Samuli Pöllänen

Sisustusarkkitehti ja kalustesuunnittelija. Yrittäjä.

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites.

🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements.

Today von der Leyen said:

"This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children".

💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984.

🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online".

💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different.

🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done".

💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof".

🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source".

💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant.

🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents".

💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust.

🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence"

💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do.

💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive.

💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child.

💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive.

🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed"

💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price.

🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof"

💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution".

💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity.

🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it".

💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely.

💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor.

💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law.

💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals.

💡Where this ends

🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever".

George Orwell, 1984.

[Mason Home Builder @bankertobuilder]

Bought this old house from some guy named Frank

Removed the water feature (maintenance nightmare), cleaned up the overgrown shrubs, and rezoned it to commercial

Now it’s actually a useful structure

Not sure what this guy was doing

[Samuli Pöllänen @SamuliPollanen]

Kiviä taskuun

[Rami Kurimo @ramikurimo]

EU: "Video not available"

Last year we published a video critical of the EU's CSAM legislation, titled "Big Brother Is Watching You."

For some mysterious reason, it's unwatchable in Finland unless you connect through a VPN in another country.

Link below

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

Now that my official position is public, there's understandably a lot being written about me.

If you're interested in what I actually think about climate and energy policy, I encourage you to read my own work rather than someone else's interpretation. My Substack at https://t.co/oHJwRZwFmu contains more than 430 articles covering climate science, energy, and environmental policy.

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[Samuli Pöllänen @SamuliPollanen]

On nää velikultia.

[Aki Linden @LindenAki]

Hallituksen/Kelan tuore syöpälääkkeiden korvausten leikkaus ilman vastaavaa rahoituksen siirtoa hyvinvointialueille on ”malliesimerkki” huonosta hallinnosta ja kolmen ministerin (Rydman, Partanen, Ikonen) yhteistyön toimimattomuudesta. Tehtävän mukana täytyy siirtää myös rahat!

[Arto Koskelo 🇫🇮🤠 @Arto_Koskelo]

🔴Trumpin valinta 2016. Lännen eliitit ymmärsivät, että heidät voidaan syrjäyttää demokratian avulla. Demokratialta päätettiin suojautua artikuloimalla demokratia (vallatuiksi) instituutioksi. Aiemmin demokratiaa pidettiin kansan tahtona, joka saattoi muuttua vaalien välillä✅

[Jussi Tuulensuu @tuulensuu]

Joku saattaa nähdä ironiaa siinä, että postaus on niin tekoälyn kynästä kuin olla ja voi.

[𝐄𝐋 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐍 𝐃𝐄 𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐎 @GloboIcaro]

Se tenía que hacer y se hizo🔥🇳🇴

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1776 the average American man stood five foot nine, a full three inches over his English cousin, because he grew up with meat on the table and the Englishman did not.

America stayed the tallest country on earth for the better part of two centuries.

It is now somewhere around thirty-seventh.

While the Dutch added six inches on their dairy, and the Scandinavians five, and the Germans four, the richest nation in the world stopped growing in the 1950s and let two dozen countries stroll past it.

The money kept going up. The food went to hell. The bones kept the score.

The tallest people alive are no longer the richest. They are the ones still eating like it is 1850.

[Otavio (Tavi) Costa @TaviCosta]

There are two things the US cannot afford:

• Rate hikes

• A prolonged, costly war

Yet those are precisely what’s driving the selloff in hard assets.

Not too many times in history do you get the chance to buy gold at oversold levels during a secular bull market.

Act accordingly.

https://t.co/ZrXRLMtceQ

[EPL World @EPLworld]

‼️🗣️ إبراهيموفيتش عن مباراة فرنسا و الباراغواي :

"بالنسبة لفرنسا كان التحدي مختلفاً.. الحفاظ على الهدوء والتماسك."

هل هذا أمر صعب؟

"نعم كنت سأحصل على 4 بطاقات حمراء في مباراة كهذه" 😂

"لقد ابتسموا،سجلوا وفازوا بالمباراة وهذه افضل طريقة للرد"

[Samuli Pöllänen @SamuliPollanen]

@partakakipahis Suurempi riski työnantajalle tarkoittaa vähemmän tarjolla olevia työpaikkoja eli enemmän työttömiä.

[Samuli Pöllänen @SamuliPollanen]

Ensimmäinen erä pemmikaania valmis.
Testasin eri mausteita ja yhteen pekaanipähkinää.
Yllättävän hyvää!

[Jari Kuikanmäki @jarikuikanmaki]

BREAKING: Yhdysvaltain kansallisen tiedustelun johtaja ODNI on julkaissut uusia salauksesta poistettuja asiakirjoja koronaviruksen alkuperästä ja Wuhanissa 🇨🇳 virustutkimusta rahoittaneen NIAID-johtaja Anthony Faucin yrityksestä estää alkuperätutkimusta.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Someone told me this week there's no way I built this without PEDs. Slightly alarmed I might be juicing without knowing, I went and had a proper rummage through my supplement cabinet to find the culprit.

Bit of an anticlimax. No supplements in there at all, just the makings of my usual casserole, so I had a closer look at that instead.

Turns out the beef mince is absolutely riddled with the stuff. Carnosine and anserine, the little peptides that keep your muscles buffered while they work, with a tidy dose of creatine and carnitine on top, the kind people happily buy by the tub.

The eggs were no better. Stuffed with leucine, the amino acid that switches muscle growth on, and cholesterol, which the body cheerfully turns into testosterone the second you look away.

The cheese and butter were the real giveaway. Quietly nudging up my IGF-1, a proper growth factor blokes pay a fortune to get hold of, along with more cholesterol and fat to keep the whole machine ticking over.

The bacon, as far as I can tell, was just there for morale.

So that's the case cracked. My stack is a casserole, my dealer is the chilled aisle of the supermarket, and my cycle is lunch and dinner.

Awful business, really.

[Richard Seiler @richardseiler]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is

Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?

And somehow that is the whole point

I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it

From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again

When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak

The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them

But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus

Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it

A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it

And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care

And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off

He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard

That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show

We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product

That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was

And that is exactly why we keep watching

Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

[Samuli Pöllänen @SamuliPollanen]

@joakimvigelius @ekgg001

[Samuli Pöllänen @SamuliPollanen]

@SaarniTuomo Minä en ymmärrä miten kehtaavat.

[Samuli Pöllänen @SamuliPollanen]

Lainarahalla rahoitetaan lobbausta ja päälobbari ihmettelee miksi tämä halutaan lopettaa.
Nämä eivät ole näin tyhmiä. Häpeämättömyys hämmästyttää.

[Vertti Kiukas @VKiukas]

Viimeisen muutaman vuoden aikana @SOSTE10 on ollut eduskunnassa kuultavana 90 kertaa, joista 2/3 stv:sä. Tähän päälle ministeriöiden pyytämät lausunnot, joita enemmän. Myös jäsenet antavat ison panoksen paremman lainvalmistelun puolesta. Miksi tämä halutaan lopettaa ?