Go team!

I don’t. I only regret deleting all of them and not leaving the wacky ones.

Croatia sang about urbanisation and the decline of the countryside.

Israel was 100% a political show no elaboration needed there.

Finland sang about no rules - anarchism.

Serbia was anti war, which is also a political position.

Then there’s all the feminist and queer themes like with Ukraine, Spain and Switzerland. Arguably not political, but then again neither should be Palestinians deserving human rights.

And these are just what comes to mind off the top of my head.

Funnily enough, in spoken Finnish “it” has all but replaced “they”.

It is a gender neutral pronoun.

Also when talking about people, it would be nice if they was a lot more normalized even in situations where the gender of the person is known.

I agree. You can see the initial sketch overlayed there, so definitely a wip with multiple layers.

Helsinki

[ˈbloːhaj] because that’s how Blåhaj is pronounced.

If I have the power to break the laws of thermodynamics, then I also have the power not to give a shit about some puny glowie trying to impose a punishment for that.

I had some very similar ideas. This could be tied into some sort of a base management survival game like Rimworld. Start off with some educated people and nice survival tech like solar panels etc., friendly neighbours and ample access to information and so on. Then try to keep things going as time takes its toll on equipment and people and the climate gets shittier and shittier. First all fancy tech starts to get scarce when global supply chains start to fail and foreign imports stop. The internet starts to go down and you have to get your news via radio, then by mail and then as hearsay. At some point the local government goes fash and starts sending raids to you, or maybe it’s a nearby declining military power that rolls in with some rusty tanks. Neighbours start to get desperate as crops fail and savagery spreads. Or maybe it’s you who will be doing the rading and the cannibalism?

If you get far enough in the game that your original population starts to be replaced, you’d better hope that you managed to preserve at least some of their skills and knowledge by writing books and teaching the kids, because rediscovering shit is a whole lot harder.

I wonder what makes me more mad: this, or the fact that we’re not going to do shit about it unless there’s money to be made.

What servers crashed? .^{pleaseberealpleaseberealpleasebereal}

I agree that most of the imperial system sucks, but knots (and by extention nautical miles) have a good reason for being used everywhere when navigating long distances around the globe because both are based on the way coordinates work.

I think most things going through the temple are fatal.

The only OECD country that can beat the US in killings by law enforcement per capita is Colombia with 33.1 and 34.1 killings per 10 million people a year respectively (according to wikipedia). I think the person you replied to were right in saying that “So if I’m interacting with law enforcement but in an industrialized nation that is not the US, I’m likely better off by far”. Granted, Mexico isn’t much better off either, but beyond that the numbers start to go down.

Police brutality is definitely not a uniquely US thing, but it is a lot more prevalent there than in comparable countries.

I see what you mean, but the freezing point of water is arguably the most critical temperature when it comes to weather. Celsius is easy in this regard.

+3°C? => Precipitation will almost certainly be liquid.

-3°C? => Precipitation will be mostly solid and any possible rain or drizzle will be supercooled, forming a sheet of ice on whatever it lands on. Look out for slippery roads!

Well, at least most of those have an original suffix to give them identity.

Cumulus humilis, the telltale sign of a nice and warm summers day. Why would anyone be sick of that?

Does existential nihilism not argue that we can’t create meaning because meaning categorically can’t exist? I feel like you’re talking of Existentialism, which is a different thing.

Camus notes three options: the two you mentioned, as well as embracing the absurd and rebelling against it.