There is always the heat death of the universe to look forward to!

For context (mostly for Americans), in Sweden most people have what you would know as tenure. Even someone working McDonald’s for 6 months has tenure at that job. Calling in sick is not something that it’s possible to fire anyone for, and the concept of “number of sick days” is foreign to us

I haven’t read about, and am not interested in the shooter.

My opinion is only that the world is better off without Charlie Kirk, nothing else at this point.

I completely understand, and I actually wish that I could share your perspective. Unfortunately for my “empathy for all” perspective, I couldn’t help but smile when I read that he got shot. Because my mind directly went to the “oh, this is gonna alleviate so much suffering” POV

The intent wasn’t to "cure " but maybe provide a standard phrase that has worked well for me in the hopes that it might do so for others

This is just my perspective, and I never wish harm or suffering on another living being, but if what/who you are and advocate for causes these things and you’re too stupid or bribed to see it and continue being you… Then, for the greater good, good riddance

“I’m sorry, I completely zoned out. Can you repeat that”

Is the least problematic way to get the information again of you somewhere along the line realise that you probably should have been trying to listen.

As an almost 40 year old man who has worked a few years in different kinds of healthcare (including being the only man in a retirement home). I would get pissed when people being lazy caused suffering (because of lack of care) but that never gave me the go ahead to do the same. I’m better than that.

I also started my job journey working in factories, wielding shops and construction sites. In factories you learn to count every minute and be extremely punctual. You know how many seconds more you can chat before you get a backlog and shit from the boss.

In shops and construction sites people will chew you out and really ostracise you if you don’t carry your weight.

But mostly: Is my job to actually be working during my working time and I don’t give a fuck about what Karen thinks about stuff, she’s shit at everything anyway

They do, I’m just pointing to an ISO standard which most use…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

What’s the punishment for this kind of contempt? $1000 fine?

Like, okay contempt, soooo? Can’t they just contempt the contempt?

If only there would have been any early signs that this could happen.

Why didn’t anyone say anything? Try to warn people!?

Oh well, at least this is the final step and it’s only gonna get better from now on. /s

There is. I do it, it’s my job as a solar engineer.

Basically, there are several leading softwares that solar engineers use to account for just about anything that happens in the real world.

I mainly use PVsol premium where I 3d model each site and the panel placements and electrical components and so on, then run a minute scale simulation based on the exact location weather data (using Metronorm 8.3)…

Almost no one outside my field understands what goes into my job. It doesn’t help that there’s a lot of untrained people pretending to do what I do…

How about we both do the calculations and we cancel each others consultant fees?

This is also true for cars, but electric cars are viable even though its the same comparison between energy density. Would you be willing to have this conversation with actual calculations and specified arguments regarding the numbers?

I like trains and I’m not American. You brought up energy density as the factor preventing long haul. Please don’t appeal to authority as the argument but rather state what you think the energy density needs to be and why to make electric long haul viable.

I’m curious what you think the energy density needs to be for it to be viable and why? The way I see it energy density is a very minor factor for this equation but I’m curious to hear your explanation.

I know that’s true in the US, but do you have a source for Europe on that?

Here in Sweden insulin is free. Although we have universal healthcare most medical things cost a little, up to about $230/year then any medication or procedure is free.

Insulin, and related equipment and so on, doesn’t even cost a little for the patient here and is completely free. It does of course cost our government and taxpayers money, our government pays about $0.09 per person per day for insulin.

Is a leading question. And in my experience 95% of people who are focused on “censorship”

1. Don’t know what it really means (there’s a huge difference between moderation and censorship)
2. Have a victim complex.
3. Are generally uncomfortable to engage with and usually deserve their bans for various reasons.