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Tuukka R

@ Tuuktuuk @sopuli.xyz

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  • Have you gotten a response after asking why you weren't hired?

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  • I once told a person why I'm not hiring them, unprompted.

    I was looking for fundraisers to find donors for NGOs, and a young woman I was interviewing had actually been living abroad in an exchange program that kind of included tasks that ought to have brought her skills useful in the job. But, with no amount of prying and hinting was I able to get her to mention that. Or in any other manner do anything that sounds like they were able to convince anyone about anything. So, I told her that. Something like "Okay, I'll say this outright, even if that's unusual. I will not hire you, and I'd like to tell you why", and then explained that in their CV they mention this this and that, and those are actually cool things to have done and would need to be advertised. And continued: "You would not find enough donors to cover a reasonable part of your salary costs, and you'd be more of a burden for the organization than an asset. There are laws about how much of an NGOs costs can go for its own organization, and for your part the percentage would be far too high. You would feel guilty for wasting a good organization's funds and endangering their permission to gather donations, and your life would be worse because of that guilt. Maybe in some years you'll develop the skills you need for this job and should apply again, but now is not the time for that. I seriously wish you good luck finding a summer job! You've got a good attitude for a worker and there are companies that would really need the likes of you, but you're not cut out for stuff related to sales yet."

  • Americans who live near state borders,how do you notice you've crossed the border?

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  • Sounds a lot like how all borders of Latvia felt like just five years ago or so. A lot of the maps they use for any planning work have just plain white colour outside the borders, so after the last village there's just the border, and then... nothing.

    So, once you were beyond the last village inside Latvia, there was of course no point in properly maintaining the roads. You are sitting in a bus, somewhat slumbering. Suddenly the ride becomes very uneven and you look through the window to see commas over and under half of the consonants in viļļaģe ņames :) (plus a lot of That only lasts for about five minutes, though.

    And the same when exiting Latvia: bumpy road for five minutes, then the bumpiness ends and the villäges are pülling öff shenänigäns with double dots, or, alternatively, there's suddenly a lot of poop ųndęrnęąth lęttęrs. (Okay, in reality a Lithuanian letter only knows how to poop when in the beginning or end of a word)

    It's a clever way to say "welcome to our co-o-o-ountr-r-r-r-r-y"! Boringly, some years ago that feature was removed, but I expect things to normalize in 10 years time. Estonia and Lithuania will maintain their roads also at the borders, but Latvia only in the relevant parts of the country, not at the outer limit of existence. Until the condition of the road to nowhere gets too ridiculous and they have to – exceptionally and begrudgingly – repair even those unnecessary pieces of road.

    (And yes, this did also apply to the transcontinental road used by trucks going from Finland to Poland and Germany and further to, well, anywhere.)

  • Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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  • I'll try to remember to address the rest of your comment later tonight, but one things I want to mention now: it's not really a competition. If one is better than the other, it's only a good thing for both.

    And then, people don't really look very much at what is technically better than something else.

    I'm on Lemmy and I've got stuff here. It's definitely good enough, so I'm not going to migrate anywhere. People land at whatever some they land at, and unless that one is actually bad, they are unlikely to change for something else.

  • Any communities on Lemmy about Idiots?

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  • Is there a reason to transfer it, really? Just create a new one on another instance. I mean, here's my first account: https://feddit.org/u/Tuuktuuk , because I didn't know about Lemmy when I joined it, but then figured that a German-language instance is a bit of a bad idea for a Finn. And now I'm on Sopuli.

    Is there something about your current account thar really requires you to transfer the account? (And, for what I know: I don't think there is a transfer functionality of any kind.)

  • is there any legitimate use of blockchains?

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  • If you make more money, then you have a larger share of all the money in circulation. That means, you are devaluating everyone else's savings and pretty much gaining some of their money.

    And there's some system where people who have joined through you, somehow also produce to you some small percentage of the money they mine. So, the ones who got in first are getting richer and richer out of others' work.

  • Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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  • How is Lemmy's code actually licensed? If it's GPL or somesuch, someone can just fork it and add the missing features. There's some amount of work needed for keeping up to changes in Lemmy's main branch, but it's still reasonably easy work. (Assuming you can code, of course 😀)

    EDIT: The licence is this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_License

  • Tiktok on nuorten tärkein uutismedia, muut jäävät kauas taakse, paljastaa tutkimus

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  • Ajat on aina huonontuneet päivä päivältä.

