Half as Interesting explained how it ended up like this. https://piped.video/watch?v=_Bq-6GeRhys
TL;DW; Amazon tried to offload vetting of the third party vendors to the patent and trademark office by requiring their brands are registered, but the vendors ended up generating nonsense brand names that automatically pass because there are too many applications and the names aren’t obviously going to conflict with existing ones.
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.
Once an idea is passed to event a single other person it has spread.
This was getting popular
https://sopuli.xyz/post/1210362
But the it was posted and screenshotted on Twitter to be posted back here and everything went downhill
Demotivational posters and rage comics were varied from get go and didn’t have a single viral hit sparking them.
Not really Richard Dawkins’ original definition of the term when he created it was on the lines of
A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
One of the earliest memes was just to photoshop “All Your Base Is Belong To Us” on everything.
4chan used to be the meme factory where ideas were copied and mutated before they broke out to the wider internet to go viral.
I don’t speak french, but I know how annoying it is when people leave out diacritics and make other mistakes they could have avoided just using a minute to verify.
It has already been immortalised in the memechain
Damn, was in a too much of a hurry and forgot to add the text in the toot
Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and shine. Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a rest. And all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until… well, let’s just say your hour has come again. The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and smell the ashes.
This. Not Scottish, but I wear a kilt whole summer everywhere. Fortunately our company does not have a dress code at the office.
Finland. Of course that is exaggerated and there are always some chronically late people, but being any kind of late without a notice is frowned upon. That’s why we get along with Germans way better than southern europeans.
Not here. Normal is at least 5 minutes early and the fashionably late types come on the dot. If you end up even 5 minutes late, you should inform the host immediately when you realize you could be running late.
That was a missed steak
In some countries child labour is still completely legal e.g. on farming.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/11/13/children-working-terrifying-conditions-us-agriculture
Fun fact: US has so weak food counterfeit laws and enforcement it has become the dumping ground for low quality oil or even mixed, making it an allergy hazard. If you haven’t gone out of your way to ensure you are getting the real deal, and paid a premium for it, you probably have never tasted genuine extra virgin olive oil. https://www.mashed.com/281801/the-real-reason-your-olive-oil-is-probably-fake/