Asking this same elsewhere, I already got a reply regarding Finland:

• https://www.geocache.fi/ (Finland) (This is basically just an interface to geocaching.com, though.)

I’ll be happy to edit this comment to add other ones!

I fixed the lines now. That made the lyrics a lot more readable.

Okay, here’s the content copypasted:

Here you go: https://teksti-pesen.ru/4/Garri-Polskiy--i--MAD-SHOW-BOYS/tekst-pesni-Dzintars

I searched for Mad Show Boys dzintars тексты and it was the first result :)

That’s why they say “full-scale invasion”. Precisely because the war did begin 12 years ago, but the full-scale invasion began in 2022.

Героям слава!

Onko joku syy, miksi käytettäisiin juuri yhdysvaltalaisyritysten suomalaisia konesaleja?

Neither would anybody in their right mind.

But, my grandma saw both cities through the goggles of her religion. Those were tanks of peace.

In 2015 I spent some days in East Türkestan – in Qulja, in Ürümqi, in Khorgos. I’ve been wondering how the tankies would have interpreted if they visited there and saw what I saw. I noticed people avoiding certain themes, I saw them getting scared if I tried speaking Uyghur near Han children, I saw heavily armed policemen on top of APCs. I saw a dystopy.

But a person for whom CCP counts as high clergy… They would see all that differently.

I believe that a pious communist would be a horrible bother for a person who has fled the USSR. They’d get no more out of it than my grandmother got out of visiting both sides or Berlin back then. You’d get a very pissed off survivor of USSR and a pious person who is feeling good and righteous for proving once again that all people opposing his thoughts are nazis. Except for those who actually are, because they have such similar thought patterns to those Pure in Faith that they would feel like friends to such a pious person. Unless, of course, they’d outright show a swastika tattoo to them.

My grandma has that same religion. In the late 1980 she was visiting Berlin, and coming back she had said: “On the western side the wall was full of graffitis and really ugly, but the eastern side of the wall was completely clean. That shows where people are happy and where not.”

They would definitely manage to protect their mind from any information contradicting their religion. Once the brain’s gone, the brain’s gone. There’s a small chance that a new one will grow to fill the hollow, but that’s not something that can be influenced from outside the brain.

Confucius? What four?

It’s a religion. Such an extremely pious person will see what they want to see, no matter what. They’d probably be disgusted by seeing people who have voluntarily left the paradise that was USSR, and that view would shape the interpretation of whatever those people might say.

It’s been half an hour now, and the above comment still has not produced a mention for my alt on piefed.social!

They are just hoping that they can prolong the war by a week or two.

Maybe, just maaaaybe they will be lucky and something happens that makes the west force Ukraine to cede all of the currently occupied territory to the Orc-Roaches. The only thing the Russia can do is to try to prolong the war and hope for an act of gods.

The comment in question is this one. In case that someone else is as curious as I am, so they won’t need to search for it :)

Bring this headline to year 2019 and see how people there react.

In English something you sit on you ride, a bike, a motorcycle, a horse, a ferris wheel. Where something you are inside of you drive, a car, a truck, a forklift.

Meaning that you ride a cabriolet.
Nah. It’s just a bonkers rule :)

It always drives (rides?) me mad that you somehow “ride” a mechanical thing in English. Riding is a very interactive thing. You need to move your body in synchron with the animal you are riding. Otherwise stuff will start going wrong. On a motorbike you just sit on the thing and it moves you. That’s driving, not riding. Cars and motorbikes’ bodies don’t constantly alter their shape like the sides of an animal do! And on a bicycle you do pedal, but if you stop everything else and just sit on that damn thing, it’ll keep moving. (Unless it slows down to almost a halt, in which case it’ll tip over.)

To ride a mechanical thing you need to design it to move in such a wobbly manner that you need to make an active effort to stay on it. And it needs to have some kind of an AI so that your social interaction with it also becomes relevant.

I guess my confusion comes in that so far in all my lessons making something plural before the verb is done by -t and after the verb -a/-ä.

You choose the accusative ending according to whether the deed was completed or will be completed.

In English:
“I drink beer” means I drink an unspecified amount of beer.
“I drink the beer” means I drink one unit of beer. Maybe a glass, maybe a bottle, maybe a keg of beer.

And the same two can be done in plural as well:
“I drink beers” means that I drink some amount of beer-units, but it is not specified how many. It is also not specified whether you will ever manage to finish the process of drinking those beers. You might have to stop before everything is empty or there might be an endless supply of beer kegs that you are emptying, never stopping. Not even at the heat death of everything else we know.
“I drink the beers” means that there is some spefic amount beer kegs that I am drinking.

So, here’s the same in Finnish
“I drink beer” -> “I drink beers” = “juon olutta” -> “juon oluita”
“I drink the beer” -> “I drink the beers” = “juon oluen” -> “juon oluet”.

The plural uses the partitive ending if it’s not specified whether you’ll complete task or not, and nominative ending if you are going to complete it.

Ajan skuuttia = I am riding a scoot. Maybe just for fun, maybe with a destination.
Ajan skuutin = I will ride the scoot [to some specific place].

“Kesäisin ajan mielelläni skuuttia. Sitä ei kuitenkaan saa pysäköidä kotini lähelle, joten lopuksi ajan skuutin sivummalle parkkiin.”

Palun palun :)

The country is not refusing the return of its own citizens. It is refusing bringing its citizen from one country to another against their own will in a situation where there is no unavoidable and pressing need to do so.