Tanja @tanjaostman@dingdash.com

@biblexplorer yes indeed! Where do you live?

@StevenBerry yes, you've got rainy winters there. I live on the coast, and the climate is milder here than in the inland, so we use to have rain sometimes in January as well.

@bethany thank you! We have lots and lots of forests in this country. The snow makes it a wonderland.

Greetings from Vasa, Finland and my neighborhood! -10°C today.

@sinbach

@sinbach well said!

@sinbach wow! Has he explained the Finnish word "sisu" to you? He is Finnish sisu embodied!

@sinbach thank you for that article! I wish some of my friends and relatives would join DD (I have shared about it on FB a couple of times)... but I know only you here (even if I've got some new "friends"/followers here). It's easy to live in Scandinavia and only share food and animal pics, and call articles about censorship conspiracy theories. I have had a 4 week break from FB, and I don't miss FB (because I am upset with their censorship and non scientific so called "fact checks")... but I miss some updates from fam and friends, and some interesting articles, and discussions. I am glad that I follow people like you who don't live in their own bubble, but who has open eyes, and who is aware of what's going on around the globe - who sees the trends, years before the "bubble people" see what's going on... ;-)

@thetruthaboutcancer Great article! I didn't know about all the health benefits of peppermint oil that you mention here. I use this essential oil on my forehead to relieve tension headache and migraine. I started to get hormonal migraine at about 35. I have always been healthy and try to eat healthy and exercise so it's a mystery that I suddenly got it. I would like to cure it with natural methods because medical doctors have only described pain killers, but not helped me to find the root cause. (Like they always do...). Peppermint oil doesn't cure migraine but it's a much more healthy way to relieve the pain than to use painkillers.

@sinbach you use to say that DD is needed for us in West as well, because of the censorship on the big platforms. PragerU is a good example of this. They have been censored just because they are conservative. I like their 5 min high quality educational videos. Here they explain very well the difference between publisher and public forum. This was recorded a year ago, I discovered it today... don't know what happened with the lawsuit. Do anyone know? https://youtu.be/d6C6_NVj964

@thetruthaboutvaccines Thank you! I will sign up. GBY!

@sinbach I think I get it since you are American! The mindset of Scandinavians are somtimes the opposite of American... don't get into any argument with an extreme Swedish feminist. At least not about carrying a gun. Or anything else.

@thetruthaboutvaccines Great to find you on this platform! I've been following you for a while on FB. I appreciate what you are doing and that it's high quality stuff incl research. I have recently bought the book with the same name (haven't read it yet). Maybe it's getting harder to share things honestly and openly on the big platforms? Especially about vaccines? I will check out what you share about the covid vaxx... I live in Finland, where they have recently started the vaxx program from Pfizer. I feel so ambivalent and it's disturbing that media here don't ask any critical questions.

@sinbach * on the other side

@sinbach ok! If you like high intensity training, then cool weather is better... Maybe I think that the grass is greener on the it here side... To be honest there are few places on the earth where you can move so easily (because of cool weather) and freely (right of public access, so much space, and nothing to fear) as in the Nordic countries. We have trails in the forest only a 5 min walk from home where we use to walk or run or mountain bike. And pick berries. So yes, I really get that you appreciate the cold!

@sinbach Thank you! So you are more of a snow and mountain guy? We should trade places... Maybe I am "marked" by my two years of my childhood in Thailand. I dream more and more of moving south... (Even if Finland is a great country in many ways) I love winter sporting, but hate the dark winters here and the bad (= rainy) winters, that have become more common in my country, especially along the coast where we live...

@sinbach sounds nice with diving! (Not so nice with mask mandates and curfew). Oh how I miss the sun, and I would like to visit Florida some time (haven't even visited the country yet). We are half way through the four dark months in Finland. But, life is not bad right now. We are skiing downhill and cross country 400 km north east from home (too little snow at home). Happy New year!