I am irrationally irritated by people telling me “be safe” when I’m moving on a bicycle. I know they mean well but they don’t say it when I take the bus or get in a car, only when I’m on a bicycle.

Cycling in itself is absolutely safe, unless you’re racing or doing mountain biking. But just moving around at low speed won’t kill many people if they fall down. Even without a helmet.

What’s dangerous when cycling is getting hit by a car, or a truck, or a van. And being told “be safe” shows just how much society won’t discuss the real issue, and just wishes cyclists to “be safe”. It’s like thoughts and prayers.

Sorry for the rant.

There’s a song about this phenomenon in Québecois French called Dégénération, from Mes Aïeux.

It starts with your great great grand father clearing the land, your great grand father plowing the land, your grand father making a profit out of it, your father selling it to be a white collar, and you, living in a one room apartment, owing debts to corporations.

The lyrics are pretty conservative and portray a rosy past, but it goes with the traditional style and the fact the band’s name means “my ancestors”. This being said, the song is still pretty spot on about this phenomenon. Here’s a link to the translated lyrics, and the song.

EDIT: Oh and there’s a parody (no translation, sorry) stating the obvious, like “your great great great grand mother, she took dumps in a bucket, and she only had three teeth left, but it was paradise.”

I have a hard drive filled with this, no need to have a constant internet connection. Streaming is just being a slave to corporations.

Maybe I’m just old, but I lived in the era of dial-up where downloading MP3s at 4.5 kb/s was common, and you didn’t want to have to download it again, so you kept it safe in a folder. Well, multiple decades later, I have multiple folders filled with multimedia.

So you can watch the world turn to fascism in 4k, and have your daily dose of ads and propaganda, while isolated in the woods.

But they have local beef, local potatoes, local millionaires owning the restaurants, so it’s totally not American. Even the workers are locals!

It’s like Frito-Lay adding “Made in Canada” on their bags. So many American companies are now suddenly so proud to make their stuff locally, in <insert country name here>.

Oh boy. I remember back at the end of the 90ies, being annoyed at friends making websites on popular things only to insert pay per click banners, in the hope of making money out of the internet.

Corporations have a lot of responsibilities in making thr internet shitty, but people’s greed helps them a lot.

Still today, I have coworkers dreaming of finding some genius idea to become popular Youtubers and live from that. They don’t realize it means living from ads and encouraging this system.

Everyone wants to exploit the internet for money. Even when it was new.

So, you can install malware on other distros from the AUR?

Usually if the software I want is not on debian’s repos, I’ll try to get the source and compile it, or last resort, use an appimage. I’m not really fond of mixing different installation methods coming from different distros, but… it’s good to know.

Some people like linguistics. There are several communities about reforming English or its spelling. There’s also some YouTubers making videos on that subject.

The YouTuber Rob Words has a whole playlist about the alphabet used in English, and how it could be changed.

I hope the person is not getting downvoted just because they are spelling differently.

It would get old fast because I don’t drive a car and would turn crazy in such a neighbourhood.

I’ve been using Debian for years and prefer deb based systems, but recently I messed a bit around with Manjaro, and the amount of packages only available from the AUR is, erm, remarkable.

This is false as is fails to take account how glorious and great Trump is and how the economy is roaring. The traitor that wrote that headline is gonna be deported into an El Salvadoran prison camp. Thank you for attention to this matter.

It depends if an ouverture counts, and how popular of a song.

Bad Religion has Ouverture before Sinister Rouge. They are different tracks but they merge together.

Also, one could argue that most of the songs on the album American Idiot by Green Day, are a prequel to the next one. The songs can be separated but they are parts of a story.

The mistake was to not turn it into an aspic.

If it’s not a BMW, it’s gonna be a pickup truck.

Pretty sure he’s not sweating it.

I could care less.

I’m not sure it’s an age thing, but more of a where you are in life thing.

I don’t have a house and my apartment comes with a fridge and a range. There is a laundry room in the building.

And I’m guessing that appliance would be delivered? Because again, I don’t want to have to move it. Not even if I change place.

If I’d win an appliance, I’d just sell it on the spot. Such a hassle.

I’m not a native English speaker but I think you may want to use peaked, as piquer is from French and means to jab, to prick, or to sting.

You can say something piqued your interest, or that something someone said piqued you the wrong way.

Or if you want to use it in that way, you can also say that nothing piques you, or that you are not piqued by this comment.

Why is everyone saying it’s Trump? Isn’t Stephen Miller the one pushing for all this?

Yes, green means go!11! Even there’s an old lady that just didn’t finish crossing yet, she just had to do it in the few seconds allowed.

My favorite one is people honking at other drivers for not blocking an intersection because “it’s green!”. I don’t know the term in English but in French it’s a mix of intersection and blocage. Like, if the light is green but there is no space to advance because of gridlock, some apparently like to make it worse by advancing their car in an intersection and sit there while it turns red, and thus blocking the intersection. BuT It WaS GreEn!