I was curious about who that cartouche is talking about, and it might be Cleopatra VII (or 𓈎𓃭𓇋𓍯𓊪𓄿𓂧𓂋𓏏𓄿𓆇), but I’m not sure.

Sadly my knowledge of Egyptian is limited to spotting proper names.

Death has kind of always been expensive.

Ossuaries are basically just piles of bones from people not prestigious enough to find a permanent burrial site.

I have no car and will not get one. Those things are horrible for the environment and humanity. Driver or not. Cars sucks. Fuck cars.

EDIT: If I have to choose those around me, I want them driven by humans. A human will learn (some) when you yell at them that they are in a bike lane. I trust humans much more than I trust, say, a Tesla, coming from behind while I’m cycling.

A car nearly ran onto me recently while I was stationary at a traffic light. I suspect the driver was battling against his “auto-pilot” system as the car kept trying to drive on me in the bike lane, and the driver kept trying to correct it. It seemed like the computer thought the bike path was a car lane. Fuck the cyclists in it.

Plus, we have proper winters where I live and I’d like to see them self-driving during snowfall and snow storms.

EDIT2: A car is a multi ton vehicle that can easily kill other people. I want humans to have responsibility over this. A death caused by a car can’t be easily dismissed, just because some kid or a deer didn’t follow what the programming intended them to do. There should be less individual cars and more buses, trains, trams, driven by responsible people, professionals, that are accountable. The only sort of acceptable automation/self-driving are trains if they have a dedicated right of way.

I would also stop buying olive oil if Italy was attacking the sovereignty of my nation.

Yes. Québécois here. I remember his name and know he’s a signer, but couldn’t remember what he sang. I had to look it up, and I only heard of him because of Millennium.

I don’t like cars. I consider them dangerous and addictive, and I’m willing to cycle a few hundred km just to avoid using one. Mostly because of environmental reasons, but also because I’m probably nerodivergent. Cars are constantly reminding me of the wasted energy, the pollution, and the possibility to kill someone else, or an animal. I’m often distracted and impatient, so I just consider it better for everyone if I avoid them.

And that’s usually a surprise to most people that meet me, as the vast majority of people will reply they could never live without their car. Most people love cars, but to me, seeing an endless stream of them on the horizon makes me sad.

Fuck cars anyway. Even if people own their shitty mobile living room, they’re still going to contribute to climate change because of parking lots and heat islands. Tire shedding is also a major source of pollution. Cars kill a human about every 30 seconds.

Own your car but still pay regularly to feed it energy, be it gas or electricity, to move a multi ton vehicle everywhere around, and still be dependent on car culture anyway.

Fuck cars.

Mainstream news publications and online newspapers.

In Canada and Québec specifically, the tabloid Journal de Montréal has always had the most ridiculously detached comments of any other platform I know.

It’s closely followed by the comments on some CBC news articles.

Ouais, un chandail à capuche!

J’ai entendu “sleeping” très souvent, mais pas juste “sleep”. J’aurais été confus moi aussi.

Le monde est bizarre. Comme ceux qui disent coton ouaté pour désigner un kangourou. /s

Je suis du sud du Québec et je l’aurais pas compris. J’ai jamais entendu sleep de ma vie pour désigner un sac de couchage.

Using Windows for me is a cumulation of annoying little things that becomes too big to ignore. Another thing you can add on that list is fiddling with keyboard layouts if you don’t use the default US one. And be sure to delete them all except the one you want to use, even the sub layouts, because accidentally hitting a key combo could switch it back to the default US one.

It’s a specific pet peeve that I have against Windows. I’ve had so many calls (I do tech support) from people that had their computer suddenly not making the characters they wanted, sometimes only in specific programs, just to discover that they reverted to the default layout by hitting Win + spacebar at some point.

Not so far off. Someone can be sitting in their living room and be killed by a car that plows through the wall.

EDIT: If you want a few examples, there is a German community dedicated to old people crashing their car, some in weird places, https://feddit.org/c/rentnerfahrenindinge.

It’s missing an expressway and a giant parking lot. And we need cheaper gas for our cars. There’s no other solution for this one, just cheaper gas for everyone!

I’m so glad politicians are promising cheaper gas. That’s exactly what we need for tbe future.

To most Quebecers “le button” means “the mound”.

No. Maybe it’s because English is not my native language but I just don’t understand your replies at all. Are you telling me I’m being racist? If so, why?

Plaît-il?

It may just have been a bad match. What he said was very generic but I couldn’t help myself but transpose it into a religious speech. It could have worked if he was also talking about religion. And it creeped me out. Maybe a smart thing would have been to tell him, but I chose not to go back instead.

But yeah, I hope it’s working for some other people because to me, it felt like someone was trying to get me into a pyramid scheme.

I was already a geek that used internet to escape reality nearly 30 years ago. That part hasn’t changed. He wanted my to do it physically. Like, join the local Esperanto club or something like that.

And as much as he may have been right, sometimes what matters most is how it’s brought up and said. It felt like he was trying to convince me to “go join them!”, or more accurately “come join us!”. As if it was a cult and the only natural thing to do. Just like society makes me feel in general.