In Finland the government has allowed banks to offer (2fa) identification services to those that are using their services. If I sign into a government site using my banking ID, the bank gets paid for providing the service. To my understanding none of my actual ID information is transferred to a party wanting to identify me.

The Linkedin 'validate your identity' was the first time i was asked to actually take a picture of my passport/scan the chip. I'll refuse until they'll allow me to identify with my banking ID.

One thing to add: If you want to think even less in the morning. Just weigh the beans and water with a kitchen scale. 18 gr of beans, 160gr of (boiling) water (basically a 1:9 ratio regarding on the size of your basket).

I binge drank between 14-16 years old, started smoking weed around the same time - and smoked daily from 20-25. After that I did a short bout of therapy and walked away from it. I'm now 40 and I do often wonder what damage might have been done.

If I'd have to guess how damage could materialise i'd point to the fact that my thinking was polarised for a long time and I had trouble controlling my emotions.

But those traits could easily be attributed to verbal aggression and a lack of trust and empathy in my childhood - which most likely contributed to the substance abuse in the first place (1) Or it could even just be attributed to the male brain taking a little more time to mature.

(1) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/02/shouting-at-...

As the title says, the book is womens body specific - but also a guy i still found it very insightful to read.

What enraged me most was that that the insurance company supposedly didn't know my new address, although they are my landlord at the new address...

The debt collection of course had no problem finding out my new address.

I think you're going a bit far there. Access to a larger international community, international schooling, wider offering of grocery products (e.g. asian supermarkets) and restaurants, diverse music, arts and cultural offering - smaller distance to airport, those are all reasons I'm happier in Helsinki then some random 100,000 person city.

It's weird because in this survey all of those would fall into the 'Happiness, Culture & Leisure', even though it includes a lot more stuff than 'outdoor spaces' for example.

People feel pinned down in their life, so a common dream sold is to be free. Think of Mac and their proposition of enabling your creativity (a creative person is unconstrained). A lot of car and motorbike companies also show their products as liberating in different ways.

Beer ads often show popularity and unselfconscious social interaction, which is a big deal for young guys.

For course there's dreams of beauty, success, feeling accepted.

I read it in a great long read from Wired called 'What Happens When Techno-Utopians Actually Run a Country'.