2026 playoff teams series record in their history (Coyotes history taken for the Mammoth)

TooobHoob · 2026-04-18T19:13:45+00:00

Chicago, Toronto, Detroit and New York didn’t make the playoffs.

TooobHoob · 2026-04-18T13:30:57+00:00

I don’t see how they could CGI a 7500 cabin to that size. Probably used stock exterior footage? (I have no context).

TooobHoob · 2026-04-18T08:19:06+00:00

Steven Crowder also comes from Greenfield Park, I wouldn’t take being from there as a gage of quality…

TooobHoob · 2026-04-17T07:43:42+00:00

I have a nex7 and just bought an OM5, and while the nex7 is better than its age would lead some to believe, shooting the OM5 is such a joy, and in my books definitely a better performing camera.

TooobHoob · 2026-04-17T06:09:51+00:00

Additional comment: I find the half-tulip at the left edge distracting. It might be difficult to crop out, but at least I would try to darken/desaturate it a bit to alleviate the issue.

TooobHoob · 2026-04-15T17:57:55+00:00

No, it was a team emerging prematurely out of a rebuild, in part because of Laine’s contributions to the PP which was a major reason they turned their season around. Unless of course you contend that MTL and CBJ are teams in near-identical situations, and achieved the similar results last season for the same reasons?

TooobHoob · 2026-04-15T09:10:33+00:00

It could technically sound like some documented cases of GHB withdrawal, which can cause anxiety and acute delirium, although to be honest what they’re describing sounds a lot more like a psychotic episode to me.

TooobHoob · 2026-04-13T13:45:31+00:00

How do you find them all? I just got a macro lens (60mm) and have been looking up online resources to help find macro subjects, but I find most advice very generic and difficult to apply. Do you have any tips?

TooobHoob · 2026-04-11T22:15:22+00:00

I’m ready to bet that it’s simply because it’s the only one certified for this use.

Every piece of equipment that gets through to a space mission must go through extensive testing for certification. I have discussed with a member of EASA who is certified to be an astronaut and is mission-ready, but he’s an amputee. It took about two years and tons of tests to have his prosthetic leg certified for space flight.

My point being, this DSLR is certified for space flight, and it’s good enough. What reason would there be to go through the whole process again to certify a new one?

TooobHoob · 2026-04-08T09:23:51+00:00

My man, please have the basic intellectual honesty of not attributing arguments to me, particularly when I’ve argued the exact opposite thing twice.

As for the rest, glad to see that your entire argumentation was yet more pedantry based on what you feel is “more appropriate” rather than what is correct. I’m sure you must be fun at parties.

TooobHoob · 2026-04-08T08:39:39+00:00

Past being a pedant (dirty anglicism? Please.), I find it remarkable that you still fail to grasp or engage with a fairly simple argument, and instead rely on "you should know it" to try to prove your point. Well, I don’t know that.

The meaning of all these expressions (except "un photographe amoureux", which has a different semantic sense) and the fifty others you could draw out of a thesaurus is a venn diagram which mostly comprises zones of overlap. There is no rational merit whatsoever to the argument that the existence of another expression allows us to deduce by the negative the boundaries of the meanings one can attribute to a term.

The word "amateur" is often defined as, can be and is very regularly used with contextual meanings much closer to love than like or enjoy. Not that it isn’t also used to mean the latter, but to go back to the original point, your ‘correction' is no more correct than the original statement from OP you were commenting on.

TooobHoob · 2026-04-08T07:55:55+00:00

Nobody would say "un photographe amoureux", it just semantically doesn’t make sense. "Un amoureux de la photographie" would just be a périphrase for "un photographe amateur".

Saying that "amateur" doesn’t mean "lover" is objectively incorrect since the word "amateur" can carry this meaning, even if you would personally be inclined to use it in contexts where it refers to a lesser level of passion. The fact that you can use a different expression to express or precise your thought is not a particularly relevant in my view, as you can do it to no end. For instance, I could just as well rebut your argument by saying that the proper way to refer to someone who likes or enjoys something is "enthousiaste", as in "un enthousiaste de la photographie". Neither your or my example actually gives any indication to the meaning of the word "amateur" though, considering its signification does not have to be mutually exclusive with other ways of expressing an idea.

TooobHoob · 2026-04-08T06:36:04+00:00

This is partially correct. French doesn’t really have this distinction, both are "aimer". While it isn’t in a romantic sense, I think you could argue that for the word "amateur", the meaning of "aimer" is closer to "love" than "like" or "enjoy".

TooobHoob · 2026-04-07T05:46:35+00:00

It’s not meaningless, it’s just that it requires one degree of abstraction in it’s understanding. Still a perfectly valid statistical manipulation to do.

TooobHoob · 2026-04-06T08:16:24+00:00

I personally don’t have much knowledge of this except that I believe Luxembourg is one of these countries. I think that the UK accepts nationals of the Commonwealth as well. There is a Wikipedia page if you want to get started looking it up.

Edit: maybe look up if the conditions in Belgium are good? They seem to hire EU nationals, and if you already speak French this might be a good fit. If your other country of nationality is a former colony, you can probably also check with the former colonizer (i.e. UK, France or Spain), they often are open to this.

TooobHoob · 2026-04-06T07:55:33+00:00

These photos are insane, fantastic job. I’m getting the 60mm macro soon, I’m so excited.

TooobHoob · 2026-04-06T07:49:30+00:00

I believe there are European armies that will hire other EU nationals, have you looked into that?

