nokturne213

Crossposted from https://sopuli.xyz/post/28542997

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Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *järki (“order, row”), of unknown further origin. The original sense can be seen in derived terms like järjestää. The sense of "order" would have later shifted to that which provides order, or sense, i.e. the faculty of reason.

Pronunciation

• IPA(key): /ˈjærki/, [ˈjærk̟i]
• Rhymes: -ærki
• Syllabification(key): jär‧ki
• Hyphenation(key): jär‧ki

Noun

järki

1. reason (ability to think)
2. sense (meaning, reason, or value of something)
   Siinä ei ole mitään järkeä.
   It doesn't make any sense.
3. sense (sound practical judgment)
   terve järki ― common sense

lähde

I volunteer at a food bank, and the company that sends us our food decides what we get. Last Tuesday they sent so much produce we could not fit it all into fridges. We were trying to give away cases of the food on Wednesday, but people were turning it down because they had no place to store a case of tomatoes, or cauliflower. This was what we had left after last Wednesday's morning give away. Not pictured the 5000lbs of watermelons, the 2500lbs of onions (those will last a lot longer).

The company that supplies us wants to move from sending shipments every other week, to once a month. This would cause even more no produce loss.

It is so frustrating to have all this food for it to go bad. Even if we got the same volume of produce, but there was variation in what it is we could give it away easier.

Edit: I posted this in a comment.

Because of bureaucracy we have to request this. If it is found out we are giving away the food to unapproved recipients we can lose all of our funding. If we give to unapproved recipients and they in turn give us prepared food to give out, that is okay.

Word got out that we were loading up my pickup with food and taking it to the homeless camps. I did get a number of them to start coming to the bank to get food. But it was easier when I could take stuff to them.

We are not allowed to simply give it out to anyone. This is not like a church pantry where all of the food is donated by the community and's parishioners. There is government funding, as well as private businesses, which I am guessing get their money back from the government for funding this. If we could simply give it to anyone we would not be in this situation.

Crossposted from https://sopuli.xyz/post/28486609

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Crossposted from https://sopuli.xyz/post/28432498

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Crossposted from https://sopuli.xyz/post/28379817

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Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vihta.

Pronunciation

• IPA(key): /ˈʋihtɑ/, [ˈʋiçt̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ihtɑ
• Syllabification(key): vih‧ta
• Hyphenation(key): vih‧ta

Noun

vihta

1. bath broom, a kind of whip made of birch twigs and used in the sauna to enhance the effect of heat by beating oneself with it.

Usage notes

Traditionally vihta was used more often in Western Finnish, while vasta was used in Eastern Finnish.

lähde

With the impending closure of this community's instance,I have become mod for !norsepaganism@sopuli.xyz

I know neither community is terribly active. But I still want a place for us.