He · Him | Staunch environmentalist and socialist | Cinema and video games afficionado
Didn’t foresee this as a consequence to the rise of the antivax conspiracy. Sure I knew we’d be in trouble to reach herd immunity for the next epidemic/pandemic, but now we have to worry about rabbies in pets too. And what’s next? Antivax farmers refusing to vaccinate their cattle?
Maybe your teacher uses vous not as a formal address to one student but rather to speak to the whole class? Or he/she respects some students more than others and uses vous to talk to them, in spite of the age difference.
Yeah I’had been wondering if the ink and glue in those stickers could be bad for the soil if you threw them in your compost. So as a precaution I throw them in the recycling bin.
In French/France I use the formal vous when talking to strangers or customers. Here people generally switch pretty quickly to the informal tu when they get to know each other (at my first day at work with my colleagues and boss). But I’m quite an oddball since I use the formal address even for kids, which no one does. Also my neighbor was a bit annoyed at me for continuing to say vous to her after having met her one month ago. It can make people feel old.
Careful, the pro-China tankies might flood the comments with messages like “AcTuAlLy, ThE USA bAd So ChInA GoOd”
Isn’t that some sort of low battery warning? If so, it might stop on its on in a few weeks, worse case scenario.
“USA bad so Soviets good” is also propaganda.
I always said school teaches you critical thinking. In other words, to think for yourself.
Lower left is force lightning, obviously
Es ist so beschissen, dass deine Eltern dich nicht so akzeptieren, wie du bist. Ich hoffe, du hast andere Leute, die dich unterstützen.
I also wish health gurus would stop treating autism as the end of the world for parents. That’s insulting for autistic people. And being autist myself, I’m wondering if it wouldn’t be be better to have autistic kids. Maybe we’d understand each other better you know.
I don’t work at an office, but at a bicycle workshop. We just have the one computer at the frontdesk to register sales and new memberships (we’re a non-profit association). So the PC doesn’t have TPM 2.0 so I convinced the board to install linux on it, since it’s a security risk to keep using Windows after it’s going to be discontinued. But that wasn’t easy ! Especially because one of the board member is an Apple fanboy and keep saying things like: “If it’s free, it’s probably not very good”. :[
Only 1000km damn… I know chains don’t last as long on e-bikes but still, that broke quite quickly! I remember some advice from a bike shopkeeper: cheeper chains can be more durable since high-end chains are made for pros who look for lightweight parts above all (but these are less durable as a consequence).
Still putting the US on the same level as Russia in terms of human rights violations is absurd. And the ideal is to improve human rights conditions in both countries, not to argue over which one’s the worst country. Anyway, with how things are going, the US are going to be as bad as Russia in a few years.
Anna Politkovskaya (Novaya Gazeta), Stanislav Markelov (Novaya Gazeta), Anastasia Baburova (Novaya Gazeta) and Natalia Estemirova (Memorial) would like to have a word with you… No wait they can’t, caused they were all killed.
My point is democraties like the US are clearly flawed, but not to the point of assassinating their own citizens. But no point in debating with you, you’re probably an agent hired by Moscow to spread its propaganda.
The comparison is a bit hasty, since in the US your not accused of being a “foreign agent” and imprisoned when you reveal war crimes committed by the army (search about Memorial NGO).
It sounds like a great train system they have in China. Too bad you’ll be barred from buying tickets if you cross too many pedestrian red lights. This doesn’t make the US better, it just shows it’s not black and white.