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Yeah I agree, this might just become more difficult.

I am also looking into possible exhange studies or work possibilities after I finish my degree. I know there are Chinese universities doing research together with folks from my field from my uni, would not hesitate to pack up and go.

Corporate social media is so vile. We have to go see FB once in two weeks unfortunately to take part in buying local produce that only posts there. So today I decided to do a minute or so long peek at the actual timeline it gives you now, this is my partnets account as I have deleted my own long ago. He only logs into it to do this act of eggs and potato buying.

It made me feel sort of physically ill. In this short time I was shown a body shaming pic of Kim Jong Un. A few public posts about war and some sort of weapon systems. A few neoliberal self-gratulatory posts. Several ads with zero relevance and the ongoing circle jerk of people posting "look at how great my life is" pictures from travels or whatever. And incredibly it's like the same five boomer posters doing all the posting there, literally to the void. I bet they don't even realize that nobody is there reading the things amymore, apart from those few people.

This stuff can't be good for anyone. It's working as intended though, incredible brainworms from for example a guy who used to frequently visit Russia and be sad about the misconceptions people had and is now posting russophobic stuff nonstop.

Finns do this by moving into a cabin in the woods in Lapland. Ngl, been eyeing job positions in the north for a while.

I work and all my skills are in the public sector so am pretty sure AmeriKKKA would have no jobs for me, haha. But the nature in Alaska is appealing.

True. I was also thinking about this after I found some backpacking tips on the different routes. Definitely would want to see as much as we can. Ending up in Shanghai was the plan, but the route to get there is open.

Was looking at this: https://onthewayaround.com/china-itinerary/#A_4-Week_China_Itinerary. No idea if this is good advice, because it sure has brainworms in it. Also not interested in Hong Kong.

Oh the DPRK would be goals.

Thank you. Great advice. I am thinking I will try to wait for when/if the West allows the war to end (might not happen) and then go from Helsinki to St. Petersburg to Moscow and then the trans-Siberian via Ulan Bator. This would definitely be the trip of a lifetime.

Oh man, such a typical Finnish person comment that. Literally textbook mukaneutraali mukarationaalinen obnoxius End of History type apathy covered nihilism inspired Finnish person comment.

I fucking hate it here.

Extincion Rebellion in Finland has withdrawn from a demostration due to police violence. The libs are calling this a smart move as it draws more attention to their cause. Mainstream media however rarely reports the demos or if it does, it typically frames these as the disrubtion of traffic. Today the liberal bourge paper Helsingin Sanomat has called out for the protesters right to protest safely.

Their next demo will start as planned tomorrow with a press release about the police violence. In the Finnish text based press release they report the police hitting people in the head, dragging them on the asfalt and other acts of physical violence. The police started forcefully removing protesters as soon as the demo started with no prewarning or commands to leave.

This is true. I am doing uni now with zoomers and it feels a lot safer. I am far more at ease now even though I am ancient compared to them and have a long history of being bullied. Noticed this when I did substitute teaching as well.

They also call you out on things like putting yourself down for your work just in case, a very gen X thing. And have also informed me that dating apps aren't really used anymore and people prefer in person connection more again, they are organizing a lot of get-togethers.

Also drinking. I am from a generation where getting shitfaced in a concert was supposedly "fun". Or heavy drinking in general. My kid and his friends genuinely prefer going to events sober or with light drinking, same with uni stuff. I mean they still drink, but not nearly as much. And non-drinking stuff is popular too.

Also openness to vegan food. It's a total non issue to make and eat vegan in an event. Go back ten years and even millenials I feel have far more brainwormy takes on "but muh meats!".

Edit. Now that I got going with the praise a few more things came to mind that I admire genuinely:

Far more principled takes on politics. Even things like boycotting I have noticed they follow through long term.

Making value based choices and sticking to them. Like buying clothes second-hand. Far less treat brained paradoxically. Often buying one good thing that will last years.

I know people keep saying the youngest generation is always most progressive, but I disagree. I have seen my own youth and been told about my parents hippie youth and neither ever actually engaged with anything more than being libs about the things. Or knew anything.

The kids these days are in a fundamentally different position with all the crisis and late stage capitalism. And the internet has made them aware of things in ways no generation before has been.

She sounds like me. Honestly I owe a lot of my deprogramming to my gen Z kid. He was the one who started to push againts my Soviet Union/AES brainworms and these days he finds it funny how I went a lot further into the rabbit hole than him.

Same. My kid introduced me to Hasan, it was a step in my path out of my lifelong liberal brainworms. I owe the younger generation a lot.