Category Archives: Talk

Talk about politics, society, science, computers, internet, psychology, and philosophy.

Date formats

Since it seems popular to create and use illogical date formats, here are some suggestions:

  • October 22 15 2018 CE 10
  • Monday 10 15 2018 CE 22 October
  • 22 2018 15 Monday CE October 10
  • 10 Monday 22 15 October 2018 CE
  • Monday 2018 CE October 15 22:10
  • 15 October 22 Monday CE 10 2018
  • 1 10 10 15 22 2018 CE

What’s the date? Well, of course, 2018-10-15 at 22:10, which happens to be (happened to be?) a Monday.

Hague Invasion Act

Did you know there’s an American law that would ultimately result in a US invasion of the Netherlands?

Oh, yeah. It’s even called the Hague Invasion Act. The response to an American citizen being arrested by an international criminal court… the ones that deal with war crimes and crimes against humanity… you know, like genocide…

I’m not saying US lawmakers are making room for American war criminals, but it is a bit like catching your kid bringing a pack of condoms to a “sleepover with friends”… they might not need them, but you’re not going to take any prisoners on that one.

Things that will kill you

Things that will kill you:

  • Three minutes without air
  • Three days without water
  • Three weeks without food
  • …oh, and Three hours without coffee… right? 😀

But there are always exceptions:

  • In cold water, there are reports of survival up to an hour without oxygen. Freedivers manage up to four and a half minutes (22 minutes when not diving to depths), helped by the mammalian diving reflex (and some preparation like oxygen saturation)
  • And if you’re unfortunate enough to be in an Austrian prison in the 70ies, you may have to try to survive without water for 18 days… although, there may have been some wall licking going on there…
  • If you are overweight, you can survive much longer than twenty one days without food
  • The coffee, however, that’s an absolute! 🙂

Burqa Bans

Burqa bans amaze and confuse me!

As far as I can tell we’re talking about a bunch of guys wanting to liberate Muslim women from being forced by a bunch of guys to wear certain clothes… by forcing them not to wear certain clothes.

Color me confused, but where’s the difference?

I’m certain all feminists are enraged about the fact that a bunch of men is making laws about what women are allowed to wear! Heck, that there are laws specifically about women’s clothes at all! Right?

I’m thinking like this: What if I was forced to flee (from Sweden) to another country. And in this country they were nudists… and my clothes pissed them off so much they decided to make clothes illegal…

Maybe I’d acclimatize enough to walk out the door stark naked, but if I was forced to walk out that door naked, I’d probably stay home.

If there has to be a ban, how about a ban on making laws telling women what to wear?