[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

For people in Canada, Pix is like Interac with automatic deposit activated.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Quebec was a French colony, they lost a big war, they hate the monarchy and dream of independence from Britain and the English part of Canada.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

They try everything so people keep speaking in French. They force kids to go to French schools and reduced the places in English schools. They’ve had teachers and monitors forcing kids to speak in French even during recess. Of course it doesn’t work and kids will speak in whatever language they want, mainly English.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago

I have a little bit of experience in this. Brazilian living in Quebec. So, my friends almost always spoke in Portuguese with their children, school and TV were in French. After some time, school starts also to teach English and they chose the language of the TV. Now the kids are almost always speaking in English, although the are fluent in Portuguese and, of course, French.

Now, my wife and I hated the TV in French, so we kept it in English. So, my kids had to deal with three languages from the start. They mixed everything up and we screwed up by saying words in all three languages. We speak mainly Portuguese but we would use words that they learned in other languages in those languages instead of in Portuguese. In the end, my kids mix all three languages in a single sentence, which is weird as hell. They’re slowly separating the languages and we too. Now, every sentence we speak is in a single language. Their friends help in a way, because they also speak French in class but English outside (and Quebec’s government hates that).

So, if both of you are Portuguese speakers, I’d only speak Portuguese with them and let the TV and school teach English. They’ll know how to keep things separated.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

MSX, some version of MS-DOS, DR-DOS, Windows 3.0, 3.11, Slackware 3.0, Windows 95,98,NT,XP,7, CentOS, and now, MacOS.

At work, Windows XP,7 and 10, and several versions and flavors of RHEL.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Probably to disrupt the temperature gradient that forms around the can. That’s why we blow air on though the top of a hot drink to cool it faster.

[-] [email protected] 141 points 9 months ago

There’s something called blast freezer, which is basically a freezer with fans inside, like what convection ovens have. It cools down food much faster than a standard freezer.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

So does that means devices or people around me would be able to use my internet quota?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

Honey is bee vomit.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

I used to have two smoke detectors one right next to the other. One came with the house, the other was linked to the alarm system.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I may be wrong, but it looks like laying eggs is just like pooping. The is gonna come out no matter if your nest is ready or not. Maybe this pigeon had its nest destroyed and did the best it could to build another one.

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