Bakachu

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[–] Bakachu 3 points 11 months ago

This Reuters article has a breakdown on the nine candidates:

ALEXANDER STUBB The 55-year-old, multilingual presidential front-runner Alexander Stubb of the National Coalition Party is known as a pro-European, who previously served as prime minister and foreign minister and as a member of the European Parliament. In 2017, Stubb left Finnish politics to become vice president of the European Investment Bank and later director at the European University Institute in Florence, before returning to contest the presidential election.

PEKKA HAAVISTO Liberal Pekka Haavisto, a Green League member and former United Nations diplomat, has run for president twice before, in 2012 and 2018, both times finishing second behind retiring President Sauli Niinisto. The 65-year-old centre-left front-runner Haavisto served as Finland's foreign minister from 2019 to 2023 and held other ministerial positions before that. If elected, Haavisto would become Finland's first openly gay president.

JUSSI HALLA-AHO Nationalist Jussi Halla-aho, former Finns Party leader and now parliament speaker, is a stern critic of the EU and immigration who was fined by the country's Supreme Court for racist remarks in 2012. A divisive figure, Halla-aho is third in polls and rising, being particularly popular among young people.

OLLI REHN Bank of Finland Governor and ECB governing council member on leave of absence, Olli Rehn, 61, is a member of the Centre Party and former EU economy commissioner. The latest polls have placed him fourth with 12% support.

Other candidates include Social Democrat EU Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen, Christian Democrat party leader Sari Essayah, Left Alliance leader Li Andersson, academic Mika Aaltola and businessman Harry Harkimo.

[–] Bakachu 31 points 11 months ago

This totally works. Way back in middle school I had a pretty big crush on this guy. I was shy and there was just a trickle of his interest in me, posibly imaginary, but just enough to keep me miserable. One night had a pretty long dream about us going through a whole relationship with all the misunderstandings, arguments, and realizations that come with it. Woke up super refreshed, fulfilled, and ready to move on. About a year later he asked me out and I turned him down. Felt like it'd be going back to an ex or something.

[–] Bakachu 3 points 11 months ago

Below that highlight there's a full list of all the exceptions. This is probably one of those laws that can provide probable cause to prevent a crime.

[–] Bakachu 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the update OP! Although part of me always welcomes a botfly extraction video, Im glad it's not that for your doggo.

[–] Bakachu 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I fall into the None category. Even if I wanted to be religious, the time, social requirement, and built-in costs just wouldn't work for me around work, school, daily shit that needs to get done. I don't know how people with lower incomes do it.

[–] Bakachu 4 points 11 months ago

Death ambivalence? I feel like I've seen that term floated somewhere.

[–] Bakachu 5 points 11 months ago

I literally thought Spirit airlines too. Sometimes there's partnerships where a segment might be operated by a smaller regional company so thought that was the case at first glance.

[–] Bakachu 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is what you get when fuck with the pure equation.

[–] Bakachu 8 points 11 months ago

Benjamin Button. Every new day is an age regression event with an increasing handicap. No unlimited tries.

[–] Bakachu 1 points 1 year ago

Watched it off a friend's recommendation as well not knowing anything about it. Skipped a holiday event to binge my way through it. Everything was just so good - animation, voice cast, storyline, historical details.. Absolutely love that the creators did not water down for a safer audience and just fully committed to the story.

[–] Bakachu 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. And bad news just sells better.

[–] Bakachu 4 points 1 year ago

I think the 2020 election and the pandemic are largely to blame for some spiraling plummets in our feelings about our system as a whole. Both of these events caused some pretty large divides in our government, communities, and even family and friend units.

War and human suffering were already there. Corporate greed and late-stage capitalism effects were already there, as well. We're all just critically assessing everything together at this point because some of those divides removed a security net of reliability and trust.

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