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Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. None of these nations have an minimim hourly wage enshrined in law. Instead many of the base terms of employment, including wages, are decided via collective bargaining between sector trade unions and representatives of public sector and business interest organizations.

Minimum wage decided by politics is something taken for granted in many parts of the world, but ultimately it's a question that most of all affects the suppliers (employees) and buyers (employers). The government will always be behind the times in legislation and have many other interests to juggle than yours - don't just be a passive participant in the market.

I live in Sweden by the way, so feel free to ask me questions on the topic and I'll do my best to answer.

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of green metrics from public view written almost word for word into EU rules.

The secrecy provision, which the European Commission added to its proposal almost verbatim after industry lobbying in 2024, hinders scrutiny of the pollution that individual datacentres emit. It leaves researchers with just national-level summaries of their energy footprints.

The rise of AI chatbots has spurred a boom in the construction of chip-filled warehouses with a hunger for power that is being met, in part, by burning fossil gas. Legal scholars warn the blanket confidentiality clause may fall foul of EU transparency rules and the Aarhus convention on public access to environmental information.

“In two decades, I cannot recall a comparable case,” said Prof Jerzy Jendrośka, who spent 19 years on the body overseeing the convention and teaches environmental law at the University of Opole in Poland. “This clearly seems not to be in line with the convention.”

You can't stop me :3

Great Lakes region, USA. April 2026.

I was out on a walk exploring our flooded town, and I decided to peek over a ledge to see the damage. I wasn't ready to see this beautiful creature staring back at me. Before I could get a good shot he took off like a bat out of hell. I'll be exploring again tomorrow, so fingers crossed he's still in the area. I'll be much more stealthy next time.

All the piracy subs I can find are dead, quiet, or too niche. I'd love to be part of an effort to bring reliable and maintained information about how to safely pirate to lemmy. It's actually one of the most frustrating things about switching from reddit. Are we puritanical here or something? If we had active piracy scenes I pretty much wouldn't have to be on reddit at all anymore.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45710526

Great Lakes region, USA. April 2026.

I was out for a walk when I stumbled on this guy trying to cross a busy road. I made sure to save him before he was roadkill. They have such beautiful eyes.

Utah has emerged as a major center of measles infections in the US, as an outbreak that has been building for some time continues to expand.

State officials reported a total of 602 measles cases on Wednesday tied to an outbreak that started last year and is still ongoing, including 19 newly identified infections, according to the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (Cidrap). Recent exposures have been reported at several preschools and elementary schools.

About one-third of those infected have experienced symptoms severe enough to require visits to emergency rooms, reported the New York Times, largely due to intense dehydration from vomiting and diarrhea.

Out of the 602 total cases, 405 have occurred since the beginning of this year, with 75 reported in just the last three weeks. So far, 49 individuals have needed hospitalization. A significant majority of those infected – 513 people, or 85% – were not vaccinated against measles.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45710327

Great Lakes region, USA. April 2026.

I was out on a walk exploring our flooded town, and I decided to peek over a ledge to see the damage. I wasn't ready to see this beautiful creature staring back at me. Before I could get a good shot he took off like a bat out of hell. I'll be exploring again tomorrow, so fingers crossed he's still in the area. I'll be much more stealthy next time.

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„Michel“ & „Telemichel“ captured on 250T by Silbersalz35 with my CanonA1 through a Maginon 100mm-500mm Telelens.

The EU expects to start releasing a new €90bn loan to Ukraine in the second quarter, the bloc’s economy chief told AFP on Thursday. The EU’s economy commissioner, Valdis Dombrovskis, was speaking on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank’s spring meetings, which brought finance ministers, central bankers and other leaders to Washington.

“Our support for Ukraine, also continued pressure and sanctions against aggressor Russia was very much part of the agenda,” Dombrovskis said. He warned that Moscow was “emerging as a winner from this war in Iran, because it provides windfall profits to feed Russia’s war machine”.

Als Protest gegen die deutlich gestiegenen Spritpreise wollen Aktivisten am Freitag, 17. April mit einem Autokonvoi von Ostfriesland aus durch mehrere Bundesländer bis nach Berlin vor den Bundestag rollen.

Angemeldet und genehmigt ist die Demonstration unter dem Namen: "17.04.2026 Generalstreik - Von Emden nach Berlin mit 50 km/h". Der Veranstalter, ein Mann aus Ostfriesland, hatte über soziale Netzwerke zu dem Protest gegen hohe Kraftstoffpreise aufgerufen.

Ich kann das alles nicht mehr.

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It did not take long after the discovery of X-rays in the 1890s for scientists to begin exploring the harmful effects of radiation on living organisms. Yet even after more than a century of research, new insights continue to emerge about how radiation affects the body. In a recent study, researchers at Hokkaido University uncovered a previously unrecognized effect of radiation that leads to changes in the mitochondria of the offspring. The study was published in March 2026 in the journal Redox Biology.

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