bstix

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[–] bstix 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I doubt that cars and car infrastructure would be allowed today if we weren't already knee-deep in the shit they cause.

It's probably the worst invention ever.

[–] bstix 4 points 1 week ago

That's not possible with the system in my country, but I agree, it ought to be standard in EU too.

I think the machine attracts more people with lots of cans and also teaches more people not to bother refunding often.

My point, if there is one, is that when technology makes life easier, it's human nature to become even lazier, to the point where the technology doesn't solve the issue it was made for.

[–] bstix 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

A local store just upgraded the deposit machine, so instead of depositing one single can at a time, I now empty an entire bag of hundreds of cans into the machine and let it sort it out. It's great, saves lots of time and makes everything easier. Instead of bringing a shopping bag with 20 cans everytime I shop I can take an entire sack of 200 cans every month or so.

Unfortunately... the same kind of people who used to cause queues with their 200 can garbage bags at the usual refund machines also figured this out, so now they're causing a queue at the new machine with trailer loads of garbage bags full of thousands of cans.

I have no idea where they get all those cans.

video of the machine

[–] bstix 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ja det er argumentet. Minimum-løn bliver til maksimum-løn.

Vi kan se det på de overenskomster som har mindsteløn.

Lønstatistik viser at ansatte på overenskomster uden mindsteløn får højere løn end dem som er på overenskomster med mindsteløn.

Men mest af alt synes jeg det er problematisk at løn imellem private parter skal bestemmes politisk.

Det kan altså ske at en pensionist i Skagen på demokratisk vis skal være med til bestemme hvor meget en mindstelønsansat på Fyn skal have udbetalt af sin arbejdsgiver i København.

En EU mindsteløn kan betyde at en tomat-avler i Spanien kommer til at bestemme lønnen til en dansk call-center medarbejder.

Det er helt fint at politikerne laver budgetter for offentlige lønninger som er statens eller kommunens penge, men hvordan kan det være rimeligt at de skal bestemme over hvor meget en privat virksomhed betaler en privat arbejdstager? Det er ikke penge som indgår i den kasse som vi stemmer om.

Det er hele fidusen i den danske model: At regeringen skal blande sig udenom, så de der kender mest til faget kan forhandle direkte mellem dem som betaler og dem som modtager.

[–] bstix 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Milky Way is in a sort of orbit around the center of the Local Group which is the name for the local group of galaxies. It's not a clean circular orbit and it's not possible to calculate the rotation time, because the pull from other galaxies is stronger than their collective centre of point of gravity, but sure, it rotates overall on that scale too.

The next levels are different. The Local Group is part of a larger supercluster of galaxies that do not seem to rotate. It's more like flows of galaxy clusters. Depending on the point and scale we look at, it may be shrinking or expanding. Perhaps there is some rotation to it, but the scale of both distance and time is so incredibly large that it's meaningless.

[–] bstix 1 points 1 week ago

Rafael is a name of Hebrew origin.

Cruz is a Spanish name.

Ted is the name of a serial killer.

[–] bstix 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lovgivningen burde i så fald være at virksomheder skal tegne overenskomst i henhold til deres branchekode.

Er det en restaurant, så skal de have restaurant overenskomst, er det et lager så skal de have lager overenskomst, osv.

I Sverige og Finland bruger man sektor-aftaler, som er obligatoriske. Det fungerer sådan at selvom en virksomhed ikke selv har overenskomst, så skal de som minimum følge sektorens mindstekrav. Mindstekravene opstår på den måde at hvis alle overenskomster indenfor en sektor indeholder de samme punkter, så opløftes det til sektor-aftalen.

Fordelene er at det fjerner konkurrenceforvridning indenfor branchen, sikrer at alle har et minimum af f.eks. løn og pension, og fjerner arbejdsgivernes motivation for at undgå overenskomst, da de kun kan påvirke vilkårene ved at deltage.

I Danmark er det desværre for nemt at slippe udenom. Det giver nogle useriøse arbejdsforhold i rigtig mange små og halvstore virksomheder, som udgør en meget stor del af erhvervslivet i Danmark.

[–] bstix 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

104 comments on how to memorize starboard and port as right and left.

I have an even better way to know : Just fucking remember it.

It's not that difficult.

[–] bstix 1 points 1 week ago

The amount of freshwater used globally is tiny in comparison to the salt water in the oceans.

In case we desalinated the entire amount of consumed freshwater and dumped all the salt from that in the oceans, it would be impossible to even detect a rise in the oceans salt levels, provided that it was distributed properly and not just dumped in one location.

Water is also a cycle. It eventually returns to the ocean one way or the other after we've used it. With proper planning, we could theoretically borrow the water and mix the salt back in when it's returned to the sea.

