I'm a francophone and tried to explain that France is not "dépaysant" enough for a vacation and the closest word I came up with is "exotic", but it's not exactly what I want to convey.
pedz
joined 2 years ago
Und dann es gibt wann und wenn.
I'm a native French speaker that learned English in school, and we had to get used to words spelt the same but with a different pronunciation and sometimes a slightly different meaning.
Don't worry, you'll probably get used to it.
TIL that the US makes their prisoners pay for their food. I mean, obviously.
What a nasty question! Very nasty!
It became untenable well before that for certain people. It's all stuff that can be changed or disabled but the Start Menu in Windows 10 with the tiles, and its default search on Bing was infuriating. I do tech support and some clients just don't bother to deactivate it. There is also the whole thing about Microsoft removing parts of the old Control Panel and its utilities.
But another aspect of why they may also be losing market is how bad they have been with other architectures, like ARM. Windows for ARM seems to be lacking a lot. Even though they have been slowly getting better with emulation, they are still very much behind macOS and Linux. And I'm just a level 1 tech, but it seems like ARM devices and other low power architectures will slowly replace the old home desktops. They may have made a big mistake there.
But they still hold the corporate world and governments by the balls so, it's gonna be interesting to see.
Badgey?
That's one of the reasons I stopped rewatching Stargate. It's so noisy.
One night, I was rewatching Stargate late during the night and I realized I needed to lower the volume often to avoid annoying or waking up the people around. I could wear headphones but I don't want to hear guns and explosions so frequently so near.
I really liked Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis) but now a big part of what I see and hear when I watch it, is guns and explosions, and I'm passed that.
Have fun with your real life in real reality because of your obviously right choices. Here's a view from the side of fantasy land, where others made different choices, and are apparently not serious, and not real adults for this.
Hi, I live in fantasy world. I get my groceries on foot, making multiple trips a week instead of one big trip. Sometimes I go to a bigger store with my bike trailer and my panniers. I live in an apartment (even more signs that I'm not a real adult), so no renovations. And for recycling stuff like old computers, tables and stuff like that, I also use my bike trailer. Otherwise there are companies specialized in moving stuff. Either on bikes, or they own the truck and deliver stuff to me. Or take it somewhere else.
I go camping with my bike in national parks. I pull my folding kayak with a trailer. All in fantasy land. I will never be an adult because I don't drive a car or own a house. I'm not even a real human. It's true that everything is made around cars and sometimes it's a pain to have to use or rent one, but most of my life can be done without it. We are millions like this. Just not being real enough for you.
And of course, the goal is to force you cycling everywhere and get rid of your precious F150, and not just motivate a few more people on kids bikes or into shitty public transit so you and your precious real life can have more space on the roads.
It's so ridiculous. I know it's a provincial matter but some suburbs around Montréal are trying to build TOD and they get threatened by the transit authority to have their train lines reduced or cut. Even if they are already not in function during evenings and weekends.
And VIA Rail trains have been extra late for a few months now, with no end in sight.
Plus, the coach industry is continuing to reduce and/or cut routes. Fifteen years ago I could go from Drummondville to Victoriaville, and be back the same day. Now there's three coaches a week. I once heard a guy in a train from Drummondville to Montréal, saying that he was visiting his brother in Victoriaville when he had to leave a day earlier and discovered there were simply no coaches leaving the city that day. He paid $80 for a taxi to get him to Drummondville so he could then take a train home.
As someone that tries to get around without a car, some days, all levels of governments make me wish I had one.
The region where I'm from is trying to re purpose an abandoned rail line into a rail trail. The project dates from 2012 (in French). All the bureaucracy involved makes the process take forever. Meanwhile the extension of a multi lane highway plowed through a wooded area, some farmland, required the construction of a bridge, is now completed.
Same for public transit always being cut, while highway extension is like the proverbial carrot on a stick for voters.
VIA Rail won't even take fucking bikes in the Corridor, yet! Going from Montreal to Drummondville with a bike involves paying $35 for the coach ticket, $15 for your bike, that must be in a box or a bag that they will sell you for $15 if you don't have one, and pay the same again to get back! Oh and there's two coaches per day, for your convenience. Also, even if you ditch the bike so you can take a train, it's going to be seriously late.
But if we're so worried about the environment and quality of life, instead of trying to get everywhere using public transit and/or a bike, maybe we should buy an electric car. That's a very good message from our "leaders".
Rice. I know it's common in Asian countries but absolutely not where I'm from.