Yeah, as in, if you take a quarter of an hour (15 minutes) from 10, it’s 9:45.
They also use minus ten, minus twenty or even minus twenty-five.
Ten hours minus twenty-five is 9:35.
Ten hours minus twenty is 9:40.
Ten hours minus (a/the) quarter is 9:45.
Ten hours minus ten is 9:50.
I find it confusing and never got used to this system. It feels old fashioned and it’s not even faster to say. But it’s still pretty common while being informal.
Time is weird. Even in the same language some people will tell time differently.
In French my parents are used to fractions while I don’t. So for me 9:45 is nine hours fourty five but for them it’s ten hours minus the quarter.
Oh they have responses. Just shitty ones. Some will tell you that they are arming themselves, while others will tell you that it’s the fault of those that didn’t vote enough.
Best of luck to them at the next election. Meanwhile they can just buy more guns. They will be totally useful when the militarized fascist authorities will kidnap and deport them to El Salvador.
I do first level tech support for a living and help people with Windows and Microsoft products.
When I come home, I turn on my Linux PC and it just works. I don’t want to maintain a Windows system at home because it feels like work and I don’t want to work at home.
Soon Trump will issue an executive order making it illegal not to visit the US. Everyone in the world not visiting the US because of boycott will be sent to a Salvadoran gulag.
The Ministry of Plenty announced that the egg prices have decreased by 20% last week.
I’m sure it also has nothing to do with the fact that it’s a woman.
If only those idiots wouldn’t be on public roads. Cars are already one of the most dangerous thing in the US. No need to add even more deadly metal boxes everywhere.
Il y a toujours la possibilité de trouver la saison 2, euh… quelque part 🏴☠️.
I’m still unsure about stuff made locally but owned by American corporations.
And I unfortunately know about some of the 24% that don’t boycott. My sister told me she and her partner “didn’t care about politics”. They were unfortunately also whining that masks are useless and that truckers were right. But they don’t care about politics, apparently.
And they will happily vote for him again.
Fucking YouTube trying to translate everything into shitty French for me.
‘The Honey scam’ becomes ‘The honey scam’ in French (L’arnaque du miel), as in honey from bees. The “AI” can’t even make the difference between a common and proper noun.
Reddit does the same through my Google searches. The original post is in English but Google and Reddit shows it to me in dubious French. It’s quite obvious that it has been machine translated.
However bad translations unfortunately doesn’t seem to bother a lot of people, nor stop the big corps to push them as much as possible.
Yes, obviously the poor and desperate should be better educated and know better.
It depends where you live and your usage/situation. In Canada on demand heaters are kind of rare as the water in winter is much too cold to be heated instantly. It’s possible but it takes “beefy” heaters, so tanks are much more common.
I’m wondering how safe this thing is for other people around it. I wouldn’t want to be near that Swasticar when that panel will catch the wind and fly away.
Yeah, the brave Canadian resistance fighters that defended Canada in Afghanistan. Or the brave heroic American resistance fighters that defended the US from the invading Iraqis, by killing and torturing thousands of civilians. So noble. Thanks for their service.
Source: from Tom Gauld on Twitter
I know it’s more complicated than that but this post gives me this kind of vibes. The soldiers invading on the other side are being told the same thing and are willing to kill others for the same reasons. How noble their sacrifice is! All soldiers! Thanks for fighting amongst yourselves and doing little bits of “collateral damage” in order to save your country from the barbarians.
If the US ever invades my country and I somehow need to kill Americans, I won’t be a fucking hero, I’ll be a murderer, just like them. It’s nothing to be praised. Even if I just help others “defending” my country using my tech skills, it’ll still be helping to murder others. I really really can’t understand doing that willingly. If you have to, yes. But those doing this willingly are also those willing to invade other countries and take the lives of others based on what they see on their side. Again, nothing to be praised.
It works and would be understood but it would also be odd. The unwritten rule is to round up to a multiple of 5.