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  • And so all the kids are safe from being crushed by SUVs. No need for bike lanes. No need for traffic reduction. No need to ticket drivers not yielding to pedestrians or passing cyclists dangerously. No need to remove parking. No need to reduce the size or speed of cars. And turning right on red is a god given right.

    Helmets are all that is needed to be safe in the streets! That and obeying the law.

    I guess I get the intent. It’s better than nothing. But it’s also pretty depressing when you see beyond the attempt at fake security.



  • This reminds me of the death penalty. Killing someone because that person killed is still killing someone.

    However society choses to do it, it’s still killing someone. Because killing is bad so if you kill, someone will kill you. Oh no, it’s not a murder. It’s a state employee that works in the correction department. Killers are not okay. The executioner is only applying the lethal will of society towards killers by unaliving them. It’s not murder, it’s justice!


  • pedz@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.mlXiaomi naming convention
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    But it was maybe a few months old at best. Maybe it had a defective battery from the start but I contacted Xiaomi and I’ve been told it was “normal” in “winter”. Then when I looked online for this issue with Xiaomi phones, the people on the forums said it was “normal”, and that I expected too much.

    In the end it was probably a defective battery. I couldn’t believe that they were selling millions of these and that people always just kept them warm all the time. Like, they have a proper winter too in some parts of China, and I can’t imagine millions of people having their phone dying on them as soon as we get into sweater weather.

    But obviously this left a bad taste in my mouth. This and having to ask permission to root my phone.


  • I decided not to buy another Xiaomi phone when the one I previously had would turn off when it was a bit mildly cool outside.

    Like, I would take it out of my pocket to look at bus schedules but it would turn off after a few seconds of being exposed to 5°C, saying the battery was dead. Another time I had it attached to my bike handlebar and it kept turning off because apparently 13°C with the wind was also too chilly. Every time that fucking Xiaomi phone was feeling a bit chill, the battery would just die. And not even in freezing temps!

    I looked online and everone of the fanboys on the forums kept saying that this is normal, battery performance degrades in winter, that iPhones do the same, and apparently all other phones do the same. In short, I had unreasonable expectations.

    Yet, all my other phones’ batteries didn’t die within seconds of taking them out of my pocket, even in winter.

    So, I don’t have to bother with their names anymore.




  • It’s a good question but I just read this on Wiktionary and Wikipedia and it’s obviously difficult to be certain.

    Both Wiktionary entries in English or French are saying the etymology is from papillon. Then the Wikipedia article for the papillote candy says that the word papillote in cooking is from this, but there’s no citation. And the origin of the word for the candy is also discussed there as being unsure.

    However, the French Wiktionary page on papillotte mentions that it’s the feminized form of papillot, which describes a small butterfly using the diminutive “ot”. This is grammatically cromulent. Like chien for dog, then chiot for puppy, or île and îlot.

    The papillotes for cooking are not arranged in a butterfly form, but it’s easy to see how it could come from wrapping food like this . So by extension it can also be used to wrap anything using a type of paper, like hair.

    As a native speaker, I tend to agree with the proposed etymology, as it kind of makes sense. There’s other words based on papillon so it makes it more likely. Like the verb papilloter to describe fluttering. Or bow ties, that are called nœuds papillon (butterfly knot), also because they look like butterflies.

    Still, sometimes the simple deductions are also the ones that are wrong. It could also come from papier, because papillotes can be made of paper. However the spelling is not helping because if it came from papier, it would be spelled papiotte. It could just be a coincidence than ends up working both ways.


  • You probably could, as papillote is something cooked wrapped in aluminium or parchment paper. The name comes from a candy that was wrapped in shiny paper and looked like a butterfly. So by extension now it’s also for any food that’s cooked wrapped in something. You can have a vegetable papillote, a salmon papillote, or a veal papillote.





  • So far I considered myself lucky that google only added AI results in English but recently they also started doing it in other languages. I googled in French which train stations had elevated platforms in my city and the AI results were confidently wrong. Entirely false information.

    It even added that one of the downtown stations was closed for renovations, which is also false as it has been reopened since December 2024.

    And you can’t disable it. It’s so fucking bad.


  • If you speak French you can consider Guadeloupe as a possibility.

    Of course there’s cars everywhere but it’s entirely possible to travel there without a car.

    There are municipal buses from the airport to multiple cities. There are also ferries to go to the multiple islands. The island of Marie-Galante can be cycled, and is very nice.

    I spent a few days in Le Gosier, Pointe-à-Pitre and Grand-Bourg, and I never needed a car.

    On the opposite side, avoid SXM.



  • I was working as a level 1 tech for a consulting company. I had to take calls and monitor the systems.

    We had a ticketing system in place where we received alerts and various alarms in there. But because some of my coworkers didn’t do anything with these and some systems (and clients) suffered from this, people in management thought it would be a marvelous idea to have those alerts and alarms make a notification in Teams.

    So when some random location lost internet for a few minutes, we sometimes had hundreds of Teams notifications.

    I quit last month. I couldn’t take it any longer.


  • pedz@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldGood memories
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    I hated school because there was a bunch of kids mocking and laughing at me for most of it.

    I guess some popular kids had good times by pulling my pants down or constantly hitting my chair during class. They must reminisce and miss those times, when they were laughing with their peers.