Because, Nordic Countries

[BansheeOne]

I probably am on a watchlist now just for following that link, but I need to remember those Nazi depictions of inferior elements outbreeding the higher-value population for the next time somebody yaks about the coming of Eurabia.

 

 

[toysoldier]

That's probably what happens when you never get laid.

[DB]

Edward Tuft could have used the second one as a perfect example of lying with an infographic. Probably better that he stuck with the oil barrels and dollar bills, to be honest. (The lie factor is that the 2-d scaling results in the effect being scaled with the square, not linearly.)

[Martin M]

inapproprate Nazi nonsense

 

it is not about (alleged) inferiority

 

it is about replacement

[Adam Peter]

Experience nothing - Visit Padasjoki

 

[toysoldier]

I knew it was Finnish from the start. As a matter of fact i read it with Ismo's voice in my head

[Chris Werb]

I knew it was Finnish from the start. As a matter of fact i read it with Ismo's voice in my head

 

Was I the only one expecting the video to end something like this...

 

 

[Panzermann]

https://www.thelocal.se/20181109/swedish-municipality-accidentally-sells-off-its-fire-station

 

A Swedish town accidentally sold its fire station and is now trying to get it back

 

The municipality of Storuman in northern Sweden has accidentally sold off its fire station to a private real estate broker and is now trying to sue the buyer to get it back.

It's important to do the paperwork. That is a lesson that the municipality of Storuman learned the hard way after accidentally selling off its fire station.

The municipality is now hoping to get the fire station back by suing the buyer for four million kronor (€390,000) or making them hand the facility back, saying it needs it more than the buyer and that the buyer should have realized that the municipality's use of it meant it was obvious it was never up for sale.

"We realized early on that a mistake had been made. In the beginning we thought we'd come to an agreement [with the new owner], but in hindsight it appears as though we haven't. This is why we've filed a lawsuit," Tomas Mörtsell, mayor of Storuman, was quoted as telling Lokaltidningen.

The municipality insists that the fire station was never intended to be part of the deal "and that's why we're now forced to handle this judicially".

The deal dates back to 2014, when Storuman sold a number of buildings to private real estate group JLO Fastigheter AB in Umeå for 4.2 million kronor (€408,000). The fire station had been added to the same real estate unit in Sweden's property register only two years earlier, causing the municipality to miss its' inclusion.

Afterwards, the new owner offered Storuman to buy the fire station back for 10 million kronor (€973,000), more than double the price it had paid for the property and the buildings on the land.

The buyer slammed the municipality's handling of the matter.

"We've paid for the facility and have all the necessary documents. To come to us afterwards and say that the deal was a mistake is weird," said Lennart Olofsson, owner of CloudBerry Estates of which JLO Fastigheter is part.

"The most natural thing would have been for them to buy the premises back, but the municipality hasn't done so. Instead it chooses to pursue it in this way, and sue me and the company for a bunch of money."

 

 

 

 

ROFL

[toysoldier]

They are screwed... people in Umeå are nasty.

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-unknown-strain-of-plague-found-in-5000-year-old-tomb-in-sweden/

In a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb in Sweden, researchers have discovered the oldest-known strain of the notorious bacterium Yersinia pestis — the microbe responsible for humanity's perhaps most-feared contagion: the plague.

 

The finding suggests that the germ may have devastated settlements across Europe at the end of the Stone Age in what may have been the first major pandemic of human history. It could also rewrite some of what we know of ancient European history.

 

The finding came about as the researchers were analyzing publicly available databases of ancient DNA for cases in which infections might have claimed prehistoric victims. They focused on the previously excavated site of Frälsegården in Sweden. Previous analysis of a limestone tomb at the site found that an estimated 78 people were buried there, and they all had died within a 200-year period. The fact that many people died in a relatively short time in one place suggested they might have perished together in an epidemic, lead study author Nicolás Rascovan, a biologist at Aix-Marseille University in Marseille, France, told Live Science. The limestone tomb was dated to the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the period when farming began.

 

The researchers discovered the previously unknown strain of plague in the remains of a woman at the Frälsegården site. Carbon dating suggested she died about 4,900 years ago during a period known as the Neolithic Decline, when Neolithic cultures throughout Europe mysteriously dwindled.

