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canYouTakeALookAtThisDateTimeBug (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The article: https://www.politico.eu/article/norway-arctic-region-asks-eu-commission-for-26-hour-day/

How would the new time zones work in practice? Wenche Pedersen, the mayor of Vadsø who authored the letter, is unsure.

“We haven’t thought a lot about that” she said. “The clock will go from 12 to 13… and we have to see how this will go. I don’t think they’re going to say yes so we haven’t thought about all the details.”

Huh. Great idea.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Make a proposal without a plan or a feasibility study is peak management. Starting to understand how I end up with projects with very firm deadlines that are only vaguely defined and no one is sure if we have the resources on hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When every decision is made by people alienated from every material or functional concern by like ten layers of abstraction, all decisions smell of recent severe skull deforming head trauma.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I hear they're also declaring that pi equals three.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Or 5

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They'll settle for three-ish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

pi = 3.1±0.05

Gotta allow for a little uncertainty, just to absolutely ruin everything.