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[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 92 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 17 points 1 year ago

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

[-] elxeno@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago
[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I assume this is just to get people use to the idea of algebra.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

What the fuck? I can see pi being shortened to 3 for baby's first geometry problem, but 5?

[-] remotedev@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago
[-] LordPassionFruit@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

pi = 3.1±0.05

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

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