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Olives, blue cheese, olive oil (tasted way too strong and bitter), garlic, most seafoods. Pretty sure there were many others, but have forgotten.

No I know. It's just still the first thing that came to my mind as a reaction to the absurdity of destroying food in general, I wasn't trying to make an analysis of all you said. Which I agree on.

Insert here again the Grapes of Wrath quote.

Thank you so much for standing up for the student in this incredibly absurd and shitty situation!

Oh ffs. Making it popular by forcing people to use it sounds like a great plan.

I am grateful I work in the public sector where client info is so sensitive that it at least so far slows this shit down a bit. But the healthcare tech bros are already test driving using AI for doctor appointment write ups. If it gets normalized there, it will come to the social side too fast.

I hate how these ghouls are just stealing all the scifi and fantasy words for their planet destroying activities.

I have a galaxy a50 from 2019 and it's still an ok size. It's funny that these days people envy me for it, because it's still a bit smaller. A shame that it's now literally coming apart at the seams.

In my mind the galaxy 2 I had was already plenty big. It was still a phone you could put in a pocket. Then I had the S5 neo and that wasn't too bad yet either.

This satire is from 2024, it's literally the entire attitude of the country I'm in.

That sounds pretty magical.

Here they tend to come the earliest, along with cloudberries. Then the porcinis/boletus follow along with bilberries. Lingonberries and the rest like trumpet chantarelle and black trumpet chantarelle come later in the season, but the black trumpet can vary a lot depending on year.

The trumpet chantarelle is my go-to drying shroom as it's so easy to dry and can be used in basically all the foods all winter long for strong umami.

And be one of the phone on belt type of guys? No.

I don't ever wear belts, belts are rarely involved in womens clothing, not to mention in exercise wear. I do have a belt bag (fanny bag) like I said, but I wear it over the shoulder and it is still too small for the newer phones.

The shroom brick looks like this when pulled out of the freezer:

As they unfreeze and start to fry they separate and retain their shroomy shape quite nicely. I like to add a bit of olive oil, butter, onion and garlic to the pan as they start to fry.

Today I made spinach crepes (euro pancakes) with letfover sourdough starter and spelt flour and stuffed them with chantarelle sauce. On the side I served mashed lingonberries, their tartness goes great with the richness of the chantarelle sauce and crepe.

If it wasn't so hot and humid, I'd go out to see if the boletus are already coming up. I suspect they might, if they are premature the same as chantarelles.

Drying boletus always makes the house smell pretty funky, but it's so worth it. It's the shit when it comes to umami. Nothing like a risotto with dried boletus.

The chantarelles could go into a soup or a savory pie after the pizza, not sure yet. I know we should not eat these every day as they can contain a bit of radiation, but it's hard to care when they are so delicious and also free.

It's infuriating as most womens clothes don't come with good pockets and all the accesories you can wear as carry space has to get bigger and bigger due to the phone taking so much space. My current phone has been dying on me for months and I have a (bigger) replacement ready to go, but I am postponing using it as much as I can as the size annoys me so much. I like to hike and go for walks and I hate carrying a bigger bag of some kind to have the phone on me along with a water bottle. When they were smaller, it used to fit in my tiny belt bag with a water bottle and keys. The new ones don't.

The huge phone also legitimately restricts range of motion if it is in a pant pocket. You can't squat or do anything with it there. Or it just falls out.

Still remember the early days of mobile phones where it getting smaller was the signifier of a better product. It's annoying it went completely the other way with smartphones.

It's interesting to me that this seems to hit premenopausal/menopausal people the hardest and yet there is very little talk about the role of hormones in covid/longcovid. Noting that these symptoms can start already at around age 30 for people with uteruses.

From what I remember, it was determined that estrogen is protective in the original infection which is why people with uteruses get less severe acute covid.

