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  • Ah I see, many thanks!

  • *Ackshually*
  • Wait, Hades, specially part of Greek mythology, is part of Christianity too? And death?

  • Worst is UTC vs GMT
  • The drawbacks are many and the benefits are few.

    Watching foreign films would be a pain, where is this in the world again, what does 19:00 mean for them? More exposition, or you just have to guess based on languag and accent.

    I need this work done by our team in XYZ country, what are their working hours? (wow, look at that, still using timezones?)

    When you arrive somewhere on holiday, now you have to get a sense of the time there. Or continually be thinking "what's that in my home time?/what's that in solar time", which is why solar time just makes more sense.

    People aren't going to stop thinking in solar time, ever. We're hard-wired to be awake with the sun. It doesn't matter what the numbers are, you will associate them with the sun. The question then becomes, would we rather all use roughly the same numbers (timezones, what we currently have), or different numbers (everyone using UTC).

    Using UTC solves only 1 problem, you can say verbally to someone across the world, let's make the meeting 15:00 - but this is already easily solved by using a calendar which converts for you...

    There's a reason we have never used a single non-solar time, it's just worse and I think there's a reason these posts always end up on programmer focused places on the internet. Yes, I'm sure their job is annoying, and it would be easier to not have to solve time conversion problems, but the time conversion problems wouldn't even go away if you forced everyone to use UTC. You'd just start having to do conversions to solar time, or looking up waking hours (which is just timezones)

    This is a solved problem.

  • Cake
  • I look forward to future comics tying in this lore into the "anything could be cake" universe.

  • Exclusive: Majority Of Voters Want Next Government To Take UK Back Into European Union
  • A single region within a member country can veto an entire block's will, even if the rest of the country assents? That seems very broken as a voting system, to me.

  • Supreme Court wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors
  • It's very depressing, also for those of us in the imperial sphere of countries. Because we're beholden to US foreign policy, and the worse the US gets, the more dangerous it is for us.

    I mean, we (Australia) already we're doing war crimes for the US in Afghanistan (look up David McBride, the Australian military lawyer), already buying $300 subs as some kind of tributary payment, already followed you into dozens of wars we had no business being a part of, I truly worry for what's next under a more corrupt US regime.

    Yikes.

  • Efficency
  • If God was real / or is real and cared, we would have a perfect 336 day year.

  • exponential growth of wolverines
  • In Australia, they'll give you the fraction of the note value between 20 and 80% of the full value:

    https://www.banknotes.rba.gov.au/damaged-banknotes/damaged-banknotes-policy/

    Wolverine just isn't allowed to lose more than 80% 👍

  • You can fit two cars there
  • You know what's fucked, Standards Australia annouced they were considered increasing the minimum size for parking spots and gave only 3 weeks for public comment.

    So many comments against, but I bet the car lobbies get their way anyway.

    These things are a scourge.

  • My mom's doctor be like
  • It's not like AI is a legally defined term anywhere (that I've head of). Surely someone will end up suing google for things like this.

  • Fuck the law
  • So far I'm sensing a food related theme with your sexual conquests

  • It's the talk of the town
  • Fortnightly seems to be the norm here in Australia

  • Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports
  • Be mad that income tax is unnecessarily difficult to deal with. As has been pointed out by others online a lot recently, the US makes personal income taxes hard, where other countries you can fill it out in minutes if you have no deductions, and less than an hour if you do (and have kept good records).

    No one likes paying taxes (usually) but since the process is so painless I don't hear people complaining about income tax that much (outside of the right-wing media in my country, Australia)

  • PSI
  • The rest of the world would like a word. Do you really think only you people in the US exist?

    Also the equivalent for psi is Pa (=N/m²), usually as kPa or bar (100 kPa).

    Most people don't really understand either to a great extent, and are just familiar with one or the other.

    As always though, metric wins because of its interoperability with all the other metric units.

  • Our Rishi
  • From a different vassal state (Australia), but I think the US is fair game, considering how how many countries are practically beholden to US foreign policy (and straight up meddling, in many, many cases).

  • someone mentioned tattoo parties?
  • As a side-note to your helpful link, I really dislike it when headlines use a comma in place of an "and". Like, use "&" if you really must.

    Print is not exactly the main way people read the news now anyway, I think they can spare the pixels!

  • And here I am just wanting to spray paint "bitch" on my sub's car :'(
  • Unless it's Etymology Nerd, in which case the answer is "I made a creole of my bird and dolphin languages." and it's glorious.

    Can recommend his videos, they are excellent.

  • Today's date is Dozen/Half Dozen/Two Dozen
  • Oh sorry, my point was that East Asia does it YYYY-MM-DD, with the exception of maybe some different delimiter and leading zeros depending on preference, they already coincidentally do it the ISO way!

  • Today's date is Dozen/Half Dozen/Two Dozen
  • May I introduce East Asia? They also like to do addresses top down

  • Just another day for the Coast Guard
  • How does he breathe, and if there are valves, how do they let in only air and not water, considering the ball is spinning?

  • Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone

    I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?

    Edit 2: I bought my Pixel 6 phone outright, directly from Google's Australian store. I have no creditors.

    Were the courts not enough control for creditors? Since when are they allowed to lock you out of your purchased property without a court order?

    I don't even live in the US, so what the actual fuck?

    Edit 1: You can check it's installed (stock Pixel 6 android 14) Settings > Apps > All Apps > three dot menu, Show system > search "DeviceLockController".

    I highly recommend getting NetGuard, you can enable pro features via their website if you have the APK for as low as 0.10€, but donate more, because it's amazing. You can also purchase via Google Play store.

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    I just can't help myself

    Especially when there's some mad person with a folder where they put ALL their markups, correspondence and revisions in the same folder, with no sub folders 🤢.

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    10 mins before open

    While you're madly running about getting the store ready and dialling in the coffee.

    And they're mad that you're not open before the opening time...

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