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I believe we already had the best possible cycling system of empty bottles in #Finland. Then EU set the new guideline that every bottle must have a cap that's attached to it and cannot be removed. I hate those caps. Why did we have to do it as other #European countries if we already had the working system? #Finns already recycled over 90 % of all the bottles and caps. New caps are difficult to use and annoying. All this hassle and extra costs without any new value. #suomimastodon #recycling

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@MnemosyneSinger

It's meaningless

"Western" is an absurdly vague term that means whatever the speaker wants it to mean.

But even if we restrict it to, say, Europe, there have always been multiple civilisations. While they tend to be lumped together, the ancient #Greeks and #Romans were distinct cultures, and the #Slavs, #Norse, #Celts, #Basques, and #Finns are all distinct from each other. Lumping them all together as "Western civilisation" is absurd.

Did you know that the #Netherlands & #Finland have #mythology about the Marshall Plan?

When the #USA sent a diplomat to the Netherlands to determine their needs, #legend has it that the tiny flat & the simple biscuit offered, humbled the American so much, that he HAD to give preferential treatment to the #Dutch!

Meanwhile, the #Finns showed the US diplomat a group of #naked people exiting a small wooden hut & he just KNEW these #poor people needed #help!

No one mentioned saunas of course...