Too late, as the one who broke the story got murdered years ago. She's not talked about nearly enough.

It's a Finnish baby, knives are mandatory.

Jokes aside, I'm a Swedish speaking Finn who happened to move to Sweden for the last year of school and my teacher made a point of reminding me it's not okay to wear a knife to school.

She made quite the face when my mother told her we stopped that particular tradition about a century ago.

But still, it's something of a national joke, lol.

I've been on the outside observing this escalating shit show for 8 years now and I think I've finally reached the point where I don't even have the words to convey what I feel about the current state of American politics.

I mean, I know there's a lot of history behind it etc., but just the past months? I don't even..

I hope shit gets better for ya'll, I sincerely do.

You can't possibly be this naive.

Which, it should be noted, incidentally is exactly why they're sending random people to said prison without due process in the first place.

I was a decently rated chess player (nationally) in my youth and I have level 5 aphantasia i.e. I see nothing at all.

While I absolutely cannot play or picture game states without a physical board in front of me like most pros can, I had no great difficulty otherwise.

I practiced with a friend at the same general skill level that was very good at playing sans voir, which incidentally is how I realized I don't have the same mental imagery as him. This was ~25 years ago, and I didn't run into the word aphantasia until around 2020.

Serious politicians (and I use that term loosely) are not used to dealing with someone as utterly demented as trump on a daily basis. They're used to long boring meetings and talking politely behind each others backs. Not ... this.

People had a hard time understanding Hitler at first, too, and he wrote a fucking book about what he was about to do before he actually went and did it.

Nobody can escape having to share the planet with right-wing dumbass fuckwits either, but here we are.

Him being a pretty smart guy overall surely has at least some sort of continuity planned.

The man is a swedish speaking Finn originally, it kinda comes with the territory. We might technically be a minority but we're still as Finnish as the rest of them (to a certain degree at least).

He makes his living by fucking with people he doesn't like and he certainly got off easy compared to the damage he's caused.

My sanity isn't ready for an reality where Elon fucking Musk is fucking shit up globally. Trump was bad enough, but this shit? This is what will eventually cause a global conflict against fucking fascists of all things.

We already did this shit once, are we really going to do it again?

..and then they'll never trust you fully again. Ever.

This is the most shortsighted shit I've seen in a long time.

I would have, but I didn't remember it offhand and didn't have time to check. She deserved far better than she got though, that's for sure.

Way too little, way too late.

Covid with a side order of severe pancreatitis.

Almost checked out permanently just in time for Christmas.

lol what? It's a fairly common name in all the Nordic countries at the very least, and fairly sure in Britain as well. The post is obviously American, but that name is not an uncommon one.

Anecdotally I know of at least three, two adults and one just starting school.

Doomguy dropped quite the gem at the end of his story.

"No."

Everyone has a plan until a pneumatic metal fist hammers them silly.

Warren is a good example of someone who does care and I can only recommend her books on the matter. She came from the same place as everyone else and managed to get where she has been for a good while now.

If she'd been president 2016 or any time after that things would've looked a lot different, probably globally, I can almost guarantee as much.

Edit: and by different I mean a lot fucking better, to be clear.