GissaMittJobb
@GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 1 week ago:
Imagine the cost of changing the entire road network over to use metric.
Here’s a zero-cost plan to migrate the road network over to metric: have a transition period where signs may be shown in either unit, then require all replacement signs to be shown as metric. Since all signs must eventually be replaced, over a long enough period of time the whole network will become metric without any marginal cost increase.
The only downside is that for a time, people have to understand both units and how they relate to each other.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 1 week ago:
Layers - get a good base layer, merino wool is the gold standard for these. You also want to get a neck gaiter, plus some merino wool socks, and some kind of cap. These will keep you warm and dry throughout most cold weather. Add more layers on top when outside, and remember to remove layers proactively if you feel yourself starting to sweat - it’s never a good idea to be wet in cold weather. The base layer will make physical exertion a pretty hot affair quite fast, so you’d be surprised how fast the sweat starts pouring.
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- Comment on END OF NYT TECH GUILD STRIKE 1 week ago:
Return without a deal? I’m not sure that’s going to be good for the union long-term.
- Comment on Is it expected to tip for furniture deliveries? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 1 week ago:
Get yourself a few bottles of caffeine pills. They’re really cheap and might get you through some tough times
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 1 week ago:
I think global warming as a term is not great, because it fails at communicating the end result of the overall average temperature increase, which is more chaotic weather on account of the increased energy present in the system. Sometimes this will mean temporary local reductions in temperature, and sometimes it will mean unusually cold years in places. Don’t give people the option to use ‘bUt iT’s cOlDeR tHiS yEAr sO hOw cAn gLoBaL wArMiNg bE rEaL’ as an easy argument.
Climate change is the more accurate term, but I do prefer terms that more accurately communicate the severity of the situation, such as the climate crisis, for example.
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 1 week ago:
So we’ve been going on for a pretty long time about how Florida is basically largely going to get completely lmaoed by climate change, and trying to warn people moving there and so on.
But as time goes on, I’m thinking maybe it’s best if they suffer the consequences of their actions, and let the ocean have this one.
Refugees will of course not be accepted in accordance with the new regime policy either, and FEMA has been fully dissolved.
- Comment on a murder investigation 2 weeks ago:
Surely it must mean “for those who don’t know”, right?
- Comment on Damn. 😔 2 weeks ago:
Right, so I chose lemmy.ml in June 2023 right at the start of the exodus from Reddit as it appeared to be a “sensible default” at that point. I’m not even sure that lemmy.world was around at that point, it certainly did not appear to be the “sensible default” it appears to have turned into.
I’m not using the instance as any kind of political statement, this is just the account I use to interact with Lemmy as a network. I could certainly move off the instance, but I’ve found that filtering out some content makes the instance mostly usable for my purposes.
Feel free to check my post history as to whether I’m auth left or not, I’m certain you’ll find that I’m not. Leaning more and more left as the days pass, to be sure, but with no love for authoritarianism.
- Comment on Damn. 😔 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re overestimating the influence of the auth-left on Lemmy - this is an extremely small place in the grand scheme of things, and while I think they had a truly shit take, it would be too generous to say that they even moved the needle.
- Comment on Business execs just said the quiet part out loud on RTO mandates — A quarter admit forcing staff back into the office was meant to make them quit 3 weeks ago:
Voluntary layoffs - probably the best form of layoffs if you ask me - still come with severance packages that have to be paid. Very few people will be interested in quitting just because you ask them, but a good many will do it if you sweeten the deal.
Basically we have 3 variants here:
Regular layoffs - have to pay severance + can select who leaves RTO stealth layoffs - don’t have to pay severance + can’t select who leaves Voluntary layoffs - have to pay severance + can’t select who leaves
Any morally bankrupt business would of course want a fourth variant where they get to select who leaves and don’t have to pay severance, but thankfully this option is generally not available to them.
Anyway, voluntary layoffs are the best out of a selection of bad choices for the workers, but come with the most downsides for the morally bankrupt business.
- Comment on Business execs just said the quiet part out loud on RTO mandates — A quarter admit forcing staff back into the office was meant to make them quit 3 weeks ago:
Only has to work once, you pocket the savings on severance packages one time and then go back to regular layoffs.
Dystopian as all hell, but such is the corporate world.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 5 weeks ago:
For the record, lunch time is not considered paid time in Sweden either.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 5 weeks ago:
As I’ve understood it, the problem is primarily for the people having to manufacture products using it, and at rest it’s supposed to be inert.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 5 weeks ago:
Ain’t no glitch to go fast my man. Dudes not even going out of bounds
- Comment on Explains a lot... 5 weeks ago:
Colon any% no major glitches
- Comment on The Map Men play GeoGuessr 5 weeks ago:
Loser gets a cool vacation as a punishment
Bit weird, but good video regardless
- Comment on (EVE Online, OC) If you understand even 1% of this video, it may be time to touch some grass 1 month ago:
For someone who’s never played EVE, what does a safe spot do? Are you unable to be attacked in it, or just less likely to be detected?
- Comment on Thank you Skövde 1 month ago:
This is the real explanation. Couple that with a push in the late 90s/early 2000s to roll out high-speed unmetered internet in the form of ADSL and later fiber.
- Comment on Br*t*sh 1 month ago:
🤢 Br*tish “people” 🤮
- Comment on Low Tech Magazine: Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse 1 month ago:
Iceland runs plenty of these and has a nice culture of frequenting the public bathhouse. It’s one of the few things you can do that is actually affordable there.
They do have the advantage of having essentially infinite clean energy in the form of geothermal heat. As do Japan in many cases, for that matter. I’m sure that has something to do with these institutions having staying power there.
Anyway, I think this idea has merits, but not as an energy saving measure. The reason for this is that in order to maintain good water quality, you have to shower thoroughly before getting into the bath, negating the potential energy benefits of the initiative. We can bring it back for it being nice, though!
- Comment on Lifeprotip 1 month ago:
Nature’s pocket
- Comment on Balatro is now out on Mobile. Humanity is doomed. 1 month ago:
Gotcha!
Well, I’m not in a Balatro-period right now, but when the itch comes back I’ll probably buy it for mobile as well.
Are you aware of any platform affordances that have been made for mobile in this release, or is it basically the same as the unofficial ports you can DIY?
- Comment on Balatro is now out on Mobile. Humanity is doomed. 1 month ago:
Doesn’t quite seem to be out on Android yet, at least not in my market. I could pre-register and have it download automatically when it’s out, though.
It didn’t list a price and said there was an in-app purchase, anyone know what that’s about? Will I be able to use the copy I bought for PC or what?
Anyway, this is great. Granted, I’ve been playing Balatro on mobile for many months already, but an officially supported version is even better.
- Comment on Preference 1 month ago:
Medicine generally comes in blister packs here to avoid accidental injury/death. Big bottles of medicines are just simply not a thing here, regardless of vendor.
- Comment on Fuck 1 month ago:
Just hit them with a PepeHands or a ikftb and you’re golden honestly
- Comment on Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower 2 months ago:
Yes. It gets used by people commuting long distances by bike and people who work out during lunch, or for anyone who needs to shower for other unknown reasons.
- Comment on Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower 2 months ago:
Jokes on you, I shop and shower while at the office as well.
- Comment on President on President Violence 2 months ago:
Milei has already claimed that title.