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An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘not if you did not know.’ ‘Then why,’ asked the Inuit earnestly, ‘did you tell me?’

— Annie Dillard

Sanna Marin was not supposed to be the prime minister, but the old white guy fucked up so bad he had to resign after half a year and they had to switch in a hurry. The last government was a sum of multiple coincidences.

The Finns party coming in power has been on the cards for a decade. Actually they have been for a while before, but the moderates, including the party founder, chosen as the ministers split off when people running the current party line were elected to run the party. This time the National Coalition decided to take the risk again with the finns party, so they wouldn't have to compromise their economic policies with the leftist parties and the risk seems to have backfired more quickly and worse they anticipated.

That is also a thing and explains the most vivid ones you only remember when something startles you back to fully awake.

But mostly I meant for me it greatly varies by the situation and what I am trying to imagine.

An apple right now? Five

Millennium Falcon when I'm about to sleep? 1-3

Can I control my imagination enough to go through all the motions of a bolt action rifle reload cycle? No

Boil macaroni first in water, remove water, add milk and heat up, serve on a plate with sugar added on top. Some people boil the macaroni straight in the milk.

Yes, I do. A lot. Starting from elementary school when a class mate had a really weird pronunciation of Harry Potter.

Some of my embarrassing memories aren't even something I did, but something I cringed hard at when I saw or heard it. Sometimes I am so afraid someone else is going to embarrass themself I have to block my ears so I don't hear it.

"smart" devices aka Internet asbestos

Also there's a fanfic of Twilight in similar vein to HPMoR. I haven't read the original books, but this kept my interest. https://luminous.elcenia.com/

Eneasz Brodski has an excellent audio version of this. After a rough start the audio quality gets a lot better and there are actually different readers for the characters. https://hpmorpodcast.com/

I did enjoy The Methods of Rationality, but I think it wanders in to territory of intellectual masturbation in the hypercompetence of the main character, even though it tries to justify it, and wouldn't recommend without reservations.

If you enjoyed this you should definitely check out Mother of Learning by Domagoj Kurmaic (aka nobody103).

I own LotR and have read it. It basically defined the fantasy genre as we know it and has also inspired a lot not directly derived from it. But how it is written it didn't click with me and reading it felt a bit of a chore and I have never felt revisiting the book.

The smallest circle should be half way out, because a lot gets misunderstood.