    Ihmiskunta on nykytyyppisenä ollut olemassa parisataatuhatta vuotta ja koko sen ajan on ajat huonontuneet ja huonontuneet. Kysy vaikka keneltä tahansa ihmiseltä missä tahansa vaiheessa ihmiskunnan historiaa.

  • Do you feel sad for people born today?

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  • What kind of numbers are you going after?

    I mean, probably you want numbers to prove that climate change is changing politics and economics, etc. for the worse, or maybe just numbers for proving that climate change is real.

    But both of these seem like such trivial information that I'm probably just guessing wrong. But because of that, I'd be curious to know: what kind of numbers did you mean?

    I can probably help digging up some for you, but not if you just meant "prove that climate change exists". But, numbers proving that economy will suffer from climate change should be easy to find. (And I think you could just search for them yourself...)

  • Do you feel sad for people born today?

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  • My children are still very young, but oh are they happy!

    They are enjoying their life and no future suffering will ever take that away from them.

    I wouldn't want to deny those awesome humans their right to play as merrily as they do. To create, to enjoy life. They exist right now as well, in 2025 and 2026.

    The end of life is always painful. Life is still worth it.

  • Do you feel sad for people born today?

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  • Actually they'll inherit from tens of grandparents. You don't inherit your grandparent, except if your own parent has already died.

    Typically, you inherit from your grandparents by your parents having.inherited from them and you later inheriting from your parents.

    That is not a new phenomenon.

  • What's the equivalent for "blah blah blah" in your language?

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  • Pälä-pälä-pälä in Finnish.

    ä marks the sound marked with "a" in "c_a_t".

  • A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen

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  • We cannot win against these people. They don’t care, they won’t be convinced to care and anything we do is made moot by their overall actions.

    We absolutely can win against these people. It's our choice to buy their products. If people stopped just saying "the rich should do this, because they are the ones to blame", and actually start thinking who they buy from, the problem with rich assholes would disappear. Our apathy must end, and it never will end if we just go "it's the rich, what can I do?"

    It's a bit like in the Russia: "It's the politicians, what can I do?", whereas elsewhere people do care about politics and things are much better than in the Russia. You won't have agency if you volunteer to give it away.

    We are the majority. It's our planet. We can fix the shit very fast whenever we just get our heads off our asses. It infuriates me when I see people merrily buying Nestlé products, for example. WHY do they do it? Are they idiots or what?

  • Imagine there was a society in which blue eyed people are referred to with blee/bler pronouns, and green eyed people are referred to with glee/gler pronouns...

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  • If that was the case it would be a much more common feature. There are about 7000 languages in the world and only about a hundred of them have that feature.

    But, cultures speaking languages with that feature tend to be much more likely to subjugate other cultures than other cultures are.

    So, while if you take a random culture on this planet, it most likely won't have the he/she distinction in their language. But if you take a random human on this planet, they most likely do have it.

  • Imagine there was a society in which blue eyed people are referred to with blee/bler pronouns, and green eyed people are referred to with glee/gler pronouns...

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  • I also often end up choosing "he" or "she" just randomly unless I specifically pay attention to it, because Finnish doesn't have that Indo-European peculiarity.

    Also, I've seen so many young Finnish children get mad at their English teachers in school because until learning of the he/she distinction they had never had to bother tracking the gender of their conversation partner. It's an extra burden that forces them to look at all their everyday life differently and they demand their teacher to remove that feature so that they don't need to add that to their life.

  • Looking to change to a Linux-based OS on a laptop, but I don't really understand coding so I haven't tried any of them. Is LinuxMint a good place to start?

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  • The "mindlessly copypaste this command" culture is dangerous anyway. It's easy to insert some malicious commands there. You can be simply devious and make the user delete all their files. Or, they can make you do something that installs a backdoor for criminals to use for remotely using your computer. Then the Russia or somebody else does a cyber attack against some power plant that gets severely damaged and people die, and the police come to your home suspecting you of manslaughter because your computer had been used for the attack...

  • Looking to change to a Linux-based OS on a laptop, but I don't really understand coding so I haven't tried any of them. Is LinuxMint a good place to start?

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  • I think the reason there are so many messages about Ubuntu update problems is that Ubuntu is by far the most used desktop distro. When you have mire users, even the rarest problems are likely to occur on someone's computer at least.

