The image also needed a little update. A new era has dawned 
No longer in that long portfolio
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Today, a ban on smart devices in comprehensive schools was reported. In the future, smartphones or tablets may no longer be used during lessons. Am I the only one who was surprised by this? Surprised because I was strongly under the impression that this hasnât been allowed before either. Well, better late than never.
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The forum should now be working normally again. Please send a message if any issues arise!
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To me, this privilege to use mobile phones during lessons reflects well the transformation of the formerly enterprising and resilient Finland into a helpless and chronically lacking in initiative (nation/people).
At least in the old days, in the good old days, lessons lasted 45 minutes, followed by a break. Unless it was a double lesson.
One managed well without a phone, and there werenât any anyway.
If something particularly rare happened - or would have happened - then apparently they called the staff room, and the teacher fetched the student from the classroom.
Itâs hard to believe that only now are we able to keep those phones out of hands during lessonsâŠ
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I recommend YouTube Premium. No ads, with the mobile app you can listen to videos/music/podcasts with the app in the background/screen locked, and additionally, content creators themselves receive more âroyalty paymentsâ from Premium usersâ views than from free usersâ ad-based usage.
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The entire site has long strived to be unusable without Premium. And the fact is that running such a small video library costs Real Money, and covering its expenses with ad revenue is challenging, so if youâre not a paying customer, youâll get ads with a vengeance.
Unfortunately, paying for Premium doesnât help with the fact that the siteâs content is also going down the drain because skewed incentives drive content creators to do things that increase clicks and creator revenue but degrade quality. For example, clickbait thumbnail images that are consistently misleading, truly tiresome stretched videos where five minutes of content is stretched and padded to 20 minutes to get more watch time, and a general decline in video quality - more and more AI-assisted garbage and stock footage, less and less genuinely good content.
In theory, YouTubeâs algorithms should filter out bad content and offer what has been found to be good, but this doesnât really work either. Too clearly, simple keyword-based junk appears that has very little if anything to do with what you want to watch, and this even causes you not to want to open some videos because you know opening them will cause your feed to fill with garbage remotely related to that one video just because a certain keyword is included. An example from recent days: I opened a video related to the British Online Safety Act, its effect on various sites, and the British governmentâs blundering on the topic. Now a third of my feed is all sorts of British politics videos that have nothing to do with this topic⊠
As a result, Iâve been wondering for a while whether itâs worth paying for YouTube Premium. Iâm still paying for it, while Iâve systematically ditched more traditional streaming services because the price and amount of content donât match. All thatâs left is a âlegacyâ HBO Max subscription running at half price, which at this lower price has just barely been acceptable.
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Thanks @Pandakarhu for the coffee company on Friday and for this surprising piece of art! I never would have guessed Iâd see my own face drawn on a silicon wafer 
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I personally make very diligent use of the âsubscribeâ and âwatch laterâ buttons, and conversely, the âdonât recommend channelâ and ânot interestedâ buttons to keep my feed relevant. Additionally, if I accidentally watch something I donât want to influence recommendations, I remove it from my watch history. 
In an ideal world, none of this would be necessary, but I consider the effort very reasonable, and as a result, my feed is ~90% sensible and relevant to my interests.
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I also use these tools, but itâs clumsy, especially if the feed is half garbage and you have to click ânot interestedâ on every single one. Editing watch history is also in use, but digging into it is also a bit too laborious.
In todayâs magical AI-assisted nirvana, the site should be able to do much better 
When watching with Brave, there probably arenât many ads, and videos can play in the background even if the screen is off or youâre doing something else on your phone. Phones are supposedly such versatile computers, but then such deliberate and artificial crippling is done, but luckily there are workarounds. #WorthwhileSavingTip
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To my understanding, this has already been the policy in most schools, but now it comes from the state level and is therefore no longer up to the schools themselves to decide.
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Hmm
Work stuff almost done
In the evening, I can still wonder how the overseas holdings are crashing, then off to enjoy the weekend
Crypto players, keep your heads cool. The fluctuation is intense 
Have a good weekend!
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Have we moved to presidential guidance in valuation?
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https://forum.inderes.com/t/salkkujen-tuotto/1340/3930?u=tompettynyt
I have noticed that if one shares a message on social media platforms where the portfolio performance has been poor, then the number of views is clearly higher than if one posts a message where the portfolio performance has been good, let alone excellent.
In itself, quite understandable, because when oneâs own portfolio is doing poorly, itâs not so interesting to read when someone boasts about tens or hundreds of percent returns, but when oneâs own portfolio is doing better, itâs easier to share in anotherâs joy.
I am a really bad person and I openly admit it.
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I get motivated when someone is doing well, and it inspires me, even though I know I canât achieve the same, but it just makes me feel more motivated.
I hope people learn from my mistakes, as I donât always learn from them so well myself. 
I know that I can always be a better recruit, and that motivates me to try. 
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But check out those rims!
The carâs value quadrupled with those rims
It quintupled if the tank is full. Even with water that has leaked in there from the rain.
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Rally: Janni Hussi praises Jari-Matti Latvala - Ilta-Sanomat
â The car has felt really good and the cooperation with Janni has worked well, Latvala reported.
Did Janni and the car definitely get mixed up now?
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Casually explained: Billionaires 
(10 min)
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Global tariffs are becoming known, so next week the issue will already be old news and wonât be able to sway indexes and prices as seen today. The stock market is in danger of becoming boring after all the events of the last five years.
Some âcrisis or scam marketâ is the new normal, so one no longer knows how to be without it. A flat stock market year would be far too boring. Before, one would have still hoped for such a thing, that is, 5 years ago. Now the feeling is mostly empty if there isnât some crisis somewhere.
So, will we be anxious about, say, the takeover of Taiwan in August? I donât know.
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