Godel has a vibe. Don’t be so sure.

Cantor is the infinity guy, so clearly he/it’s a mind-breaking eldritch abomination with tentacles. (Also, mostly 19th century)

I don’t know Frege.

Why?

Like, it’s a little imaginative in parts. But Canada is bigger than Afghanistan in every way, and not weak in any of the same ways.

Yes, .ml person. I’m sure you believe that. And also that North Korea is better, somehow. 'Nuff said.

Edit: Clearly, the user name is ironic, with this much effort to get into a fight.

The plan is to follow the Taliban’s example, it sounds like, so there’d be both rural and urban activity reinforcing each other, and the point would be to make properly occupying all cities at once fairly impossible.

Trump’s main motive seems to improvement of the US’s size and border shape on a map. Probably, Like in Afghanistan, resources are besides the point. Although he’s not going to say no if he can manage it.

There isn’t any nation where the military can just disagree. Even under a military junta, it’s only the junta itself that gets a say; everyone lower down must follow orders (even the ones involving atrocities, in that case. The West is weird for exempting something).

That said, yeah, America isn’t looking so good these days.

A handy word that means so little it’s never wrong.

Lemmy people are their own very specific kind of person.

I heard that back in the days, people used to just go when their work was done on the farms and there was no concept of 9-5 (these days seem 24 hours work).

Yup. In the ancient world, ascetics and monks would practice “having daily schedules” alongside various other harsh forms of penitence, like self-flagellation. One of the ancient Greek authors (Plato?) spoke about it unfavourably even in that context.

The flip side of that, is that if your animals or crops need something now, they need it now. There’s no maximum hours or work-life balance, either. Still, it’s fair to say most people that have experienced that much prefer it, if you put aside how uncomfortable the work itself is.

Because it’s kind of crazy, it’s also worth mentioning that people slept twice in a day, with some time spent up during the night.

There used to be a lot of holidays. Is that true?

Kind of.

Confining ourselves to Europe, there were a lot of public holidays in ancient Rome, and to a lesser extent lots of religious days and festivals in medieval Europe. The medieval holy days were more about fasting or similar than time off of work, though. And, in Rome, there were no weekends yet, so holidays basically served the same role.

Plus, most holidays were optional in both, so a deeply poor person or a slave with a tough master might work fairly continuously.

If it is, then given the abundance in technology, why our work hours increased and why do we have such weird lives that we live to work?

When industialisation came in, 12 hour days were fairly standard. Arguably, working hours have gone down.

As to why we work on schedules now, you basically just have to in a complex, highly specialised society. If you’re using tools you made and maybe a couple your friend the blacksmith made, and using them to produce food and housing from “your own” land, sure, it just all has to get done sometime. If you’re having a formal meeting or vote and show up 2 days late, like is recorded becoming a problem in medieval republics, it’s a bit disruptive.

Was it, or was it an obvious softball question you were supposed to get?

For anyone reading, the point is actually to not talk to these people, since I don’t like having the same argument over and over again, and it’s messed up they care so much about “winning” in the first place.

Funny enough, I’m actually not sure.

Do you still want to give a link?

Thank you for the footnote. Without that, it could also have been pedantry, or the German system, where secondary schools have postsecondary-like specialisations already.

Ah yes, the famous 996 culture.

In practice, is it 4 hours of paying attention and 6 of going through the motions, or just goofing off? There’s been some research to the effect 8 hours already gives diminishing returns, if you’re doing something subtle or complicated.

There you go!

It would have been embarrassing if nobody did it after/because I pointed it out.

Depends how they use the nuke. Airbursts are pretty clean

Vapourising/torching cities would be an unlawful order, though. And still far fetched; they want to own us, not kill us all.

Ba’athist Iraq never remotely came back, so that’s a funny choice of example.

Plus, Iraq was an incompetent, unpopularely totalitarian dictatorship. And that’s before you even go to the cultural and ethnic advantages we’d have as guerillas against the US.

Especially if they’re lawful orders, like this.

But it’s a good portion of our exports. Hairdressers aren’t super relevant for an occupying force.

Although, resource extraction wouldn’t be the point of this war. There’s lots of much softer, easier to propagandise about targets out there, if they just wanted an encore of colonialism.

Or at least passively support us, which works.

Ehhh. Most of the extraction happens in the south too, because you need workers (edit: and reasonably low shipping costs). Like, Fort Mac is a little further north, but it’s still below 60N, in Alberta.