Blue pill, redoing school and all for years before getting any further in your life would be way too boring

Exactly my thought when i saw this post

Reminds me of that app in which I had to pay something, but if I left the app while doing the transaction (for example, to validate the transaction with my bank app for 2FA) it would cancel the transaction. I literally couldn’t pay without either using two devices or an alternate 2FA method (where the bank would send me a code by SMS - this worked because the SMS would trigger a notificztion from which I could read the code without leaving my app.)

16 June 2023 - my account appears newer than that because I switched instance.

Me too

Also : Brilliant, NordVPN

And, in the other direction : lose.

We actually have the same issue with our « quotes » and accentuated capital letters in French, so « l’État » sometimes becomes “l’Etat”.

Doesn’t work on a phone/tablet

Yeah, there are quite a lot of exceptions but “-e is female, otherwise is male” works most of the time. Then if you want to be more precise you can remember some generic exceptions like -age, -isme are male and -tion, -té is female. You’ll still have some exceptions like une souris, une vis, une dent, un câble, un graphe, un cône, une image (exception to the exception) but it probably works in about 80-90% of cases.

(Also “icône” is actually female in French)

In French we have a similar problem. Currently the most popular form is “citoyen.ne.s” or “citoyen.nes” (besides the good old “citoyens” or “citoyennes et citoyens”), which sometimes gets rendered as a website by some text displayers (e.g. les habitant.es). It’s technically supposed to be a middle dot (citoyen·ne·s) but nobody has that on their keyboard (I literally had to copy-paste it from wikipedia) so people use the point instead. We used to use parentheses like “citoyen(ne)s” but these have vastly be replaced by the dots.

This is the same in french, the gender of words is generally determined by their ending. (Which is not pronounced.)

Actual zombie

In France “your/its mother” (ta/sa mère) is a swear word - shorthand for “fuck your mother” (nique ta mère)

In 10 years the poop post will be up there remembered as one of the legendary old asklemmy posts

“Ten times closer” is pretty unambiguously 0.1. What starts getting more confusing is “300% further” which is technically 4 but many understand as 3 (try replacing by 50%, 50% further is 1.5 not 0.5). Also “50% closer” being the same as twice closer while 50% further is only 1.5x further can get confusing too, and it gets even worse with “50% slower” - is speed now 1/1.5 (= it takes 50% more time) or 0.5/1 (= speed is reduced by 50%) ?

There might have been a misunderstanding. I understood “district” as in congressional districts as that’s usually what it means in the context of US election. Here in France we also have several “voting desks” (bureau de vote) in the same building, but I didn’t know these were also called districts in English

I don’t know what Plato is either.

Your translation is correct btw although I’d translate it as “games and group chats” but it can mean both. And indeed “Chats” can mean cats but doesn’t here

three districts use that building

Uhh what ? That sounds like a lot of people in the same voting building

Indeed, as I clarified under another comment

Tbh I know little about the topic and was under the (maybe wrong) impression than many sex workers are poor people that need to do it to survive. But then I guess the issue I was pointing is more about our capitalist society than about sex work