Ruhrpott native in Finland's oldest city. Täl pual jokke. Machine guy, wannabe industrialist. Brrrr! 🏭🏗🚛
Turku, Finland
Joined April 2019
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Koskela is unlikely to be this clueless but many of her voters are and politics is a show so you get these cartoonish takes.
Most of what you see in Finnish politics is just recycled and repeated content from abroad, incl. the current billionaire thing. iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/75…
The government is managing its finances so well that they are taking money from the state pension fund to fund the budget. Nothing to see here, please keep moving.
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By now the attack on Iran looks even dumber than the attack on Ukraine and that really is a high bar to clear. Good job.
BREAKING: The U.S. is now preparing to completely abandon Gulf countries, as Trump envoy Tom Barrack directly warns Gulf allies that Washington can no longer guarantee their security indefinitely, telling regional officials in Doha that they must take responsibility for their own defense, signalling the end of the U.S. security umbrella in the Middle East, per the Wall Street Journal.
Barrack said the 80-year-old U.S. security-for-oil arrangement is no longer sustainable, pointing to regional defense partnerships as the way forward. The warning comes as Gulf states face Iranian strikes on U.S. military infrastructure and growing uncertainty over Washington’s future military commitment to the region.
Americans stop producing slop about Europe and then believe it and get disappointed challenge (impossible)
The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha
I can forgive Finns for their obsession with salty liquorice because they also put raspberry into everything.
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All history is the history of technological diffusion through various means, episode 18.
“Tesla is like the Whampoa military academy of EVs.”
Still one of the best lines I’ve ever read on China tech.
Tesla didn’t just have a “catfish” effect on China’s EV industry. Its massive Shanghai Gigafactory had around 20,000 employees in 2023.
Tesla trained thousands of Chinese engineers and workers, many of whom went into China’s broader industrial ecosystem and helped to upgrade the capabilities of China’s EV industry.
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This is a big theme in Chinese industrial policy discourse, especially the "industrial maximalism" school of thought popularized by Lu Feng.
The idea is that a rigid stratification of industries into "low", "middle" and "high" tech is rather harmful and does not really (1/n)
Heard once that in Finland most children are born 9 months after December because of the traditional out-of-control, blackout drunk Christmas parties ("pikkujoulu").
Always thought of the Multipla as an April fools' joke but the only person who knew died so they put it into production.
Is this the most unexpected revival of the year? The divisive Fiat Multipla is back, and now it's a cross between a pick-up and SUV buff.ly/iaAMYQN
re: retiring at 70, the underdiscussed aspect is ageing and performance. Already around 60 you have a substantial amount of people who struggle to keep up. With some you just wait for them to finally retire and make space for someone younger. Stretching it to 70 is bullshit.
Felt like I've seen a lot of new Iveco vehicles and it turns out they did indeed increase their sales in Finland and captured market share in an overall declining market.
Pretty wild that in some regions people pay nearly 2100 euros annually just in power transmission fees on top of all the other high taxes and fees. And incomes in Finland are mediocre at bestz especially outside the major cities.
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