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  1. Comment on Gianmarco Soresi: Thief of Joy in ~tv

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    Oh lawd the good news just keep on coming

    Oh lawd the good news just keep on coming

    7 votes

  2. Comment on Gianmarco Soresi: Thief of Joy in ~tv

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    Oh cool! I really enjoyed him in that Game Changer episode. Thanks for sharing, dude is super funny

    Oh cool! I really enjoyed him in that Game Changer episode. Thanks for sharing, dude is super funny

    10 votes

  3. Comment on The country with Europe's most radical climate plan – an interview with Petteri Orpo, prime minister of Finland in ~enviro

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    Are you describing your message or mine? Jokes aside I don't think by saying that it would mean yours is somehow more objective. Especially when you sidestep all the claims about our "bright...

    This is a highly partisan response.

    Are you describing your message or mine? Jokes aside I don't think by saying that it would mean yours is somehow more objective. Especially when you sidestep all the claims about our "bright future" in our climate plan. But yes the truth never is black and white.

    1. Agreed.
    2. Since 1987 Kokoomus (currently lead by our PM Orpo) has been in the opposition for a grand total of two times. I am going to put a good bit of the blame on their party especially since they campaign with and brand themselves as the "finance politics party"
    3. Absolutely.
    4. In my eyes we handled covid surprisingly well, but yes, much like every country we spent a lot of money on it.
    5. See point #2. I've yet to see a single expert state that the heavy cuts brought on by our current government would generate growth. In my partisan view, we are taking short term gains at the cost of future growth. Somewhat of a specialty of Kokoomus (the Coalition).
    6. Again, nobody knows the future or can read minds, but in the now the consensus is overwhelmingly negative for our long term prospects brought on by the cuts and changes brought on by the parties currently in charge. In May of this year, 2/3 of people polled by Uutissuomalainen viewed Orpo's government's performance as poor or very poor.
    7. The forecast by Finlands Bank downgraded their expectation for growth for the rest of 2025 from 0,5% to 0,3%. Nothing to get too excited about while we are also doing our best to cripple our public healthcare, education and selling our forests and essential services to multinational venture capitalists. As a recent example, the potential sale of Posti, as floated by Orpo & co.

    If Russia stopped being Russia, that would be a great thing for us.

    Hard agree there.

    10 votes

  4. Comment on The country with Europe's most radical climate plan – an interview with Petteri Orpo, prime minister of Finland in ~enviro

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    Oh we’ve grown our economy? News to me. From what I can tell his coalition has only managed to work towards selling our natural resources to foreign private entities, cut funding for education,...

    Oh we’ve grown our economy? News to me. From what I can tell his coalition has only managed to work towards selling our natural resources to foreign private entities, cut funding for education, welfare and public healthcare while making our economy worse and worse each passing quarter. He campaigned on bringing Finns 100k new jobs and I’m pretty sure our unemployment numbers are worse than in multiple decades. The Kokoomus/Persu coalition is the most unpopular one we’ve had in ages.

    This article is not based on reality except maybe in the loosest, most dishonest number spinning ”technically correct” kind of sense. Pardon my finnish but mitähän vittua täällä houritaan? Go see a finnish subreddit and see what the consensus is on where we are at and who is working overtime to serve the rich and punish the poor and less able.

    12 votes

  5. Comment on Slow social media in ~tech

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    I don’t love group chats. I feel like my friend groups barely keep in touch with each other because sharing memes, surface level life events and reaction emojis to those checks some box in our...

    I don’t love group chats. I feel like my friend groups barely keep in touch with each other because sharing memes, surface level life events and reaction emojis to those checks some box in our brains instead of taking time to actually talk to each other. But in this age it really might be the best we have left. I do feel like there is an uptick in real life actual keeping in touch but it just might be bias because I’ve been often actually asking people to do X together in person one on one or in a small group.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on iOS 26 is here in ~tech

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    The update made my phone number not activate for Facetime or iMessage. Fun!

    The update made my phone number not activate for Facetime or iMessage. Fun!

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Emma Louise & Flume - Shine, Glow, Glisten (2025) in ~music

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    I'm an absolute Flume stan and I've been jamming out to the latest release by him and his new "kind of a band mate" (their words) Emma Louise. It's a gorgeous album in every way: Production is the...

