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The Greek alphabet, which is the earliest known script to systematically include both consonants and vowels, is generally believed to have added vowels when it was adapted from the Phoenician script during the late 9th or early 8th century BCE.

Sorry, that paragraph is AI written but I was asking about something I know and too lazy to rewrite it myself.

The Phoenician alphabet which influenced the greek script had 22 letters afaik. Still doesn't match the sides but it's closer

Great job you figured out capitalism sucks

I knew I wasn't going to have to link this.

"'Wales'...? Really, sir?"

"Oh, yes. Don't you think?"

"What, the vast terra incognito with fauna and flora hitherto undreamt of by sights puts you in mind nothing so much as... Rhyl...?"

"No, of course not. Not North Wales. That's ridiculous, it's nothing like North Wales."

Also they named Turku just Åbo.

Åbo.

Swedish "å" is an entire word meaning;

a river, a creek, a big stream

"Bo"

bo n

**a dwelling** (of an animal), especially a bird's nest

    fågelbo

        bird’s nest

    att bygga bo

        to build a nest / to nest ("build nest" – idiomatic phrasing)

(poetic, extended from sense 1) **a home**

sätta bo

    settle down

So it's a three letter word basically saying river-dwelling

I think rather than ask Finns what a place was named they just named them themselves. Perhaps because they were tired of the locals calling everything shit and piss. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Interesting about buprenorphin in Finland, I had never heard of it. Is it a recent thing there?

Depends on how you define recent I think, but in most senses of the word, no, not that recent.

We had a bit of a heroin problem in the 90's apparently (I wasn't yet in any sort of drug rings as a kid so wouldn't know myself) and the legend is that actual organised crime in Finland got fed up with heroin and the decided it won't be sold in Finland anymore. There still is heroin definitely but it's genuinely fucking rare, especially compared to weed, speed, lsd, etc.

An definitely subutex, which is the buprenorphin. It's only a partial agonist and there's narcan in it as well, so it's impossible/extremely hard to od on it fatally.

In France they cost like 1e a pill here you can sell them for 80. Then you see oxys being sold sometimes, they go for about 1e/mg, so if you buy a mild 10mg it's a tenner but an 80mg pill would be 80e.

The bupre junkies do get nasty though in health and share needles and all that is still a risk for them, but they won't accidentally od unlike someone shooting up heroin or fentanyl

Some of them made movie about their life. Then like 6 years later the "protagonist" of that movie was found dead hanging by an extension cord somewhere in Thailand. Suicide or drug debt no-one knows.

If you don't like seeing people actually inject themselves, with all the "reversing" as well (idk what the term is in English, but junkies sometimes draw back on the needle, so blood shoots back to the syringe and then push again, to flush every little bit of the drug from the syringe).

Reindeerspotting - Escape from Santaland 2010

This documentary tells the story of Jani, a 19-year-old drug addict living on social welfare among with his friends. Tired of his life in a remote city in Rovaniemi, he decides to travel by train to various parts of Europe ...

You can legally buy 90% spirits that are stronger anyway.

You can, but for instance here in the Nordics, it's every much harder than just getting a bottle of 40-50%abv from the store.

Estonia sells quite a lot of high abv vodka, but we Finns really don't have everclear or an equivalent of that, and that's common in of populations that got hard booze later. As in actually drinkable hard liquor is only about 500 or so years old, although some exited for medical purposes almost 700 years ago.

So if I walk into an Alko in Finland, I won't find anything stronger than 60%, and those in very small bottles. The strongest drinks in larger bottles are like at most 50-55%.

But you can order rums that are up to 72% and something like 80% vodka perhaps.

But no, Nordics mostly can't actually legally purchase quality 90% ethanol. And it's because the stronger drinks came here later which is why we have a bit more alcoholism. It's just evolution honestly. That's why also a lot of native American populations have problems with alcohol, because it was introduced relatively recently and the fast evolution is yet to cull out the worst drunks. Sounds super racist but it's true for us Nords as well, we only got hard liquor properly like 200 years ago when anglosaxons had it for around five centuries.

So Tldr the point is regulation does matter quite a lot. It doesn't completely prevent and whatnot. But neither does banning murder prevent murder yet we're alright.

People want to get inebriated, but not lose control. So if the regulations help with that, there's less losing control, ie less abuse.

Just imagine how horrible it would be if there's was no regulations in traffic, licenses to drive, etc,

And usually watching US traffic I am kinda horrified by the people you allowed to drive — and don't even have regulations to have studded tires in winter or winter tyres without studs,

We have to drive on a soap-oil course / water-ice course to get our licences.

So while I disliked bureaucracy and authorities currently in power and whatnot, I can see the benefit of regulations.

Edit today i haven't taken ambien, just rum and glög

Here you go, a fresher photo

/slap

But I prefer this:

The internet is for porn - WOW

I'm thinking a bit of both, but "definitely" to the first.

I actually googled it a bit, and idk when "hysteria" widened to include men as well, but the very first inventor of a vibrator for medical purposes said he wouldn't use his "percuteur" for women as that would not be fitting. But he was a religious man afaik.

There were all sorts of galvanic stimulators and whatnot so I don't think they were all as prudes as we might think.

Just compare the US to literally everywhere else in the developed world and try saying again blaming the Sacklers is "a copout".

to use something because we WANT to.

That's addiction. Addiction and dependence are two different things. I've used literally all the drugs there are and never had a proper problems with any of them. Abused a few on rare occasion but never anything too problematic.

Regulation is key to controlling what addicts are allowed.

Thats why it's good that the liquor store doesn't sell you a gallon of vodka when you've been drunk for a week and can't stand on your feet.

Pick up the kids cook dinner and do it all again. Just do subsist and breed the next gen of sheep to be sheared. THATS who you blame.

That's LITERALLY who the Sacklers are blaming, not me.

"We have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible. They are the culprits and the problem. They are recklessly criminals." - Richard Sackler in his deposition.

I don't blame the abusers. I blame the system which allows people like the Sacklers to pull shit like this. None of this shit is going away before all drugs are legalised in a properly regulated way.