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#rlm

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In Finland it's actually very rare for murderers released after serving a life sentence to kill again so no, I'm not going to support more stringent parole guidelines. Does committing murder taint someone as a bad person for life? In most cases yes, and for good reason in my opinion. Does it benefit society to keep them in prison for longer? Evidently not.

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Conscientious objection of reservists is on the rise after Finland joined NATO. Love to see it!

#puolustusvoimat cringe compilation

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Have you read any Franco-Belgian comics?

Once a year or something I read some western comics and they're almost universally all so bad

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picture this, i give you a glass bottle and tell you to open it, but bottle openers are forbidden, how do you do it?

#put the edge of the cap against the side of a kitchen counter and push downwards

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Guys getting hurt dot com

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The Constitutional Law Committee or Supreme Administrative Court or someone has to do something about this newly-unveiled official portrait of the president. If you put this up in a school you're going to give the kids nightmares.

#finnish politics

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You know they make comics outside of Japan and America also. The best ones actually.

Once a year or something I read some western comics and they're almost universally all so bad

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(1) People don't ask "what time is it there" because they want to know the hour, they ask because they want to know what time of day it is. Abolishing timezones would make discussing time in other places unbelievably complicated for no benefit at all. What would you say when someone asked what time it is? "It's two hours past solar noon." "It's an hour to the start of the workday." Oh wait, that's timezones.'

(2) The goal is to change the way people think about time to be significantly worse and more stupid for no reason?

(4) The number of timetables crossing day boundaries would increase significantly. In a timezone where people start work at, say, 22 o'clock basically all opening hours would overlap the day boundary and in an uneven way where most of the workday dangles onto the following day.

(6) That and the fact that it's objectively worse. If we disregard the sun (which dictates our natural circadian rhythms) for timekeeping we may as well change the length of the "day" to any arbitrary value. I personally would prefer the day to be at least 25 hours long to have more time to do things.

(7) In what world is searching for work hours (which vary by country and job by the way) and extrapolating the solar time from that easier than just looking up the time zone?

(8) So what is the goal? The only benefit from this would be to programmers who would have to do less time conversions. While we're at it we should also throw out Unicode and instead revise the orthography of every language to use ASCII only or preferably just stop using any languages other than from English in the name of efficiency. Except that's not a good comparison because that would actually simplify things unlike abolishing timezones.

(9) It really is not simpler in any way for all the reasons outlined above. Thinking that abolishing timezones would be an improvement belies a fundamental misunderstanding of why and how people even keep time in the first place.

can we just rip the band aid off and all switch to UTC thanks

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It’s been so long since I’ve felt affection I’ve legit stopped having romantic crushes or fantasies.

you may now join the knights templar

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And for what it is worth I didn't make that feminism post to defend men or whatever but because you need accurate beliefs about the state of affairs to make substantive change for the better because otherwise you're tilting at windmills.

Many people believe that female perpetrators of domestic violence are insignificant as a class which is simply not true in light of the statistics. My main takeaways from the report are as follows:

It is in fact the case that the lifetime risk of experiencing intimate partner violence is around 30% for all sex–orientation combinations (men and women) except for bisexual women for whom it is elevated in a statistically significant way to 57%.

Perpetrators of IPV against bisexual women are overwhelmingly men at 90% but contrary to common belief this is not the case for lesbians where 67% of victims had only female perpetrators.

#putting on my rationalist hat

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Software development good ending.

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That's incorrect; on page 11 of the linked report they discuss a CDC study where 67.4% of lesbians reported only female perpetrators.

Kind of really embarrassing for feminism that the idea that domestic violence (against women, male victims of DV don't exist as we all know) is a direct result of the patriarchy seems like total bunk in light of statistics that show that lesbians are about as likely to experience intimate partner violence as are heterosexual women.