Pisti kunnolla miettimään tätä kaunista kotimaatamme.

Really made me contemplate this beautiful country of ours.

Hello! Greetings from Colombia!

I hope you're all doing great. My name is Samuel, I’m from Villavicencio – Colombia, and I’m really glad I came across this Finnish forum. I'm currently studying software development, and I’ve got about a year and a half left before graduation. One of the opportunities my university offers is the chance to do an international exchange in Finland — and I’m working hard to make it happen.

For some reason, I feel a strong connection with Finland, and there's so much I’d love to learn about the country. Today, I just want to meet new people, hopefully future friends, and who knows, maybe we’ll even meet in person when the exchange comes around.

I usually guide my life around gaming, Counter-Strike, esports, hip hop music and culture, movies, tons of music genres, anime... Not gonna lie, I can talk about pretty much anything LOL. I’m not sure how messaging works here on Sopuli, but hopefully we can figure something out and stay in touch!

Let me know! :)

I've been studying in Finland for about a year and haven't had to deal with any medical issues but wanted to get more familiar with it

From my understanding if I have a non emergency I can contact my health center using omaolo and set up an appointment from there.

I'm from a non EU country so my health insurance will pay for most of the medical expenses as long as I pay the Kela health care fee.

Is all of this correct?

I was also wondering if it's the same for dental issues

I also wanted to ask if there's a way I can get an appointment for a general check up. I have a bunch of minor issues that I want to get checked but from what I've heard, that's not really a thing here.

My lemmy users per capita guess: 1. Russia 2. Finland. I can understand Russia cause developers are from there but why Finland?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20385685

Vero.fi states that

For each child under the age of 18 in your custody, you are entitled to a €50 increase to the maximum amount of the credit for work income. If you are a single parent, the increase is doubled.

This seems like a joke. This is like 4.16€ per month. Is this really everything they give, or will it automatically increase over the years?

I know that there are also other benefits for parents, but I do not understand why there is a separate law to give each parent 4.16€/child/month via taxes.

The independence day is off to a good start.

28m/s = 100.8km/h

That's quite a lot.

I would like to buy some parts for an electronics project. Specifically, a bread board, some wires, some basic components like resistors, transistors and LEDs in bread board form. I'm looking for a more specialised store that sells a larger variety of these things.

Is there any store in Helsinki where I can physically go and buy this? Do you have a favourite online store that delivers to Finland where you can buy this stuff?

Edit

Thanks for all the replies! I now ordered from kouluelektroniikka, they processed the order within one day, very good service. And they had a starter kit with a bread board and some basic elements. This is nice because then I didn't have to pick everything myself, only the more special stuff.

The explosion launched rocks hundreds of metres away from the worksite, damaging cars parked on a nearby street.

Telecoms operator Elisa reported disruptions in its network in parts of Hämeenlinna and Janakkala on Sunday.

Crossposted-ish from https://sopuli.xyz/post/15325594

I am studying Finnish and would like to try some of the foods talked about in the lessons. Internet searches are mostly returning results about the foods and not actual recipes.

The recipes i would like to find are lörtsy (sweet, and savory, however i am a vegetarian so i am not after meat fillings), pulla, ruisleipä, karjalanpiirakka, and i recently heard about blueberry pies with rye crust on TikTok (no idea what they are called).

Recipes can be in Finnish, i welcome translating them. I did that with my leipäjuustoa recipe.

Edit: i found a lörtsy with caramelized onion and gruyere filling recipe

It's attractive, it looks friendly, it's genuinely good, yet for no good reason, it tries to convince you it's not really that great 🙂