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Finland is again ranked the happiest country in the world. The US falls to its lowest-ever position

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Finland is again ranked the happiest country in the world. The US falls to its lowest-ever position

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.

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  • "Typical jail cells scribblings"

    You've never been in a jail cell, I see.

    Now you're just in denial.

    I literally wrote "I wrote over 300 words in my own blood" some dozen times in comments to you. Don't pretend this is coming as a surprise now that you actually can't explicitly say any alternative despite implicitly wanting so badly to avoid the subject.

    This conversation is about Finnish emotional stuntedness, which is due to the inherent psychological avoidance "built-in" to Finnish culture and language. I could explain the reasons why it's evolved and developed in the first place, but I don't feel like explaining it to a kusimulkku.

    You still haven't accepted it's actually happened. You're still implicitly avoiding it. Despite having no alternative to what happened, despite me very clearly explaining what happened and you having literally said "that's probably not true", based on just your fear of accepting that anything like that could ever happen in Finland.

    That exact fucking "ei meiä lintukodosssa" attitude is what is protecting the cops and why Finland has more human rights violations from ECHR than the rest of the Nordics combined.

    I have also explained those two things, several times.

    Here I went to my old phone to get you these

    You won't be able to accept that I was literally tortured. Not physically brutalised, mind you, but that isn't the only form of torture. It's would've loved being beaten for three days in a dark room compared to this.

    See how much food there is? None of it eaten?

    • I'm not sure what part of this should convince me that you were tortured. I'm willing to believe you had an episode of some sort.

      And I'm still not sure how you expect any of this to convince others that Finns aren't actually happy tbh.

      • So you're naively pretending only cartoonish forms of torture you see in Blackadder are actual torture? Because purposeful sleep deprivation isn't torture?

        The cops came to ask me "are you ready to talk" after three days of no-one saying a word.

        You can't imagine it or accept it. You refuse to believe such practices can happen in your lintukoto.

        And that refusal to see reality, refusal to acknowledge it's flaws, is what is so profound and creates the environment where "can't complain" is the answer to the question "are you happy".

        And as I've shown people, literal torture by your government doesn't make you acknowledge that there's been anything done wrong by the authorities.

        The word in English is obtuse.

        You haven't an explanation. "Episode of some sort." Dismissing my torture much? They purposefully kept the lights on, deprived me of my prescribed medication, a mattress (that's placed there afterwards, which you won't believe obviously, on the third day they gave me the mangy blanket you can see, but no mattress).

        If I was "having an episode" to the tune of eating myself while under constant supervision supposedly for "my safety", how is it possible that this happened?

        In your world, it isn't because you refuse to live in reality no matter how he's your face is shoved in it. It's nothing special, and thats exactly my point. It's endemic.

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