Throughout France, the lights were turned off for 5 minutes as a way of raising awareness of climate change While the primary objective was to raise awareness, I’m not sure how switching off the lights would do that explicitly. However, the main electricity operator said there was a drop of some 800MW, or 1% of France’s total consumption. 800MW is a decent amount of energy - a single modern nuclear power plant generates about that much. ...
Having spent the last two days effectively giving people the finger, and a pretty ugly looking one at that, I can tell all you right handers: you have no idea how much you use your left hand’s middle finger. Ow.
Forgive me, gods of plain-speaking, for I have sinned; I have created something which I called a “matrix” for the first time at work. I know not how to atone. It can only be downhill from here.
There was a jumper at Kingsgrove station today. We were delayed 25 minutes or so, but even within the first 2 minutes people were getting impatient. We were told that we were waiting for police and emergency services to arrive so that they could take care of it, rather than have someone jump onto the train or the tracks. The gaurd opened his door to allow people out if needed, and suddenly there was a rush on. People from 4 carriages down came up and out, and I wondered: for what? ...
Someone tell me how we know the birthdate exactly, but the date of death shifts every year, according to a mysterious and complex formula they use to torture 1st year Computer Science students with. IT’S SO STUPIDLY COMPLEX! Bet you didn’t think about that before, did you? (Merry Christmas y’all!)