Hi there!
Welcome to our daily scheduled post, the Daily Slow Chat.
If you want to just chat about your day, if you have questions for the moderators (please mark these [Mod] so we can find them), or if you just want talk about oatmeal then this is the thread for you!
Enjoying the small talk? We have a Discord server too! We'd love to have more of you over there. Do both of us a favour and use this link to join the fun.
The mod-team wishes you a nice day!
2 comments
The latest edition of the ‘World Happiness Report’ has just come out, and once again the Nordic and Scandinavian countries come out on top.
This year, Finland are first.Followed by Denmark, Iceland and Sweden.Norway came 7th.
The Netherlands and Luxembourg are also in the Top 10 (out of 140 countries included).
This survey is based on straight polling…respondents in each country rate their happiness with their life on a scale of 1-10.
It is not surprising, but Turkish police is being their respectable selves again. It is terrifying to see pictures of young people with plastic bullet wounds on their heads (helmets and especially goggles are very important, in 2013 quite a few people lost en eye to plastic bullets fired at short distance directly at people). What they also did and apparently still do is to fire gas capsules in the air (rather than have the bounce off the ground) to hit people. My hatred towards these assholes has no bounds. I literally lie awake at night thinking what I would do if I had a red “kill dictators” button under my hand.
I am finishing the penultimate week of my sabbatical. Everyone is very sad that I am leaving and asking me to stay longer. It is unfair that you are loved much more if you’re not a boss ha ha. Not that I am a big boss or people hate me otherwise, but it’s just easier to interact with PhD students, postdocs etc. Anyhow, I love them, too. This is a great workplace.