Probably. Pretty much anyone who wants to go career can.
It’s 5-6 months for the shortest service. In my case I volunteered to drive big rigs, so 12 months and I got a driver’s license that would’ve required two years of lorry driving as a civilian. It’s been my backup plan in case my career in rocket science hadn’t worked out.
Finn here. The willingness to defend the country is high in Finland. For a small country like Finland it’s the most cost-effective way to keep up a credible defense. I guess a professional army might be an option now with NATO membership.
And, yes. It feels like the normal thing to do.
My grandfathers did it (and fought in two wars), my father did it, my older brother did it, plenty of friends did it at the same time as me.
It’s an experience you can bond over very quickly.
If you like what you we in the shadows, to might also enjoy “our flag means death”.
Created by and starring Waititi. Based on the true story of the gentleman pirate.
With two adults in a house, we shower (no baths) plus two dogs who get showered as needed. We use 10m³ per month. That’s 2641 gallons.
Sweet! Tempo is the best subsonic client I’ve found for Android. Hoping to use it for a long time.
It’s a protocol for hosting music libraries.
Think of it like your personal Spotify backend.
I’m running navidrome to serve music to tempo on my devices.
I live in a shithole 100km from a NATO capital. I’m not expecting a direct or near hit, so the fallout is my main concern. I should have at least 20-30 minutes to get comfy.
I’ve got potable water in jugs in the basement already. I’ll just grab a couple of mattresses, sleeping bags, camping stove, food, solar/crank radio and head down there. Also some duct tape to seal up the ventilation.
I have a 7mo baby who craves entertainment.
I keep making up lyrics to the theme from Ponyo.
He doesn’t have that kind of money.
He owns stock valued at insane prices. No one will buy 6B worth of stocks. Trying to crank it out on the open exchanges would make the value dive.
I think I’d be able to macgyver enough to get by for some weeks
The only prepper thing I have is an alcohol camping stove.
I have ~250Ah worth of charged lead-acid batteries in the garage. The only way to charge them would be my car.
I have a 50 liter compressor fridge/freezer that runs off 12V. It draws maybe 4Ah, so perishables would do fine.
Heating is en electric heat pump, so that’s a no go. I have an inverter ready to hook up to the circulation pump to keep pipes from freezing. The Mrs has an obscene stash of tea candles, so I guess I’d pop some of those under some radiator pipes to heat that circulating water.
The water tower in town would dry out in a day or two. We’ve got a well with our neighbours for watering, but it’s drinkable. I’d have to borrow the inverter for the pump to fill up jugs.
buy a hooker. smoke crack once. gamble $10k at one sitting.
Sure, but where do I go from there for my next high?
I’m not talking about substances, but things just don’t give the same highs as they used to.
Getting a new Nintendo game as a kid and you’re giddy all the way home, reading the back of the box.
Last time I bought a game I had been looking forward to for years it was lying in a drawer for a month before I even installed it.
I had my first kid this year, and it’s probably the best thing to have happened to me in the last few years. But I don’t think the joy I felt compares to that new NES game as a kid. I wish I still would get that kind of highs.
I’m pretty sure the last good day was sometime in 1996.
Ah. Yes.
June 26th 1996 while watching CBS 60b minutes. What a day that was.
Inspired by xkcd’s thing explainer I generated a list of how often words appeared in subtitles on opensubtitles for my target language.
I whipped those into a database, added manual translation for the top-1000 and started quizzing myself with a tiny php script.
It was more fun to code than to actually quiz myself. I think I played the top-100 before I got bored.
What site is that?
Just asking so I know what to avoid.