Anecdotally I am in this age range and been having longcovid issues now for several years. I realized many of the symptoms align with the symptoms of premenopause so I went to my student doctor who prescribed estrogen for me. It has helped tremendously with my joint pains, fatigue with exercise and most of all with all the heart palpitations, dizzy vibes and heat intolerance. The vagovasal symptoms went away day one on E. Been on it only for a month or so and I am doing a lot better with my longcovid stuff, the only thing that still is pretty severe is GI issues, but even that seems to be easing now.

The thing with fat tissue also is that it tends to increase as hormones change and afaik it holds on to estrogen, might be this explains the bodysize and longcovid thing somehow. I'm purely speculating.

Preliminary research indeed suggests a two-way association between the conditions. Women in midlife who get long COVID — which involves physical and cognitive problems that persist well beyond the initial infection — also seem to develop specific and severe symptoms. These include brain fog, fatigue, new-onset dizziness, and difficulty sleeping through the night, according to a 2021 study in the journal Maturitas.

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It has been sort of muted here until this summer to maintain the illusion of how we are just helping Ukraine and its people.

I have seen newspieces lately where our "are you willing to pick berriers-kulaks are platformed complaining about how their supply of cheap labor from Ukraine is no longer reliable and such.

The weather got even hotter today so went to do water running in the evening and stayed in the water for a good while until my core temp came down. Much nicer to sleep now.

The scent at the lake in the evening is intoxicating, the spruce trees and birch trees smell so nice. There were at least 8 ducklings as well, swimming with us.

I'm just very tired and regretting I went to read the news, but here we are.

So some smol bean nazi country news: Finland formally withdraws from Ottawa landmine treaty

No comments, just sigh.

Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing Russia

I don't know enough about this to comment, it is of course framed in a very warmongery way.

Ukraine's reconstruction could lead to billions in Finnish exports, lobby says

Porky showing their true colors with regards to Ukraine I suppose. They have plenty of experience after having been part of such projects all over the Middle East.

Exactly like the place I currently live in. I've never understood the hate these glorious extremely functional living spaces get.

These are all that exist in Finland as suburbs. Growing up I always thought that this is what a suburb is, and then I saw what Amerikkka is like. I think this essentially is what a suburb is also in all other countries that bordered the USSR. Also Sweden looks a lot like this.

I recently read about the way housing was done in East Germany and it was pretty much exactly how it used to be done where I live. The Soviet Union is gone, but we still have these suburbs with parks, actual services and stores, typically forests and lakes nearby, schools, sporting facilities and just everything you ever need. Funnily the last time I actually had to go outside the area I live in was months ago. My healtcare is here, my workplace is here and so are restaurants and stuff like swimming halls and gyms.

The city central is about 10km away by a tram, but I really don't have to go there unless I want to.

These are also the only type of housing I might still be able to buy an apartment in and I'm ok with that. The buildings typically have their own sauna, a root cellar (this has sadly become rare, but my grandparents still made all their jams and pickles into one when I was a kid and saved a lot of money doing that), a communal space, a bike cellar, a barbecue area, play area for kids, a laundry, some have a gym or a craft space.

I also think this is the only real material reason why homelesness is still relatively rare here, there are a lot of these suburbs and while rents have become ridiculous and they are mostly privatized, most can still find a rental to live in. The state loans that these were built with still manage to prevent the worst landlordism.

We owe everything to the Soviet Union.

The first swim in a lake this summer. Took me a long ass time to get out of my winter fur this year as it's been so chilly, but today it definitely wasn't so we went for an evening swim.

It's just so nice and relaxing.

Yeah.

In a country with a very strong sauna and communal swimming hall culture this sounds so familiar.

Was just at a summer cabin, happily reading my book by the lake and my view was a naked couple doing their sauna in a nearby island. It's so funny in a country of supposed introverts, but you can't go anywhere in the summer without seeing naked people on lake shores.

We grow up doing the sauna with family, often extended family included and family friends. You see so many bits of different ages so maybe it should just feel normal, but personally I would still prefer some privacy. I know people bond in the sauna here, like work colleagues do it together.