They might be frozen solid though...
1,243 karma · joined September 21, 2020
When I lived in Denmark the Copenhagen subway was shut down because of a bit of snowfall. 10 cm of snow brought Aalborg to a halt for days. Things we laugh at in Finland, but which they are simply not prepared for.
I'm afraid good old-fashioned -30C Siberian cold front would cause serious disruptions in Denmark and the southern half of Sweden (and possibly southern Norway -- not sure how used they are to cold weather, being blessed with ice-free coasts and all that). And without the North-Atlantic current to keep things nice and warm, it's just a matter of time before proper winters become a regular thing.
If considering that option, remember that climate change will affect the destination as well -- don't emigrate to a place that will be underwater or a desert in 10 years.
Look to your ability to handle long winters, short but intensely hot summers, unstable weather systems, and financial difficulties. Making sure your house is properly insulated is a good start.
It's a good thing I like buckwheat and beetroots.
Data types, on the other hand, were absolutely amazing. Sure, ffmpeg covers some of it, but datatype support was, and remain, a killer feature of AmigaOS. Want almost universal support for a new format, including support by legacy applications? Datatypes. Want to replace a common format's encoder with somerhing else? Datatypes.
The other killer feature of AmigaOS applications was the AREXX support, which allowed advanced scripting far before it was available on other consumer platforms.
And the amphoras themselves are ceramic and might not be completely tight at those pressures, meaning sea water might be able to get in, and eventually replace the wine. 2200 years is a long time for slow processes to work through ancient clay vessels.
If the wine miraculously remains intact, I suspect the taste wouldn't even be close to what it was back in the day. I wouldn't mind trying a glass of actual Roman wine though.
If anything, GDPR might actually give European businesses some room to maneuver on the European market, as US businesses seems hell-bent on making money off their users' data rather than the core services they provide for the users.
But it _is_ an exaggeration. Child and maternal mortality rates was obviously higher back in the day, and social safety nets were mainly based on community and family rather than own savings or contributions like in modern Western society.
On the other hand, there are still somewhat un-contacted and isolated tribes on multiple continents, and I've never heard anyone describe their life as hellish. Most of those tribes are perfectly aware that there is an outside world, and one would think they'd join the rest of us if things were _that_ bad.
As it is now, it seems the situation is far worse for those who attempted to leave but failed to integrate into modern society.
That being said, average quality of life does seem to have increased a lot the last 100 years. There's no doubt about that.
There's also still a lot of people who have troublesome lives, not to mention people living un-comfortable lives in front of a screen.
> Global markets don’t buy enough sustainably produced foods such as Brazil nuts or acai to keep people afloat, whereas the appetite for beef, grains, and timber seems bottomless. (In 2020, Brazil exported $35.2 billion of soybeans, soybean meal, and soybean oil, and only $128.3 million of nuts.)
When you're down at the bottom, living under a tarp, and barely making enough money to support yourself and your family, then you're going to chose the money.
Back in my day, if a job didn't suit our preferences, we quit and got new jobs that suited us better. If the old employers didn't like it, they'd have to come up with better offers. Why would you expect the aforementioned ex-Apple employees to do it differently?
Others, simply don't want to spend three to six hours commuting every day, or work in an open office environment. There's probably hundreds of other reasons for working from home as well.
Spending a quarter of your life commuting, a third of your working hours being constantly interrupted by others in the office, up to a week per year sick because you catch some bug from various co-workers who don't dare call in sick for the fear of the repercussions, well, that's not how you get the job done either.
My guess is that someone at Google reacted.
If you end up in your own spam folder, "Not junk" is your friend. If you don't get through at all, do the escalation dance with Microsoft until the situation improves.
Once you reliably hit your own Hotmail inbox, start sending mails to A FEW others as well. Verify that they receive the mail, and ask them to add you to their trusted sender lists, press not junk, etc, and keep bugging Microsoft if they just discard your emails silently. Once you have a few people doing that, reputation should improve quickly.
Contacting Microsoft means you have to go through a difficult dance through multiple canned replies, multiple escalation requests, and being lucky enough to get someone to actually escalate.
Silently dropping emails isn't Microsoft-specific, though. It's quite common to have a Postfix/Amavis setup set to discard spam over a certain spam score threshold.