isVeryLoud

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[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Montreal's bike lanes generally connect somewhere within its own borough. We do have some oddities where one borough ends and the next one decides to not implement bike lanes, so the lane abruptly ends, but they are pretty rare.

Most bike lanes I've seen are long bike lanes that cross multiple boroughs and go through population centres, such as downtown.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Devil's advocate, but this seems logical to me. Loblaws buys products at X price, now plus Y tariff because they now have to import new stock, and logically won't want to eat the difference because they're a business.

I'm assuming they're keeping their margins the same here and just directly passing the cost of tariffs to the end consumer.

This is nothing egregious, though not benevolent. I suggest we keep our Loblaws hate for when they actually do shitty stuff, like colluding over the price of bread.

At least I'll give them points for clearly marking tariffed products with a T in a triangle so we can avoid them.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sell Android to OpenAI

/s

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Chatte, j'ai pété

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

...maybe!

Sorry Smorty, I just can't understand ya :(

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If the name ends in an S, you leave a floating apostrophe.

James'

If the name does not end with an S, you place an S after an apostrophe.

Carl's

The only time an S without an apostrophe is valid is when indicating plural. If the noun ends with an S, you do not have to change anything.

Many James

Many Carls

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Eh, as someone with hyperlexia, it's just a bit frustrating trying to read non-standard English. It sometimes takes me a while to figure out what the user actually meant when using the wrong written form of a homophone.

I think it's partially because I don't really hear speech in my head, so the jump from "it's" to "its", for example, is not obvious to me unless I slowly read it out loud.

I know English is a silly language with even sillier rules, but my brain expects it to be written out a certain way and stops parsing if that doesn't happen.

I've definitely blocked at least one person who had extremely poor English on here before, but not out of spite, simply because they brought me no value beyond just wasting my reading time until my brain eventually goes "I can't read this 🙃" and gets frustrated. IIRC they were writing in very abbreviated English with a ton of typos and homophone mistakes.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I'm assuming it's a joke I'm not getting.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Can you elaborate on the last part of your comment? I'm not sure I fully understand, though it sounds like we mostly agree.

I'm not sure why you threw in that digression about political leaning at the end, though. It makes your last statement pretty vague.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The "paradox of tolerance" is a concept I love to bring up time and time again.

No tolerance for the intolerant, lest intolerants take over tolerant spaces and turn them intolerant.

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