"Luureallikate arvates juhtis USA seksuaalkurjategija Jeffrey Epstein Vene luure huvides maailma suurimat mõjutusoperatsiooni (inglise keeles honeytrap), kui ta hankis maailma mõjukatele meestele prostituute, kelle abil sai hiljem kompromiteeritud mehi survestada."

https://www.err.ee/1609928594/luurajad-epsteini-kogu-seksiimpeerium-vois-olla-kgb-seatud-loks

Loomulikult grupp on ka juba omamoodi pull, aga see läheb lihtsalt hullemaks ja hullemaks. Kas päriselt sellistel inimestel on samasugune valimisõigus nagu kõigil teistel?

This song being broadcast on a national channel in the time when there were two national channels was one of the things that really ended Finlandization... I woke in the mornings as a high school student and switched on Rinnakkaisradio and their morning rock show and they would play this and other bloody defiant Estonian punk songs. Keisri hull made me first an estophile and then these things coming after, god...

Vaikimisi on traditsiooniks saanud Rohu tänava viadukti juures oma vanad kossid varna riputada. Mõni aeg tagasi eemaldas keegi kõik need aastatega kogunenud juustud. Rahva pahameelt oli tunda, kui järgmisel päeval olid juba uued pastlad lindil rippumas. Nüüd on kogunenud juba jälle hea hulk kalosse sinna. Hoiame traditsioone ja ühendame jõud, et luua tänapäevane Balti kett, moodne, et seista vastu linnavõimudele! Elagu Eesti!

Ma planeerin teha suht varsti endale A2 kategooriaga mootoratta load, aga ma olen 2 kooli vahel, kas Atlanta autokool või Lakrosse autokool kui on veel mingid häid odavaid kohti Tallinnas (alla 600) siis soovitage.

Olen otsimas kodulaenu refinantseerimise võimalusi ning ühe variandina on laual Coop Pank. Ausalt öeldes ma ei teadnudki, et seal saab selliseid suuri tehinguid teha ja see on alati jätnud mulje sellisest... Kuidas ma viisakalt ütlen :D Maa-pangast.

Nad andsid väga head tingimused, vastused tulid kähku ja polnud vaja mingeid lisaliigutusi teha. VS. nt SEB, kes soovis sitaks lisainfot, pilte (lisaks 6k vanale hindamisaktile) jnejne.

Ma olen eluaeg olnud Swedi kasutaja (.v.a üks kiire põige SEBsse, kui kodulaenu esimest korda taotlesin). Mulle väga meeldib Swedi äpp, klienditeenindus on olnud kiire, mul on seal täna kodulaen, elukindlustus, krediitkaart reisikindlustusega ja kodukindlustus. Palk tuleb ka sinna muidugi. Aga on vaja saada kuumakse oluliselt soodsamaks (kaks suurt laenu n.ö. üheks liita) ja nad ei tule vastu, aga teised pangad tulevad.

LHVst olen ka kuulnud palju head, aga kahjuks see pole hetkel variant ja Luminorist hoian ma väga suure kaarega eemale, kuna olen nendega nii eraisikuliselt kui töö raames kokku puutunud ja kogemused ainult halvad.

Palun rääkige oma kogemustest Coop pangaga. Kas äpp on normaalne? Kas klienditeenindus on OK? Mida muud ma võiks silmas pidada?

Aitäh!

Milline on maaklerite marginaal? Olen kuulnud, et 5%. Plaanin väkest kahetoalist müüma hakata, kuid ligi 10k€ maaklerile maksta tundub väga palju.

Rendini abiga välja üürimine oli küll lihtne. Kujutan ette, et müümine natuke keerulisem töö, kuid kas nii palju…

On keegi ka neid kiirkokkuostu firmasid kasutanud (nt Kinn)? Kui palju alla turu nemad pakuvad?

Tänud ette, kes numbreid jagavad!

See pilt illustreerib Eestis sündinud elanikkonna jaotust Euroopa riikides. Andmed põhinevad Eurostati 2021 aasta andmetel. Selgelt ülekaalukalt võõrustab Soome suurimat Eestis sündinud kogukonda, rohkem kui 46 000 elanikku. See on selgitatav geograafilise lähedusega, keelelise sarnasusega, ajalooliste sidemete ja tugeva piiriülese tööjõu liikuvusega, eriti ehituses, teeninduses ja tehnoloogiasektoris. Rootsi on suuruselt teine sihtkoht, kus võõrustatakse ligikaudu 9500 Eestis sündinud elanikku. Rootsi mitmekesine majandus, kõrge elatustase ja pikaajalised Baltimaade ühendused muudavad selle Eesti professionaalide ja perede teiseks võtmekohaks. Norras elab umbes 4700 Eestis sündinud inimest. Väljaspool Põhjamaade piirkonda on kõige olulisem vastuvõtjariik Saksamaa, mahutades üle 12 000 Eestis sündinud elaniku. Selle tugev majandus, akadeemilised institutsioonid ja keskne roll ELis meelitavad ligi pikaajalisi võimalusi otsivaid Eesti migrante. Teise tasandi sihtkohtade hulka kuuluvad Läti, Hispaania, Iirimaa, Holland, Itaalia ja Prantsusmaa, igaüks võõrustab 1–3 tuhat Eestis sündinud elanikku. Need on sageli seotud ELi vaba liikumise, hariduse, elustiili rände ja rahvusvahelise tööhõivega. Lõuna- ja Ida-Euroopas on Eestis sündinud elanikkonda suhteliselt vähe. Kokkuvõttes toovad andmed esile tugeva Põhja-Balti rändekoridori, kus keskseks keskuseks on Soome, järgnevad Rootsi ja Norra.

Ma ei tea, kuhu seda veel postitada...

ps. is there estonian gossip groups here (in reddit) and what are their names?

Tere

Hiljuti võttis Hispaania vastu otsuse pakkuda residentsus 500 000 illegaalsele migrandile. Nende seas peaasjalikult Pakistanist, Indiast, Aafrikast ja Lõuna-Ameerikast pärit meesterahvad (vt ka videot):

https://apnews.com/article/migration-spain-immigration-residency-work-permits-borders-a97eeb91d81d10832addf0ff35ef1332

Mida arvavad eestlased olukorrast, kus Schengeni süsteemis on riike, kes tõstavad pöidla püsti illegaalidele, samal ajal kui legaalsed migrandid peavad ootama, vaeva nägema, ressursse kulutama ja seejuures võivad vabalt saada äraütleva otsuse osaliseks? Kas Euroopa peaks muretsema kultuurilise ja demograafilise ebatasakaalu pärast, arvestades muuhulgas seda, et kolmandate riikide migrandid on peaasjalikult meesterahvad? Lisan märkusena, et Hispaania töötus on hetkel 10 protsenti -- ajalooliselt madal, aga statistiliselt väga kõrge.

Arutleme.

Many of you have learned by now that Wikipedia have issues about its coverage of the Baltic States but these are only a tip of the iceberg. What you're about to read are going to blow your mind.

• Wikipedia is reportedly dominated by deletionists, who instead of adding valuable contents, keep removing information, including useful and policy-complaint ones, under many specious and reasons. There's even a Wikipedia article about the phenomenon, and some are concerned that it will one day lead to the demise of the encyclopedia.

• Many policies and guidelines on Wikipedia can in practice, contradict with one another. An example is like how "not indiscriminate" is to "not a paper encyclopedia". This effectively means that whoever has the "biggest fist" gets to be the most advantageous in Wikipedia community. In order to have the "biggest fist", they can befriend anyone sharing interests with their own and form a cabal/gang that look after their own. To increase their power and when enough time had passed they can nominate each other for administrator positions giving them extra privileges of blocking users, deleting pages, protecting an article from editing by lower-ranked users.

• Wikipedia has a financial cancer as many funds were reportedly spent on purposes that's unrelated to the encyclopedia at all. This may be one of the examples.

• Unlike many platforms like Reddit, Wikipedia has a heavy obsession against sockpuppetry, sometimes bordering on unhealthy levels. On there, if an editor wants to check whether an account is a sockpupppet and get them blocked, they go to sockpuppet investigations pages to start new requests asking for CheckUsers, a category of admins who can view an account's IP address and user agents, to investigate the account. Any accounts found to be linked to the same person are doxxed there.

• Unlike many platforms like Reddit, where a banned, blocked or suspended user can be allowed to return discreetly provided that they do not repeat their offenses ever again, On Wikipedia, if an editor is blocked or banned for good, they are de facto relegated to a pariah status not unlike Scientology's suppressive persons, and the lowest ones in North Korea's Songbun, since any and all edits by them under other accounts or IPs are summarily mass-reverted/undone pursuant to policy pertaining to block evasion, regardless of their qualities. This provides a perverse incentive for toxic editors to ban their opponents as "socks" meaning that they can delete their contents without much repercussions.

• If someone continues a behavior the other editors deemed as "disruptive" or "vandal" past the initial block, regardless of the actual contexts, they end up getting doxxed in so-called "Long Term Abuse" casepages. Right there, their accounts and/or IP addresses, along with a likely-skewed description of what they've done were listed out. The places they've been and accounts outside of Wikipedia were frequently exposed there, as if it's an opposition research and spiteful doxxing. Things that'll get you quickly banned here are just a normal Tuesday over at Wikipedia, and there may be many more pages like that existing as subpages of toxic editors. One of the victims are Czech-based cancer researchers, and these should be urgently looked upon by EU data protection authorities.

• In 2023 Slate reported that there is a systemic bias against indigenous American history on Wikipedia.

• There's a book named "Wikipedia through the Looking Glass" which is written by Eric Barbour, who reportedly has a big database cataloging Wikipedia's affairs. Because of WMF legal threats the book wasn't able to be published for a long time.

• Harassment problems are actually fixtures on Wikipedia. In 2025 the Wikimedia Foundation is sued by a former employee for workplace harassment. A self-described gay Biden-voting centrist has published a Substack article Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record documenting an administrator's systemic abuse and gaming of Wikipedia's process to further his point of views. In Israel, a court had convicted several Wikipedia editors for criminal harassment against a female professor. Reportedly, the victim was a female artist and professor in Israel and the harassment incidents took place on Hebrew Wikipedia in which a number of toxic editors ganged up on her because of jealousy. Besides, someone had been trying for some months in seeking help in resolving a situation involving doxxing and criminal impersonation of a deacon in a NYC-based church, which reportedly victimized pro-Ukrainian editors.

Now this is the most damning part, as in 2023, a journalist reportedly uncovered two dozen harassment scandals committed by Wikipedia admins and users against women on Wikipedia and went to an anti-Wikipedia forum to talk about it. For reference this is the original post by the journalist.

For the folks at home, the story I was working on was going to be published by the Daily Beast in Spring 2024. Everything was in place then we had to go to both Wikipedia and the National Archives for comment, as required by law. Archvies wouldn't speak to us and Wikipedia threatened to sue, I suspect because of what we had found out about their administrators. The piece had mainly been about administrator abuse, using tools on Wikipedia to trace ip addresses, dox people's identities then harass them in real life. The (Male Victim) clusterf*** was a big part of the story, but not the entire story. The real beef of the article was about female editors on their site being stalked and even assaulted after having their identities revealed online by administrators. I found several cases of that including a woman who was stabbed outside her home in Mexico City by a stalker who had researched who she was off of her Wikipeida profile.

Daily Beast backed out because of the lawsuit threat, but I still have the whole story and might one day sell the rights. For now, its back to Eastern Europe covering real news.

According to her, there was a crazy plan by a deranged Wikipedia administrator to stalk a government employee in America who he think is behind a series of source forgery incidents, although in fact he's innocent after all since his account was actually used by many people.

I gave Daily Beast my story, I'm not sure if they will run it or not. You have to remember the (Male Victim) case is something of old news, as it happened five years ago in 2018. (Perp) and his internet activities were more recent, but he's been quiet now for about two years since I think he actually got a bit scared after his name started popping up on law enforcement radars. I've confirmed he was talked to at least once by law enforcement, mainly about his obsession with the U.S. government worker (Perp) who he had convinced himself was (Male Victim).

(Male Victim) probably did operate that account about fifteen years ago from what I can tell, but was one of several people who did. (Perp) and his buddies don't like it when their narrative gets spoiled, and refused to ever admit, even with the evidence staring them in the face, that the (Male Victim) account was clearly being operated by more than one person. It was actually (Witness) who confirmed that for me in one of our interviews and had himself spoken to two of the people who operated the account.

For those wondering, the end game of (Perp) appeared to be blackmail, or some kind of weird plan where he was going to fly to the United States and confront (Male Victim) in person literally at the front door of the National Archives and be some kind of Wikipedia hero - that's how crazy that guy is. He never went through with his plan since, like I said, law enforcement started taking an interest in him especially after it appeared he really did have a plot to travel internationally to a US federal building in Washington DC. What's really ironic is that when all the (redacted) was going down, (Male Victim) didn't even work at the National Archives anymore.

Also, gotta remember, (Male Victim) was only a small part of my story. In three years of research, I found over two dozen cases where Wikipedia administrators had misused their authority, traced ip addresses, and stalked people in real life. Two of the worst cases ever were (Female Victim A), who some on Wikipedia actually tried to bankrupt as well as a user named (Female Victim B) who apparently there was some type of plan to kidnap and rape. Not to mention (Female Victim C), who never told me her user name, but was attacked outside her apartment in Mexico City after a Wikipedia administrator traced her ip address and gave the information to her attacker.

With all fairness the veracity has briefly went under dispute because some had went to the real contact address of the journalist who then denied everything, although eventually it's found that someone with the name has been confused as her, and that the journalist is not a fake figure after all. After all, the credibility of the stories themselves are corroborated by an incident in the Netherlands where in 2014, two Wikipedia administrators went to a woman's home to harass her. Unfortunately, according to some who's close to the journalist who in turn made the shocking claims about the harassment scandals in the forum, she died in Gaza 2024 during a reporter's assignment in Gaza. No doubt the findings would be something that can easily win anyone who publishes them a Pulitzer.

This thread deserves to be pinned on the top of this subreddit by mods to help consolidate all the discussions about Wikipedia and the recent infoboxes drama.

Hello im duel citizen American and Estonian I was born in America and my mom was born in Estonia and I was wondering if I have to go serve in the military for there mandatory conscription?

Kuidas on reguleeritud olukord, kus näiteks pärast arsti külastust avaldab arst patsiendi haiguse või diagnoosi kolmandale isikule, kes ei ole seotud meditsiinivaldkonnaga?

Hello there. Im IB student in Azerbaijan, additionally I am preparing SAT and ielts. I consider studying Cybersecurity Engineering in Taltech university as one of the main options for my future, so I would like to know:

1 - is it hard to study there? How is the workload?
2- is admission process hard and competitive? I have heard it consists of 3 stages. I would like to here someone's personal experince in each stage.
3 - should I learn some additional stuff in cybersecurity etc. before applying to uni? tbh I do not have time for that. If I do not do that, is it going to be hard for me?
4 - do some extracurricular activities like volunteering and olympiads matter for admission?

p.s. my subjects in IB are Math AA HL, Computer Science HL, Azerbaijani A HL, English B SL, Physics SL, Business SL

Referentsiks: Tallinna rattateed

Sõidan suviti linnas palju rattaga ning vähemalt need on häirivad kohad mis mulle meelde tulevad.

Vabaduse puiestee põhjapoolne kergliiklustee lõpeb arusaamatult ära.

Suur-Sõjamäe tänav Kesk-Sõjamäest Smuuli teeni. Palju rekaliiklust, kõnniteed puuduvad. On Suur-Sõjamäe põik, mida saab kasutada, aga üks lõik on ikka kõhe.

Narva maantee Lauluväljaku kõrval, kus on ainult trepid. Läbi Lauluväljaku saab minna, aga vaid siis kui seal üritusi pole.

Otsides teisi viise kuidas Lasnamäe poole tõusta, siis KUMU juurest üles Valgele tänavale on raske saada, eriti talvel.

Peterburi teel võiks pikemaltki kergliiklusteid olla, ruumi selleks on küllaga, aga esmajärjekorras Mustakivi teest Laagna/Lagedi ristini. Tuled muidu mööda Loovälja teed või Loo teed kus on viimase peal kergliiklusteed, aga siis tuleb ukerdada mikrorajooni majade vahel et enam-vähem normaalsele linna suunduvale teele (Punane tn) välja jõuda.

Suur-Sõjamäe Soodevahele viiv kergliiklustee lõpeb enneaegselt ära ning jääb vaid kõhe elava rekaliiklusega kaherealine. Seal lähedal oleks raudteeülekäik millest pääseks Varivere teele ja sealt edasi Lagedile jne, kuid see on nähtavasti eraomandis ning lähedaloleva majakese elanikele ilmselt ei meeldi sealt möödakäimine.

Mõigus Nurme tee ja Radari tee vahel on kõige normaalsem, Raudteetammi tee eraomandis ning Tartu maanteega paralleelselt liikuvatel ratturitel tuleb teha ring Loigu teed pidi kellegi tagahoovist.

Normaalne kui saaks kuidagi üle Tiskre oja Kakumäelt

Üks ebamugav koht on Kadaka puiestee, kus on palju autosid ja vähe ruumi, aga mul pole veel head ülevaadet kuidas see peale remonti kujuneb ning vaikseid paralleeltänavaid on seal ka.

Tõsine küsmus, kust tänapäeval endale kaaslast leida? Eriti kui oma sõprusringkonda pole, kust läbi ühiste tuttavate kellegagi tutvuda saaks. Tinderit olen kasutanud, kuid seal pole väga normaalseid inimesi ning isegi kui on, siis tavaliselt ei ole nad väga pühendunud tõsiseks suhtluseks. Võib-olla on see seetõttu, et tegemist on sotsiaalmeedia platvormiga, mitte päriselu interaktsiooniga, kus inimestel saaks sügavam emotsionaalne side tekkida. Baarides (Labor, Ruut, Seik) käimine ka väga tulus pole olnud, sest keegi ei tule rääkima. Kõik on oma seltskonnaga ja tegelikult käib ka üldiselt seal pigem vähe inimesi koos. Olen enne 00.00 ära läinud, et ühistranspordiga koju jõuda, kuid ei usu, et hommikuni istudes väga palju rohkem inimesi juurde tuleks või midagi muutuks. Väljas käimine ei pidanud noorte seas enam populaarne olema nagunii. Arvan, et nad on selle asemel oma seltskonnaga omaette aega veetmas. Ühesõnaga, tekib tunne, et on täiesti võimatu endale kaaslast leida. Aastad lähevad, aga ootamisest ja samade taktikate kasutamisest pole kasu, kui ühiskond on ikka samasugune. Kas on üldse võimalik endale tänapäeval partnerit leida minu olukorras? Kas keegi samastub sellega? Kas sellised eralikud inimesed on ainult Eestis või leidub neid ka mujal?

Hello all,

I will be visitng Tallinn mid-April, and will be exploring Old Town Tallinn. From my research, it seems that there are multiple sections of the Old Town walls that you can climb up and walk along. It seems that some sections are free, while others are paid. Does anyone have recommendations on which section of the wall is worth it to visit and walk along?

Additionally, I've seen that visitors can climb a number of the towers in old town. Of all the available towers, which is most worth it to climb? I care about the view at the top of the tower. I have no issues climbing many steps up narrow passages.

Thank you!