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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Community living in isolation under a mountain for 6,000 years.

I bet they’d be rather surprised at what humanity has become in the intervening years; I wonder how humans would adapt to an underground lifestyle in 6,000 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Are they going to make special rules for the G7 summit too?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

If you have an iPhone, it has a built in translation app too, that does voice to voice with written summaries.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago

When you consider education itself to be “leftist” and prefer indoctrination and dogma to critical thinking and the scientific method, it makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I don’t know… I think his description can be overly complex/abstract for eli5 AND all the other descriptions can be wrong.

Here’s my attempt:

You know how with Lego you can make all sorts of stuff, but you can also buy a kit with some main pieces pre-molded that you attach the other bits to, to make your object?

Linux is like that pre-made bit, with bumps on it in specific places to build the object. It’s designed to be the interface between the non-Lego objects and the Lego pieces.

But unlike in most systems, with Linux, everyone can tweak the pre-made bit, and it must be given away, along with the instructions on how to build it.

And of course, this all runs in software on electronics, not using physical objects made of plastic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There’s a reason Canada discontinued the penny.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Annual and perennial refers to whether the plant itself will survive more than one season. Annuals need to re-seed every year, where perennials will survive through other means.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Modo says the customer didn’t report being unable to complete the inspections required by the agreement.

That looks like it’s the key bit. Can’t inspect the car without moving it? Take a picture, then move it, then take another picture if damage was found, end the ride, and start a new one.

Of course, THIS, while common sense to me, was obviously not spelled out by modo.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

First she’d have to find them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It’s highly likely that people weren’t the target at all; they likely obliterated the infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ah; I hadn’t realized it was in Alberta. That makes a BIT more sense then. Explains the independence petition too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Then you lucked out.

I used to buy all sorts of stuff at Canadian Tire in the 90s, and while it was affordable, it almost all broke within 2 years, from CCM bicycles that had their frame welds crack to Hunter kitchen appliances that had power supplies that overheated and failed, to even bouncy balls that would harden and crack. Air pumps where the plastic would crack or the pump rod (which was held in by glue) would disconnect, foldable chairs where the stitching would unravel, knives where the blade would snap.

The list goes on and on. Never had that volume of problems with any other store I’ve ever shopped at.

Also, I had relatives that worked in CT in the 90s. They’ve got even worse stories to tell.

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