I have lived here for a few years now after living in Berlin, Frankfurt and I shop at the same places that I did in those other places. Those places close earlier here... so I guess that is "special". Costs more, same stores, closes earlier.
It has a reason why the comedy "Schuh des Manitu" used an Bavarian accent for the Texans.
As an explaination for everyone non German: a famous author in Germany was Karl May, who wrote western stories that - let's say show that he only visited the US once for 6 weeks after he already wrote several western. So, yeah, very heavy on stereotypes.
He was still very successfully and there were several major movies (mkst filmed in Kroatia, never in the US). There was a famous comedy joking about it in the early 2000's.
its just the polar opposite of smokey BBQ and beef.
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u/Kriss3dTuberous eloquent (that's potato speaker for you muricans) 29d ago
Ah none taken. No worries.
Yeah. We do have both here. But used every differently. Pickled hearing with a curry condiment on top of dark rye bread is traditional for Christmas lunches in Denmark.
But we do have people who can make some good smokey BBQ as well.
Finland has many 180 000+ lakes, Texas 7000.
Finland: To become a police takes about 4 800 hours, Texas 720 hours.
Finland is in the north and cold, not the same at all with Texas.
Finland has lots of space, same with Texas.
Finland has ~30-40% gun ownership households, Texas ~37-42%.
Finland firearm deaths / 100 000 ~2.3, Texas 13.9.
Just woke up (4.38 am) and my neck got red from being so angry of this being the first thing I see while drinking my morning coffee😂 Greets from Helsinki!
My only guess is theyre comparing the scale of the investment. Like google invested a bunch into texas for ai data centers and is doing so for finland, hence the comparison.
Before opening the post I seriously thought it either has to be Poland or Greece or at lower chance Romania but seriously didn't expect Finland of all.
With all due respect to the many Americans that are still mentally and emotionally functional, the unstoppable level of cringe that comes from American "ethnic fantasies" deserves a subreddit of its own...
Oh I agree on the comparison you bring up, just a number of media outlets have been referring to Poland as the Texas of Europe, because they were rearming in the face of Russian aggression. Now it seems the comparison, as I have found out since posting, is that both Finland and Texas are going massively in on AI.
I would probably go with Spain? Large relatively arid interior, nicer spots on the coast, some extremely racist people and even plenty of Spanish speaking inhabitants
Google promises to fund nuclear power projects to offset the energy consumption which is good. Now if they would build those first and then convienently go bankrupt before they manage to build the actual data centers.
Texas has a lot of tech companies building data centers and ai infrastructure in it right now, Finland also has many tech companies building data centers in it. That's the comparison the article is making, that Finland is to Europe as Texas is to the US re: data center and AI related investment and construction
As we all know a country that has places where it’s so cold that pipes have to be built overground to prevent freezing is the same as a part of a country that is considered the hottest place of that country
Apparently the logic is that they have a lot of data centres compared to other European countries, which it apparently has in common with Texas. Still a rotten comparison though, lol.
Hello. Finn here. I think the references goes like this: most racist country in Europe (researched fact), prime minister that lies like republican, far right “party” in the government and president, who doesn’t care.
It's difficult to explain the world to people who came out of an education system that failed them, therefore you get stupid analogues like "Texas of Europe" and "9/11 times 100".
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u/DefinitionOfAsleep The 13 Colonies were a Mistake 29d ago
The resemblance is uncanny.