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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The way the french pronounce Arch is the same way Sean Connery pronounced arse

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

... and the same way the germans pronounce "Arsch", wich means arse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Contrary to arch mispronounced by French, Arsch, arse and ass are real cognates. So similiarities in certain dialects/accents are to be expected.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I have nothing more to add to this meme so I will make random transit vehicle noises:

beep beep

höoooooooonk

ding, ding, ding, ding, ding

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Impressive, you shoukd try YiffOS

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

wtf is Jay Foreman doing there 😂

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Map men, map men, map map map men men. Men.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Every video of theirs is genuinely a treat

[–] emergencyfood 5 points 9 months ago

Needed a Brit with a skeptical expression for the meme.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

BTW?

Back To Work?
Bike Train Walk?
Bisexual Trans Woman?

[–] emergencyfood 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

(They use Arch,) by the way.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Can I borrow some of your time to speak to you about our lord's OS, the universal OS, Debian?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I thought that was fucking hilarious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'm the latter 2

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Top right one confuses me. Incliment weather does significantly affect bikes but trains and buses are actually better at operating in incliment weather than cars. Here in Vancouver as soon as it snows (which it just did) everyone seem to get too scared to drive and pile onto public transit, but surprise surprise it can't cope with the sudden spike in demand because we're still a car dominated hellhole for the other 364 days of the year and our transit agency gets peanuts in funding compared to private car infrastructure.

[–] emergencyfood 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I thought the 'cold rainy night in Stoke' meme was fairly well-known, but it seems multiple people are not getting it. It is basically asking if a tried and tested method / person can do this one very specific (and relatively easy) thing. Here's the origin story if you are interested.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Damn, I got whooooshed?

[–] snugglesthefalse 4 points 9 months ago

As someone who's been out on a cold rainy night in Stoke with my bike I'll have to say that it does actually work.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

hold up

where is that Socrates image from?

Can i have a full sized copy?

when did he say the body thing? and why would anyone attribute a quote to Socrates instead of Plato? Socrates never wrote anything

[–] emergencyfood 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The quote is (abridged) from Xenophon's Memorabilia, as LordAmplifier explained above. The image was generated by StableDiffusion based on the prompt 'Socrates driving a cycle'. I can add the full image later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

"Never trust a quote on the internet especially when it comes with an ai generated image." - Miyamoto Musashi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

"There has been a ssl error connecting to the Shakespeare quotes server"
- Shakespeare

[–] emergencyfood 6 points 9 months ago

Can i have a full sized copy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I found the same quote in an old reddit thread, where someone provides Memorabilia, a book written by a guy called Xenophon of Athens, who was a student of Socrates, as a possible sauce:

3.12.8 “Besides, it is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit. But you cannot see that, if you are careless; for it will not come of its own accord."

Archive link to the relevant chapter because the original University of Chicago link is dead.

According to this Wikipedia article, the book is a collection of Socratic dialogues, so it's not a collection of quotes. Book 3, where this particular quote comes from, is about Socrates giving advice to his family and friends, so I guess Xenophon claims that it is an authentic quote, but I don't know if there's a way to verify that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Wow! A rare Xenophon quote?? That's awesome. Thank you. It sounds like something Socrates might have discussed but I couldn't think of which Platonic dialog it came from. I guess that explains it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh hey that's Jay Foreman on the top right! He does lots of good stuff like Map Men and Unfinished London (and definitely pro public transport)

[–] emergencyfood 3 points 9 months ago

I know, I just needed an incredulous Brit for the Stoke joke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I read this as a political 4-axis chart and this fits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Would that make Arch users politically right? I don't think they would agree.

I use (an) Arch (based distro) btw

[–] emergencyfood 2 points 9 months ago

That was unintentional, but yes it fits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] emergencyfood 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's Arch-chan, an unofficial mascot for Arch Linux created by raviolimavioli

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wonder why the bus number on the Singapore bus has been replaced with some other random number.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

How does any group dox a bus route number? I get it if it was a single bus and hiding registration number of the bus, but it's a route with dozens of bus operating on that route. How would doxxing even working..... Eyyy you drive route XXX in Singapore... You should prolly delete existence?

Sounds far fetched.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

the four types of divide & conquerors

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I am three of these

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Where is the guy who is obviously screaming at the library computer because someone told them they have a driver's licence