last time the finnish dragged people this hard the russians were pissing their pants

I’m going to just copy paste my earlier response to a similar question:

There’s nothing wrong with sitting on the lower bench, it’s just not very macho manly alpha male like he thinks it is.

The way sauna works is that you heat the stones in the stove so that the room gets hot. You then pour water onto the hot rocks which creates steam. Heat rises up, so the higher you are the warmer/hotter it is. When you throw löyly (pour water on the rocks to create steam, the resulting steam is called löyly) the steam first goes up and then the heat seeps down creating a pleasant, tingly sensation of heat/warmth.

The floor level of sauna is rarely even warm in comparison. So the lower benches can be significantly less hot than the higher benches. This is why kids sit there because their bodies are smaller and they can’t handle the same intense heat adults can.

So if you want to show off how tough you are, then you sit on the highest bench and keep pouring more water to get more hot steam. It’s something people do for fun (or maybe out of spite sometimes) to see who lasts the longest.

Andy here isn’t doing anything impressive. The sauna is only around +50C . Most Finnish saunas would be anything between +75C and +110C depending on the sauna. There are many factors (size of the room, ventilation, electric vs. wood burning stove etc.) that contribute to what temperature feels the best for each sauna. But +50C is cold for a sauna. The temperature at the lower bench isn’t going to be even that, that’s the temperature near the ceiling which is where the heat is measured from. He doesn’t even have water to pour onto the rocks.

He’s also half-dressed which is actually going to make the sauna experience pretty unpleasant if the sauna were actually warm. It’s also unhygienic to wear clothes in sauna (your sweat will seep into the fabric and the heat will probably stinks up the entire sauna, and you probably didn’t wash them right before getting in the sauna) and if you’ve been swimming in chlorinated water in your swimming trunks before the sauna, that chlorine could now be evaporating and people end up breathing it.

Yea this is funny and all but for anyone else who was going fucking crazy trying to understand how steam rooms safely get up that hot; they do not. Dry saunas typically go from 60-90 C (and some insane people do go up above 100 C for <15 minutes), steam rooms do not typically go above 70 C, and most recommendations I can find say 50 C.

Which is good, because I was very confused, because a 75 C steam room would kill you (or at least give yiu heat stroke) in <15 minutes, and a 110 C steam room would Actually Cook You

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she acts so shocked when asked this. as if she was just asked if she was the zodiac killer.

lady, your trading history (which you published and certified per legal disclosure requirements) has your personal portfolio's performance beating some of the top professionally managed funds from, hmm, lets see here...goldman sachs

where did you find the time to become such a brilliant trader that you are beating the largest investment banks & hedge funds?

do you know why i don't take material nonpublic information and use it to inform equity & derivative purchases? because it's unethical and illegal. the text of the law is pretty clear about this. securities fraud is a criminal act. insider trading constitutes securities fraud. this lady publishes her trading history and then ticks a box saying "i certify this trading history is both my own, and accurate, and complete".

it would be unfair to compare this to, let's say, a crime involving the robbery of a store, where the prosecutor's evidence is a high definition video of the accused committing the robbery. "oh that was my evil twin brother in that video" -- "oh, that is an actor meant to frame me for a crime"

this is more comparable to the above situation, except when presented with the video, the accused submits an affidavit stating "this video depicts me illegally robbing a store in exactly the manner the prosecution alleges".

this isn't even the most egregious case. check out this dude.

