PeOpLe On BiKeS dOn’T StOp On rED LiGhTs! HueHehUhEHUhE!

Meanwhile people driving multi-tons vehicles are not coming to a complete halt at every stop sign and it’s completely fine. People in cars are important. They have places to go. Not like those idiots on bikes that may start ahead on a red light not to get hooked by a car turning right.

Look at all those damn people on bikes not stopping at stop signs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUDIwZWh91s

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7yd5pRyrsF4

This reminds me of the guy that does guinea pig portraits as gifts for his sister’s birthday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q6UBlWO9tQ

Or throw a diskette in the trash while being chased by the police, then yell “HACK THE PLANET!” from the back of the police car.

I avoid the Olympics or “broadcast competition” in general. It reminds me of how I was the one picked last in gym class, while being forced into a “team” that I didn’t want anything to do with, and team “mates” bullying and menacing me for not trying hard enough. I saw that it was very good for developing team spirit, if you’re part of it.

But even as a spectator, I don’t see the interest in watching other people compete. I cycle a bit, about 600/700 km a month, and social media and people around me think that I care about competitions like Tour de France and Giro that, but I have no interest in watching which cyclist is going to be “the best” at competing, sponsored by oil corporations.

Competitive sports on TV/streams are like religion. It’s all a question of show, money, and people wanting to fit in by “picking a team/favorite”.

The art caught my eye but I can’t say I care about the subject.

I do tech support on the phone.

When I can’t take remote control, the person on the other side is not following instructions, and they just keep repeating “no, not working!” while trying multiple things one after another, that I can’t see.

Like, I can understand not being good with technology, I’ll be patient. But if I tell them to try loading the site in a private/incognito window and they’re telling me “but I tried in Firefox and it’s not working”, it’s not what I’m asking them to do. And if they’re like “wait, I’ll try again in Chrome” then repeat “nope, not working!”, it’s still not what I’m asking them to try!

It’s an interesting question. If someone could go back in time to try to shoot Hitler but ended up missing, would it still be a good deed?

Your PC is now Stoned.

This thing is from 1987 and I still have it on some of my old floppies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism

Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.

I’m a middle age Québécois and we learn about that system in secondary school when we talk about the early ages of New France. AFAIK it was however a bit different from empire to empire. In New France there were seigneurs (lords) holding vast pieces of land for the crown, called a seigneurie (lordship). Within that there were censitaires (serfs) that had to make use of the land and pay taxes.

We (Canadians) actually have two layouts to type French characters. The modern Canadian multilingual layout, and the traditional “French (Canada)” layout. As an older French speaking Canadian, I prefer the traditional layout but both work. You can even type English words with these.

I work in IT and I have coworkers that use caps lock to capitalize single letters, like the beginning of a sentence. It hurts a bit every time I see it.