Haha. I got a Game Gear as a christmas present back in the ancient times. Good thing my dad was smart enough to buy the enormous external, rechargeable battery thing.
Yeah but that stupidity was more aimed at the Americans, telling the sheep that everything will be fine and this wont hurt them.
But this trying to roll the blame on China is aimed at the world. Thats where my irritation comes from, I don't care too much what they say to the morons in America, but trying to gaslight me and my non-American friends is completely different.
Depending of the amazon terms of service and local laws, they can either wiggle out of fulfilling your order or they have to fulfill your order. Depends on a lot of things, can they get their hands on that product etc. I would contact your local consumer protection agency and ask them.
They can't be so stupid that they actually believe this. So I assume this is a deliberate attempt at making China look bad. But why are they so stupid that they think this is actually going to work? Everyone know that this whole mess was because of actions taken by the US and Israel. Theres absolutely no doubt about that. Trying to make it look like China is partly to blame for the global economy going to the toilet is just insulting. What kind of people they think we are? This sort of shit might go down well with MAGA Americans, but surely they realise that 99% of the global population is not that stupid? Or are they just completely ignorant about anything going outside of the USA?
Thats the correct way to do it. Make the government buy/invest in local stuff as much as possible, support local manufacturing but let the people decide what they want to buy.
If you are at all interested in that sort of stuff, I can highly recommend The Unknown Soldier (specifically the 1955 one, not the modern adaptions). Also the book is excellent.
I really don't think that its the size of the country or population that meant push back against a national ID. I'd argue it was the weird "rugged individualism" thing that Americans have, I mean just recently I was reading about how Americans were against postcodes and one of the reasons they mentioned was this attitude of individualism, anything the big scary government does is seen as a personal insult and a slippery slope towards some sort of authoritarian state.
From what I've heard and seen the main motivations for Americans to join the military is the pay and getting a education (scholarship? Idk the details). Now the pay is not that good, the education doesn't matter because things are going down the toilet anyway... And you still have to go bomb girl schools and stuff. I completely understand the reluctance to join up, forcing people to do so is not going to help either.
I heard them when I was a kid but being in a non-english speaking country, I didn't understand them. When I could understand them, I didn't "listen" to them (as in I didn't pay attention), when I did start to actually listen to them, I was already old and it hit me in a not very positive way lol.
Dont get me wrong, I have no good things to say about the US military actions and deployments. Vietnam was a atrocity, borderline genocide, a environmental crime of stupendous proportions.
I mean the first Gulf War was initiated because Saddam attacked Kuwait lol. Out of all the wars the US has been involved since 1945, that was the least worst. Saddam needed to be kicked in the teeth and they should have finished the job back then, not leave it up to Junior to fuck up in the 2000s.
Eugh, I feel disgusted for having to mildly defend a US military action. Why'd you make me do this?!
Yeah the major difference is that the US forces fight to keep a global hegemony and the military industrial complex running.
The fight we have always been preparing for is to defend against a attack from russia. There was a funny thing that happened, a Finnish military person was being interviewed by a foreign media, the guy was explaining about our defenses on the east of the country. Then the reporter asked "what if the enemy comes from the west?" and the military guy replied "well, then the enemy has made a large flanking maneuver."
America has been protected by two massive oceans, a friendly neighbor in the north and a weak neighbor in the south. For an American to go "defend" his country means to invade another country thousands and thousands of kilometers away.
Finland has been cursed with a 1300km long border with a maniac. For a Finn to go defend his country means that he is going to be in a trench that goes through a farm that was owned by his fellow citizen. Thats a completely different perspective and attitude.
Last time I checked the support for the mandatory military service was at over 80%, that was a year or so after the escalation of the Ukraine war. It might have come down from that, but pretty sure the vast majority still support it.
No one is going to fight for Stubb's interests. No one is going to fight for Orpo's interests. No one is going to fight to keep the government safe. Everyone is going to fight to defend our country, the land, the people. The way our system is set up is not to use the military to go abroad and slay dragons, as I've heard it put by someone, somewhere.... Our military isn't even called the army or military anymore, its Puolustusvoimat, defense forces. And here it actually means that, unlike in that one country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. Our forces do take part in peace keeping operations and such but those are 100% volunteers, you have to actively want to go there, nobody will be forced to do that.
Also, a minor detail, even though the President is the commander-in-chief of the military, that will change if a war breaks out. That also happened in the past, the highest ranking military person will take over the duties of the CIC, President will continue with the civil duties etc.
Every 17 year old male gets a letter telling them to show up at a time and a place, then they get interviewed and asked where you wish to go, a specific military unit, civil service or jail. They also get a health check up.
Same here. None of my coworkers write code.
But then again, I'm a truck driver.