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4 days agoAs usual, a mix of meat and vegetarian is best.
Not for the animals. Nor for the environment.
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There’s also a difference between not knowing something and implying that something is a lie (and sending that implication out to her millions of Twitter followers).
If I could go back in time but only have the power to change something really inconsequential, I’d go to whenever this episode of Dexter’s Laboratory was written and force the writers to correct it to “omelette au fromage”.
This is absolutely my dumbest pet peeve. Instead of cheese omelet, “omelette du fromage” reads as “omelet from cheese”.
“Un char” in Canadian French means “une voiture” (a car).
Le français c’est dégeu, wesh
My first reaction to this meme was to scoff, I know many non-binary people and none of them have remotely chemistry-inspired names.
Then I realized my name is literally an element (with the suffix removed)…
13·8 days agoI had a man tell me the other day: “I don’t know if you’re a boy or a girl!”
and I just replied “me neither!”
16·14 days agoI learned to distrust Liberal promises when 2015 didn’t turn out to be the last federal election under first-past-the-post.
21·16 days agoDo people even use Windows anymore, outside of office and gaming use? Most people I know either do everything they’d do on a computer on their smartphone, and the rest all use Macs.
It was a vineyard prior to the picture as well, it had been cleared due to an phylloxera infestation.
Bliss is still in my rotation of wallpapers. Something about a standard KDE install with the XP default wallpaper tickles me.
The nostalgia is for sure a big factor. Windows 95/98 were my first memories of computers, but XP was the first OS I was really allowed to discover on my own. I was quite the fan, when my family “upgraded” to a barely-meets-the-minimum-specs Vista Ready™ PC I soon after tried to “downgrade” it to XP.
During which I managed to bork something and nothing would boot, not even the recovery disc I had burned. Thus started a three day troubleshooting journey to fix the family PC. I think my parents were too startled by my determination to figure it out to get angry at me.
And here I am almost two decades later, spending the last three days trying to manually setup a seedbox despite there being a myriad of easy deployment methods. Most of those three days have been focused on setting up a firewall, restricting access to docker containers behind a VPN, and of course the ol’ troublemaker DNS.
The feeling when I figure out something I’ve been struggling with is still just as exhilarating as when I saw Windows XP boot up for the first time on the family PC way back when. Seeing the familiar rolling Californian wine-country hill, immortalized by Charles O’Rear on film in January 1996. I often wonder if Charles knew at the moment, when looking upon the bucolic scenery, that one day the image would become synonymous to many with the advent of the digital age. The hill is forgotten, but the 1s and the 0s live on forever.
2·17 days agoI’ve found that DNS-level blocklists usually take care of the ads that are added into podcasts on download.
Now if only we could have something akin to Sponsorblock for podcasts.
3·23 days agoFor me, it was the use of the word pastiche.
6·25 days agoWe had some businesses with 2000! employees…
3.316275 × 105735 is probably too many employees.
For context, here's that number written out fully.
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As someone who has also spoken French their entire life; I disagree. Is French orthography messy? Sure, but it’s a consistent mess. Like the other commenter said, once you know “eau” is pronounced “o”, you know. Un beau bateau sur l’eau.
Contrast with English, where rough & thorough thought is required throughout tough sentences such as this one just to figure out what the Fuck sound “gh” will make.
I really came to appreciate the difference in English and French when I used to work in pharmacies; my first job was in a French place, and I intuitively knew how to pronounce drug names at first encounter.
I later worked in a place with only Anglophones and I never got the prononciation on the first try. It was a guessing game.
17·1 month agoOn the off-chance this was a genuine question, boyshorts are a type of panties.
(if you’re in dark mode, boyshorts are in the middle row, right-side column)
3·1 month agoPyramide de Sainte-Foy mentionnée!!
You sound like a hoot, what a great resignation!
How often are you fixing your dishwasher??
Not sure why you wouldn’t just screenshot instead of linking to ChatGPT.
Prompt
Can you make me a realistic poster for the United States Space Force that highlights the new officer uniforms which should be black and modeled after the Star Wars Empire officer uniforms, but with US Space Force iconography