What would you, specifically, find to be a tolerable amount of ads?

Compared to other systems, seems like it’s pretty high.

Universal basic income would discourage crimes like that.

If I had to get a car in SF, I think I’d go for a small hatchback so you can see into the trunk, if it’s that bad.

The lockers usually have surveillance around them.

So you’d go there, open up an empty box and it would be incredibly easy to show who stole it. Plus even if there wasn’t surveillance, you could film yourself opening the slot, which would then show an empty slot.

So yeah, it does make a difference. The package is never left unattended, it’s never “up for grabs” by anyone.

That being said thieving and whatnot is comparatively rare in Finland anyway. We’re #1 in the wallet drop test. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/least-honest-cities

super rare occasion

The problem is so ubiquitous , they’re commonly known as “porch pirates”.

“~Two million packages go missing every day, 90 000 in New York alone”

And the video is five years old.

https://youtu.be/v90BhbW5_pM

other American was right, they’re really not as common a

He most certainly wasn’t.

He was practically denying that it ever happened, when it’s common as pickpocketing. Meaning more common in some places, less so in others, but definitely a known and existing issue.

Oh yeah, they’re exceedingly common here.

Usually placed inside commercial buildings like stores etc, there are a few just outside as well. They’re quite thin metal so I assume in some places in the US someone would just take a crowbar to a whole station, but if it’s inside a building that’s gonna be much harder.

Here you’ll need to have an ID or at least a driving licence (which isn’t technically an official ID, but is accepted as such in most places outside banks and whatnot) to go and pick up your shit.

Well, not anymore, as lots of them go to the automats and then you just require the PIN.

And depending on what sort of package you’re getting in the mail, you can sometimes give your package id to a friend who can pick it up, but they’ll need an ID of their own as well so it’ll get registered who picked up the parcel.

The US is a lot vaster but one still imagines people wouldn’t mind picking up packages from the nearest grocery store they use, if it meant that their shit can’t be stolen?

I mean I only need it to be there.

I genuinely don’t even know which part of a pizza you wouldn’t trust. Is it like the restaurant or the driver or your neighbours? What are they gonna do aside from swiping your pizza?

I remember like 6 years ago chatting on Reddit to some American about how the system of just leaving packages at the door is unsafe as fuck and I would never trust it with anything more expensive than a pizza.

Here there’s delivery points and automats in pretty much every grocery store. So you can have shit delivered, but unless it’s something massive (or delivered food), people rarely do. You just get a notification on your phone and pick up your package from the point you chose to prioritise. Sometimes it can be full and you have to pickup a package from the next point over, but they’re all over the place so.

The American went on a huge rant about how porch pirates are rare as can be and how it would be beyond frustrating and a waste of time to pick up packages from your nearest grocery store.

“Israeli foreign minister indirectly threatens a foreign ambassador who’s spoken out against the genocide”

Yeah the message here is pretty clear.

Really?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterskin

Also, there was an ice age. Not everyone lives in scorching climates. Theres fresh water around me 247/365. As waterskins are somewhat recent probably, in terms of evolutionary history.

The worst part wasn’t the experience itself. Hell — I’ve had trips that felt scarier.

The worst part is people questioning that it ever happened and straight up ignoring it.

So you’ve helped me more to deal with that particular trauma than my mom, who went “well I couldn’t know what happened there” as in implying “perhaps you did something to deserve it”, actually causing most of the related trauma.

So yeah. Thank you.

Yes, and?

Nordic (or Finnish/Swedish at least) “sandwich cake”.

Well I got tortured in a cell for three days and can’t get a single Finnish person to even accept that it happened.

They won’t talk about it either. They’ll just shut down, completely.

Just like your systems, theyre good on paper.

But do tell me how a person could feasibly manage to hurt themselves and write a fucking novel with their own blood on the cell walls while under constant supervision for “his safety”?

Afterwards when I tried getting the video of that with lawyers, it’s “vanished”, despite them originally trying to say I “vandalised the cell” by going crazy and drawing with blood.

They denied me my prescription medication, personal rights are honestly a fucking joke in Finland. We’re so bureaucratic it’s gone authoritarian.

It’s ludicrous.

I also didn’t have the mattress or the blanket, they took hose away too. Three days, lights on constantly, no explanation how long I would be here for, no medication, I didn’t eat.

Yeah, police accountability is a complete joke in Finland, much more so than in the US. There may be more overall abuses in the US, our cops generally play nice on the street. But behind closes doors?

Hell, Finnish people literally don’t understand that we actually have rights.

At one point they turned of my water in the cell. That’s literally against international laws.

I’ve tried complaining to officials and journalists and even my own family don’t believe me. My mom fucking victim blamed me for it.

In the US I would’ve definitely found a lawyer willing to fight such clear injustice (as in a golden case). I’d be a fucking millionaire for the compensations.

But here, even when I do manage a small win like

https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000009654524.html

That, actually the supreme court of Finland deciding I was in the right and my rights were violated? Zero compensation. Fuck, no-one even let me know, I learned it from the news.

So yeah. Police accountability here is a goddamn joke.

Their journey was more than 8000 kilometers, not 4000.

And why is that, again? Why did they not take the 4000km shorter route? Are you genuinely going to make me copypaste my reply again?

You’re just too naive about what border control is.

Seriously, though. Name one in which you think police accountability isn’t a joke.

Uh, why do you think those Syrians had to walk all the way to the Arctic to get to Europe when they were coming from Syria?

They wanted to admire the scenery of the bogs and pines?

Why didn’t they just take the direct route, because “they’re just lines on a map”?

Why did they more than double the over 4000km long journey to over 8000 km?

Oh, right, because of border control. They had to travel more than 4000 kilometres more to use less guarded crossings.

And good fucking luck crossing any Russo-European borders currently.

Yes, it’s true that borders are vast and not all controlled as easily. But nations sure as fuck try to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland–Russia_border

That alone added a few thousand km for them, as they went all the way to Norway to cross, because we Finns actually guard the border pretty intensely due to that fucker Vanja disrespecting it so.

Maybe in countries where police accountability isn’t a punchline.

Name one.