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Friday's papers: Ruined Moomins, Finland unprepared for future warfare, and where's the beef?

The saturation of Moomins in everyday Finnish life might be diluting Tove Jansson's original work, writes one Helsingin Sanomat columnist.

yle.fi/a/74-20149518

News · Friday's papers: Ruined Moomins, Finland unprepared for future warfare, and where's the beef?The saturation of Moomins in everyday Finnish life might be diluting Tove Jansson's original work, writes one Helsingin Sanomat columnist.

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On Apartheid Subsets

In the DailyKos article, "The Tesla Takedown”, the author KirkLC lists "Apartheid Subsets”, as:

1. Economic Apartheid features severe wealth equality and low economic mobility.
2. Social Apartheid is enforced through social institutions, culture, and daily life without explicit laws.
3. Health Apartheid segregates access to healthcare and health outcomes by race and class.
4. Environmental Apartheid affects marginalized communities that are disproportionately exposed to pollution, toxic waste, and climate disasters.
5. Digital Apartheid involves the gap in access to digital technology, ..., reinforcing economic and educational inequality.
6. Political Apartheid undermines voting rights, skews political representation, and limits civic power for certain groups. In the U.S., voter suppression laws and gerrymandering enforce political apartheid.

The above were edited to fit in this post.

dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/13

Daily KosThe Tesla TakedownElon Musk knows a lot about apartheid. After all, he lived under that system until he emigrated from South Africa to Canada and then America. He went to Canada first because it was unlikely that America would have welcomed him if he came directly from...

"Malaysia is already an ageing society, with 8.1 per cent of its population aged 65 and above in 2024, according to the United Nations (UN) Development Programme.

This proportion is set to rise to 14.5 per cent – pushing Malaysia into aged status – by 2040, which is sooner than expected. The government’s previous forecast was 2044."

channelnewsasia.com/asia/malay

CNAIN FOCUS: Is it too late to defuse the ‘ticking time bomb’ of Malaysia’s fast-ageing population?Caregivers lacking respite and support, seniors who need more age-friendly infrastructure and financial security – will Malaysia’s upcoming white paper to tackle an ageing nation rise to the challenges?