Well, the standard recommended work hours would be 08-17 (8 AM to 5 PM), with one hour unpaid lunch, so 8 hours paid. And you can take those paid breaks, or even combine them with lunch. Most places (that don’t have shifts, scheduled appointments or aren’t school or health care related) allow for this kind of flexibility.

My current work place has 39 hours a week during the half year during or close to winter and around 37 hours during the summer or the months adjoining summer. Then again, most people tend to flex actual hours worked, e.g. working 4 hours on Monday and Friday, and working more hours during the same week or compensating for it later. But you HAVE to take at least 30 minutes of lunch, and the workplace tries to enforce the paid breaks as well. So some, like me, take an hour off for lunch, but use our half hour unpaid lunch and add on breaks 2x15 with pay (which is billed to our clients, as we’re legally entitled to). So I can show up anywhere between 06:30 and 11:00 (as long as I don’t have deadlines or meetings) and decide how I want to dispose the hours of my time on schedule.

And I get 7 weeks off, paid, every year. And pad it out with overtime so that I work maybe a week of overtime and get two weeks extra off for holidays.

Not all Nordic countries. The main standard work weeks in Sweden are 40 hours for office work employees. Our collective union agreements for most office work places I know of agree on at least half hour unpaid lunch and at least two 15 minute paid breaks each work day. Every place I worked for had flexible hours, which meant I could choose between turning up between 7 or 9, as long as I didn’t miss meetings and worked 40 hours a week at an average, based on monthly calculations. And any overtime was compensated with double time off and/or monetary overtime compensation.

This will of course be different for shift work or nurse/doctor positions. But I’ve never worked an 8-16 job.

Don’t forget misogynist…

Fascists gotta fascist on the far right side of the spectrum.

”Let me scream at, peck and nibble any hawks, buzzards or baby voles to death!”

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In order to be accurate, most of the news communities want the headline of the post to be the same as the one in the article. And as the news sites use “slam”, well…

I don’t brake check people, but I do flash my brake lights a few times if someone is tailgating me. That generally makes people realise “oops, sorry, I was too close”. If they ignore that I slowly turn the cruise control down until they’d rather switch lanes and zip off. Funny how I’m only tailgated when there is plenty of space in the passing lane to the left of me.

The brake checks that the assholes do are when they actually brake to have near-collision vicinity to trigger collision warnings/autobrakes on trucks and busses, or to really rile another car driver up/collect insurance. But they forget that many people nowadays have dashcams (thank you Russian insurance companies!).

Another one was planned and given permission for today, Thursday, July 20th. So they were egged on beforehand.

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I live in an area that has several ethnic stores (iranian, lebanese, and some mixed “oriental”), with varying quality. I buy rice, saffron and nuts there.

• Rice: 5 - 10 kg bags or basmati and jasmine rice (we divide it with some neighbours, as we don’t cook with rice daily), which both tastes much better than chain store bought and is of a better quality. And as we buy in bulk, it’s cheaper, and the brands we usually buy are apparently lower in arsenic contents than the ones from the chain stores.
• Saffron: The quality of saffron I can get in the iranian stores is much, much higher than the one sold in chain stores. And it’s the same price.
• Nuts: Don’t get me started on the quality of nuts from some mediterranean focused stores that sell nuts and sweets. I only buy almond and hazelnut fro chain stores when I want to grind them to flour.

They also stock better dates (medjool), have more varieties of fresh egg plant and squash, and have the best water melons when they’re in season.

I remember (Pepperidge farm remembers!) when the majority of folks on Reddit were benign, even though we had edge lords occasionally.

Funny thing, Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon was benign until right about now (with some nazis, edge lords or tankies however) before the surge.

Whoever is downvoting the above comment: stop downvoting legitimate questions! Even if you don’t agree with their sentiment , the commenter isn’t a troll or rage baiting.

Manually deleting posts leads to them reinstating them (I think they set it up botstyle to reinstate posts from subs where mods have been warned). Editing your posts to directing to Lemmy instances leads you to being given a warning, your post being reinstated from earlier versions and then you’re kicked off of your own sub and get a shadow ban alternatively 7 day lockout.