Wouldn’t it be funny if the article was written by chat GPT.

This is what south African zebras look like.

Thank you, i did not know that.

Poor kitty!

Americans often refer to Europe as if it’s a country. We’re used to it.

It’s probably open later in Oslo or something but yes 7:30 to 16:30 where I live. They started reducing hours during the pandemic and then just didn’t expand them again and hoped no one would notice. It was at least open til 17:00 before that.

Academics in Norway don’t have it much better. University contracts are all time limited which makes getting a mortgage very difficult and rental accommodation is either ridiculously expensive or would be condemned in a real country. Norway’s one of those places where if you fit into the system, life is good. But if you don’t, it’s really hard.

Academics have a really hard time with it because society is designed around 2 parent families where both parent works a normal job with normal hours. If you have kids and your experiment needs to run until 17:00, you’re going to have to find someone to finish it for you because daycare, while affordable and means tested, closes at 16:30. If you need to rent, expect to pay about half your income for a shitty converted storage cellar in someone’s house. If you go on parental leave and it ends after your standard 2 year academic contract is up, you won’t have a job to go back to (the universities offer 2 year contracts because by Norwegian law anyone working the same job for 3 years has to be given a permanent contract so they rehire their staff every 2 years).

Crawfish are literally called mud bugs in a lot of places. I think lobsters and langoustines should also be under the bug umbrella.

Mark?

Correct. I used to study geology. I went through an 1/8 a day back then.

I did not know that.

Actually because Joanne decided to bully trans women and then threaten the police with her Harry potter money, she’s technically created a legal precedent for not enforcing the law specifically when it comes to trans women. As the police publicly stated that they didn’t believe a crime has been committed.

Exactly. I was actually thinking of that.

It’s amazing what you can achieve with…slaves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dike_(geology)

TIL: mods don’t understand geology jokes.

I recommend going out and touching grass.

Although I did meet one gneis girl, but she got tired of my schist pretty quickly. I met her on a field trip to study glaciers she was honestly a bit erratic. Anyway, forgive the intrusion.

I dunno. Lots of dykes in geology.

This is a description of all field scientists. They really aren’t that scary.

Agreed.