 

Based on her hip bones and other skeletal features, they estimated the woman was about 20 years old when she died. The plague strain found with her had a genetic mutation that can trigger pneumonic plague — the deadliest form of historic and modern plague — suggesting the woman likely died of the disease. (The most common form of plague is bubonic plague, which occurs when plague bacteria spread to the lymph nodes and cause inflammation, according to the World Health Organization. The inflamed lymph nodes are called "buboes." If the bacteria spread to the lungs, they can trigger the deadlier pneumonic plague.)

 

By comparing the newfound strain with known plague DNA, the scientists determined that the ancient sample was the closest known relative of the plague bacterium's most recent ancestor. The study researchers theorized that the ancient sample diverged from other plague strains about 5,700 years ago.

[Mr King]

The inflamed lymph nodes are called "buboes."

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So that's where that word is from.

[Panzermann]

How are minttu tabletit advertised in Finland?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so many funny details in the ad

 

 

Edited January 31, 2019 by Panzermann

[Ssnake]

This evening, I realized that Risto Ranta is a legitimate name in Finland.

[Ivanhoe]

 

Cue the Nelson ha-ha laugh;

 

https://pjmedia.com/trending/so-what-if-the-clinton-foundation-fleeced-norway-bring-on-the-chardonnay/

 

 

The numbers are scandalous. Between 2007 and 2016, the Norwegian government transferred no less than 640 million kroner in taxpayer money to the Clinton Foundation. Given the average exchange rate during that period, that sum would’ve been roughly equivalent to $100 million. This means that each and every Norwegian citizen, without being asked, put about twenty dollars into the pockets of that crooked enterprise.

 

The official reason for these massive payouts was that the Norwegian government wanted to help mothers and children in Africa. In 2016, Norway’s purported newspaper of record, Aftenposten, ran an article in which Stephen Gillers, an expert on legal ethics at NYU, said that the real motive was to buy influence for Norway in the corridors of American power.

[Yama]

Norwegian government has so much money that it might be actually better return for taxpayer to dump some of it on daft targets like that, rather than pay for construction of yet another money bin.

[Roman Alymov]

[bd1]

finnish word of the day - helikopterimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas. helicopter engines assistant mechanic-trainee NCO .

[Ssnake]

I could identify three out of six.

[Ivanhoe]

https://quillette.com/2019/04/23/self-harm-versus-the-greater-good-greta-thunberg-and-child-activism/

Greta is eleven years old and has gone two months without eating. Her heart rate and blood pressure show clear signs of starvation. She has stopped speaking to anyone but her parents and younger sister, Beata.

 

After years of depression, eating disorders, and anxiety attacks, she finally receives a medical diagnosis: Asperger’s syndrome, high-functioning autism, and OCD. She also suffers from selective mutism—which explains why she sometimes can’t speak to anyone outside her closest family. When she wants to tell a climate researcher that she plans a school strike on behalf of the environment, she speaks through her father.

 

The book Scenes from the Heart (“Scener från Hjärtat,” 2018) recounts these medical difficulties and the events that led to Greta Thunberg’s now-famous “school strike for climate,” in which hundreds of thousands of children have refused to attend school to protest about government inaction over climate change. Greta herself strikes every Friday and spent three weeks sitting outside the Swedish Parliament at the beginning of the school year. Written by her family—mother, father, Beata and Greta—the story is told in the voice of Greta’s mother, the opera soprano Malena Ernman, who was a celebrity in Europe long before her daughter’s fame. Although the book is only available in Swedish for the time being, it is already being translated into numerous languages—a development that reflects the global fascination with Thunberg’s campaign.

Is it too early to call Munchausen By Proxy?

[Stuart Galbraith]

Sounds like a pretty remarkable kid actually. Like a climate change oriented Saga Noren.

[Chris Werb]

Sounds like a pretty remarkable kid actually. Like a climate change oriented Saga Noren.

 

Best line in a Scandi Noir. Saga is at a bar in a nightclub and goes up to a bloke.

 

Saga: I want to have sex with you.

 

Bloke: Would you like a drink?

 

Saga: I do not want a drink. I want to have sex with you.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Yeah, she played that part so damn well. There is a really great video where Sofia Helin plays her presenting a chat show....

[Ivanhoe]

For you Nordophobes, here is the thread you were looking for...

[Yama]

Yeah, she played that part so damn well. There is a really great video where Sofia Helin plays her presenting a chat show....

 

 

Uh, I actually find that slightly disturbing. It's almost if Skavlan quickly decides it's getting bit scary

[Ivanhoe]