Mikä viittaa siihen, että tilanne olisi paranemassa?

What does “highway” mean in the context of this place? Are there other doors out of the building? What is the building?

What is there on the highway? Is that where the buses stop and this is some kind of a shelter? Or is it assumed that people will fetch their friends from the building by stopping at the side of what is called highway here?

Doesn’t a black hole stretch time in a really weird manner? That would mean that no sensible answer can be given to the question. It could easily be that it takes either one billionth of a second or a trillion years, depending on where you are standing when observing the occurrence.

So, you’d promise that whoever brings you a sum of money, gets a lump of uranium? The more money brought, the bigger the lump? That would be kind of cool!

I mean, it’s a job with a payment of 500 $ per week. What is there to complain? 🤔

I can’t make head or tails of who would be fighting whom in that war.

If a WW was to break tomorrow, it would probably be because of Trump making true his threats to attack NATO in order gain definite control over Greenland?

Probably USA would be its own side without allies?
Then there would probably be NATO as one side, most likely with Australia and Japan on the same team as NATO. And, I’d say, probably all of Southern and Central America.
And the Russia and Iran with China? Pakistan would probably be on their side, so India would seek something else. More likely NATO than USA?

But then again, WWIII would be such a big deal that it feels weird imagining it might end up a three-sided war. The loosest piece on this board is USA… If it allies with one of the sides, will that side be that of NATO or that of the Russia?

Hm. Well, if it allies with China and the Russia, it gets super difficult for NATO to keep shit together. Then again, the Canadian border is not all that far away from DC, and Latvia is not far away from Moscow. We’d probably also have Ukraine on our side, and they can teach a lot about modern warfare!

All in all: If USA manages to ally with someone, that side is likely to win. If it remains alone, it will probably lose. I would say that in a situation where USA doesn’t ally with anyone, NATO would be the side losing the least.

But, in the end nobody wins in a war.

For a Finn that’s actually easy. You are used to an obscure writing system where the letters alone have no meaning, but you need to look at what letters are near what ones to know if you should pronounce an a or e or u or i.

In Greek pronounciation you just look at each letter and pronounce it. Forget the big picture of the word, just concentrate on three consequtive letters at a time.

This is not a petition but an initiative. The EU is legally forced to process this as if it was an initiative made by a member of the European parliament.

They have as much legislative power as any initiative by an MEP/MP/senator/congressman does. If there is no political support in the parties, the initiative will lose the vote. But it can also win it.

CoMaps updates its maps only when a new program version comes out. And after that you must still manually go and update the map to the current one.

So, to get the most recent map, you must update to the most recent version of CoMaps first.

I believe if you update your CoMaps and then download the newest available version of your area’s map, you’ll see the speed limits you have edited in!

So, less than a square metre of our planet’s surface is radiating enough energy to power a 4W led bulb? Not bad, actually!

What a well-written article. Many thanks for linking it!

They are having a conversation in the Fediverse.

Nuff said?

Why what?

Sundials were absolutely surely invented several times around the world, also in Australia etc. After all, a sundial is nothing but a stick in the ground.

If mechanical clocks were invented before colonizers arrived, then the colonizers’ clocks eventually replaced them. But, I understand they were invited only after all of the southern hemisphere had been colonized by less civilized nations, so they follow the colonizers’ standards everywhere.

Sorry, I did understand all of the words in your comment, but not what you actually meant with it. Could you paraphrase, please?

You join them in whatever shops you like to buy your European products. By giving them money and them giving you a European product.

So does Finland:

(Except in internal timetables of bus companies, that typically run until 30 o’clock, as it still officially counts as the same working day)

I think Finland would have said bye bye to him for that. USA could then have sent someone else to replace him.
Iceland cannot, because it doesn’t have an army of its own.

Have you noticed how common it is for buses and trains to leave at 23:59? The idea is to make it clear what evening the train is really running.

In Finnish we call noon “12 o’clock” and midnight “0 o’clock”. Makes things a lot more clear.
And the first hour of a calendar day is indeed 0:00 until 0:59:59.99… Since there are only 24 hours in a day, there cannot be a “24:30”. (Except in internal timetables of bus companies, that typically run until 30 o’clock, as it still officially counts as the same working day)

Make sure to mirror the database on several servers located in various countries with varying political allegiances!