In French, you count from 69 to 72 like “sixty-nine, sixty-ten, sixty-eleven, sixty-twelve”. Then from 79 to 81 it goes “sixty-nineteen, four twenties, four twenties and one”. Then from 89 to 91 it goes “four twenties and nine, four twenties and ten, four twenties and eleven”.

It’s not consistently vigesimal, though. Twenty is “vingt”*, thirty is “trente”, forty is “quarante”, fifty is “cinquante” and sixty is “soixante” - so far all normal. The only ones where they go all vigesimal on us are 70 (soixante-dix), 80 (quatre-vingts) and 90 (quatre-vingt-dix).

*etymologically “two-tens”, if you go back beyond Latin: it’s from Proto-Indo-European *dwi(h₁)dḱm̥ti

waked banker
woozy banker
banking witch
fussy pucker

Yes, Israel is America’s ally and this is Israel’s war. The choice would be between letting Israel get absolutely destroyed which would have unironically happened by now if there weren’t 3 carrier groups trying to intercept missiles and drones, or going to war with Iran.

No. Previously when Israel has said “We’re going up against Iran next week, join us or it’ll be a shitshow”, the US has had the sense to say “No deal”, and Israel folded. But somehow the “Art of the deal” president doesn’t get this, so went all-in with Israel. Dumb as a rock.

Do you believe that ICE would have invaded cities all over the country, illegally capturing minorities and murdering two people?

It’d be way more than two, and it would be less invasion and more silent takeover based on how Biden and Obama used ICE to terrorize cities for decades.

You think that under Harris, more immigrants would have gotten murdered than during the massive ICE push, where they hired thousands of ill-qualified goons, hardly trained them, and let them loose on the population? That’s bizarre.

I loved Redmi last time I bought one, but now they’ve basically made it impossible to root or mod their devices. So I bought a used Pixel and donated my newish Redmi to my GF.

What the article should have gone into in more detail is that this is utter nonsense, and that there are plenty of population groups across the world that are facing actual persecution, but of course that’s of no interest at all to the MAGA crowd.

Should’ve *gone

There’s still the trace left showing the reasoning, which is harder to fake than a complete document. The commits and commit comments would show a human style of building a narrative.

It’s not word for word, but a git repository with frequent commits with meaningful descriptions is easy to do, and then you can push to codeberg or wherever to have backups. That’s cryptographically signed and therefore strong evidence of what you wrote when, and what you were thinking.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

No, nobody else does. It’s just you.

The fuck is this question?

Coming soon: “Does anybody else hate it when they get a paper cut?”

How do you know what hobo ass tastes like?

Emacs is a pretty nice OS - all it’s lacking is a good text editor.

I guess I should take another look at evil-mode.

git config --global core.editor "ed"

if you don’t like using vim.

Yes, started using vi when I started using a Unix login at university. That was in about 1994 or so. When I started using Linux it was definitely vim.

I’ve tried using evil-mode and vim keybindings in other editors. I somehow keep coming back to vim, though.

Take your EV in for its smug check

With the current fuel prices, every EV will pass its smug check :-D

Oh, I didn’t realise that! Apparently security updates come to unstable and stable before they go to testing.

I kind of like having up to date packages. Now I’m not sure whether I should rather switch to Sid, or watch the vulnerable source package list.

Yeah, that tracks - I came back to Debian after a few years on Ubuntu, and even before I returned, I removed snap from my Ubuntu system.

I get that if you have the money, it’s stupid to finance a car purchase, but you can do that without slapping a bundle of banknotes onto their desk.

My landlord wanted me to pay the deposit in cash, and I said no, and did a bank transfer instead. If I get mugged on the way to his office, or discover after the transaction that he’s a scammer, that money is gone. And I don’t see any advantage to me to pay with physical money.

Of course, if I had gotten the money in cash because I’d been working off the books, or if I’d gotten it through some criminal activity, I’d have been very happy to have the opportunity to use the cash.

A friend of mine had a husband who did carpentry and got paid cash under the table, and so they bought all their groceries in cash, so that they didn’t have to declare the income. Not the way I’d like to live.

That’s not what this law is about. This is about banning the use of banknotes for large transactions.