This looks like a shadow vessel from B5.

🎵 Demain sur les bords du Nil Que mangeront les crocodiles? DES GAU-LOIIIIIIS! 🎵

And it was satisfying. I had a CRT monitor that sometimes collapsed vertically and hitting it on the side a few times generally fixed the problem for a while.

However I discovered percussive maintenance also had limits when I tried it with a 386 that kept freezing because of a bad hard drive. Turns out hitting a computer with a hard drive will make things worse.

So far after about three years, it’s mixed for me. I had positive interactions on communities that I’m here for, like bike packing, bike touring, or one of the numerous fuck cars communities. The bird pictures community is nice.

But I’ve also been told I should commit suicide, or that my comments are not worth posting. So it’s mixed, and sometimes I refrain from posting comments on memes and or controversial stuff because I don’t want those replies. I’m typing this and I’m thinking about deleting it before posting.

More positive than negative overall, but lately I’ve been thinking about commenting less on Lemmy because of those few negative interactions.

This list is missing the most important Gul of all.

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That’s why I prefer to hold meetings in room 200. That way everyone finds the room without even having to read the number.

Electric cars are only existing right now because the car industry wants to continue to sell very expensive individual vehicles, not for efficiency nor the environment. Electric cars are, in a way, greenwashing. They are certainly better than cars with ICE but there’s still so many issues with cars and their infrastructure that them being electric will not change that much.

But buy buy buy, they’re “good” for the environment. Buy!

I don’t have photography tips but as someone not that good at identifying birds, I think I know this one. I just had to look how a carouge à épaulettes is called in English. So, is that a red-winged blackbird?

Also, names of birds in English are so original. /s

TBF this is not really about programming. You have to be knowledgeable about how computers work and their history for this one.

Just overthinking for fun.

A lock is a bit deeper though. There’s also a ladder but if the lock is being filled/emptied, some currents might suck someone under water.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

North Americans are fiercely enamored of an unaccented alphabet.

Accents are important for precision, but words too.

Québec and México are not part of North America?

I prefer this version to “viola”. I’ve seen it a few times and I always find it a bit funny if not unfortunate.

It’s the simple past of violer (violate) at the 3sp, which can be used for the word rape. It’s basically saying “violated” without he/she in front of it.

TBF kids are already getting killed by other cars and society deems it an acceptable loss for being able to take cars everywhere.

In 2023, there’s been 12 fatalities of kids under 4 years old in Canada, and 48 fatalities between 5 and 14 years old. All ages, it’s a total of nearly 2000 dead in a year in Canada alone for 2023.

When a kid dies in a pool we nearly ban them and strengthen regulations. Cities pay inspectors to make sure people have fences around their pool.

When a kid gets clipped by a fast moving cyclist it makes the news. Dangerous cyclists are roaming the streets at high speed, nearly killing children! What an outrage!

But when cars kill a few thousand people every year, one every 30 seconds on the planet, it’s the price we have to pay for this convenience. We can’t stop the world turning. Our economies would collapse without cars so we can’t really impose any regulations on them. They’re EsSeNtIAl.

Yeah. I saw a therapist a decade ago while suicidal and he really helped me. I’m grateful for that. But at one point he started to tell and repeat me what I told him I didn’t like others were saying to me, and I was not ready. It pushed me away and I never went back.

Then I looked for another therapist. The second one was okay but it didn’t work out. We did a few sessions but I didn’t think it was “worth” $125 an hour.

The third one told me it was all my fault during the first session and nearly brought up religion. He was stuck with communities and how I should push myself to fit in one. It lasted exactly one session.

I guess I was lucky to stumble upon a therapist that really helped me even if it couldn’t continue. And I guess I am the brick wall anyway.

And as much as I know it’s not exactly that clear cut, I feel like therapists are part of the capitalist system to help people cope with it. The first one clearly didn’t like it when I said I thought most people had some sort of Stockholm syndrome towards our abusive capitalist society.

It reminds me of a Bad Religion song.

All my scientists are working on a deadline.

So my psychologist is working day and night time

A few years ago I watched a video from a French woman reflecting upon her relationship with her therapist and how much it cost her. She came up with the question: “Am I better off putting €100 on a table, lay on my sofa for an hour, then treat myself with that money, or go to a session with my therapist?” And it stuck with me.

I can’t deny therapists and therapy can help, but finding one that works with you, and the price, can be a big obstacle.

Sorry but why would higher fuel prices induce such behaviour? Weren’t some people assholes before?

To me, in Canada, the sudden and steep increase in people driving like assholes dates from the pandemic. The price doesn’t seem to have changed much.

However I have never driven a car among traffic, only my bike when I have no other choice, so I may not be super aware of the latest rage. In fact, me not having a car and avoiding them makes the rising prices not so much of an issue for me. Food prices and everything else will increase, but I’m lucky enough not to pay directly for fuel nor mix with car drivers daily.

I hate cars. They kill people, animals and the environment. They make climate change worse. They are noisy. Taxis and Uber are just a way to perpetuate car dependency and avoid investing in public transit.

I moved to a metropolis just so I can avoid using cars and have reliable public transit. I even cycle 100km to national parks.

Cars are bad, mmm’kay.

I hate taking taxis and I never used Uber or a shit like this. Give me a bike, or a bus, but not a fucking car driven by someone else.

I can’t understand people using Uber.

I’m from Québec and we/some put thick bed covers like comforters on top of another set of thin sheets. I grew up with the principle of just removing a layer if it was hot in summer, sometimes removing the comforter entirely, and putting it back in winter. I have never used a duvet before visiting Europe. It’s only when I slept in hotels in Germany that I met a duvet for the first time of my life. Most of them only have a single sheet, a duvet and a giant deflated pillow. And I must admit that I hated it. So much so that I went to Decathlon to buy a liner and an inflatable pillow because I couldn’t sleep with the duvet nor the folded pillow.