“Could it perhaps be related to the increases in various kinds of air pollution? Water pollution? Pesticides or herbicides in our foods?”
The West is on a decreasing trend of all those kind of pollution since the 70s.
“Or even the dramatic increase in EM signals being broadcast everywhere?”.
It’s funny people are entertaining the hypothesis that EM radiation causes autism in the same conversation where they are trying to assure you that a drug that’s increasingly taken by pregnant women and that is proven to pass the placenta, is 100% harmless and can’t have anything to do with increased levels of autism.
To be clear, I don't think that's a likely factor. I mention it merely because it is one of the dozens of factors that have changed over the past few decades that have nothing to do with the pharmaceutical industry.
That said Finland is a lovely country to move to. Raising a child here in particular has meant I really appreciate the support, and services/facilities available. From the daycares, onwards.
Sure the taxes are high, but when you have good public transport, good services, and so on it's hard to resent them too much.
This kind of comment is under appreciated. I don’t have any opinions on the OP, but I really hope that more people would start using statistics published by neutral third-parties, whenever someone puts out some news article, to either support or counter the information presented in the article they just read.
Suicide rates are also an imperfect metric. Suicide has a stigma, which can lead to misclassification as accidents and other types of underreporting. Also, some societies, like Finland, are much more open to the concept of euthanasia than others.
This happiness survey tells us something about people’s expectations for their own life, which is not completely without value.
Note that the scale is calibrated by what the respondent considers possible:
”Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you, and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?”
In some other countries, the bar for that personal “top of the ladder” is set extremely high by more visible income inequality and concepts like the American Dream which suggest that everyone could/should be a billionaire.
In Finland, a prevailing pessimism keeps expectations in check. (You can see examples of this pessimism in sibling comments here.) Good things are a happy surprise, not something you were promised.
Add things like
- Shitty climate, darkness for almost half a year and lousy snowless winters as of late.
- Dire economic situation, almost 1/5 of population facing the risk of poverty.
- Ever increasing cutting of social services, education and everything culture.
Makes you wonder how Finland can be the most content country in the world
I’ve bought an Ugreen NAS right when they came out. Installed TrueNAS and it’s been rock solid and with a lot of hardware features Synology doesn’t offer all this time.
There’s really not a lot of reasons to use Synology anymore (only thing I miss was the sync solution they had. It was indeed better than Syncthing and the likes).
In part that’s an interesting question. Some of the processors on the Ugreen line are Xeons, so they should support ECC, but I’m not sure the MB does.
But you don’t really need ECC for ZFS. That’s a kind of myth that has been debunked several times. Sure, it’s always good, but ZFS works just fine without it.
(I’m on my phone so it’s dificult to find a good source for the claim, but if you search a bit, you’ll find some good blog posts talking about it).
Well, that's the thing. I've also found some posts saying it's a myth and you'd be fine, but the ratio of posts recommending ECC to posts debunking the myth is like 10:1.
The important key point is that you will not lose anything by using ZFS without ECC compared to using any other file system without ECC. The myth is that you specifically need ECC if you’ll be using ZFS, not that ECC is a really good idea for any file system.
I think we should be weary of the fact that Sam Altman having an interest in cutting VC funding for new AI products and competitors in order to condensate most AI funding into OpenAI and kill any new competitors, doesn't make him exactly a neutral player in all of this.
The "fearmongering" he is trying to create, can be seen as self-serving, so his opinions should be taken with a very big grain of salt.
Well, this is the result of more than 2 decades of the West shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly and willingly in the name of some twisted extreme left ideology that convinced part of the population that if they didn’t
drastically reduce their energy independence the planet would be destroyed. All, while that same people didn’t bat an eye while China and others took the advantage to surpass us without hindering their industry the slightest - in fact, by taking advantage of our madness so that they could sell us crappy replacements for the products we used to build at home in a much cleaner and sustainable way.
Trump has a lot - a real lot - of negatives. But playing these idiotic games is not one of his shortcomings. No seriously, it should all make us sick to our stomach having politicians, putting forward those big announcements where they tell us they are going to forbid some type of car, imposing even heavier regulations on our industry, taxing us even more, or destroying even more of our energy production capacity, and do it with some smile in their lips claiming some “environmental target”, like they are doing us some favour by destroying our - actually - progressive societies to make space for some backwards autocratic regimen.
This is a side question, but, are people in California now not expected to pay the extortionary tips American businesses expect?
Whenever I pointed how backwards were the tipping expectations in the USA for anyone from Europe, the excuse was always that those tips would compensate the low wages paid in the food industry. Well, now that they have a standard minimum wage, are they doing away with the tipping practice?
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