Norway did it in 2015, and it seems to have been a success.
There has been surprisingly little debate about it here in Denmark. I haven’t heard a single argument against it.
It should be noted that the draft is for training only, and that it’s possible for pacifists to opt out of the military training by doing work for other institutions.
Personally I think it might be a great help for modernizing the military, because they’ll need to rethink the old “one size fits all” procedures.
It’s a response to Neil Young’s songs which criticized the racist south.
Basically, it’s what-about-ism in song form, mocking the liberals for being upset with Nixon.
I refuse to believe that a majority of Americans are fascists.
Things would look very different if they had a democracy.
What they need is a democratic election, without gerrymandering, without voter suppression, done on paper ballots with a pencil, on a holiday, with all ballots counted and checked.
You know the quote: “You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.”
Same thing applies to politics. They’re doing illegal things that people didn’t vote for. There’s no way this can be fixed by voting when they don’t respect anything anyway.
States need to secede and form a different government.
Colonel Shitbucket
Jeg kender en der arbejdede for Verisure i den periode. De fik kun en meget lille fast løn og så provision oveni. De skulle sælge sælge sælge for overhovedet at kunne lave en almindelig månedsløn.
Den slags setup resultaterer selvfølgelig i løgn og bedrag.
If I could drop out of everything for 29 days, I wouldn’t come back at all.
Try this page if you want to read more about it:
https://erich-friedman.github.io/papers/squares/squares.html
There’s an interesting documentary from 2020 on the real life biodome as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Earth_(film)
I remember it being a big deal in the 90s science magazines, but I never knew it was really just a bunch of hippies doing it.
Nå jeg troede du mente ikke under 40 øre.
Den var da negativ i søndags.
I’ve seen the evolution of the one to the right. It now has a USB connection on the tail.
Er det fedterøve eller fattigrøve som stjæler fra vejboderne?
TV2 burde lave en Sorte Svane udsendelse hvor de interviewer de anonyme tyve og skaber en debat om emnet, så vi kan blive underholdt, forargede og enige om at sådan gør man i hvertfald ikke.
The caps was a problem yes. Not just littering, but also in sorting for recycling, where they’d often end up in the wrong place.
It obviously depends on where and how it’s done, but the thing I’ve heard is that due to (the lack of) weight and size the bottle caps would end up in the paper badges, which would ruin the paper from being recycled. It’s better if it follows the bottle. PET bottles (including caps) are shredded, washed and used for new bottles.
Same thing happened to the pull tabs on aluminium cans. Those used to be separate too.
I feel the same way about Charles Bukowski. I can read, understand and appreciate the books without liking the guy. He also paints himself in a negative picture, but the thoughts are still worth considering or just knowing of. Whether or not it’s intended, I think it’s okay for litterature to provoke the reader to think that the author is wrong or plain crazy, because at least it makes me think about stuff instead of just entertaining my existing views.
I did read Lila 25 yeas ago, but I hardly remember it. It’s been a long time since I last read any books at all. Perhaps I ought to give it a second chance.
It’s worth a read.
I think it’s often frowned upon for being somewhat of a naive juvenile pocket philosophical rambling, or the dairy of a madman, but I’d say that it introduces some valid points about the concept of quality that you can then think about yourself.
It’s definitely on my top 10 list of books. Not because it’s great, but because I can often relate to it in miscellaneous situations even 30 years after reading it.
Their people?
If you’re a mathematician how can you be dissing 5 like that?
Less than? Hell no.
5 is soo much more and soo many things that 25 isn’t and never will be.
Without 5 you wouldn’t even have 25. Some might even say that 5 is the root of 25. Show some respect for the roots.
Not only is 5 a beautiful prime number, it’s also the perfect number for a geometric shape. Everyone knows what a pentagon looks like. The Pentagon even named their institution as that. They didn’t name it after 25. Who the hell has ever heard of the icosikaiopentagon? Nobody, that’s who.
Look at the American flag. It has 50 stars. Guess which shape they have? That’s right, each of the 50 states have stars with 5 points. Exactly 0 of them chose to have a 25 pointed star.
You know what a bad number is? Yes: 25.
25 is a shitty composite number. It’s shitty because it’s not even good at being a composite number; having only a measly 3 factors: One, itself and 5 (of all things, duh…)
That’s because it’s square and boring. Does it even look square to you? This uneven 25 is supposedly a square. I never made a square of 25 things. What’s the fucking point in that? If I had to make a square for any purpose whatsoever, I’d definitely chose a better number with many more factors, so I could actually use the squaredness to divide things and mark mid points and what not. 4 is a square. 16 is a square. They’re so much better at being square than 25, because you can cut them in half and make a grid with a midpoint.
So, yeah yeah, there are probably other numbers out there greater than 5, but it sure as fuck is not 25.