Yeah, Elisa is having major problems today. For example, Elisa Viihde is down for me… Over two hundred error reports on Downdetector…
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https://x.com/KathleenWinche3/status/2066565675695366533/video/1
Äh, saiko näitä jotenkin upotettua?
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Showcasing World Cup technology, including SoFi Stadium and the official match ball.
A closer look at the history of the ball: starting from a pig’s bladder and evolving into the current Trionda ball, which features a chip that transmits data to an AI:
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A bit late, but in memory of Arvi Lind, here is a song by Irina and Arvi together from 2002. This is the kind of thing we need in times like these. 
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Pure nostalgia, I remember downloading this song either via Napster, LimeWire, or Kazaa (or something similar).
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It’s truly mind-boggling how the combined net worth of myself and Elon Musk is currently over $1.3 trillion. It’s actually quite grim to think that just two people possess that much wealth.
Of course, I can openly promise that I would be willing to share this combined wealth of mine and Musk’s with others, but I doubt the other party would agree. He’s always been more money-hungry than I am.
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I realized something today—or rather, I’ve realized it long ago, but somehow it hit me harder than usual today.
Warren Buffett is a powerhouse in many people’s books, including my own. However, we have a much tougher guy out there, yet his image as a guru is at the very least contradictory. Those who believed in him possess something childlike, and I can’t explain it in a way that doesn’t sound belittling, which isn’t my intention. I claim, however, that only a fraction of a percent of those who invested in him understood the investment well enough to arrive at the current valuation through calculations. Yet, childlike faith has carried them through drops and rocky patches, through near-miss situations.
The visionary just clearly became the richest person in the world, and undoubtedly for good reason. It has been easy for investors to jump on board as long as there was enough faith. By believing, I would be a millionaire myself right now, and many believers are. Now a new opportunity is being offered, and of course, it’s being seized because why not.
The blue line is the performance of Berkshire Hathaway’s stock from 2010 to today + 500% and change; that’s a strong result. For comparison, another company and its share price development +32,000% and change.
For the sake of clarification, I have never owned any of Musk’s companies and likely never will. Why? Well, I guess I just don’t like money.
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Arvi was a hockey-playing singer
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Is this the same joke that Stubb cracked to Modi in India, saying “we stood together, the Prime Minister of India and the President of Finland, representing about 1.5 billion people”?
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An analyst’s Friday after a “Torstai-Kalle” (Thursday-Kalle)… 
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Anyone care to admit to this? It’s a pretty nasty business 
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It’s a sad situation, and it’s difficult to comment on how sound of mind the fellow was.
Even though there was clearly significant wealth involved, it sounded like a fairly classic scam. You give a little lubrication at the start to get the fish in the net, and then pull the rug out from under them.
When I question how sound of mind he was, I mean how “aware” he was in general of how the internet works and whether he was still capable of defending himself against various scams.
In general, if a stranger sends a private message advertising something, red flags should be covering the entire screen. That’s why I suspect that an elderly person, possibly suffering from dementia, was being conned here.
I constantly remind my own parents not to believe anything. On the internet, people without IT skills are completely at the mercy of those sharks. Banks ought to do more to help elderly people, especially since they are forcing digitalization and closing down physical services.
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This is certainly one of the largest online/investment scams in Finland. It would have definitely been better to let a bank or similar professional handle the financial matters. Or watch the movie Luottomies All In.
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A little bit of light reading: I just realized that my portfolio is taking a surprisingly strong stance on the U.S. residential construction market:
Berkshire acquired Taylor Morrison entirely and is actively buying Lennar shares. I already hold a reasonable weight in Lennar myself (I also own Berkshire, though the significance of residential construction is small on the scale of the entire company).
However, the largest exposure actually comes through Harvia, for which North America is the largest market area. If the market picks up, it will also be good for sauna manufacturers. Now I’m hoping that Buffett & Abel are on the right track. 
(Of course, Berkshire is usually ahead of the curve, so there probably won’t be any sudden turnaround happening just yet)
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Koli’s famous gnarled pine tree has died 
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I don’t know if I’m a victim of branding, but Kotimainen chicken breast strips taste worse than, for example, Kariniemi’s breast strips. It doesn’t matter even if they are actually the same chicken, they still just taste better When it comes to fish, anything bought from the service counter also tastes better than some bagged Xtra salmon.
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I’m certainly not denying the differences in quality; rather, my attention was drawn to the packaging format. And of course, fresh fish from the service counter is something else entirely compared to pre-packaged fish..
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Wednesday’s bewilderment:
How do people imagine they can live in a rental apartment as if they were within their own walls?
Where is the respect for another person’s/company’s property?
Because of cases like this, I certainly don’t want to become a direct real estate investor…
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Overtaking Apple by the end of the week, and Alphabet and Nvidia next week? 
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2066884566975918236
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