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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Could also be the one where the piggies have strap-ons

[–] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Man, miss piggy would be a rough pegger. You just know she wouldn't be going easy on you.

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Why a strap on when you got 6 fingers to a hoof.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago

You could have ended up on the one with the 84-hour workweek (12 hours a day, no day off) and with child labor... you know... the "good ole days" republicans want to take you back to by hook and by crook, and which the people of all ages have enabled, the old by batshit mental illness, the young by electoral defensive indifference. Soon enough you won't have time to navel gaze about how bad 40 is.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

At least we don't have 3 suns in our solar system 🤷‍♂️

[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You have a three-body problem with 2 stars orbiting eachother being insufficient?

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

For one, I wouldn't exist to suffer.

But on the other hand, we wouldn't have video games and cats 😿

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder how seasons and days would work? Would the suns be up at different times (sun 1 rises at 3 in the morning and sets at noon, sun 2 rises at 8 in the morning and sets at 1 in the afternoon, sun 3 rises at noon and sets at midnight?) or would they rise and set at the same time?

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Depends on the setup. For a binary system, there's really only two setups. One with two stars close together, and the planet you're on orbiting the center of mass of the two stars. Tatooine from Star Wars is like this. So it would be mostly like Earth, just with two glowing orbs in the sky next to each other during the day instead of just one glowing orb.

The other configuration would be two stars further apart, and the planet orbiting one of them. For example if one of the gas giants in our solar system was heavy enough to start nuclear fusion. Such as what happened to Jupiter in the 2001 universe (Jupiter actually gets turned into a star in the sequel, 2010). Now, the outer star will revolve around the main star, but much slower than the inner planet revolves the main star. So like Jupiter it will rise and set at approximately the same time tomorrow as it does today. But at least as far as Earth and Jupiter goes, the outer star (Jupiter) will rise about 3-4 minutes earlier tomorrow, and then 3-4 minutes earlier the day after tomorrow, etc., which means over roughly a year it will drift from being in sync with the main star, to being completely out of sync with the main star, and everything in between in terms of outer star sunrise and outer star sunset. Since Jupiter takes about 12 years to go around the Sun, it will actually take about 13 months on Earth for the cycle to repeat.

[–] GR4CELESS@lemmy.zip 10 points 11 hours ago

Crazy that we ended up at all, really

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago
[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Let me introduce you to France and its 35h workweeks

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 31 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

People didn't end up with 40 hour work week, people fought to get it that low

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And now we're on a speed run to prove that no victories are permanent.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Yes. It's not a constant progress forward as some think but constant uphill battle with backsliding if you get too comfortable.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 8 points 11 hours ago

And in all honesty should have fought for a 4 day workweek right after.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

And, if you/OP want it to be less, you need to join / start / contribute to the labor movement and let everyone you meet in it know your new goal.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's not a function of space, but of time. Work load used to be significantly less in the medieval ages.

Modern work load is caused by progress and the high demand for human workforce that it brings with it.

Work load used to be significantly less in the medieval ages.

And even less in hunting/gathering times (probably). All the ethnographies we have of (formerly) extant hunter/gatherers show them basically not even working a part-time job. The !Kung-san of southern Africa were recorded as putting in an average of 17 hours a week of food-related work - and this was in a much sparser environment than what our ancient ancestors existed in.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (7 children)

United States of America is not a planet.

There are countries with both more and less work hours.

[–] dufkm@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

I'm confused, what about this post makes it about USA? Surely (inb4 don't call me Shirley) there must be several countries with 40 hours work week.

[–] Beefsquints@discuss.online 2 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

What countries have a smaller work week?!

[–] Flagg76@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Netherlands 36 hours is full time, i work 4x9 hours, so basically a 4 day workweek, for about 20 years now, used to work 38 and got paid extra for the effort. But soon found out more free time is priceless.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

In Europe they don't count their lunch breaks as hours worked. That's why the number is lower. If counted the European way then 09:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday is actually 35 hours a week.

[–] Beefsquints@discuss.online 1 points 4 hours ago

I work for the government so mine is the same, but I work 8:30 to 17:00 to get 40 hours a week.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Belgium is 38 hours for instance.

[–] Beefsquints@discuss.online 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Universally? That's awesome! I know that so.e Nordic countries and been running 32 hour tests but I didn't know there was anything official in place. Do they just work 2 hours less one day a week?

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Probably. Here in spain public workers have 35 hours work week and global 37,5 is being introduced. For this we usually take off half an hour or an entire hour each day.

[–] Beefsquints@discuss.online 1 points 10 hours ago

Nice, America is forever held back by religious nut jobs but it's good to know it's better elsewhere!

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[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Well, better than getting eaten up by Tyranids. Though this is so very arguable

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