“Am I the only one with anxiety in this burning world”

You get two guesses.

Samesies

HMD, Human Mobile Devices. Afaik a lot of them are former Nokia. Or it’s a light rebrand and not a new corp. Dk. Some connection though

Most people would still say they’re going to a grocery store, they wouldn’t specify “hypermarket”.

It’s mostly to due with sizes. There’s three levels, and the leading chains in Finland both (or “all” before one got bought up by the second biggest and now there’s generally only two) have a small store, which have their own names, Sale/Alepa and K-market, then there’s the larger ones, S-Market and K-Supermarket (formerly KKK-supermarket, really), and then the largest ones, Prisma and K-Citymarket.

It used to be only the small grocery stores had the longest opening hours, but some years ago they released those regulations and now even the hypermarkets are 247. But the small and medium sized usually don’t. Some small ones are in larger cities, I think.

But yeah it’s generally just about the size, and “just” supermarkets not having department store shit as much. Like the supermarket K-Supermarket 1.2km away from me has their own fish& meat counter for instance.

The grocery store near me has a pharmacy, but the hypermarket has a pharmacy, a few restaurants, large deli and meat counters, and of course an a liquor store as in a government store that sells specifically alcohol. They’re allowed to sell any alcohol, whereas grocery stores are just allowed to sell drinks up to 8%, and that’s up from like 4.9% for the most of my life. Some years ago they changed it so grocery stores can sell up to 5.9, then when that didn’t break society, it took like 2 years for the limit to change to 8%. And I’m pretty sure someone’s gonna push for it to go to like 14 so we got proper wines in grocery stores.

The 8% crap is just awful wine. But drinkable if you carbonate it a tad. Sounds weird perhaps but I enjoy it.

Anyway the department store part of the hypermarkets is often kinda meh. Like if you want electronics or something, you’ll usually go to a store that specialises in them. Like a large electronic store for clothing store or whatever. But you can sometimes get decent deals or some store brand clothes for a nice price. But like in general electronics, hardware, general hardware. There’s kind of a lot of places with a lot of stores like that.

Like 2km from me by bike is an IKEA and then lots of similarly sized stores selling hardware / electronics / and always a few competing ones. Like there’s several furniture stores within literally a stones throw from the ikea parking lot. (You’d have to be pretty good at throwing, but I maintain the assertion. Like frisbee golf throwing distance, definitely.)

Same with electronics stores. Like three huge stores in the same area, all within like 2-3min drives from each other. Some almost next door to each other.

Also hardware stores.

And sports stores.

Tons of others.

There’s even I think like a horse-supply store, but that’s a bit to the side. Not as mainstream.

Well no, not just produce. You’ll find a section for general shit even in the smaller stores. Like tape, glue, underwear (at least for women, usually really thin cotton ones and I’m furious they don’t sell the same for men, but I’ve still used them very comfortable). You can find basic household items like cleaning stuff and diapers and everything you need. but like the selection of tapes or glues won’t be anything akin to a proper department store or a hardware store.

You can definitely find dog food and laundry detergent in all stores. And I mean it, I’ve worked in a bunch basically Kwik-E-Mart style shops and they all had those as well

But hypermarkets will be like almost on the level of specialised hardware stores in their selection of actually usable things. And they’ll have bikes and whatnot.

Basically the sizes go with the square footage of the market in Finland at least, I don’t think it’s to due with what is being sold. And at one point only smaller stores were permitted 247 opening hours or sunday opening hours, whereas larger stores would only be open from 7-21 or something. Nowdays they’re actually open 247 as well.

But they can only sell alcohol from 09 to 21

Well a hypermarket is to a supermarket what a supermarket is to a small grocery store.

So just a very large supermarket that families would usually use for “the big shop”. I assume the equivalent is one of those markets you need a card to enter in the US, idk.

Except you don’t need a membership (but usually there’s good benefits if you have one) and you it’s not all family size products.

