kechpaja.bsky.social
Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial.
I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username.
tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhlaH.
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Okay, yeah, in hindsight it's too perfect to have been chance.
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I gain a lot more professionally from Fedi, and I'm not even really active in software-oriented communities there. Perhaps I will be in the future though.
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Or a hunting dog! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizsla
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I'm glad you're having fun, but there is also a part of me that still has not managed to fully get over the idea of a swimming pool on a boat.
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Who needs Douglas Adams when you have this?
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Well, we had nine parties in the Finnish parliament after the last election, and what we got was effectively a coalition from Hell :(.
(Though I do have to admit that PS isn't anywhere near as bad as AfD.)
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In contrast, if someone responds with a simple list, or, god forbid, a _number_, they're probably bullshitting (or at least trying to brag more than communicate honestly).
It may be an overstatement to generalize this to _all_ other skills, but as starting assumptions go it isn't the worst.
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Dropping the dots is the norm in Finland too. I have seen very little punycode in the wild as the default version of a domain, although it does sometimes exist.
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In Finland, (regular) immigrants can vote in municipal and county elections after two years of residence. This particular policy isn't controversial, even among anti-immigration politicians.
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*twitches uncomfortably in Hungarian*
The alternative to the E system is punycode, which does technically work but may not seem worth the hassle when the E system is available. (And that's now — the German Greens probably registered their URL decades ago.)
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That can't be all of it, though, since there are drugs for which both _to do_ and _to smoke_ feel appropriate (at least to me in my functionally teetotal life).
I am also wondering specifically where the legality and/or social acceptability of a particular substance may play a role here.
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Part of it may be that these drugs aren't ingested in such a manner that could be described as eating, drinking, or smoking, nor would _to take_ be appropriate since they aren't taken for medicinal effect.
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In my intro linguistics class, I was taught that there were "dialects", and that in one you always moved the entire onset, whereas in another you moved only the first consonant.
I'm not one of the people who can speak Pig Latin fluently, though; I only know it as a silly thing you might do for fun.
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In Finland, "alternative budgets" from opposition parties are the norm, to the point where it would be weird if a party didn't publish one.
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By moving the entire onset.
Even if someone _had_ internalized one of those words with /pt/ or /mn/, the pronunciation with the simplified onset is so dominant that I can't imagine anyone not moving the whole onset.
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I remember some news articles about genuinely _bad_ (as in spoiled) food in a school somewhere? But I don't remember any details and would have to dig it up.
I do keep telling people that the way to get more students eating vegan is to make the vegan food better than regular cafeteria fare, though.
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I never went to school school here (and the stories I've heard come at least partially from people who lived through the depression of the 90's), so I don't have direct experience. But based on the university cafeteria experience, the food is probably quite meh but edible.
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In Finnish, though, you need a noun or adjective to specify gender. The lack of gender pronouns can be a double-edged sword — on the one hand, you won't accidentally misgender people by using the wrong pronoun, but you also can't _affirm_ someone's gender by using the right pronoun.
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You see a lot of Finnish people with anglophone pronouns in their bios, although that goes hand in hand with Finns — especially millennial and younger Finns — knowing English well and speaking a lot of English on the internet.
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Or do you mean how they cover the specific discussion happening in the United States? Most news about the US right now focuses on Trump destroying NATO and the implications for us and Ukraine; this eclipses news about culture war stuff in the US.
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IME it usually just becomes an insane discussion about things like "tofu and perversion" in schools, or other things that look very similar to their North American equivalents.
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This applies to a _lot_ of things these days, and will apply to even more in the future as various crises begin to come to a head.
You can't just push, you also have to teach.
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And the lazy version is just "save things to your harddrive". That's far from perfect, even if you run Linux, but still better than "on a server somewhere that someone could just shut down".
(And "just shut down" need not be malicious. The site disappears if the bill ever stops getting paid.)
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ngoch SuDqu' SuqmeH tlhach SuDqu' wIvnIS vay' lapDI'.
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Posts like the one you quoted are good examples of the kind of thing that has gotten me to go almost full Butlerian over the past year or so.
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That's a place where you can get little dogs that live in your vehicle, right? Car pets?
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Don't make this about immigration or autism. Neither have anything to do with what he is doing.
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The Turku Greens candidate list for municipal elections is now complete!
You can come meet many of us (including me) tomorrow (15.2.) in the Turku Market Square at 16:00!
#greens #turku #kuntavaalit
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And lastly, before anyone takes this as an excuse to be racist: the only demographic skew I've noticed is that the people who _aren't okay_ with it are usually gender-confirming men.
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I'm still a bit surprised by how much of a change there has been — I thought I looked _obviously_ queer and nonbinary even before — but it is unmistakable post facto.
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I haven't had any serious problems with harassment — there has been the occasional rude gesture or personal space invasion, but very little that actually scared me and nothing causing real harm — but I'm definitely more on guard these days nonetheless.
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I'm not going to pretend that I'm not still bad with faces, but I've definitely had multiple experiences of walking past a person on the street, or otherwise briefly interacting with them, and almost immediately being able to tell that they were looking at me in an angry or disapproving way.
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Perhaps we should follow Octavia Butler's lead and start calling these vehicles maggots.
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Also note that _can_ can be pronounced as /kɛn/, whereas _can't_ is always /kænt/ (albeit with the speaker's dialectal realization of pre-nasal /æ/, which for me is a diphthong that is more or less [eə]).