u/tal

Easter Monday

France may not be very religious any more, but it looks like they do still have a lot of religious holidays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_France

Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Assumption Day, All Saint's Day, Christmas Day, Saint Stephen's Day.

You typically need to notify other members of a treaty of your withdrawal, and then there's some time delay until you're no longer bound by the terms. You can't just secretly withdraw, or treaties wouldn't be very meaningful.

EDIT: Yeah. The submitted article says that it happens in six months from today, and here's the treaty text on withdrawal:

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.44_convention%20antipersonnel%20mines.pdf

>Article 20

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>Duration and withdrawal

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>1. This Convention shall be of unlimited duration.

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>2. Each State Party shall, in exercising its national sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from this Convention. It shall give notice of such withdrawal to all other States Parties, to the Depositary and to the United Nations Security Council. Such instrument of withdrawal shall include a full explanation of the reasons motivating this withdrawal.

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>3. Such withdrawal shall only take effect six months after the receipt of the instrument of

withdrawal by the Depositary. If, however, on the expiry of that six- month period, the

withdrawing State Party is engaged in an armed conflict, the withdrawal shall not take effect before the end of the armed conflict.

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>4. The withdrawal of a State Party from this Convention shall not in any way affect the duty of States to continue fulfilling the obligations assumed under any relevant rules of international law.

I don't know how the Dutch see it, but I'm pretty sure that the US considers extreme ultraviolet lithography to be a technology with strategic importance. That is, it's more than some company's sales at stake.

This has a raven:

https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1c91nyu/a_raven_is_crowned_in_tictactoe/

>But it won't make the water taste like it didn't come from a pond.

They do make water filters that will pull larger stuff out.

I understand that the American Sawyer and the Swiss LifeStraw make popular small, portable devices.

https://www.sawyer.com/

https://lifestraw.com/

Anyone tried water purifying tablets yet, and would you recommend them?

They'll kill bacteria in water, though obviously they can't pull chemicals out of it.

I wouldn't be worried about bottled water going bad after a year --- I've kept distilled water for much longer than that --- but if you want more capacity in a smaller package than by storing water, you can get a water still, distill water yourself as long as you have some source of water and some sort of sufficient heat (e.g. a fire).

*kagis*

https://www.amazon.com/Roots-Branches-VKP1208-Little-Distiller/dp/B07WSJ2H8C

If you don't have access to a water source but have sufficient electrical power --- which in the past I'd have said probably isn't very likely if the government can't get water to the public in 72 hours, but isn't as crazy as it once might have been, what with people running around with beefy home solar setups and the like --- it's possible to run devices that condense water out of the air off the cold side of a heat pump, these sorts of things:

https://www.amazon.com/Solaris-WaterGen-A10-Atmospheric-Generator/dp/B0DL4N1PRG

I'd guess that for most people, the most-practical and cost-effective approach is probably just to estimate how much water one might need and store that much potable water in advance. That takes care of the "have a source of water", "get any energy required to purify it", and "purify it" points all at one go. Doesn't require a lot of expertise, effort, or place constraints on your environment to open a bottle of water.

Earlier this year the European public was urged to stockpile enough food, water and essentials for 72 hours to cope with a military attack, natural disaster, power cut or major industrial accident.

Honestly, unless you have some sort of serious medical condition, most people should be just fine going 72 hours without food. We've a social convention of eating three meals a day, sure, but your body is quite able of running off stored energy for a long time. I've fasted for a week myself for the hell of it. I remember mentioning that to an aunt once, and she mentioned that she'd done two weeks.

This guy did over a year (though he was pretty heavy to begin with, had plenty of fat reserves).

>Barbieri went from 456 pounds (207 kg) to 180 pounds (82 kg), losing 276 pounds (125 kg) and setting a record for the length of a fast.

>Acquiring F-35A jets is “part of NATO’s nuclear mission”;

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>By March 2026, the UK will add 27 more jets: 12 F-35A and 15 F-35B;

I hadn't been following this closely recently, but if you go back far enough, the Royal Air Force had been planning to get F-35As and the Royal Navy F-35Bs. The A variant isn't equipped for carrier operations, which makes it not really viable for the Royal Navy, but has longer range and more payload. Then there was some discussion at one point about maybe just having both use F-35Bs to help leverage commonality, which I imagine the Royal Air Force wasn't too keen on. Sounds like they're back to both the A and B model.

*The War Zone* also has coverage:

https://www.twz.com/news-features/houthis-launch-first-red-sea-attack-on-shipping-since-december

“It is indefensible that today that I'm canceling flights from Ireland to Italy, from Germany to Spain, from Portugal to Poland,” O'Leary said.

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>The budget airline chief blamed the European Union, and specifically European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, for the situation.

*looks puzzled*

Is the European Commission responsible for mediating union disputes?

>The strike, which took place on Thursday and Friday, was over disputes between two unions and the French directorate general for civil aviation

I mean, this sounds like it's between the French government and French unions.

They apparently have some temporary desalination stuff in place now to bridge the gap, dunno what it's using.

The planned permanent plant apparently uses reverse osmosis (which, at least last time I looked, was much more widely used than distillation).

https://greencape.co.za/library/paarden-eiland-desalination-plant/

Jun 1, 2025 The planned permanent Paarden Eiland plant will be a 70 Ml/day seawater desalination plant with a multi-barrier process that will include pre-screening, dissolved air flotation, rapid gravity sand filtration, reverse osmosis, a potential advanced oxidation process, a disinfection step, stabilisation of the water, and safe brine disposal.

Yeah, isn't loading at the moment here either.

*hits archive.org*

https://web.archive.org/web/20250627211645/https://resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcentre/Documents/Graphics%20and%20educational%20material/Desalination_Booklet_English.pdf