@troubleMoney Americans have the same misconceptions about Canadians. They think we are polite and fail to parse the nuances of "sorry"
CAN: Sorry
US: Sorry
CAN: Sorry
US: Excuse me, you bumped into me/spilled my coffee/cut in line
CAN: Sorry
US: I'm about to take the last cookie and I'm not sorry at all
CAN: Sorry
US: MOVE, BITCH, GET OUT THE WAY, GET OUT THE WAY BITCH, GET OUT THE WAY
Considering my previous toot about English-American translations went absolutely woolly, here's some more:
British: "I hear what you say"
American: "You're wrong, shut up"
British: "With the greatest respect..."
American: "You're a fucking idiot"
British: "That's a very brave proposal"
American: "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING YOU LUNATIC"
British: "I would suggest..."
American: "You will do this or be sanctioned"
It's the end of the month, which means patreon plugging time!
Since I don't have one and @squirrel is far too modest I'm plugging hers
https://www.patreon.com/maple_syrup
Maple is lovely and does various awesome things including running computerfairi.es! Which is also a year old on the 12th!
Colin Furze has made an Amazon Alexa-controlled flame thing
Yes, IoT combined with gas bursting into flame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVQ6rwaZ648
I'm not sure which bit of it is the worse idea
irregular reminder than i have a discord server if you want to hang out with me and my friends and that we even have a modded 1.12 minecraft server #furrycornermc
I've realised that some non-English-English speakers may be confused by the British reaction to Mark Zuckerberg sending other people in his place after his invitation to speak to the UK Parliament
While "you are invited to Parliament to speak on this subject" may be interpreted as "we'd like you come and talk if it's not too much bother" to some foreign ears, the phrase actually means "COME HERE RIGHT THIS SECOND YOU LITTLE SHIT AND EXPLAIN YOURSELF"
Huh, this is an interesting thing I've just been made aware of
https://getoutline.org/en/home
Outline, it's a slick bit of software for setting up shadowsocks proxies on a vps somewhere
Really ridiculously easy to use even for people that aren't massively techy
Open source, has been audited, but it does have Google involvement so y'know, think about your threat model
Hedgehog wrangler, cat feeder, octopus whomst love smol critters
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