TheHalc

Amazon is shitting money. They're not exactly a typical company.

Maybe for a small number of companies in a small number of industries, but most companies rent their office premises, even large companies.

I've worked at several multinational companies that sold their HQ buildings when they recognised that building management was not a core competence for them and tying up capital in real estate has a significant opportunity cost for them.

It's no skin off their noses if commercial real estate plummets in value - if anything, it would be in their favour as their rent would decrease.

I mostly use desktop mode for messing about with things like emudeck and creating and forgetting an su password.

The guy who told you to see an osteopath is a little misinformed and had things a bit upside down. Osteopathy is basically just chiropractic and has the same pseudoscientific origins.

However, for historical reasons osteopaths are very different either side of the Atlantic.

In the UK, osteopaths are basically just chiropractors with pretensions. In the US, doctors of Osteopathy are basically just doctors who went to a school that teaches osteopathic nonsense alongside real medicine, and they are licensed and operate as real physicians.

I think this instance is just the right size, and that it's local for me is a big bonus.

I don't actually speak much Finnish yet, but like Finland itself it's not like that's entirely necessary to be able to contribute to the community.

Not really.

The difference is that Oliver was a sous-chef when he was first picked up for a TV show, whereas Ramsay had been head chef at multiple Michelin-starred restaurants before he got his TV shows.

Oliver's restaurants have never been awarded any Michelin stars. Ramsay's have been awarded 17.

One of these two is a real restaurateur and chef, one of these is more of a food-related lifestyle brand.

He's a celebrity first and a chef second, unlike the likes of Gordon Ramsay, who's a chef first and a celebrity second.

He's a bit worthy and his restaurants are a bit shit, but I'm sure his heart is in the right place.

Some friends of mine saw them carry a dead rat out the back room and throw it out onto the street while they were waiting for me there.

Yeah, it's still there, but I've not been in for ten years.

I wouldn't put it past this government to develop torpedoes that would be triggered by small boats - nominally for "modern assymetric threats", but actually for killing refugees.

Helsinki is, for some reason, full of massage parlours.

There's a neighbourhood called Kallio that was formerly rather cheap but has become much more expensive and gentrified, and the massage parlours remain. I have no idea how they can afford their rent, as I've never seen anyone going into or coming out of one of those venues.

Obviously they provide "extra services", but I don't think that can be enough to sustain them. I suspect money laundering from drug sales etc.

They'd be torpedoing those boats if they thought they could get away with it.