Pretty sure that’s heronsy.

I honestly feel that’s less of a diss on the Neo and more of a statement on how overpowered phones are now, especially considering the limitations placed on mobile OSes.

My cyclist confession is that I hate doing bicycle maintenance.

In the 5 years I’ve had my current bike, I think it’s on it’s fourth drivetrain?

Even then, over 5 years of replacing neglected chains, chain rings and cassettes pretty much every year, I still paid less in parts than what 10 tanks of gas would cost. Not to mention the savings on vehicle purchase, parking, insurance, heck even a gym membership.

Apparently, buck used to be a slur in the US for a black or Native American man.

A suggested etymology for buck naked is that it refers to the the nude state of black men when they were sold at slave auctions. AFAIK it’s not attested anywhere, just a hypothesis.

Fluent Reader was my stopping point when looking for a good desktop RSS reader. I’d rather a non-Electron-based app, but hey, non-programmers beggars can’t be choosers.

Both butt-naked and buck naked are used.

Comparing them with Google Ngram does show that buck naked predates and is slightly more frequently used than butt-naked, but I’d say butt-naked has been widely accepted into the lexicon. Bonus, it doesn’t have (possibly) racist origins like buck naked has.

Hey! As a vegan stoner, I resent that. I use an Arch-derivative (EndeavourOS btw).

French people and French-Canadians both use anglicisms, just in different ways.

For example, if we take the sentence “I parked my car in the parking lot for the weekend”, someone from France might say:

J’ai stationné ma voiture dans le parking pendant le weekend

whereas someone from Canada could say

J’ai parké mon char dans le stationnement pour la fin de semaine

Both have influence from English, but in different places. English loanwords in Canada tend to originate from the beginning of the 20th century (a reason why many car-related terms in Canadian French are anglicisms, such as “bumper”) and in France loanwords tend to be a more recent phenomenon.

I’m French-Canadian. My native language is French, I spoke French at home growing up and the entirety of my education was in French.

When I’ve visited Paris, I had people switching to English despite me speaking exclusively in French to them.

Peanut Butter Sunday and FUUDGE are two French Canadian bands worth checking out!

unbiased source of news

I honestly don’t think this is possible.

Who’s deciding what counts as “biased” or “unbiased”, and how do we ensure there’s no corruption there?

How do we determine “the truth” about controversial subjects when general opinion is split?

Even if you did determine a magical method to broadcast exclusively factual information without any spin; the choice of which information gets broadcast inherently introduces bias. You can’t put literally everything that happened on Earth in a day on the evening news, so you have to choose and prioritize which information to broadcast, introducing the bias.

I’ve always thought a better solution would be having news sources be more explicit about their biases, rather than pretending they don’t have any, but I realize that just introduces more problems without necessarily fixing anything.

Most cyclists I know want more people on the bike paths.

I’ve never heard a driver bemoan a lack of traffic.

They’re literally giving the richest family in the province 45 million in “tariff relief funds” over the next three years.

The Irvings own New Brunswick, except maybe a little patch in the north-west that’s owned by the McCains. Two of the top ten richest families in Canada, living in one of the poorest provinces. Weird coincidence.

Xcode is an IDE, this version being released in March.

The Ides of March is the day Julius Caesar was assassinated.

I think that’s all there is to the joke, unless I’m also missing something.

A friend of mine is very much the big tiddy goth GF stereotype, and she often shares screenshots of the messages men send her on dating apps.

Men are fucked up in general, but holy fuck do they get ridiculous if they think they remotely have a chance with a goth baddie.

If you go about it with curiosity, especially if you focus on recipes instead of ethics, you’re probably good. Sharing food is such a big social thing that you get a bit ostracized from when you’re vegan, so it truly is nice to share recipes with earnest people like you seem to be.

Now if only I can figure out vegan meals that would do well in my smoker!

I’ve never used a smoker so I’m not quite familiar with the process, but my first instinct would be trying something with seitan. I did find some recipes with just a quick search.

If you do smoke some seitan, feel free to invite me, I’ll bring drinks! :P

I’ve never made anyone become vegan, but a lot of my friends have definitely opened up to incorporating more vegetarian or vegan meals into their diets, which I do count as a small win.

A friend who used to be very much the meat & potatoes type has recently been texting me excitedly about the new vegan recipes he’s been trying out. He still regularly eats meat, but hey, it’s something.

I’ve been vegan for nearly ten years, I dread any time the topic comes up with people who aren’t also vegan.

It usually becomes a pointless debate where I either have to heavily self-censor, or end up hurting the feelings of people who eat animal products. It’s always the same conversations I’ve already had hundreds of times, no one’s gonna change my mind and I probably won’t change theirs either.

Why people would use ChatGPT to ignore reality is beyond me, that’s why God invented drugs!

It’s important to make sure reality is compatible with your hardware.