Pro@programming.dev to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agoFinland to fine parents if their underage child drives an e-scooteryle.fiexternal-linkmessage-square41linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarerabber@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·21 days agoThe only thing I disagree with there is they force you to cut your hair lol Guess how much gun violence there is in Finland thanks to mandatory basic training
minus-squareJohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-221 days agoUs sharing a 1000+ km long border with russia might have something to do with that. And even then, military service isn’t actually required, you can do a siviilipalvelus (lit. “Civilian service”) instead.
minus-squareZeroOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-221 days agoYeah it’s totally not going to change with NATO membership & Russia has got nothing to do with it, but NATO imperialism on the other hand…
& it also has conscription
The only thing I disagree with there is they force you to cut your hair lol
Guess how much gun violence there is in Finland thanks to mandatory basic training
Gun control can do that
Us sharing a 1000+ km long border with russia might have something to do with that.
And even then, military service isn’t actually required, you can do a siviilipalvelus (lit. “Civilian service”) instead.
Yeah it’s totally not going to change with NATO membership & Russia has got nothing to do with it, but NATO imperialism on the other hand…