Oh my bad, actually the definition is just supermarket+department store, basically.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermarket

500m to a small one, 1.2 to a fairly sized supermarket, some 3 km to a hypermarket.

Walking to the hypermarket and back is something I used to do quite frequently with a friend or another, but it is a slight chore, and I wouldn’t enjoy going in -25C.

Usually if I have to walk I’ll go to the supermarket, 1.2km is a very reasonable distance to walk.

Or 500m for some quick stuffs like a few beers or tobacco from the closest small store

Well, yes, that’s my point, sort of. I’m pointing out that it’s never really black and white in that way, so his proposal of opposites isn’t really that good.

Prepping a little bit of “undesirables” rhetoric.

Lemmy is fucking swimming in shit propaganda

“The opposite of drowning is asphyxiation”

Nah man, it’s being able to breathe.

May it be so then

Honestly, I wish that there was one simpler test to get diagnosed with Celiac disease.

Actually, in that regard, I just read a post like a week or two ago on here. Holdup I’ll dig it up from somewhere. Oh yeah here it is: https://lemmy.world/post/31165431 (19 days ago, had to browse back my comments couldn’t find with search for some reason, weird.)

The link that’s in the post https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-10/new-coeliac-disease-blood-test-gluten-free-diet/105393366

In short:

Australian researchers say a simple blood test could “revolutionise” the diagnosis of a common autoimmune disease.

A study has found the test is highly accurate in diagnosing coeliac disease, without patients having to eat gluten beforehand. What’s next?

Research is expanding across diverse populations, and there is hope the new test will be available within two years.

Fucking brilliant.

The current blood tests, the doctors here don’t even know about how they work. One put me in a blood test, but when I was off-gluten. I asked her do I need to be on gluten for the test to work, she said “no”. Then after the test messaged me “oh yeah as you suspected you need to be on gluten”, but didn’t write her mistake down anywhere, so now I have just a negative on file for the blood test, despite me telling the doctors it was a false negative because it couldn’t possibly have worked since I was avoiding gluten when tested. Now the current doctor said “a week on gluten is more than sufficient” but when I googled it all sources say 6-12 weeks. Even Finnish ones. So I don’t know how they can so confidently be wrong. These cunts are younger than me and getting paid vast amounts of money for being that fucking stupid. It annoys me to no end.

Yeah there are tests but they’re kinda inaccurate. The best is a biopsy from your small intestine. I had that done to me once… but, I doubt the veracity of the results. Because you’re supposed to not eat before going to have your stomach and bowels scoped, obviously. Worst medical procedure ever, btw, they put a sort of gag with a hole in your mouth you can bite down on but they can still get through with the endoscope, and then you either swallow or vomit. Either or, because if you don’t, you’re breathing and your larynx is blocking your oesophagus, so you either swallow or vomit. And since you’re being poked in your throat with a long-ass endoscope covered in non-flavoured medical lube, it’s gonna be the latter. So it’s like 10-15 minutes of gagging straight for them to get to your small intestine and then take a biopsy. Oh right, I was trying to explain why I don’t trust the results; I was in the army when I had this procedure, and like all armies, there’s fuckups, and whilst I got the instructions on when to go to the doctor, I hadn’t had the instructions to not eat, so I had a stomach and bowels full of porridge when they took the biopsy.

So it might be it caused a false negative and the doctor’s just assumed afterwards. But it could also be I have non-celiac gluten sensitivity, which isn’t the same as celiacs and doesn’t show up as the same kind of damage on the villi of the small intestine.

But yeah, now having my personal experiences, and reading the studies which pop up when you google “gluten psychosis”, I’m pretty convinced it affecting people is very much real.

How have you been able to deal with this?

To make a long story short I think mine was caused by some sort of very small food insensitivity, which led to a constant aching in the guts, an inflamed bowel and cognitive issues. All that led to bad sleep and then the doctors just diagnose it as a mental disorder because whatever the condition, it’s only subclinical, meaning while there are symptoms, there aren’t enough symptoms for any sort of proper diagnosis.