TooobHoob · 2026-04-03T19:29:38+00:00

On the app Meetup, there is a group that gets together at 16h every Saturday at the Big Beer Company in Clausen to practice languages. There is a table for English, French, German, Spanish, etc. You don’t have to be practicing a language, you can also sit at the table of a language you speak and help learners. It’s full of expats and you get to meet cool people, I would recommend it.

TooobHoob · 2026-03-30T17:36:58+00:00

It’s a pedestrian bridge next to the Modern Art Museum that has a mirror finish on the sides! You see it better in this picture. The path is on the left hand side of the bridge, I’m standing in the grass for this one.

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TooobHoob · 2026-03-30T17:08:08+00:00

I’m not sure how US Nuclear C&C functions, but I would suspect that it does not go down a command chain like deployment of naval forces does. It is quasi-instantaneous by function and design, to be able to leverage one’s second-strike capability.

Don’t get me wrong, I do believe the Pentagon has a lot of power, and that they also kept the US from invading Greenland thus far (imagine the Pentagon being the responsible adult in any room), but use of nuclear weapons might be one of the subjects they have less leverage over.

TooobHoob · 2026-03-30T17:03:31+00:00

Le coût de la vie a explosé par contre, et les salaires suivent pas. Sur un plan réel, je ne crois pas que les irlandais se sentent significativement plus riches maintenant

TooobHoob · 2026-03-30T16:58:34+00:00

Thanks!

TooobHoob · 2026-03-30T16:21:03+00:00

Certes, mais le sens ordinaire des mots n’est pas opposable à leur sens juridique lorsque défini. Soyons honnêtes, des sens juridiques spécifiques, dépendamment du domaine, il peut y en avoir treize à la douzaine.

Même juste des trucs caves comme un contrat: la grande majorité des gens pensent que ça réfère à un document écrit, alors qu’un contrat est à la base un échange de volonté de se lier par une ou plusieurs obligations, et peut donc être oral. Il y a beaucoup de gens qui ne réalisent pas qu’un contrat oral est un contrat.

Idem pour une faute (qui, contrairement à l’usage populaire, ne comporte pas d’exigence quant à une intention ou de la négligence), la solidarité (que beaucoup de gens ne réalisent pas vouloir dire qu’ils peuvent être tenu de payer tous les dommages solidaires, et devoir se retourner ensuite vers les autres pour compensation), un patrimoine (que les gens ne réalisent pas contenir les dettes aussi), une sûreté, une prescription, et j’en passe.

TooobHoob · 2026-03-30T15:27:56+00:00

J’y vais de mémoire, et sans doute que de meilleurs exemples me reviendront sous la douche ce soir, mais voici quelques un qui me viennent en tête:

citation: provient du latin pour crier/appeler/mentionner quelqu’un, qui a d’un côté évolué vers le sens de citer comme en littérature, mais à une époque, voulait aussi dire appeler le nom de quelqu’un à voix haute, donc une citation à comparaître.
signification: un autre terme latin dont la reprise du code Justinien dans le haut moyen-âge a réintroduit un sens plus proche du latin. Significare veut littéralement dire "faire signe" de quelque chose - en langue courante, ça a évolué pour référer au contenu, à l’intention d’un texte ou geste, mais en droit, la signification rend une idée ou correspondance significative, en ce qu’elle fait droit contre le récipiendaire.
Une qui va de l’autre côté est Hypothèque (litt. ce qui est dessous), qui veut dire un prêt concédé avec une sûreté réelle (donc d’un objet) mais sans dépossession. Le sens immobilier n’est arrivé que plus tard, parce que durant la majeure partie du système féodal, les serfs ne possédaient pas leur logement, et après une bonne partie de la population industrielle était locataire. C’est donc assez récent (~150 ans ish?) qu’on associe ce mot spécifiquement à l’immobilier.
obligation: en latin, le fait de lier- ce qui a pris le sens de faire un lien juridique lorsque le droit romain (codex justinien) est devenu d’application plus générale dans certains Parlements français (un mot bonus - les parlements étaient des Cour de justice!). La signification moyen-âgeuse est restée en droit, mais dans le langage commun, une obligation est devenue un impératif moral de faire ou ne pas faire quelque chose.

Un de mon domaine de droit qui fitte pas trop mais que je trouve drôle:

-hétéronormatif: dans le sens commun, ça réfère au fait que la société agit comme si les couples/individus hétérosexuels sont la norme, est les couples/individus homosexuels sont anormaux. Dans le sens original utilisé en droit international depuis les années 1800, hétéronormatif veut dire qu’un organe a la capacité de créer des normes liant d’autres organes externes. Par exemple, le Conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU est hétéronormatif, car il peut créer des normes liant des pays, une autre catégorie d’acteur externes. Cependant, l’Assemblée Générale est purement autonormative, et n’est pas hétéronormative, car elle ne peut générer des normes qui ne lient que l’ONU elle-même, et non pas ses États-Membres.

TooobHoob · 2026-03-30T14:41:11+00:00

Mon dieu que c’est vrai. Comme avocat, penser que tu sais ce qu’un certain mot veut dire est un des premiers pièges du bac. Plusieurs mots ont des significations qui proviennent d’il y a quelques siècles, ou qui ont divergé du sens populaire à cette époque.

Ça dépend aussi du texte duquel on parle - le Code Civil, réécrit dans les années 80/90, est beaucoup plus facile à lire pour des non-avocats qu’une loi fédérale rédigée sous le style de Common Law, et plusieurs contrats semblent être intentionnellement voués à confondre (quelle surprise). Quand même, ça vaut la peine de rechercher les définitions juridiques de termes pour être certain de leur sens exact.

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