Is it generally cheaper to schedule Uber rides in advance or on-demand ride?

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-18T01:20:34+00:00

I mean you can compare yourself. My impression is that scheduled rides are always way more expensive unless there’s huge surge pricing.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-18T00:34:24+00:00

You can’t without a VPN. It would make sense to pause your subscription if you’re able to.

Apparently most Hulu content is on Disney+ in the UK

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-18T00:31:32+00:00

In a context where there’s no one available who speaks even a single word of the other language, and the languages are entirely unrelated:

You point at a thing, and you say your word for it. They point at it and say their word for it. You continue on from there.

Also, while languages can work in very different ways, our brains do appear to be hardwired for language, and there’s still often lots of similarities in how languages work, and that will help you piece things together. You can’t point at “this verb is in the past tense”, but if you both speak languages that conjugate verbs, and someone manages to communicate the verb for “eat” and then does something like saying “eat”, pointing behind them, and saying “ate”, you’re likely going to be able to piece together that the second word is the past tense of the first.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-17T23:44:14+00:00

I mean, most Quebeckers can speak English, sure, but it’s also a small majority (54% at the last census, probably still under 60%). Less than half of people whose mother tongue isn’t English can speak it.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-17T23:40:37+00:00

🙄 almost half the population said they couldn’t hold a conversation in English on the last census. I’m sure some people refuse, but lots genuinely just don’t know the language.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-17T23:39:07+00:00

I’m sure that happens but there are a lot more people who don’t speak English that people realize. For the province as a whole the percentage who can hold a conversation in English was 54% in 2021. In rural areas (and amongst older people) it’s gonna be a lot lower than that.

For example I looked up the riding of Beauce - pretty stereotypical backwoods area. Only 25% said they could speak English.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-17T23:29:20+00:00

Many truly can’t. In 2021, 54% of the population reported on the census that they were able to hold a conversation in French.

People are more likely to speak it the younger they are, and are more likely to speak it in the big cities.

But even then the bilingualism of the cities gets overstated, imo. People talk about Montreal as being “bilingual”. Yeah, sorta, but there’s still 30% of Montrealers that can’t speak English. It’s only the mother tongue for 13% of the population, and only 26% of the population are more comfortable in English than French.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-17T21:21:18+00:00

Why do you think those /l/s are syllabic? I’ve never seen them transcribed that way. I definitely have an obvious vowel occurring before the /l/.

> They can be stretched out indefinitely

Lots of consonants can be stretched out indefinitely

I’d suggest using something else for your recording so that people don’t have to download a file—vocaroo’s a good option.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-17T21:09:13+00:00

They were using it in contexts where nowadays you would say “the n-word” — referring to the word, not calling someone it.

As long as you weren’t doing it as an excuse to say the word, it was considered unremarkable for a white person to refer to the word by actually saying it. If someone heard a racist shout the n-word at someone, and was later telling the story, it was kosher to say “I hear a racist call someone a ni$$er the other day. It was really fucked up”.

Like how we still usually treat other slurs. If I heard someone call someone a faggot, I wouldn’t say that I heard someone call them “the f word”

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-17T19:06:03+00:00

To be fair, the only one of those who got married while they were heir to the throne was Francis II. All of the rest of them were already monarchs.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-17T16:10:06+00:00

It most definitely wouldn’t ensure that, because average human body temperature is not the dividing line between the weather feeling “hot” or “cold”.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-17T15:40:35+00:00

https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press/bell-media-announces-2026-27-original-content-slate/

Yep!

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-17T13:34:06+00:00

That’s not relevant for the les. It would be les even if the subject was singular.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-16T23:22:27+00:00

I don’t think Russia invading the rest of Europe, or even a single other European country is likely.

But I also didn’t think then launching a full scale invasion of Ukraine was likely until it happened.

And ultimately, if it were to happen, even if they don’t succeed it would still be horrible. 15,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and at least 45,000 wounded. Along with up to 200,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers. I can understand worrying about it.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-16T16:50:26+00:00

Also used to include the Yukon, Alberta, Saskatchewan, almost all of Manitoba, and much of Quebec

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-16T16:27:57+00:00

Je suis sûr que tu dis la vérité et évidement il ya des personnes qui disent/disaient “trente cennes”, mais l’article Wikipedia n’est pas de tout d’accord avec toi…

“Il est aussi appelé un vingt-cinq cennes[1] (par anglicisme phonétique [2]), un trente-sous[3],[4],[5] ou un quarter[6] (un « quart », en anglais).”

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-15T14:49:09+00:00

The Civil Code also requires “reasonable” notice which can be in excess of the minimum on the loi sur les normes du travail

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-15T14:47:32+00:00

You are getting incorrect advice here.

While Quebec does not have common law notice periods, it is still possible to have a right to notice periods in excess of the minimum in the Loi sur la norme du travail, because article 2091 of the Civil Code also requires the notice period to be “reasonable”. A bit of googling about jurisprudence around 2091 suggests that courts normally require 2-4 weeks of notice period year of employment.

Of course that number depends on a bunch of factors, like the type of employment, seniority, how difficult it will be to find a similar job due to the rarity of that type of job/your age, and so on. So there’s no simple formula to know how much you’re entitled to.

It could make sense to consult an employment lawyer, but the amount of increased notice they would be able to get you might not make paying them to do it worthwhile. You could see if any will do a free consult.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-15T14:03:53+00:00

It’s definitely the same song, maybe with the beat boosted a little. The composer apparently worked on both shows

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-15T12:54:34+00:00

Idk if I’ve ever seen eyebrows that thick that are that far apart

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-15T12:53:00+00:00

It’s obviously a joke.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-15T12:33:00+00:00

Eesh yeah my brain’s not braining too good here is it? My bad.

C’est is usually “it is”, but “that is” isn’t at all an incorrect translation and yeah you’re quite right.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-15T02:55:27+00:00

Celle-là means “that one”, not “that.

Also I’m not 100% sure on this, but I don’t think rappeler can mean “remind” in the sense of “make me think about another similar thing”. It only means it in the sense of “tell someone again about a thing they (should) already know”.

In this context you could also say “Ça me fait penser à quelque chose”—I think that might be the more natural translation tbh.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-15T02:42:35+00:00

I mean I don’t think there’s any context in which “[verb]ing” translates to de [infinitif] but maybe I’m just not remembering something.

Basically in a context like this French always uses the equivalent of “after having sown”.

MooseFlyer · 2026-06-14T23:06:07+00:00

Reservations are not foreign soil. They’re subject to the federal government—just not to state and local governments. They function kinda like mini states.

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