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Em Adespoton
Em Adespoton @ adespoton @lemmy.ca
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  • “A-boot” is an Eastern Canada thing; west-coast is “ah-bah-Wt” and is common from BC right down into Oregon.

  • “We” being the collective “us”.

    “We” always behaves differently than “I” do. That’s kind of the point.

  • It’s not dying at all; it’s just dispersing. Entropy is odd that way; life turns out to be an entropy accelerator.

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  • It’s like switching from cigarettes to chickory.

  • I’m curious: what counts as a road with a bike lane? Does that statistic mean that of all the toad surface, 2% has a bike lane beside or on it, or does that mean for every named road, 2% of them have a section that has a bike lane on it?

    Because in my city, road improvements are paid for by property development. As a result, we have roads that have “bike lanes to nowhere” where you’ve got a separated bike lane for 2 blocks, that abruptly vanishes at both ends, sometimes into a shoulderless stretch of one or two lane roadway shared by everyone.

    If that 2% is actually properly designed bike artery that’s fed by low density shared roadways, that’s actually pretty good. If it’s just randomly scattered throughout the city, it might be more dangerous than having no bike lanes at all.

  • I used to be a MEC member/shareholder, around 25 years ago. There was an AGM, we voted on major store policy, and there were sometimes even dividends, but usually we all voted to roll those back into the co-op.

    Back then, it was very much member-owned.

    Since then though, the structure changed significantly, even before the buyout. More and more power was put into the hands of the executive, to try and deal with the cash flow issues the company was having. It didn’t work.

  • Seen those ads on the sides of McDonald’s trucks? The ones where the meat is missing from the sandwich and they say “what things would look like without Canadian ingredients.” My first thought was “wait… shouldn’t there be NOTHING THERE?”

  • East Asian people tend to be more racist than Russians; the Rus themselves tend to feel superior to other Russians, but aside from that superiority, they’re likely to not care much about race.

    Chinese and Japanese? Very insular.

    Of course, if you’re living outside China/Japan/Russia, you’re going to have different interactions with people from there, many of whom will have left because they rejected the culture.

  • No lol about it. That’s either a thinly veiled death threat, or someone saying that they will keep bullying and harassing until the person goes away.

  • They paved paradise and put up a parking lot And now these new developers, They want to tear it all up.

    Don’t it always seem to go, That somebody’s always going to complain? When you put in a garden, and stick some condos on top.

  • The content is open to interpretation based on context, but the «» indicates that English is likely not the quoter’s primary language.

    So based on that, I have to ask: are you asking specifically about the nested idioms in the sentence?

  • Oh don’t worry; they don’t use real English. They use a version where they changed the bits they didn’t understand.

  • I always took it as “we’ve had to do 200 deals with one country. There’s no way we can build this out to another 149….”

  • This is America we’re talking about. If it’s not in English, it doesn’t count.

  • Most likely you have ancestors who lived in what is now France. Either that, or you have ancestors whose descendants moved around, and some of them settled in what is now France.

    This could have happened before or after France became a nation.

    Then again, it’s pretty likely that you have ancestors who lived in Africa.

  • It’s already completed its main mission. At this point, its mission is to observe and report. If the fuel was redirected to acceleration, that would effectively mean abandoning that mission in favor of… something.

  • Where I live, it’s all planned out in CAD, and then the inner concrete curb is calculated and broken up into sections, according to the plan.

    Then the intersection being replaced (because that’s almost always the case) is dug up in the center and the concrete forms put in place and the center backfilled with gravel and dirt.

    After the concrete has set, the asphalt machines re-level and pave the surrounding area. After this, brick is often added inside the concrete to provide an extra driving surface for large vehicles. Then plants or statues are added to the centre.

    After all this, the lines and markings go on, and they’re just offset from the concrete curb, so nothing fancy needs to be done; the paint truck just has a little arm that stays over the concrete.

  • What would be the benefit of going faster over being able to communicate with it?

    How many years of fuel it has left depends fully upon how that fuel needs to be used to maintain orientation with Earth; there’s no specific answer.