But yeah Tldr I tried an exclusion diet, basically only rice, potatoes, fish and chicken. And no soysauce. Can use sauces but look at the ingredients. Mayos are pretty simple not many ingredients. At one point I avoided all wheat derivatives (and that means glucose syrup as well, which is in everything and in Europe is made from wheat, like all delimeats have it and all candy and pretty much everything), all dairy and dairy derivatives, all allium containing plants and derivatives (onions and garlic etc).

Felt a massively difference in weeks, continued improving for months even when I started adding things back. I’m pretty sure it’s a gluten insensitivity, and rn, I’m doing the best medical thing I’ve ever had to endure, (and I’ve had to endure a lot of weird procedures); gluten challenge. As in I have to eat gluten every day for weeks. I’m on like week 3 and while I’m pissing from my ass basically, these burgers are just so much better than gluten free ones.

But yeah anyway, you’re probably thinking “my emotional problems can’t be just because of a food insensitivity”, but they totally can be (I’m not saying it is, but that it is an actually documented medical possibility):

A 31-year-old Caucasian woman with a history of severe gluten sensitivity, Hashimoto’s disease, mosaic turner’s syndrome, and presumed schizo-affective disorder, bipolar type with multiple inpatient psychiatric involuntary admissions presented to the ED on petition for aggressive behavior by law enforcement. The patient had a week-long break-down at her parents’ home, where she also resides. She reportedly broke several objects and threatened to slit her mother’s throat. On the physical exam, she was malodorous, disheveled, and had long extremely matted hair. Psychiatric evaluation was notable for rambling speech, dysphoric mood, agitation, and irritability. Thought content was disorganized and consisted of grandiose and paranoid persecutory delusions. She was emergently given Haldol for worsening agitation, as she became physically threatening.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10593161/

And the thing is, people can be sensitive to gluten and not know it. Sounds like such Karen bullshit, but it’s true. They tested the families of celiacs and non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and while some people reported no symptoms to begin with, they did report improvement on a gluten-free diet. Meaning they basically had symptoms, but had had them all their lives and weren’t aware they were symptoms.

A few years ago I would’ve laughed at people preaching about gluten free, I thought it’s just a healthfad. I do not believe in that anymore. A huge percentage of subclinical celiacs are undiagnosed.

A week or two probably, when in the army.

And since wr actually we’re responsible for actual foods hygiene, we always got sauna/bathing priority. So never went more than two weeks imo.

But highest amount of NHL players per capita and suddenly the top three is Finland, Sweden and Canada, while USA falls way behind.

Even though it’s the “Nation” in the “National Hockey League”.

Correction, I managed to shame you into actually writing something instead of that childish spam.

You still can’t address why you’re in the thread to begin with. The proof that I am right is in you spamming “k” for a dozen comments because you can’t discuss the definition of “arbitrary” because you realise your previous statements weren’t correct. And you’re just not big enough of a person to admit that to yourself. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dig your pit deeper.

Remember how you said you “love being proved wrong”?

Well timekeeping systems aren’t arbitrary. Care to comment? No…? ;>

Good looking, intellectual, profile, eh?

I won this time, like I usually do.

You’re dragging this out because you’re pretending you didn’t. But… You can’t talk about the thread. You’re just seething that you’re caught in this. Ego makes you reply without you being able to talk about why you’re in the thread to start with.

Like I’ve said, I’ve seen this a 1000 times. You think you’re being clever. No. You’re just being infantile.

The great part is you can’t say anything, showing you’re only here because of your ego, despite having literally nothing to say, while I keep giving you options and urging you to just accept growth. You know, since you “love admitting when you’re wrong”?

Remember when you were talking about how you love to admit it when you make mistakes, because it’s a learning opportunity? Or was that someone else pulling this same shit. Because again, I have seen this 1000 times over several years if not decades.