    I'm an absolute Flume stan and I've been jamming out to the latest release by him and his new "kind of a band mate" (their words) Emma Louise. It's a gorgeous album in every way: Production is the most surgically beautiful Flume has ever put out. The lyrics tell a tale of a relationship going south, becoming to an end and the emotions in the aftermath. Emma Louise's beautiful and haunting delivery with wildly creative vocal production really takes me to a whole different place.

    I highly recommend you listen to the whole album if you like this and give the music videos that they have released a looksie. The videos are a collaboration with Jonathan Zawada who frequently works together with Flume, and I think their styles always work so well together.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on After quitting antidepressants, some people suffer surprising, lingering symptoms in ~health.mental

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    Yeah, that seems like a good description to me.

    Yeah, that seems like a good description to me.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on After quitting antidepressants, some people suffer surprising, lingering symptoms in ~health.mental

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    It’s been about two years since I was on escitalopram and I still get the occasional brain zap. Just this morning I had one, in fact. Had I realized a few months of being on the drug would have...

    It’s been about two years since I was on escitalopram and I still get the occasional brain zap. Just this morning I had one, in fact. Had I realized a few months of being on the drug would have years of withdrawal symptoms, I would have reconsidered ever starting taking them for sure. At least now the effects arent daily and Ive made great progress in my mental wellbeing without drugs and with the help of psychotherapy. I personally wouldn’t recommend anyone start using them unless you are in an acute danger of self harm.

    14 votes

  11. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival in ~games

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    Well you don’t have to do us like that! Haha

    Well you don’t have to do us like that! Haha

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival in ~games

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    Go for it! These are the buildings me and my friend started on, then life got busy.

    Go for it! These are the buildings me and my friend started on, then life got busy.

    4 votes

  13. Comment on Viagra Boys - Uno II (2025) in ~music

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    The new album can't come soon enough. This track instantly clicked with me and the last single is so dang catchy I find myself singing it in the shower

    The new album can't come soon enough. This track instantly clicked with me and the last single is so dang catchy I find myself singing it in the shower

    3 votes

  15. Comment on Any Tildeans who have lived in China or Russia and the West? What were the differences in the daily lives of average people? in ~life

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    Can you explain the difference? America spies on their citizens, tortures people, topples goverments etc.

    Can you explain the difference? America spies on their citizens, tortures people, topples goverments etc.

    16 votes

  16. Comment on Spotify shuts down ‘Unwrapped’ artist royalty calculator with legal threats – site still includes the formula behind the calculator for artists and music lovers who are curious in ~music

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    Previous discussion about the site on Tildes can be found here. You can probably tell why Spotify was so eager to shut it down.

    Previous discussion about the site on Tildes can be found here. You can probably tell why Spotify was so eager to shut it down.

    6 votes

  17. Comment on How many of you play Old School RuneScape (OSRS)? in ~games

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    My Ironman is very close to 2k total, but I have been on a break again. I think I will be back when sailing is about to drop / has dropped. Been playing off and on during RS1 and took a long...

    My Ironman is very close to 2k total, but I have been on a break again. I think I will be back when sailing is about to drop / has dropped. Been playing off and on during RS1 and took a long hiatus starting in 2008. Got back when the mobile betas were released, and it's been a time suck in my life ever since.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Op Ed from UnitedHealth Group CEO: The US health care system is flawed. Let’s fix it. in ~society

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    Could you add the USA tag as well, for filtering purposes?

    Could you add the USA tag as well, for filtering purposes?

    7 votes

  19. Comment on Spotify Unwrapped - How much do Spotify pay your favourite artist(s) on your behalf? in ~music

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    Doesn't look like the calculator really changes the royalties portion of the pie no matter which one of the three options you choose.

    Doesn't look like the calculator really changes the royalties portion of the pie no matter which one of the three options you choose.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on Spotify Unwrapped - How much do Spotify pay your favourite artist(s) on your behalf? in ~music

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    I use Apple Music, but I put in my minutes to see how much (little) Spotify pays the artists for my usage.. About 30 thousand listened minutes translated to roughly 20 pounds (about 24 €) in...

    I use Apple Music, but I put in my minutes to see how much (little) Spotify pays the artists for my usage.. About 30 thousand listened minutes translated to roughly 20 pounds (about 24 €) in royalties which was about 13% of what I would have paid on an individual plan.

    Something to note is that the artists (or publishers) have to pay for the right to have their music be streamed on the platform. For example, my Distrokid subscription costs me about 80 euro / year, and I'm absolutely not getting tens of thousands of listened minutes on my stuff in that timeframe.

    8 votes