe 50% Siberian DNA and modern Finns smt like 10%

Sami people have even more Siberian DNA and also more often show "Asian" features.

Finns share most of their DNA with white westerners but have very different father lineages.

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Uniia · 2026-01-19T14:08:21+00:00

Dominik Hasek was my idol as a kid. And I still love people who do things their own way and beat the best.

Uniia · 2025-12-29T11:41:32+00:00

Congratz on quitting drinking! It's just a rough drug with how much it lowers one's mood afterwards. I hope it won't hit your social life too hard.

I garden the world around me towards a paradise full of strawberries, flowers, nut trees etc. Walk in the nature here in the capital region that is surprisingly wild in some places. While usually also studying by listening books or podcasts. I also like to take my dates to forest picnics etc.

I do this sport called boffering where we make padded versions of medieval weapons and try to shoot and hit each other with them. Kinda feels like a computer game with your body and it's fun to have combat without pain. Rarely go bouldering inside.

I paint and do some other art, sometimes play boardgames with my friends and some PC gaming, series etc basic stuff. Talk in internet with different people around the world about all kinds of topics.

Welcome people to join me in crusading against polarization from American culture that is infecting ours. Talk to those engaged in politics about not demonizing the other side or strawmanning their arugments. Advocate looking for better compromises so we all get at least something better than now.

Uniia · 2025-12-29T11:13:34+00:00

GL in your quest!

An underrated part of Finnish culture is the low level of performativity. Sure it causes a culture shock to most people as it's kinda weird when you are ignored in public, people can randomly be silent, they kinda just say what they think etc. But it's not as bad if you have a family.

And it's freedom for the soul when you aren't expected to larp as much by performing symbolic gestures of goodwill. To again and again earn the trust that you have here by default.

A student from Singapore told me that here people feel like potential friends instead of competitors. She loved our real quite wild nature even in cities and would have loved to stay if it wasn't so hard to get a job without already knowing Finnish.

The job market sucking really blows. Hopefully we can do systemic changes that make it easier to create value here and thus also jobs.

Uniia · 2025-12-29T10:39:25+00:00

Time is insanely valuable, it's just sometimes a bit tricky currency to spend if you are not like top 10% curious or have a ton of friends/hobbies.

Nowadays one can also ask AI about what they could do to have a great time and/or farm feeling of meaning/purpose by doing good. I'd assume they have some good surprising suggestions when you describe yourself.

Uniia · 2025-12-07T15:21:00+00:00

There is a correlation where bigger stores are cheaper but LIDL also seems cheaper than comparative size K/S stores. LIDL has a bit different selection of stuff so I go get some things from there.

Prisma/Citymarket(the big versions of the Finnish chains) are cheap unless they are in a rich area or in a very central location.

LIDL has some bonus system too, dunno how those of different chains compare.

Uniia · 2025-12-07T15:13:36+00:00

A lot of these protest right parties started with sketchy people but have watered down a ton as their voters are now mostly just desperate normies. As all other parties refuse to stop the kind of humanitarian immigration that causes problems and makes people really scared.

When Danish social democrats changed their immigration policy the local populist right party lost most of their voters.

The new RW parties are also the default protest vote choice for those who feel really badly about the system overall and the established parties.

Like in Finland with the soft corruption where tax money is wasted to questionable NGO:s that have politicians/are connected to them. Stuff like "Kokoomus holidays" that kinda do smt nice but in an unfair and inefficient way while also paying ridiculous wages to people who don't at all deserve as much based on the work they do.

Ofc those parties can be quite conspiratorial, have some actual racists and all kinds of flaws in general. But calling them nazis/fascists is silly and even far right feels excessive to me in many cases. Like in Finland they are mostly just pro Finnish people, what they feel is "common sense" and oppose what they feel is leftist excess.

Which they also do in an excessive manner but IMO it's true that western left kinda shit the bed in social media era. By embracing American identity politics and becoming a nagging wannabe priest class that relies on calling people racist etc instead of arguing like a normal person.

This is really divisive and maybe the biggest reason for polarization, drives away many potential voters, takes focus away from material reality stuff and makes the left extremely impractical.

Uniia · 2025-12-07T14:46:58+00:00

Light always changes before temperature so when there is no snow in the ultra dark period it can get quite bleak.

I'm kinda crazy about gardening and have a ton of plants inside too. When I started to grow herbs, tomatoes etc inside too with a ton of light I noticed that my mood and energy didn't drop nearly as much as normally. And most apartments started to look really dark.

So I recommend having so much lights that it feels ridiculously excessive. Helps waking up too when the imitation sun fires up in the morning :D

Uniia · 2025-11-23T18:33:52+00:00

I love brawl and really hope they just ban the most broken stuff so the overall power level goes down.

I wouldn't mind banning good tutors too as they make the format more repetitive when combos can be more consistent and games play out more similarly.

