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Laittaisin kiljun köksäntunneille. Kemian tunneilla voidaan tehä pirtua, opettaa vielä tehokkaammin kun on vahvempaa.

Kaljaviesti ehdottomasti myös osaksi opetussuunnitelmaa. Muutenkin ongelmallista, että lajia joudutaan harrastamaan ihan untuvikkoina kun vihdoin päästään yliopistoon.

Thanks! I was pleasantly surprised with how well it turned out myself as well.

That's an interesting piece of trivia. IIRC this nook is in the ladies common chamber, meaning light was required for chores that were common at the time (embroidery, knitting etc.). The best corner rooms in terms of getting light for as long as possible were usually reserved for scribes though, the scribes chamber was in the southwestern corner which is well lit for most of the day. Especially important in Finland with the short days in winter.

It's difficult to realize how few real solutions we had for artificial lighting back in the day. Even candles were a luxury just a couple hundred years ago, and required constant attention to trim the wicks. Oil lamps were smelly, beeswax and tallow melted too easily and availability was limited. The common folk here in Finland used small wooden shingles for lighting, which burned out relatively quickly and created a fire hazard. It also smoked a lot, and you had to use a bucket to catch the hot embers that dropped off as it burned.

Also wrote it in the text on the post, but it's scanned from a negative with a cheap(-ish) dedicated film scanner, and converted to positive digitally. I use NegPy which very closely mimicks the workflow of RA-4 printing (color fotosensitive paper used for printing photos in an analog minilab) in terms of how it calculates contrast, color balance etc.

I prefer the edit, the original feels too muted and cold. Maybe due to the white balance of the original scan? Although I do feel like the edit could do with a little bit more aggressive a black point, which the original achieves better.

Otherwise love the composition and the dominance of the blossoms. A great shot!

If AI continues to be treated as transformative work, there should also be a valid case to kill licensing requirements for sampling music. After all, there you're literally using small clips of someone's music or similar to make undeniably new art.

The gif? That's from terminator 2, not transformers, and is an incredibly well-executed effect for the time. It's also missing the part where the actual effect happens.

Yep, the closest I can get with my own oven is 300 celsius with a pizza stone. At that point the heating elements are on pretty much constantly. It leads to a relatively good crust, but still isn't as good as a proper pizza oven. I've seen some normal electric ovens that go up to 350 here, which could be enough to make up the difference.

The oven is also clearly not meant to be used like this on the daily. Parts of the oven exterior get to around 200 degress celsius when baking multiple pizzas.

While it's true that we've had improved yields in the short term in e.g. Finland (this year has been quite good for farming), suitable temperatures aren't really enough to make creating a new bread basket in the arctic feasible. Lot of the arctic area doesn't get enough rainfall in the summer to be proper farmland, especially the vast areas of land in Russia. We're lacking the predatory insects that would keep the pests in check, and overall the ecosystem is very poorly protected against high temperatures.

This year is also anomalous in being somewhat normal a summer in terms of temperature and rainfall for us. Previous two were very dry, to the point of causing issues for farmers. We're not necessarily suffering from a drought over here, as opposed to e.g. Mediterranean Europe, but are still seeing abnormally low water levels and less snowfall than usual.

The arctic also doesn't have a lot of soil that's suitable for farming, were the weather to warm up. Much of the soil is sand and peatland, covered with a thin layer of moss or lichen. There really aren't a lot of nutrients available; Finland has a long history of trying to clear fields on swamps as well as planting forests on a drained swamp. Neither have typically worked that well, as drained swamps are a difficult growing medium for most crops and trees. Nowadays we see the swamp as an increasingly more important thing as itself, providing a good carbon sink and improving water quality in the lakes by absorbing excess nutrients and humus.

The only real sustainable solution is, apart for pushing for renewables even harder, trying to decrease the consumption of meat and other unnecessary use of farmland. We can relatively easily absorb a 50-80 % reduction in farming yields globally if we were to get rid of most livestock and bioethanol/biodiesel from edible crops. Another thing is that in developed countries people are far too picky in terms of what they're willing to eat. As an example, around here we're actively trying to get people to eat more freshwater fish, as we have an issue with there being too much nutrients in the lakes, and fishing is one of the easiest way to reduce the amount of nutrients in water. Good fish like smelt, roach, ide and bream are often through to be "trash fish" as they can be difficult to prepare (or can smell weird (smelt), can taste of mud at the wrong season (roach)). They're all very good when prepared correctly and caught at a correct time, though. Nowadays you can get them in a can as a more sustainable alternative to canned tuna, and those have been selling quite well AFAIK.

Most likely is. Many open source projects have a joke as a name, often containing some form of innuendo or a double meaning. Helps in maintaining the free nature of the tool (corporations don't want anything to do with it) as well as lower expectations on professionalism. Plus it's funny, especially if it's an in-joke of a niche language.

On the topic of "runk", it's also been loaned from Swedish to Finnish as runkata, or to runk = to jerk off. The actual act of it would be runkkaus or runkkaaminen. Can also be encountered in the form runkkari, aka a wanker (I'd assume Swedish had a matching equivalent). So the joke works in Finnish as well.

Well, let's give torpedoes to the orcas then.

And by some miracle, I wouldn't be surprised if the Panzer II felt more spacious inside. It's baffling how cramped modern SUVs and especially crossovers are compared to their external size.

Our relatively small VW ID.3 is more spacious inside than most small-to-mid crossovers in Europe (e.g. Renault Kadjar/Nissan Qashqai, Volvo XC40 etc.). It's still a lot smaller in external dimensions, and actually fits to parking spots.