These actual people from France can go fuck themselves if they’re serious. We québécois have done way more for the language than them.

Ou, comme on dit en français : qu’ils aillent donc chier, les osti de français.

Sorry, this is kind of a trigger, lol

No, it’s pretty hard to get rid of heat in space, vacuum is a very good insulator. The only way is radiation.

Here in Canada, I recently took a big stumble while snowboarding, and my ankle hurt a lot. I went to the emergency room at the nearest hospital, got X-rays, and they confirmed I had broken my left inner malleolus. They referred me to the specialist clinic, and sent me home with a boot and crutches.

Next Monday, the specialist clinic tell me to show up the next morning (so on Tuesday). I waited pretty much the whole morning for the specialist to see me, he confirmed he needed to operate and put 2 screws in my ankle. The surgery happened later that evening.

Got a follow up 2 weeks later to remove the cast / surgery bandages, more X-rays and they put me back in the boot until the next follow-up a month later, after which I’ll probably start physiotherapy.

All of this cost me about 4$ in EV charging while I was at the ER, and maybe 20$ in medication (painkillers and Tylenol)? And I don’t think it could’ve been any faster. People love to shit on our healthcare system here, but in my experience it’s been amazing.

Honest question: were the other events filmed like Rene’s killing was? My hypothesis is that’s it’s more about the available footage of the incident than the victim’s demographics… But the USA is racist as fuck so I could be wrong.

“Do not hallucinate”, lol… The best way to get a model to not hallucinate is to include the factual data in the prompt. But for that, you have to know the data in question…

Yeah, my boss told he’s under pressure from upper management and customers to add AI in our app. His answer is always “to do what?”. So far, nobody has provided an answer, but whenever we get one we’ll be happy to implement it.

These are still right-handed. The blades need to be crossed the other way for left-handed scissors. Making an ambidextrous scissor is physically impossible.

They’re crossed the other way around. Ambidextrous scissors do not exist

Maduro was wanted in the US for a host of alleged crimes

IN THE US. Not in Venezuela. Why do USians think their laws apply outside the country?

I don’t sit down on short (round) toilets because there is no room for my “equipment”, but otherwise I agree.

I bought one the other day that wasn’t even that, it was literally translated by Google translate. It was so bad, I had to translate the French text word-for-word into English before it made sense.

This fucking gov… I mean, I’m not necessarily against having less religion in the public sphere, but they always pull shit like this when their poll numbers start to tank and people start protesting. There were 2 very big scandals recently, one about billions being spent on a failed software project on our DMV, and the other one about an awful law regarding doctors being passed in the middle of the night.

I guess they want us to talk about something else now…

At least they still make minivans, everybody else stopped making them in favour of these ugly-ass “SUV” which are worse in every aspect except towing… There are only 4 options on that market now (well, five if you count the Pacifica separately from the Voyager/Grand Caravan, but it’s more of a trim difference, so let’s say 4.5)

I’ve listed my pronouns under my name in my email signature, and that has cut down significantly on the number of people misgendering based on my first name. It’s not an obscure name at all, but the female version is way more popular and there only a very small letter separating the two versions, so a lot of people hallucinate it.

I recently built an app that uses a PouchDB (client-side CouchBD) database as the “project” unit, and where you can optionally set up a server-side CouchDB database for multi-user / multi-device collaboration. Works pretty well!

As a JS dev, I approve of this meme.

Tesla getting the majority of subsidies is a sad state of affairs, that’s true. But I think it’s more due to the rest of the market being exceedingly slow to react than anything Tesla specifically did. Elon back then was overly optimistic in his timelines, but I don’t think it rose to the level of being a con man (now with Twitter / X and DOGE it’s a different story, I won’t argue with you on that!)

I wasn’t born in the 1970s so I don’t remember what the public opinion on EVs were at that time.

I won’t argue that Big Oil has always been up to nefarious things, but “creating Tesla” isn’t one of them.

This is a pretty revisionist & cynical take. From what I remember, before Tesla EVs used to be seen as glorified golf carts, only meant for inner-city driving that only hard-core environmentalists would even want.

Tesla flipped that on its head and showed the world that EVs could be cool. As a new car company, it also makes sense to start with the high-margins, low-volumes of luxury cars.

What’s sad is that the rest of the car industry, who already had low-margins high-volumes manufacturing up & running, didn’t pick up the pace and only chased the “luxury” segment. Also, Tesla majorly dropped the ball with the Cybertruck. Model 3 is a good mid-range sedan but they should’ve continued their efforts towards a good entry-level option.

You’re absolutely right!

Costco is especially infuriating because they do not tolerate anything on the platform before you can start. You also cannot remove anything from the platform before you’ve paid and everything… So you can’t pack as you go, making everything slower and more stressful for everyone. If you even attempt to, the goddamn thing locks up and the clerk has to unlock it for you.