Yeah I agree, this might just become more difficult.
I am also looking into possible exhange studies or work possibilities after I finish my degree. I know there are Chinese universities doing research together with folks from my field from my uni, would not hesitate to pack up and go.
Finns do this by moving into a cabin in the woods in Lapland. Ngl, been eyeing job positions in the north for a while.
I work and all my skills are in the public sector so am pretty sure AmeriKKKA would have no jobs for me, haha. But the nature in Alaska is appealing.
True. I was also thinking about this after I found some backpacking tips on the different routes. Definitely would want to see as much as we can. Ending up in Shanghai was the plan, but the route to get there is open.
Was looking at this: https://onthewayaround.com/china-itinerary/#A_4-Week_China_Itinerary. No idea if this is good advice, because it sure has brainworms in it. Also not interested in Hong Kong.
Oh the DPRK would be goals.
Thank you. Great advice. I am thinking I will try to wait for when/if the West allows the war to end (might not happen) and then go from Helsinki to St. Petersburg to Moscow and then the trans-Siberian via Ulan Bator. This would definitely be the trip of a lifetime.
Oh man, such a typical Finnish person comment that. Literally textbook mukaneutraali mukarationaalinen obnoxius End of History type apathy covered nihilism inspired Finnish person comment.
I fucking hate it here.
Extincion Rebellion in Finland has withdrawn from a demostration due to police violence. The libs are calling this a smart move as it draws more attention to their cause. Mainstream media however rarely reports the demos or if it does, it typically frames these as the disrubtion of traffic. Today the liberal bourge paper Helsingin Sanomat has called out for the protesters right to protest safely.
Their next demo will start as planned tomorrow with a press release about the police violence. In the Finnish text based press release they report the police hitting people in the head, dragging them on the asfalt and other acts of physical violence. The police started forcefully removing protesters as soon as the demo started with no prewarning or commands to leave.
This is true. I am doing uni now with zoomers and it feels a lot safer. I am far more at ease now even though I am ancient compared to them and have a long history of being bullied. Noticed this when I did substitute teaching as well.
They also call you out on things like putting yourself down for your work just in case, a very gen X thing. And have also informed me that dating apps aren’t really used anymore and people prefer in person connection more again, they are organizing a lot of get-togethers.
Also drinking. I am from a generation where getting shitfaced in a concert was supposedly “fun”. Or heavy drinking in general. My kid and his friends genuinely prefer going to events sober or with light drinking, same with uni stuff. I mean they still drink, but not nearly as much. And non-drinking stuff is popular too.
Also openness to vegan food. It’s a total non issue to make and eat vegan in an event. Go back ten years and even millenials I feel have far more brainwormy takes on “but muh meats!”.
Edit. Now that I got going with the praise a few more things came to mind that I admire genuinely:
Far more principled takes on politics. Even things like boycotting I have noticed they follow through long term.
Making value based choices and sticking to them. Like buying clothes second-hand. Far less treat brained paradoxically. Often buying one good thing that will last years.
I know people keep saying the youngest generation is always most progressive, but I disagree. I have seen my own youth and been told about my parents hippie youth and neither ever actually engaged with anything more than being libs about the things. Or knew anything.
The kids these days are in a fundamentally different position with all the crisis and late stage capitalism. And the internet has made them aware of things in ways no generation before has been.
She sounds like me. Honestly I owe a lot of my deprogramming to my gen Z kid. He was the one who started to push againts my Soviet Union/AES brainworms and these days he finds it funny how I went a lot further into the rabbit hole than him.
Same. My kid introduced me to Hasan, it was a step in my path out of my lifelong liberal brainworms. I owe the younger generation a lot.
Ok yeah, flow from some auditory things I definitely get and also seek it. So maybe it was ASMR all along.
Great explanation. Explained like this I do get it better, for me it would be something like listening to music with the scratch of vinyl in it and sort of getting lost in that. Also have had this with peoples voices. Wind in certain types of trees and other auditory things like that that are just deeply pleasure inducing.
A lot of music does this to me, but not sure if this would be the same. In jazz music the sounds of the instruments on the tape for example.
Right?
We have this thing with my kid where we play music for each other and rate it, to expand our views and learn new music. Some of the stuff he has thrown at me has been really hard to comment on, but it is interesting.
Might be. It works great for my kid for sleep/making the head go queit, but for me it just causes unease We are both neurodivergent with loud minds. I personally need stories being read for sleep.
I mean I do get it, but it isn’t for me. I know a lot of people my age who do like ASMR.
Tbh, always really disliked Jackass too.
Otherwise I think the kids these days are great. Have learnt so much from them, about drawing boundaries, neurotypes, gender. I am very happy to be the parent of one of these younger humans, they make the best comrades.
A bit tired with studying and working full time at the same time. But doing better with it than ever before with my late arrived understanding of my neurotype.
Having conflicting feelings about the clients I have to try and help in my work when they bring forward fullblown nazi thinking, it also sometimes makes me feel a bit unsafe. Struggling a bit with that, but doing my best and hoping to nudge people towards a more material understanding of their position.
Glad that I have a decent paycheck finally and am now able to help my also neurodivergent kid pay their rent over the summer.
My little backyard garden tomatoes are looking amazing.
This could have been the abstract.
Yeah, this is a course in gender studies I am doing as a minor. Still has nothing on the course I did on the feminist revolution in Iran where we got a real life diaspora Iranian citing radio free europe links to us as study material.
Truly the most unbiased academic learning.
Tech bros genuinely believe that their glorified automated text generators and such will solve something? Talk about magical thinking.
The times I’ve had to listen to people like this explain to others how great systemic thinkers they are and how much better they are at understanding basically everything then anyone else and these are the takes they have on “AI”… It’s both funny and pathetic.
It also looks like these supposedly smartest of the smart don’t actually get it at all.