JohnEdwa

Dammit president Madagascar, you were supposed to shut down everything, not flee.

My favourite example of not having basic understanding is the Lia radiological incident.

Three men from Lia (later designated as patients 1-DN, 2-MG, and 3-MB by the IAEA) had driven 45–50 km (28–31 mi) to a forest overlooking the Enguri Dam reservoir to gather firewood. They drove up a nearly impassable road in snowy winter weather, and discovered two canisters at around 6 pm. Around the canisters there was no snow for about a 1 m (3.3 ft) radius, and the ground was steaming. Patient 3-MB picked up one of the canisters and immediately dropped it, as it was very hot. Deciding that it was too late to drive back, and realizing the apparent utility of the devices as heat sources, the men decided to move the sources a short distance and make camp around them. Patient 3-MB used a stout wire to pick up one source and carried it to a rocky outcrop that would provide shelter. The other patients lit a fire, and then patients 3-MB and 2-MG worked together to move the other source under the outcrop. They ate dinner and had a small amount of vodka, while remaining close to the sources. Despite the small amount of alcohol, they all vomited soon after consuming it, the first sign of acute radiation syndrome (ARS), about three hours after first exposure. Vomiting was severe and lasted through the night, leading to little sleep. The men used the sources to keep them warm through the night, positioning them against their backs, and as close as 10 cm (3.9 in). The next day, the sources may have been hung from the backs of Patient 1-DN and 2-MG as they loaded wood onto their truck. They felt very exhausted in the morning and only loaded half the wood they intended. They returned home that evening.

If you find a strange grey canister in the middle of the woods that has somehow melted the snow around it and is steaming hot for no reason, don’t fucking touch it.

…but we all know in our hearts that if we didn’t have prior understanding of these thing, all of us would totally go touch the mystical heat canister.

Oh if the Gulf Stream stops we are totally fucked - Finland is almost exactly at the same latitude the Northwest Territories of Canada. The capital of Finland would basically get Yellowknife type temperatures, and that would essentially be the warmest place in the entire country.

If that ever happens I’m just going to kalsarikänni myself to death in the snowbank.

I’m sad to announce that climate change has arrived here too.

But for the guy bothered by snow, great news, winters in the southern Finland, especially in the coast, have mostly turned to just a 5 month long wet and windy autumns instead!

Technically it would, as the law change is to allow 13 hour days, not to force them. Same as the previous one that allowed six-day work weeks.

I’m assuming it’s similar to how it’s here in Finland, where the law generally limits work days to 8 hours and a maximum of 40 hours a week. Changing those legal limits wouldn’t directly cause anyone to have to do more work, but it would now be legal - Finland has a few exceptions to it as well, some jobs have the limit be 80 hours per two weeks for example to allow longer/more days crunched together.

If it’s combined with a limit, like “The law now allows up to 13 hour days or six hour work weeks as long as it’s under 40 hours a week”, then in theory it’s a good thing - being able to choose anything between 13h x 3d and 7h x 6d depending on what works best for the job would be useful. The problem obviously is “Hey, you are fine with 13 hour days six days a week right? Oh you aren’t? Well there’s the door we’ll find someone desperate and stupid enough to replace you.”

Friday is a workday, saturday morning is spent recovering, and sunday you have to plan so that you can go back to work on monday morning. You get your one free 24 hours split between saturday and sunday. Yay…

Shockingly, boycotts don’t work if the actual customers don’t take part in them. Companies don’t care about your feelings, they care about money, and “I’m never buying a thing because of reasons!” doesn’t matter if you weren’t about to buy one in the first place.

But he continues paying random women to have his kids because they all start hating him after a while, and apparently 13 tries hasn’t been enough for him to notice the one thing in common with all of them.

That’s a standard shift for the majority of nurses and doctors. Which is (should) then be compensated by working only three days a week. For some jobs and people it works wonderfully - you have less commute time and four entirely free days every week.

The extreme case are firefighters, one 24 hour shift every four days. Unless shit hits the fan and then all bets are off - you don’t exactly walk away from a forest fire because your shift ended a minute ago.

But Greece wants to allow up to 13 hours 5 days a week, which if actually done would burn people up ridiculously fast.

Afterwards the giant dish of jollof rice, which also included 168kg of goat meat, was divided into individual portions and distributed to the huge crowds.

“It’s not AI, it’s just <multiple things that all fall under the category of Artificial Intelligence>”.

AI is a huge field of computer science. It’s not the one tiny narrow definition of artificial general intelligence like HAL 9000 or Skynet or Detroit Become Human.

Eh, could be better.

EU could take a lesson from Russia just this once.

Trump wants IOSS, just implemented in a week, somehow by someone else than America themselves, and made immediately mandatory.

Almost every sport does actually have only “women” and “free for all” categories, very few have a “men” only one.

And it usually exists only because otherwise there simply would be no female competitors. One example is chess - the three best women have world rankings of #143, #250 and #271.

I mean, that does makes perfect sense, if we are suddenly thinking of giving Russia back parts it’s given to others in the past…

Which you can “Ackchyually” and end up with really interesting results.
For example, if it’s the animation studio that defines it, then Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is an anime, as it’s by Science Saru, the same studio responsible for Dandadan, and the netflix Castlevania is a cartoon.

Lemmy dot marxist-leninist created as a communist safe-space for users leaving reddit has propaganda about communist countries and they don’t moderate it away, I’m shocked.

That’s why Lemmy as a whole was originally created in fact.

They give up to 10 days visa free from some countries you otherwise need a visa to enter in the first place. In guessing that if you can’t show proof you are continuing to somewhere else - like a connecting flight - you aren’t getting in at all.

But it has only one official language, which is English, so calling it something else would also be a stretch.

The Holocene extinction event is just going to be the sixth one so far, and it certainly won’t be the last. As the saying goes, “life finds a way”.
We just won’t be around to see it.