damn it. i'm below financial sustenance levels this month. the Oslo district court keeps seizing 140 EUR/mo that they're not allowed to seize, given my income.
i sent a complaint ages ago. wrong person. sent another. still waiting for a reply. meanwhile, they keep taking 140 EUR from me. it's because of debts, but i don't have the minimum legal disposable income required to service them.
also, because i had the misfortune of having extra cash in June and July, they denied me housing benefits in July and August, so that's another 600+ EUR that i'm not getting.
nostr:npub1qfkcklnmes45z75y7y8dkud5yll8vp5eq5ysk9rmgqdxeasv8unsrfj6kq they make two kinds it seems - red wine and a berry wine
vineyard in Norway
i don't need much entertainment. i am the entertainment.
such behaviour might be described as reactive instead of proactive. if the world is a brain, it has issues with its prefrontal cortex development. it's smart but lazy, so it does as little work as late as possible. when humans act like this, they don't tend to have very good lives.
also, much like a person with ADHD, the world doesn't collectively care about anything unless it's exciting or scary in the moment. what did we do last year or even last week? no one remembers, because the news is on about something else now, much like an ADHD brain.
the world has collective ADHD - it procrastinates on tasks until minor problens have turned into major crises, and only then does it act on them
nostr:npub1ma85mgk3frzk3ed07k9xnye8npzz9cjkjt0szhpkq086t53p5weqvv3lks political hell will break loose about this. there's a lot of resistance against such disruptions to nature, seeing as this isn't the early 20th century anymore and environmentalism is a thing now. it's somewhat ironic that we may be forced to turn our country into a giant dam to manage all this water and supply it to other countries that need it. destroying the environment to fix issues caused by destroying the environment.
nostr:npub1qfpe5wy2fu82nj3qpw9gxd0nyv33lelayyunhfmxm0a2sgg006fqs22xdk with that said, i'd rather have Norway be one of Europe's main exporters of water than one of the main exporters of oil, as it currently is.
the geography and location of Norway means it's often where rain from Europe gets dumped. long mountain chain followed by coastline. and the wind is often coming from the southeast and going northwest to hit these mountains. it creates two separate climate zones to the east and the west. all the mountains also means plenty of places to build hydroelectric plants, which is our main source of electricity. does make us a bit vulnerable to drought periods and when those happen, we buy nuclear electricity from Sweden and elsewhere. when Europe has shortages and we have water in our magazines, we export to them via the same cables.
ah, they needed to open the sewers in Oslo for drainage due to the heavy rain to prevent them from flooding and backing up. this means there's some raw sewage being released into the rivers and the sea. they opened 50 of the 200 floodgates.
it appears that the main issue we're going to be facing with climate change in the years ahead here in Norway isn't heat waves, but heavy rain and flooding, and adapting our infrastructure to handle all this water.
nostr:npub1s5zqdl8rp0ml44lsdcrq49r6yvt3gu6kvnwyrdelxhkmytru6lrstlgfxd apparently there are ways of sending alerts at levels lower than "nuclear attack, seek shelter now" but at least in Canada, where they're also using these warnings, every warning is at that level
nostr:npub1s5zqdl8rp0ml44lsdcrq49r6yvt3gu6kvnwyrdelxhkmytru6lrstlgfxd now that half of Oslo is awake... hello, how are you 🤣
nostr:npub1s5zqdl8rp0ml44lsdcrq49r6yvt3gu6kvnwyrdelxhkmytru6lrstlgfxd apparently there are ways of sending alerts at levels lower than "nuclear attack, seek shelter now" but at least in Canada, where they're also using these warnings, every warning is at that level
nostr:npub1s5zqdl8rp0ml44lsdcrq49r6yvt3gu6kvnwyrdelxhkmytru6lrstlgfxd they made the mistake twice then, because a warning was mistakenly sent to some Oslo residents on Monday too.
the rains have done some damage in rural areas, such as this road in central southern Norway. in Oslo, some streets and basements have flooded. trains to the airport aren't running anymore due to flooding of the tracks. i'd describe the situation at the moment as "major disruptions to traffic" but i'm not sure i'd count it as a natural disaster. it's not like the kind of devastation that you see after a hurricane.
nostr:npub1s5zqdl8rp0ml44lsdcrq49r6yvt3gu6kvnwyrdelxhkmytru6lrstlgfxd i would like to be warned if immediate action needs to be taken
02:40 and my phone starts howling about this - it's the emergency alert system. the one you can't turn off. but i'm home and safe and just trying to sleep. the news earlier claimed a rain warning was sent to many Oslo residents' phone by accident. can't have been an accident twice though. irritating and confusing in any case.
how stressful