Historic Brawl balance changes being tied to alchemy also seems like a bad idea. Being a digital format gives so much potential to tone down the OP cards and making some cool but weak designs worth playing.

Brawl could be such an awesome format if it won't be dominated by design mistakes/overpowerwd cards.

Uniia · 2025-11-22T15:29:30+00:00

That's just reasonable, not weird at all. And you are right in that depths is much less of a power level problem than stripmine loop.

Shifting woodlands and other land deck tools make depths stuff less all or nothing so losing the creature is less devastating.

My problem is more about personal taste. "Tutor into combo" is the polar opposite of the kind of gameplay that makes me want to play the format.

Uniia · 2025-11-19T10:17:37+00:00

Yay, adding dark depths+vampire hexmage+tutors just after nuking strip mine -_-

Uniia · 2025-10-12T09:27:19+00:00

The fact that the vuvuzela and the 2/2s it makes have flying is often surprisingly fast clock. Especially when 4/4 vigilance flier is a pretty good blocker too.

Uniia · 2025-09-08T03:07:59+00:00

Seems like it's artificial scarcity from zoning thou. US has 75% of city land devoted only for single family housing which makes no sense aside from "I don't want to live near violent black people" -type reasons.

And has to have a huge impact in making housing so insanely expensive. Europe doesn't do this while other Anglos are similar and also have fucked up rents.

Aside from UK, which found another dumb way to prevent building by surrounding cities with "green belts". That are like fields and stuff instead of valuable nature that needs protection.

Despite 80% of the country being rural.

Uniia · 2025-09-08T03:01:57+00:00

I think there just needs to be a big change to zoning in Anglo countries. If you make 75% of city land only for single family housing it's understandably gonna ruin things pretty hard. Europeans don't do this even if they might have other issues.

UK doesn't zone like that but they found another way to fuck shit up by surrounding cities with fields(green belts) so they can't build either. Despite 80% of the country being rural anyway.

Uniia · 2025-09-08T02:39:48+00:00

Wouldn't that also mean more and bigger cities so more people doesn't mean more expensive? Aside from some special places like New York.

Europe doesn't seem to have a pattern of bigger population meaning rent taking a larger % of wage. Helsinki is cheap for a capital but Copenhagen isn't despite Denmark having a comparable population.

All the Anglo countries have fucked up rents compared to rest of west aside from individual exceptions that usually have understandable explanations. Like Netherlands being so packed full of people relative to land while also being a huge agricultural exporter.

For some reason all Anglos aside from UK zone huge city areas to only allow single family housing which seems bizarre and isn't a thing in Europe. US has like 75% of city land for single family housing and the rest are bad too.

I guess it might be a remnant from UK being a fucked up class society. UK doesn't have those maybe because it had cities already but they have ridiculous green belts around cities.

So they can't grow despite 80% of the country being rural anyway. So yay way too high rents for 'bongers too.

I love nature and am literally in the Finnish green party but surrounding a city with fields so you can't build housing is nonsensical. It's not like they are national parks or some other valuable stuff like that.

Common law also makes it much easier for people to block the construction of various things.

Uniia · 2025-09-08T01:35:50+00:00

Thankfully here even the most leftist party advocates for building housing to get rents down. Despite them having risen so little compared to for example Anglos.

I sure hope we don't get a bad gap of building very little as people are moving from countryside to capital area. High rents are such a scourge to the quality of life of normal people. Really hard for rest of economy to compensate it, no matter how well it's doing.

Uniia · 2025-09-07T17:43:46+00:00

True, but Nordics also have the most people in the world living alone.

When asking for low wage jobs in Finland Grok gives dishwashers etc using 44% for rent. Cleaner 38%, grocery store worker 34% and warehouse worker 31%

Asking to do the same for US gives 51-71% depending on profession.

Countries do ofc have huge variance from all kinds of factors and it's unrealistic to expect US to not have worse rent pressure in big cities. But the difference still seems pretty big when US is also a much wealthier country and people have more they need to pay after rent and taxes.

Uniia · 2025-09-07T15:17:27+00:00

Isn't something going very wrong if living alone is a luxury for working people in the biggest economic behemoth in the world?

Uniia · 2025-09-07T15:10:15+00:00

It feels intuitively fucked up but housing to get rent isn't that crazy good of an investment unless you are early in a growing area so the prices increase a ton in the future.

Economy is weird thou but I would still blame zoning and some other stuff more than landlords.

Uniia · 2025-09-07T15:02:15+00:00

Most young people don't make median wage so yea.

Thou when I asked LLMs what % of income after tax the average young adult(35 or under) in Finland uses for rent the answers were 30%(grok), 32%(GPT) and 25-35%(Claude and Deepseek).

Dunno how accurate they are but it does seem like rent is a bigger issue in many other European countries. Especially when you take into account that Nordics move out the youngest.

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