Roni Rolle LaukkarinenThis is how you sign "Mastodon" in Finnish sign language. Kudos to my deaf wife @mustikkasoppa ❤️ #SignLanguage #FinnishSignLanguage #Viittomakieli
David Fleetwood - RG Admin@rolle @mustikkasoppa Thanks for this. Although I misread "deaf" as "dead" and re-read it like four times before I understood. I was about to offer condolences!
Veera Laukkarinen@mustikkasoppa @rolle I'm just thankful you are alive at this point!
@rolle @mustikkasoppa I know it shouldn't have but it did crack me up when I realized just how badly I need to get computer glasses at this point...
Shannon Persists@mustikkasoppa @reflex @rolle can you imagine if you actually said "dead wife?," Like is that a gentle way of saying they passed away?" 🤔🤣
@DiamondGlitter @mustikkasoppa @rolle No kidding! I was trying to figure out if there some some form of European etiquette about the deceased I hadn't run into yet!
Kalle Kniivilä@reflex @DiamondGlitter @mustikkasoppa @rolle There is no such thing as European etiquette about anything. Especially not about the deceased. Europe is a very diverse continent.
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@kallekn @DiamondGlitter @mustikkasoppa @rolle I know, I was just pushing back playfully. I've been learning Portuguese etiquette sometimes the hard way since I moved there a couple years ago. Some things seem fairly pan-European and some are very country specific.
One commonality I've noted is that virtually all of the former colonial powers believe they were the "good colonizers" which is....a take.
@reflex @DiamondGlitter @mustikkasoppa @rolle Like Russia does... Except they don't even accept they were and are a colonial power.
@kallekn @reflex @mustikkasoppa @rolle Russians are proud of the way they invaded Ukraine, just like all the other bloodthirsty and greedy countries and you can quote me on it!💯☝🏻
@DiamondGlitter @kallekn @mustikkasoppa @rolle Some are and some are not. It's difficult for me to blame them, they've had 24 years of heavy propaganda as have the Chinese. Authoritarian media environments are difficult for me to blame the people for.
@reflex @kallekn @mustikkasoppa @rolle Yeah that's the definition of indoctrination. They are oblivious to the f***ery that Trump is doing: they conveniently dismiss it. They're fully radicalized. It's almost like blaming German people for Hitler's Holocaust! Not to that extreme but there are striking similarities and parallels.
@kallekn @DiamondGlitter @mustikkasoppa @rolle Nor does China.
But I have zero experience locally so I can't speak to the average Russian citizen. I have more experience in China, where I've spent significant time (plus my wife is Chinese). My greatest amount of experience though is the US and EU, and I speak most about them because of that. I wasn't going to get super serious about my observations in this thread, but I can if that's where those who started it wish it to go. ;)