1) Odin investigates a case of smol

2) Odin studiously gazes through a gap in the railing straight at Mila’s house

@stonebear2 yes. In my experience, they do suspend accounts that I report to them. The issue is more that it's easy to get the accounts set up to begin with

Terribly amused by this alleged "CEO" who set up a bot to make himself sound smart by generating "intellectual discourse" replies on his behalf, which proceeded to write a comically high-brow pseudo-intellectual reply to a joke diagram, get flagged by one of Mastodon's biggest accounts (hi) and vaporized by mods within literal seconds (thank you mods)

Be on the lookout for these sorts of deep-sounding but vacuous replies. There's probably more of them being run by the same person/group and whatever reason they have to want to build up fake "intellectual discourse" on mastodon can't be good

@FrankPhoenix I was GOING to say I think you might have misunderstood the spirit of a chart that has the word "motherfucker" written on it, but given that you've been posting a take like this exactly once a minute to different people, you're clearly a bot trying to stir up discourse.

I have clarified any and all confusions you may have had about ancient Chinese political thought in one convenient chart.

#history #politics #classicalchinese #philosophy

@mathaetaes I wasn't speaking of cars specifically. I mean in any context, at all. The United States is notorious for arresting parents for letting their children do age-appropriate activities in age-appropriate contexts without constant second-by-second supervision. Most other countries don't have this problem.

@David this hasn’t been my experience of my corner grocery store’s parking spaces. The Dutch are vastly more willing to leave a young kid unattended for five minutes than Americans

(as an interesting aside: the signs had only a dog icon and not a baby icon because the Americans are an extremely kidnapping-paranoid culture, and leaving your own young child unattended for even a moment in public can easily get you arrested for negligence. So, it's pretty rare for a young child to be alone in a parked car regardless.)

One more “Peoples of the North, hear my plea” for the Netherlands and friends today:

If you leave your child or dog in the car today while you run into the grocery store, they will seriously actually literally be dead by the time you get back.

When I lived in Virginia, they put signs up in grocery store parking lots with dog icons to remind you of this. It only takes a few minutes of a windows-closed car parked in direct heatwave sunlight to kill a toddler or a dog.

Since such heat rarely happens here, I expect a lot of people don’t realize just how serious this is.

#netherlands #heatwave #amsterdam

@CrissCrossCannibal it's getting into the 90s with high humidity, which for Dutch people feels like getting into the 110s with high humidity would feel to people from warmer American states.

The weather here is very mild and every time it gets Actually Hot or Actually Cold people start keeling over because they don't know how to take proactive care

@Newde @barometz seconding not to spray the walls. You will get mildew. But you can hang a wet towel in the window.

y'all I know that if you have AC (most houses here don't) then obviously the windows should stay closed, or if you have good insulation (lol, whoever rated our apartment was clearly doing some creative math to avoid falling beneath the current legal minimum) that not opening the windows might work out better, assuming you did close the curtains.

But right now Northern Europe is full of people sitting in greenhouse ovens who tell themselves that opening the windows would be counter-productive because outside is where the heat is I have spent most of my life in places with hot, humid summers like we're having in NL right now and I know what to do when there's no AC. I'm cool and comfortable at the moment in a house with no AC and poor insulation because I'm very proactive about getting the curtains closed and windows open early in the morning before sun hitting glass starts to heat up the house.

@Newde a Dutch house with closed windows in a heat wave is going to be SIGNIFICANTLY hotter than outside.

(assuming you don't have AC running, which most won't.)

Dutch people. Peoples of the North, who lack a strong cultural awareness of how to handle heat waves. Please heed my words

1) Pull all the curtains closed. Reflect sunlight away from the windows. Tape up a bedsheet or something if you don't have curtains or blinds (not that rare in the Netherlands)

2) Open windows on opposite walls of the house, prop open the interior doors with something heavy, get a cross-breeze going. (Yes, the curtains may get flappy. I tucked the end of a long one under my bed mattress to mitigate this)

3) Take a quick shower with water that is only slightly warmed (neither ice cold nor steaming hot). Do this two, three, four times a day if you have to.

4) Similarly, drinking water that is ice cold may sound good but it's liable to give you stomach cramps when you're very hot. Your drinking water shouldn't be more than slightly cool.

@catsalad I have absolutely 100% used a laptop vent to warm up a stroopwafel before

@duncan_blues the weather here is more humid than hot right now, and I think that might actually bother humans more than it bothers Odin as long as he's not in direct sunlight.

However, he did wake me up at 3:45 am with heavy panting because he was thirsty after finishing the bowl I gave him before bed.

We’re both so normal.

We call these public water faucets Sippy Stations

@longhairmoto really not too far from the north pole here, considering how mild the weather is

It was very hot today; Odin’s walks were just to the nearest tree and back, no exercise. But then an evening thunderstorm broke, and cleared up in time for Odin to have some 10 pm shenanigans with Mila