Obi @ Obi @sopuli.xyz

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Mai 68! But yeah the big benefit of pavement bricks is they're right there! Just duck down and pick one up lol. Depending of course on the street construction, Paris doesn't have so many of these anymore, in the Netherlands though they're everywhere and easily picked up, they use this a lot to make the streets easy to rework, only high speed/traffic streets have concrete.

For those like me who never heard the term:

Estuary English is an English accent, continuum of accents, or continuum of accent features[4] associated with the area along the River Thames and its estuary, including London, since the late 20th century. In 2000, the phonetician John C. Wells proposed a definition of Estuary English as "Standard English spoken with the accent of the southeast of England".[5] He views Estuary English as an emerging standard accent of England, while also acknowledging that it is a social construct rather than a technically well-defined linguistic phenomenon.[5] He describes it as "intermediate" between the 20th-century higher-class non-regional standard accent, Received Pronunciation (RP), and the 20th-century lower-class local London accent, Cockney. There is much debate among linguists as to where Cockney and RP end and where Estuary English begins, or whether Estuary English is even a single cohesive accent.[5][6][7][8]

That person clearly never jumped/fell into one.

The first name "Al" has been ruined, my first thought was "they're making AI gore?".

The liability thing is definitely part of it but it ain't good news for anyone involved if that thing decides to pop out over the Pacific.

It shows me having given a ton of downvotes I didn't give, on comments I only read and didn't up or down-vote.

I'm trying to follow you and falling miserably. I can't get over the diagonal support in the foreground, that indicates to me there's a 45% angle pane of glass on the side of the viewer, aka she's on the employee side. The beam that goes along the counter I just see as the edge of the ice cream trays.

If your idea of the world stops at Malaga, then that would be a suprise to you.

In my experience it's the Dutch travelling with their own mayo, they don't like the French stuff (too spicy).

I just mean that in normal life, how often do you really get mad enough at someone that you hang up on them? I can probably count that on one hand and I'm not exactly a youngun either. In movies it feels like every other phone call ended that way haha.

This was definitely intentional and the caption came later.

Which is probably why they were freaking out trying to get you to move. Don't get me wrong it's been fun when I drove the autobahns as a tourist trying my best to respect the unwritten (and written) rules, and pushing my car like I can't do elsewhere, but god damn was it bad for my blood pressure!

This is particularly painful for all these middle-men companies like booking.com, eBay/equivalents, Uber, etc etc. So much wasted resources that is literally only there to extract as much as they can from transactions between two other parties, really all that's needed from these services is a functioning platform, something 3 motivated engineers could probably maintain (exaggerating for effect).

All this stuff should be either open source or nationalised.

I feel like this was more one of these movie things that don't happen nearly as often in real life.

Not sure I understand the Madrid one, the way you spelled out the phonetics would lead me to pronounce it the correct way (to my European ears, talking about the OG Madrid).

It's inevitable, in 10 years we'll be 15 layers deep and no one will remember what layer 4 actually does.

I'd love to have "cocaine light" available, maybe not chewing the leaves but in some form or another, that is less intense than the well known powder. Basically just a step above coffee, would be amazing for my long work days.

Leuk, there's something cool about being able to listen to an ad for crypto on a device made when cheques were the new rage.

The idea of getting all your business mail once a day at most, and a response isn't expected from you for days, sounds so peaceful.

Classic LinkedIn, I read a post and roll my eyes the whole time, then the comments are like "well said my good sir! Your business wisdom will change the world, one CV at a time! I'll apply this and become an even better pawn to my corporate overlords, yes!"