first of all, what the fuck do you mean you traded 75 million dollars worth of shit in the last five years. senators make (gross, pretax) one million dollars in five years. i see you were some business executive, c-level, okay, total compensation packages for c-suites are published. correlating that with number of years you worked as an exec still doesn't even put you close 75 million. it doesn't even put you in the ballpark. and that wouldn't even matter, because your trade volume will only be a portion of your portfolio's total worth, which itself is only a portion (albeit majority) of your total worth. if you weren't, like, super clearly cheating, that is. that would be how a normal portfolio would work out

gambling analogies suck, they impart a fundamentally incorrect understanding of how finance works, but fuck it, let's do a gambling analogy. a professional card counter walks into a casino with a hundred bucks at 8pm. he walks out at 2am with $2300. this guy just pulled off the best night someone like him could ever hope for, in terms of raw performance

this guy is more like a dude who has never been in a casino nor knows even what goes on in a casino, then walks into a casino at 9pm with one dollar, and exits at 9:02pm now owning the casino, and three more casinos down the block. how does that even happen.

well, let's take a look at what he's trading. maybe he just got really lucky dumping half his net worth into far out-of-the-money derivatives in a penny stock, which later became google 2 or whatever. that is a move you won't even see the reddit wallstreetbets whackjobs doing, that is a move you would never even see anyone, ever doing, but maybe he did. let's take a look

he's trading fucking SPY. a forehead tattoo would be more discrete. it is as if he -- legitimately -- does not know of the concept of fraud. for real, dude, what the hell. you could have picked any company that reliably tracks the S&P and you would have given yourself at least a plausible out. "you could have shown up to court dressed in something other than the clothes you committed the crime in, as depicted in the video of you committing the crime that was just played for the jury".

where did you get this cartoonishly large amount of money. how did you manage, with all that amount of money, to publish trade logs that so overtly make zero sense. you did not "just happen" to beat citadel in one of the most by far the most well-understood index equity. let's be frank -- those guys are probably cheating too -- but you'd never in a million years be able to piece together how they are cheating, and never in a billion years prove it in a courtroom.

you could have hired a guy. you could have just friggen lied. you could have probably just straight up murdered people. you could have hired a guy, and then murdered him. you could have hired a guy, murdered him, and the lie about it. you could have even paid deloitte and deutsche bank, or some other low-ethics firm to cover your ass using one of their high tier methods. you're not even making it look fair, dude. you're noclipping around the map in a competition match. you're taking a sharpie and drawing in aces on the cards the dealer gave you.

this really bugs me -- i mean, really really bugs me. im not bothered at all that someone is cheating. im bothered that they are doing it in a way that makes zero sense.

wtf!

From today's NYT:

Stock Trades Reported by Nearly a Fifth of Congress Show Possible Conflicts

Tumblr user @kremlint seems like a good person to follow if you want to start learning about an issue a month before everyone else.

Why aren't they more discreet? Well, in the case of David Perdue, above, or the cases examined by the NYT, it always goes the same way: Whenever somebody gets caught, they get investigated for a while by the DOJ, or the House Ethics Committee, or the Office for Congressional Ethics. But they always drop the investigation eventually without bringing charges.

stranger things tumblr rn:

not tumblr is calling this show with, now two gay beloved main characters homophobic ... will’s situation is both realistic and super relatable for queer youth. bite me

The Batman:

Bruce Wayne:

me, an aries pisces cusp

i want to write a love letter to the moment in the movie where batman fails to fly, hits the bridge, then the car and falls on the street, then he just quickly gets up and runs away into the darkness this is so hilarious and straight out of comics i love it so much

i love that the batman (2022) is just an emo and a cat girl fighting a redditor, or as i like to call it: the average discord lobby

I saw The Batman last night and all you need to know about it is that Robert Pattinson plays Batman like a total badass but he plays Bruce Wayne as a sad wet cat and it is perfect

bruce hitting alfred w “you’re not my dad” immediately after turning down his Nirvana playlist while residual eye makeup runs down his face within the first twenty minutes of the film. at last. an adaptation that truly Gets Him

finally saw batman. during the scene in the iceberg lounge my dad leaned over to me and said "club penguin" and then didnt look at me for the rest of the film

From Everyman Cinema’s twitter.

My best friend loves rob pattinson and over the years she sent me a lot of articles/quotes of him, so here are some of my favourites

(there is A LOT more, this man is INSANE)

Part 2

Bonus: