Those countries are also lily white. You will get the similar “ happiness” quotient in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Iowa.
Plus most of those countries aren’t even the size of a good Atlanta traffic jam. Plus they lack any level of creativity. When was the last time you got excited about a play, movie, song, or book from Finland? Or even a simple invention?
Nice try though. You should drink more too, like the Finns, maybe then you could go outside in the sun and have some fun, but don’t drive. Or stick with being a miserable scold, the choice is yours.
Electric sail
Also called an electric solar wind sail or E-sail, the electric sail was invented in 2006 by Pekka Janhunen at the Finnish Meteorological Institute. It's a form of spacecraft propulsion that uses the dynamic pressure of solar winds as a means of thrust. An electric field is formed with small wires, which deflects solar wind protons and extracts their momentum. It can be used for fast missions to planet Uranus, to study the sun at a closer distance, or other solar system explorations. The propulsion system could send a spacecraft to the edge of our solar system (the heliopause) three times faster than ever before.
Heart rate monitor
The first wireless EKG heart rate monitor was invented in 1977 by Seppo Saynajakangas, founder of the sports training computer manufacturing company Polar Electro. Not having a way to accurately record heart rates in athletes, he conceived the idea for the Finnish National Cross Country Ski team to use in training.
The Internet Browser
Well, internet browsers as we know them. The first internet browser with a graphical user interface (in other words, not just plain text) was invented by four Finnish students - Kim Nyberg, Teemu Rantanen, Kati Suominen and Kari Sydanmaanlakka - for their master's project at Helsinki University of Technology. Called Erwise, it was released in 1992, but halted soon after the students graduated. Founder of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee went to Finland and encouraged them to continue with the project, but it didn't have proper funding. Though Erwise is discontinued, it paved the way for the user-friendly web browsing we use today.
Savonius Wind Turbine
Wind turbines are an important part of affordable, clean, and sustainable energy. In 1922, Finnish engineer Sigurd Johannes Savonius invented and later patented the Savonius Wind Turbine. It is a drag-type vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) that can be used in areas with very turbulent wind coming from all directions. It uses three cup-like blades and it's much quieter than other turbines.
Safety reflector
Finnish farmer Arvi Lehti invented the safety reflector for use on his horse carts during long, dark winters. Now, pedestrians are required by law to wear reflectors when traveling in dark conditions in Finland. Countries that use reflectors have the lowest pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries, and it keeps bikers, joggers, and others on the road safe too. This is because they can be seen at more than three times the distance as they would be without a reflector, giving drivers time to slow down or move over.
Linux
Finnish inventor Linus Torvalds was still a computer science student in 1991 when he created his own operating system for his PC; and he made his brainchild universally available and free. It was licensed in a way that requires source code changes be publicly available, setting the stage for open-source software. Nowadays, Linux is everywhere, and a machine likely running Linux has sent you to this web page. Linux can be recognized by its logo, a penguin named Tux.
SMS (texting)
It's hard to imagine a world without texting these days. Mobile phones were originally intended for businessmen on the road, but soon ordinary people were buying the phones for personal use. Short for Short Message Service, SMS was pioneered by Matti Makkonen while working for Nokia Networks and Tele Finland. He pitched the concept of text messaging over cellular networks in 1984 and helped get the ball rolling on the technology in its earliest days during the 1990's.
You're a jingoistic idiot.