[–] bstix 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Teoriprøve:

I ovenstående situation vil jeg:

  • give signal med horn og lygter
  • køre så tæt på forankørende som muligt
  • vente til de er kørt til siden og række langemand ud af vinduet
  • overhale indenom
[–] bstix 2 points 1 week ago

Ved to sporede sektioner er det helt fint synes jeg. Begge spor skal bruges og selvfølgelig må man køre forbi hinanden når der er plads.

Udfordringen er på et-sporede veje, hvor der ikke er klart fri bane, og alle venter på fri bane.

Det er særligt farligt fordi de ligger i det blinde punkt for alle andre i køen, og hvem kan sige om de andre i køen også trækker ud. Det er en ret farlig chance at tage.

Som sagt så overvejede jeg de også selv, men fik ikke chancen for det, da jeg i så fald ville være blevet påkørt bagfra.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by bstix to c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
 

I am restoring an old chest and while removing a cover under the lid I found this label. As you can see, it's completely undecipherable except for "***halle & co." However there's another label underneath it. I wonder if I can separate them by putting it in water (like stamps off an envelope), but I'm afraid of destroying it if it has any value whatsoever.

The chest is made of wood and metal, but it's in a horrible state. Hinges and screws have been replaced prior to my owning, and the wood is damaged. I plan on restoring it, but would like to know it's history. Judging by materials and the label, I recon this is from 1900-1940s and American.

 

I'm trying to install Optifine on a Linux Mint Cinnamon laptop. Minecraft Java edition of course.

The game works and has been launched in version 1.20.1, but the Optifine installer keeps saying that I need run version 1.20.1 first.

Also, the installer is already pointing at the correct directory as default, but when I browse the location from the installer, I can't see or set the .minecraft directory manually.

What to do?

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blur - wembley (self.music)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by bstix to c/music@beehaw.org
 

Now, I've been to many concerts and even several blur concerts, but this one felt .. special. Even better than the Hyde park concerts 10+ years ago. Anyone else there?

To me it was like watching their proudest achievement and also delivering on it. Maybe I'm just in awe of the brimfull Wembley stadium shouting along on Park Life, but it definitely felt like this was the final grand stadium concert. I've seen Aerosmith, Green Day, Guns'n'Roses and other larger bands on a full arenas before, but those didn't even come close to this. Despite everything being extremely professionally and on time, they managed to break the wall between the stage and the 90000 in audience.

I'm not even a blur fan as such, but I do acknowledge that their contribution to music is way way underappreciated, or maybe it actually isn't?

The warm-ups sucked, but I think those were a local thing, but the main band really came across brilliantly. I dunno..this was beyond just great, and I have no hopes of ever seeing anything this grand again.

Here's small snippet: https://youtu.be/T0M6OmMw-N0

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et lille tip til hækklipning (self.selvgjortvelgjort)
submitted 2 years ago by bstix to c/selvgjortvelgjort
 

Jeg vil gerne dele et tip, fordi jeg kan se at mange her i nabolaget åbenbart ikke kender det.

De fleste gør sådan: Hækken klippes, affaldet rives sammen, bunkerne læsses på trillebør og trillebøren tømmes på traileren, og til sidst skal traileren tømmes med rive, kost og skovl på genbrugspladsen.

Nej nej nej, prøv lige at høre her:

Det vigtigste redskab til hækklipning er ... 2 stk. presseninger. De billige fra Harald Nyborg kan fint bruges.

Den ene pressening lægges i traileren. Den skal bare ligge der.

Den anden lægges under hækken der hvor du klipper. På den måde falder affaldet direkte ned på presseningen. Når den er godt fuld, så løfter man lige alle hjørner og slæber den over på traileren. Hvis der meget så kan man lige vende den og fortsætte med næste del af hækken. Alternativt kan man købe flere presseninger og bare smide dem alle på traileren.

Ellers, når traileren er fuld, så køres der til genbrugspladsen hvor hele læsset kan trækkes ud med trailer-presseningen og vendes over på pladsen.

På den måde slipper man for at have fat i det flere gange for at læsse det på, det er utroligt nemt at få læsset af igen, og traileren er stadigvæk pæn og ren bagefter. Det sparer mig for ca. en times arbejde.

God fornøjelse med hækklipningen.

 

My neighbours won't appreciate it.

 
 

Full recap of the four day skateboarding event CPH Open 2023 by Flatspot Magazine.

 

My Formula 4s got flat spots, sounding like a moped when I ride the bowl. I'm looking for larger sizes from 56mm upwards. I need mostly for very smooth surfaces and high speed, but sometimes also rougher concrete. I don't have a need for ultra soft wheels.

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