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Building aesthetics: this is the old ASA radio and TV factory, which is nowadays used by Åbo Akademi University.

https://files.scene.org/view/parties/2019/deadline19/wild/sqlray.zip (it's a web page, not a ZIP download link)

I actually seek out local student cafeterias to eat when visiting other places in Finland, just to eat cheaper, lmao. And because some places serve "lunch" until 19 or 20, I'll often have lunch for dinner as well.

This is 2.60€, and university students all around Finland can get a similar meal always for 2.60€. Why?

Because our social security agency subsidizes the price of lunch (that fulfills their nutritional requirements) to student lunch cafeterias around Finland, so that it'll cost any student just 2.60€ to eat healthy.

Because it turns out that if you make it very cheap for students to eat healthy every day, they'll actually eat healthy every day. That's a good thing for everyone.

"I have a cool new idea for a data structure: it's a linked list where each node stores the hash of the previous node, and to add a node you need ten minutes and computing power equal to the energy consumption of Iceland."

"The pigeonhole rule says that if you drill n+1 holes in n pigeons, then you'll have some pigeon with at least 2 holes drilled in it."

Another fun fact is that despite being Finnish, Tove herself only ever wrote Moomin stories in Swedish and English.

Did you know that the creator of the Moomins (Tove Jansson) was gay, and wrote her girlfriend (Tuulikki Pietilä) into the Moomin universe as Too-Ticky?

To this day people often avoid the subject by using vague words like "life partner" and "lived together with", but to me that just sounds like LGBT erasure.

my cursor has started randomly disappearing in Gnome (when moving it into Gnome-Shell's own UI such as the top bar or dock or whatever) 🤔

Impeach this? I don't think dirt votes.

Remember that time when Silvio Berlusconi called Finnish food horrible and inedible, and a Finnish pizza chain responded by making a "Pizza Berlusconi" featuring traditional Finnish-style ingredients, and won an international "best pizza" award for it?

The only hat worth wearing

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At this exact moment exactly 25 years ago, one of the worst accidents in recent Finnish memory was ongoing.

30 minutes ago, the passenger cruise ship Estonia had sank completely, and the first ship is just now reaching the scene to begin rescuing survivors. In the end, 852 people lost their lives and 137 survived.

It hits close to home to me, maybe because it's literally very close to my home.

I just decided to see what YouTube's front page featured exactly 10 years ago using archive.org, and noticed a pretty wild coincidence when comparing to my own current front page

new drinking game: drink some water to stay hydrated

I wonder if this information is enough to identify the specific cafeteria, or if there are more cafeterias in the world that are named this way

eating lunch in a cafeteria named after a man who had an element named after him