😆Armando Mema — who is presented as a Finnish politician and quoted daily by the most important mouthpieces of Kremlin propaganda — turned out to be a plumber without Finnish citizenship.
Linus Torvalds created Linux at 21 without Claude or any other AI.
- He didn't have a co-founder.
- No VC funding. No office.
- No team.
- Just a personal project
he posted to a mailing list:
"I'm doing a free OS."
33 years later,
it runs 97% of the world's servers, all smartphones, and the International Space Station.
The most important software in history started as someone's side project.
Absolute legend.
If Central/Eastern European countries were honest about why expats move there 👇
🇵🇱 Poland: "We're basically Germany but €600/month cheaper and our women are a different species"
🇨🇿 Czechia: "Beer is €1. That's it. That's the pitch"
🇧🇬 Bulgaria: "Nobody's heard of us and the Black Sea is right there"
🇷🇸 Serbia: "We got rejected from the EU and honestly we're fine with it"
🇭🇺 Hungary: "We said no to Brussels and somehow everything got better"
@HalfTracks@ShitpostRock Where it is from? Finnish spoken language.
Town I live in (Kotka) in genetive case. Adjective furry in superlative. And a noun friend in nominative.
Why are you asking?
@0x_Vivek@stats_feed The problem isn't it is does not generate anything 3 months of the year? But how we store the electricity? I think you misunderstood the point
@0x_Vivek@stats_feed I don't think indians understand this, but in North we have this thing called "polar night" which makes solar power 50% of time practically useless.
In short, polar night is when sun does not rise above the horizon for extended period of the time
@Us5254@Robin_C_Douglas "White European Colonist" mentality -> Finnish
Ah yes, the notorious European colonial nation of Finland. How about Turks stop colonizing Constantinople and return it and the Hagia Sophia to Greeks.
@PaveMeeman@Robin_C_Douglas Whose king was he? So, it's not a problem as long as it doesn't directly harm Belgians? That's the classic "White European Colonialist" mentality...