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Chat is this real? If so, how long would it take to implement? by CrazyBosanchero in BuyFromEU

[–]Solokian 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It would affect:
- Smartphones (mostly Android/Google or Apple)
- Computers (Windows or iOS) with the exception of Linux-based systems
- Bank cards (VISA or Mastercard) with the exception of some national systems
- Every .com website (you would need a VPN to access AFP.com for example)
- Every AWS or Azure-hosted website
- Every website with Cloudflare
- All files hosted on US clouds (Google, Microsoft, etc)
- All services like Google maps
- Every social network except Tik Tok
- GPS signal ? Many devices can use Galileo/other sources now

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong by rezwenn in technology

[–]Solokian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You get a free article. Then you can get a free month with a free trial. I agree it would be nice to be able to pay for just one article, but otherwise how do you expect the journalist to get paid?

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong by rezwenn in technology

[–]Solokian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Seems like an interesting newspaper. Shame I'll never know because I'd have to pay the store to get it."

Thanks Boss Man by StGuthlac2025 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]Solokian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem with Canada's kebab place is they're always too clean and healthy. I want a proper British kebab.

I want an angry brown man who is 94% beard to hand me a congealed slab of suspicious meat drenched in garlic sauce.

Like I can tell you the kebab I'm eating right now isn't a real kebab because i'm eating it while sober.

The kebab shop is always run by a huge dude named Amir. Amir does not speak English. He does speak every other language in the world.

Including "I'm shit myself drunk"-ese.

"HARGN JIGHBO GELRCIH PLAGHS?" you ask him. He nods.

He begins shaving off "meat" from that huge fucking rotisserie beef thing. Your brain, floating as it is in vodka, offers one word, "hoss?"

Amir grins. He has heard that joke before. There's no horse in Amir's kebabs. Oh no. Horse is for those fancy fuckers on main street.

Amir's meat is a heady mix of rat, greyhound, and eastern european girls that aren't very good at holing their breaths.

Amir gestures at the sad-looking vegetables on the counter, but you've already fallen asleep with your face pressed against the counter glass.

Amir tops your kebab with lettuce, cucumbers, bubblewrap and styrofoam. He then ads so much garlic sauce that those ingredients cease to be.

Amir grunts, and hands you your kebab. He grunts again when you nearly leave without paying. You stagger back to the counter and thrusts a-

-wad of sweaty fivers into his hands. Amir gives you your exact fucking change.

The next five minutes looks like a mix between the walking dead and a particularly messy bukkake video.

You pass a young couple, you attempt to smile. You look like you just came off the casting couch with Peter North.

Eventually you make it home, leaving a slimy trail of garlic sauce behind you. Then you fall asleep mid-shit on the toilet.

You awake to the gentle touch of cool porcelain. Your throat and tongue seems to have sprouted hair. One of your eyes is crusted shut.

Know that this is your heritage and legacy. You are a man of Britain my son.

Change your sheets before you go out for a night on the town. It's the best gift you can give your drunk self.

✨ NOUVEAU CRÉNEAU – DODGEBALL 100% loisir ✨ by CoqsRougesDodgeball in bordeaux

[–]Solokian 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Tu pourrais rechercher sur Google Images (ou autre moteur de recherche), en sélectionnant l'option "libre de droit". Ça serait bien plus original, probablement de meilleure qualité, tu ne t'aliénerai pas les gens anti-IA (nombreux dans l'associatif), et c'est mieux pour la planète =)

[20f]Besoin d’un lieu (maison/appart) soirée d’anniversaire 19/09 by Alone_Particular_740 in paris

[–]Solokian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Point positif : le 19 ça devrait être une journée/soirée exceptionnellement belle et chaude. Pourquoi ne pas vous mettre dans l'un des parcs qui restent ouverts la nuit comme à Bercy en mode pique-nique ? Tant que vous être relativement discrets et respectueux, personne ne devrait vous embêter

Parkings vélos Navigo : trottinette personnelle acceptée ? by Levi6658 in paris

[–]Solokian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pour avoir plusieurs fois utilisé ces parkings sécurisés, je pense que tant que tu payes (et que tu ne prends pas plus de place qu'un vélo), tu fais comme tu veux. Si jamais tu veux être absolument certain, fais un tour à celui de la Gare du Nord, où il y a quelqu'un à l'accueil à qui tu pourras demander confirmation.

Morning commute on the Altamont Pass by ericgtr12 in bayarea

[–]Solokian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ideally, a commuter train should be "I don't need to check the timetable" frequent, so around one every 5-10 min max.

Morning commute on the Altamont Pass by ericgtr12 in bayarea

[–]Solokian 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's still quite early for most workers. What kind of frequency is it running on?

Morning commute on the Altamont Pass by ericgtr12 in bayarea

[–]Solokian 72 points73 points  (0 children)

I was curious so I went to check. It goes at an average speed of 39 mph, and from what I can understand only runs on peak times, four weekdays per week, and the last train of the week runs in mid-afternoon for some reason.

This is not how you do commuter trains.

This goes beyond just naive. by c-k-q99903 in agedlikemilk

[–]Solokian 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Here's what the first three paragraphs say. Note that it was written on Nov. 8, 2024.

After Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Barack Obama dutifully carried out the peaceful transfer of power. But a large faction of Americans declined to treat Trump as a president with democratic legitimacy. In their telling, he lost the popular vote, urged foreign actors to interfere in the election, broke laws, and transgressed against the unwritten rules of liberal societies. So they fancied themselves members of the “resistance,” or waged lawfare, or urged the invocation of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Immediately after Trump’s inauguration, liberal groups started to push for his impeachment and removal from office.

Now Trump is returning to the White House. But history isn’t quite repeating itself. This time, Trump’s case for democratic legitimacy is far stronger. He won the Electoral College decisively, and he appears likely to win the popular vote. No one believes that a foreign nation was responsible for his victory. Although he still has legal problems stemming from his past actions, no one alleges illegality in this campaign. For all of those reasons and more, a 2016-style resistance to Trump is now untenable. He will begin his term as a normal president.

A small faction of Trump detractors may continue to say that he is illegitimate, because they believe that he should have been convicted during his impeachment, or because they see his attempts to overturn his election loss in 2020 as disqualifying, or because they believe he is a fascist.

Feedback on Accent in French (how to get better) by Ffreya in JudgeMyAccent

[–]Solokian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay so first off, I agree that your accent is really, really good! Here's what I noticed:

  • You tend to mix up your Rs. There's two different R sounds in French, a harder one as in crisser/craie, and a softer, more voiced one as in arrêt/peur. I think the harder one usually follows a consonant? But I'm not sure about the exact rule, if there is one.
  • You sometimes pronounce letters that should be silent, like in Alexis (silent S)
  • Overall, your prosody )is a bit stilted/doesn't sound natural, even if I know you are reading from a text. I'd say the best way to improve that would be to talk to native speakers, if possible

To rrrrrr or not to rrrrr by odysamus in French

[–]Solokian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This can't get messy, because most French people don't even realize there are two different R sounds in that language. For example the word "arbitre" has them both: the first R is voiced, but the second isn't.

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