Petri Lindstedt

Trump told Zelenskyy he was losing the war, warning: “If [Putin] wants it, he will destroy you”

The US president threw Ukraine’s battlefield maps to one side & said he was “sick” of seeing the frontline again & again

Scoop w @christopherjm.ft.com @maxseddon.bsky.social & @a-mackinnon.bsky.social

What's in a name? Study confirms foreigners face persistent discrimination in Finnish jobs market An update to a 2016 study found a slight improvement in the number of people with foreign-sounding names being called to interviews — but that discriminatory practices remain in place.

(... while, of course, there is persistent discrimination of foreigners on the job market.)

Parliament approves further tightening of Finland's citizenship laws The latest changes mean that an applicant will be denied a Finnish passport if they have relied on social welfare benefits for more than three months over a two-year period.

Finland, a country with a 10% unemployment rate, has now decided that being unemployed shows that you aren't "successfully integrated" and therefore don't deserve citizenship.

Arvostan🙏

Ei hätää, eikä mitään anteeksipyynnön tarvetta – kommentoin vain keskustelun sävyä sivusta.

Kyllä sekin ketju oli asiallinen ja rakentava. Tarkoitin kommentillani nimenomaan niitä vastauksiasi Jaakkolan ketjuun, en alkuperäistä kirjoitustasi. Mielestäni ne eivät enää olleet samalla tavalla rakentavia.

Allaoleva on saanut huomiota & koettu valaisevaksi; siispä muutama kriittinen kommentti. TL;DR: kyseessä on mielestäni harhaanjohtava ja/tai olkiukkoargumentti. "Rahoituskestävyys" ei ole välttämätön eikä riittävä ehto talouden kriisinkestokyvylle & sen linkki valtionvelan kestävyyteen on ohut. 1/n

Väärä freimaus, vitsi, karhunpalvelus, väärät motiivit?
Sävy tuntui melko tylyltä, kun Jaakkolan ketju oli kuitenkin asiallinen ja rakentava. En ole varma, palveleeko tuollainen sävykään suomalaista talouspolitiikkaa – tai keskustelua siitä.

I’m not too familiar with MMT and won’t take a position on it, but many of the goals in FDR’s vision have in practice been implemented in the Nordic model.

I see your point about how healthcare could be funded. What this study underlines for me, though, is that inequality itself harms children’s development — so policies aimed at reducing inequality and strengthening social cohesion remain essential.

Another path is narrowing income and wealth gaps, as Nordic welfare states have done.

Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health - Nature Mental Health Rakesh et al. used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort study to evaluate the relationship between state-level income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health in young people.

A new neuroscience study finds income inequality harms kids’ brain development and mental health, regardless of socioeconomic status.

It seems that even the well-off can’t shield their children from an unequal society.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Parece que el enlace no funciona.

”In the end, however, those who empower an autocrat often surrender not only their democracy but also the very influence they once hoped to preserve.” 2/2

”This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions.” 1/2

Warnings From Weimar Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

A Letter to Europe You’re stronger than you think. Act like it.

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ymmärrän. Itse tulkitsin vain sen heti lyhyen aikavälin keskusteluksi, kun kritiikki kohdistui VM:n käyttämään kertoimeen. Tuskin hekään kerrointa ovat pohtineet muuta kuin lyhyttä aikaväliä silmälläpitäen.

*rakenteellisen

Juu, minä vain ymmärsin että tuossa toisessa ketjussa ei ollut puhe rakenteellisesta alijäämän pienentämisestä, vaan sen nimenomaan lyhyen aikavälin vaikutuksista, kun kerta kertoimet oli puheissa.

Ymmärsin, että tuossa toisessa ketjussa aloittaja puhui lyhyen aikavälin vaikutuksista. Liittyen keskusteluun siitä kuinka huonossa suhdanteessa julkisten menojen sopeutus saattaa lyhyellä aikavälillä heikentää tilannetta. Näihin vaikutuksiinhan fipo-kerroin on merkityksellinen.

Exactly this.

Defying almost every prediction, Finland was never swallowed by the Soviet Union. If we look at the root causes of that miracle, progressive policies instituted from the 1920s have to be among the most important reasons, arguably THE most important reason.

Trump and the end of American soft power Joseph Nye coined the term for the influence countries exert through attraction. Here he sets out why exclusive nationalism is likely to prove a losing strategy

www.ft.com/content/63df...

Hello #cardiosky #medsky ! Newbie here. Happy to report I am going to make nerd humor my entire Bluesky personality. I am specializing in research and statistics memes. It’s likely that 99% of them will not be funny so feel free to laugh with or at me. Nerd humor is the best humor 🤓😂