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Business, Economics, and Taxes 2: That's Why We Fight to Take the Means Back

aparch said:
I didn't watch the show, but there were clips from a show where flat Earthers try to prove they're right but keep running into problems and accidentally prove they're wrong, but they never can admit it and just blame the equipment.

So while some do it as a gag, (ie: the "birds aren't real" people), sadly the majority actually do believe their own ignorance over fact.
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So the nazi plan to gut education is working.
 
TACO is so ubiquitous at this point it's being marked on Chinese econ site graphics with no further explanation.

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aparch said:
I didn't watch the show, but there were clips from a show where flat Earthers try to prove they're right but keep running into problems and accidentally prove they're wrong, but they never can admit it and just blame the equipment.

So while some do it as a gag, (ie: the "birds aren't real" people), sadly the majority actually do believe their own ignorance over fact.
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My favorite is “Finland doesn’t exist.”

To those unaware: Finland is fake and only on maps. It is just additional Baltic Sea and the Swedes and Russians came up with it to keep others off great fishing grounds.
 
state of hockey said:
My favorite is “Finland doesn’t exist.”

To those unaware: Finland is fake and only on maps. It is just additional Baltic Sea and the Swedes and Russians came up with it to keep others off great fishing grounds.
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As a Suomalainen, I've never heard that before. But I will say that Finnish is the least spoken European language- so if you know it, it's an easy way talk and people around you have no idea what you are saying. But it's also not going anywhere, even though much of the population speaks english.
 
MichVandal said:
As a Suomalainen, I've never heard that before. But I will say that Finnish is the least spoken European language- so if you know it, it's an easy way talk and people around you have no idea what you are saying. But it's also not going anywhere, even though much of the population speaks english.
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From was I remember seeing as well, the population of Finland is roughly the +/- deviation for estimates of global population.

Started as a joke (ala birds aren't real) and has taken hold with some (ala flat earth).
 
aparch said:
It's not related to any of the Scandinavian languages.

History of the Finnish language - Wikipedia

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The interesting thing about that- even though Finnish is related to Estonian and Hungarian, it's still not easy to understand. It's closest to Estonian, but the Estonians we met really don't understand Finnish. And the languages sound pretty similar. We also met a Hungarian in Finland, and they told us that the relationship between the languages doesn't help learning it.
 
MichVandal said:
The interesting thing about that- even though Finnish is related to Estonian and Hungarian, it's still not easy to understand. It's closest to Estonian, but the Estonians we met really don't understand Finnish. And the languages sound pretty similar. We also met a Hungarian in Finland, and they told us that the relationship between the languages doesn't help learning it.
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That's pretty cool when you think about it.
 
MichVandal said:
The interesting thing about that- even though Finnish is related to Estonian and Hungarian, it's still not easy to understand. It's closest to Estonian, but the Estonians we met really don't understand Finnish. And the languages sound pretty similar. We also met a Hungarian in Finland, and they told us that the relationship between the languages doesn't help learning it.
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The only thing that is really the same is the fundamental, "agglutinative" syntax of the three and use of the Latin alphabet. Otherwise, they're related in the sense that their respective ethnic groups descended from the same nomadic Ural tribe 1500 years ago - part of them stayed north and part of them went south.
 
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