syklemil
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- Comment on Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true. 17 hours ago:
I think it’s far more likely that the article that doesn’t know what “sweep under the rug” means also got other stuff wrong.
- Comment on Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true. 19 hours ago:
Yeah, but there’s also no way anyone in the Nordics would be fine with a nine-hour workday. There’s something clearly wrong here.
I’d rather guess that they’re working a five-day workweek but have cut the hours per day from 8 to 7.2, or 8 hours Mon-Thu and 4 hours on Friday or the like. The article just comes off as weird.
- Comment on Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true. 19 hours ago:
There’s nothing probable about the combination of a Nordic country and a 9-hour workday.
- Comment on Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true. 19 hours ago:
How does a 36-hour workweek work out to a four-day workweek?
Here in Norway everyone in sneezing distance of a union deal has a five-day workweek at 7.5 hours a day, for 37.5 hours in total. (The law says six days at 8 hours; the half-hour difference is in practice lunch, which is your own time with a union deal and the boss’ time without. I think we could go down to 7h a day and get an hour of lunch like our neighbours.)
- Comment on How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics? 5 days ago:
Yeah, some genres have a large segment of people who struggle to fit in with the mainstream. I’d like to think that they pick up something about social liberalism vs traditionalism from that, but there’s apparently also a significant segment who want as strict traditions as the mainstream, they just want somewhat different traditions.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 1 week ago:
Same in Oslo
- Comment on Ban for upvotes is real here? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, and those aren’t tied to a comment or anything it’s harder to make an opinion of our own. But for the communities I mentioned there are visible comments, and … I think OP wouldn’t have a good time at lemmy.ml, hexbear or blahaj, or even any instance where some common decency is expected.
- Comment on Ban for upvotes is real here? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, looking up the modlog for Lembot_0001 on lemmy.ml it seems there was more going on than just upvotes, and they got in trouble with programming.dev, europe@feddit and more as well.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 2 months ago:
Yeah, the way things work in Norway and I expect in most other European countries is that you don’t get a citizenship for just being born here, but if you’re born and raised here, then by the time you’re of school age you’d have lived here long enough to become a citizen, and unless your parents isolated you, you shouldn’t have any problems with language requirements.
Basically the system here is “stay here for long enough and make a bit of effort for integration and sure you can become a citizen”.
Of course, the far right loves to portray this as “unrestricted immigration” and make it harder for people to do that, or even live normally, get education and services for their kids, etc. And then complain when the result is people who feel that the system isn’t working for them, or who have trouble because they’re uneducated and poorly integrated anywhere.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
To be a bit more generic here, when you’re at government scale you’re generally deep in trade-off territory. Time and space are frequently opposed values and you have to choose which one is most important, and consider the expenses of both.
E.g. caching is duplicating data to save time. Without it we’d have lower storage costs, but longer wait times and more network traffic.
- Comment on I never realized this 4 months ago:
Yeah, like the -berg names (e.g. Stoltenberg), it’s likely the family farm if you go far enough back. My family has a name that’s an island and the settlement on it. Taking a profile picture next to the town sign that’s also our last name is pretty common (for a name of a few hundred people).
- Comment on I never realized this 4 months ago:
Yeah, doesn’t seem to be a thing in Norway, but it could probably be revived for the countries that did that. Like Sheryl Copywriter or Ross Youtuber or whatever.
- Comment on I never realized this 4 months ago:
A lot of last names here are frozen patronyms (e.g. at some point some dude named Hans had kids; now there are lots of people calling themselves his son, Hansen) or place names. I kinda like the place name bit: Just give kids last names to a place they have a connection to. Where they were born or conceived or something.
- Comment on bird flu 4 months ago:
Given how much antibiotics they pump into livestock it wouldn’t be that weird.
But yeah, less intensive animal farming would likely also reduce spread & impact.
- Comment on bird flu 4 months ago:
We’ve been making flu vaccines for a long time now, and the flu has always been a virus that comes in various strains so you need to renew the vaccine frequently (usually once a year, as opposed to other vaccines that can last you a decade), and the medical industry needs to know which strains to make vaccines for.
Part of the thing with covid was that it was novel, and the vaccines were as well, because they needed to be not just developed fast, but deployed fast.
This isn’t the first time H5N1 is making the rounds, and there have been vaccines for it for over a decade. Depending on where you live, your country may have a stockpile of vaccines or just ordered one.
The problems humanity will face with the virus is one of uneven distribution of vaccines due to uneven distribution of wealth, poor health care policies, and science denialism / vaccine conspiracy nightmares.
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 4 months ago:
Yeah, to my ESL ears man/woman are nouns, not adjectives, and using them as adjectives comes off as childish.
That said, “female X” can also sound clumsy, if it’s implied that a bare X is male, e.g. “politician” and “female politician”, vs male and female politician. There was a twitter account calling itself a “male programmer” which took the piss out of that trope.
- Comment on Rule of man’s plaid not conforming to Euclidean space 4 months ago:
Boobies !!
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 4 months ago:
And even with a “please keep your feet on the floor” sign right next to them.