@ruari @larsivi most of EU control happens in farming and fishing. So they stand to lose a lot.

Stating independent in the arctic might not be a winning bet, though, the agreements with China/Russia/USA are not bound to be lucrative for the people.

@wesdym need for closure, solution, is one of the traits the authors point out... A mindset, yeah.

(I'm a software engineer and not a right wing extremist)

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@fazalmajid @kfdm @Floppy see the linked book, skills do not factor in it per the research.

"We find that engineers are no more likely than other graduates to cover technical roles, such as bomb making [...] What engineers learn at university is unlikely to make them more practically proficient at bomb making than former military or car mechanics. [...] many non-Islamist extremist groups have been skillful at bomb making without engineers in their ranks."

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@kfdm @Floppy this doesn't surprise me at all

Give a person a platform and they will open their mouth.

It's well known engineers are way overrepresented in extremist circles, as islamic and right wing terrorists...

I reckon it has something to do with black and white thinking. And maybe lack of humanities in education...

https://goodauthority.org/news/this-new-book-explains-why-so-many-islamist-extremists-have-studied-engineering/

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@eclectech I usually lead with: ei vittu / ei nyt vittu