  • Looking to change to a Linux-based OS on a laptop, but I don't really understand coding so I haven't tried any of them. Is LinuxMint a good place to start?

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  • Regarding the lots of help online:

    Linux Mint is made so that they take the most recent Ubuntu, make certain alterations to it and then ship it as Linux Mint.

    Because of this, over 95 % of advice for Ubuntu works on Linux Mint out of the box. But of course, sometimesthe few changes Linux Mint has done causes the advice to not work. So, first look for 

     
        
Computer physically explodes killing me when I launch Solitaire Linux mint

    But, sometimes that doesn't work and you find no solutions. Then try

     
        
Computer physically explodes killing me when I launch Solitaire Ubuntu

    ...and you almost surely find a solution that solves the problem.

    Just remember, it is impolite to go ask for help on Ubuntu forums if you're using some other distribution, such as Mint. But, sometimes it could be the only good option. In those cases begin with something akin to "I am running Linux Mint which is based on Ubuntu and nobody on the Mint forums was able to help, so I'm trying my luck here."

  • A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen

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  • Frome some people who are trying to defend flying. I've assumed their numbers make at least some semblance of sense for their argument.

    But true, it's too high. It's more like, 10 to 15 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions from tranportation come from aviation. Which is still significant, but indeed more like 2-ish % of all greenhouse gas emissions. Still, it's one of the sources easiest to mitigate. Agriculture causes over a quarter of all emissions, so that would be the most important thing to look into.

    But also, it's common to only look at the amount of carbon dioxide coming from the exhaust, while planes are problematic largely because they happen to travel at the altitude where their emissions hurt the most. As almost any sources I can find put the aviation's share around 10 to 15 % of transportation's emissions, and it has been so commonplace to ignore the altitude where planes travel, maybe the real number is more like 3 to 5 percent or so?

  • A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen

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  • By eurostar the cheapest option is £95, by plane £74.

    So, someone gives you a bribe of 21 £ and you are ready to increase your emissions hundredfold for such a paltry bribe? Seriously? With this price difference there should be absolutely nothing unclear about the choice!

    I’m in the UK so it’s a bit limiting.

    It's a bit funny that you're telling that "I’m live smack in the middle of Europe so it’s a bit limiting" to a Finn. Look at the map. Every time I want to go to Central Europe, I need to first take a train to Turku for two hours, then board a ship, sleep on that ship, make haste to the 7:24 train in Stockholm, take that to Copenhagen (and currently there's an extra change in Malmö), then take a train from Copenhagen to Hamburg. I've left Helsinki the previous day at 17:25 and now it's the evening of my second travel day and I'm still only about as close to almost any possible destination than your home is.

    And I can do that. As can 61 000 others (at least that's how many members the Finnish Facebook group for travelling without airplanes has). Your complaints of having to pay 20 pounds more and travel two extra hours to get to France sound... Cutely innocent?

    The pricing of car vs public transportation in Britain surprises me! Over here in Helsinki the cost of having and using a car is about 300 € per month. For some people a bit less, but for example my parents pay on average about 370 € per month for various car expenses. In comparison, the ticket for public transportation here costs only 80 € per month. That's less than a quarter of the costs of a car. And if you want to look at the price for coming from further away, then the ABCD ticket, it costs 119 € per month, still less than half of what a car costs. And that covers already an area 60 km away from the centre of Helsinki. So... I know the car tax is very high here, so buying a new car costs a lot more than in England. But much of the costs of a car come from repairing it, and I cannot imagine that's that much cheaper in England than in Finland. Also, the fuel should cost about the same in both countries. Is the public transport ticket's price in your city something like 200 £ per month, or how can the car be cheaper? I'd be interested in hearing how that works, because no matter how I try juggling the numbers in my head, I cannot really come to the result you're telling. I believe you when you say that the public transit costs more, but I'd be interested in knowing how they've managed to reach that!

    But look, CO2 per mile is way more in a private plane. We really need to be putting MUCH more into stopping that.

    Absolutely! But at the same time, something like 99.99 % of planes' emissions come from the planes used by Joe Average for their holiday trips. I would prefer putting effort into cutting four fifths of those flights away over stopping the private plane flights, because my effort is more efficiently used when it reduces the emissions by 80 % than when it reduces them by 0.01 %. Even if that 0.01 % means that one person is causing as much emissions as tens of thousands of other people together. It's about us staying alive.