pedz

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Oh! I assumed it was a short for a location in California or something like this. I didn't know the word for those things and thought it was a place.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Montreal. There's someone with a YouTube channel named TaiigerBlue that posts "FSD tests" from all around the city.

EDIT: I didn't know what "caltrops" are. And anyway any kind of damage to a precious motorized vehicle is considered a grave offense. I once hit the rear bumper of a car that cut me with my bike wheel and the driver chased me, cut me again, got out of his car, yelled at me, and then slapped me in the face, saying "YOU DON'T TOUCH MY CAR BRO!1!"

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 months ago (6 children)

There's already someone in my city posting videos of "how well" the autopilot navigates the intersections of pedestrianized streets and I hate it. They are enthusiastically beta testing their lethal shit around pedestrians like it's nothing.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago

I never really liked Skype but seeing a major corporation buy proprietary software and its servers, then shut it down, makes me glad that I'm still using IRC with some of my friends. Try buying that.

Anyway I'm getting old now because Microsoft doing something like this just reminds me of their EEE strategy.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where I live they try really hard not to give you a diagnosis as an adult because it might require the health services to do something more about it, and would take more resources. Just getting medication was a hassle so I gave up on the system trying to help me.

Children get a diagnosis but government help will become much more limited when they turn adult.

Apparently in Canada and specifically in Quebec, nerodivergence goes away as soon as someone becomes an adult.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

It varies a lot. In my mother's family it's all informal, but my father uses formal vous with his parents and grandchildren do the same.

I'm also working with the public and I'm used to vouvoyer pretty much everyone except people clearly younger than me. I sometimes pass for a bit of a pedantic asshole but that's just what I'm used to.

Just switch when the other person asks.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

A bit ironic given the fact that they want to push everyone on the cloud and run Office apps in a browser. Or is this just corporate?

I've been doing tech support for a few corporations and they were literally removing the local applications like Word, Excel and Outlook to force users to use the web versions because it was costing them less money for licensing.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

It's a noble goal and a good message but it's kind of ruined by the smaller patronizing text. It's weird to tell people that the tram always has priority, but the people's security is its priority. They should pick one.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

Zathras tryed to warn, but no one listens to poor Zathras.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I briefly passed by Liège-Guillemins last year and walked a bit around to see it was still in construction.

I'm glad to see it's now working.

Also, this made me chuckle a bit.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

I'm ashamed of some of the regions of Québec that voted Conservative. Being from rural Montérégie but now living in Montréal is like two different worlds when it comes to politics. The riding where most of my family lives was won by the Bloc Québecois but followed by the Conservatives. The riding next to it was won by the Conservatives.

I hate to admit it, but if it were not for the Bloc Québecois, there would probably be even more people here voting for the Conservatives.

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