Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.
Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.
Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives. The study was done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
When it comes to decreasing happiness — or growing unhappiness —the United States has dropped to its lowest-ever position at 24, having previously peaked at 11th place in 2012. The report states that the number of people dining alone in the United States has increased 53% over the past two decades.
Please do.
You’re too naive to actually realise the dangers of being complacent to authoritarianism. Unchecked power grows in corruption.
“I don’t take random pictures as facts.”
No, you’re in denial. You don’t want to say I’ve faked the picture, because clearly I haven’t, yet you have no alternative explanation as to how such a thing could happen in Finland. I would not have believed this possible before it was done to me. And I know proper criminals, people who have done time for murder, torture, kidnapping.
“Fuck around and find out”
You’re a disgusting piece of shit with no morals. You wouldn’t dare say any of this even on voice-chat with me. I double-dare you. Prove me wrong. https://discord.gg/EATXXJUt
You think that if the cops mistreated someone, that person must have deserved it, because you are UNABLE to accept that Finland may have systemic, wide corruption. That the Finnish police may not actually follow the rule of the law, as it’s written. I know that it’s hard for someone like you to accept. Which is the exact point.
Oh, so it doesn’t matter when our police torture people, because they don’t murder people on the street? You don’t see how pathetically childish of you it is to even pull such an argument up?
I’ll edit this comment from my phone to add two images. One is my pinky, about a week after I got out. The other is the second image from the cell.
Just for the tiniest while. Try and use your imagination and imagine what it would feel like to suffer through that. I was detained under the suspicion of a huumausainerikos. That has the maximum punishment of two years, same as speeding. There was very clearly zero conection to any sales, any distribution and it was very clearly personal use. So they had absolutely no reason to change my detainment into an arrest. I had had a nap up to that point, as I was ready to face the fine that I would get, because this is a finable offense (literally no-one goes to prison for a huumausainerikos unless you’ve literally 10 or more of them while on parole), just like speeding.
I asked why I’m being arrested. They said “we already told you”. I began to ask them over the radio for my lawyer and my rights. They told me “no, they’ve already been explained.” Then they closed off the radio. Then I knocked for a while. Then they came with four officers and took me to isolation “for my safety.”
I can quote you lex.fi legislation where it shows that during detainment or arrest you are always allowed to have a physical copy detailing your rights.
They got mad at me because they’re fascistic little piggies (the guards who do the guarding at the police station are not police officers, but police officer wannabes with uniforms similar otherwise but it reads “vartija”) who got annoyed that I knew more than them. Was I also provocative? You bet your fucking ass I was, but that doesn’t make it any different. If you can’t take a personal offence when you’re a fucking cop, change your job.
You, however, are just another example of the trait I’m talking about. Finnish emotional stuntedness stemming from pathological avoidance. It’s literally built into the language, I don’t blame you for having it, it would require true self-reflection and understanding of other cultures to get over it. You should try it sometimes.