[–] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm certain there's someone out there who can tell us what speed, probably a percentage of the speed of light, an average brick needs to move at in order to blueshift to looking blue. And I'm also certain there's someone out there who can tell us what collateral effects that'll have on the rest of the world.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago*

    NL too, but last time I checked, their idea is to... (Scrapes memory) Permanently adopt DST together with Germany, locking Amsterdam time to UTC +02:00.

    It's worth noting that without timezones, high noon in Amsterdam is about +00:13 from high noon in Greenwich, so if anything, the Dutch time zone should be UTC. Together with Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Spain, who all follow German time but are sometimes even further west. Heck, Madrid lies further west than London.

    Little rant over, I'll get off my soapbox now.

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    Pet Store: Aluminum I think
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