tiredofsametab

Yes, there could be valid usecases to stop a cart, but the manufacturer of the carts should (and possibly already does) implement that and instruct the store on its usage/requirements.

I want to answer your question, but

Could I make a little gun and just walk around through the parking lot and aisles of the supermarket and freeze all the carts in place?

Means I won’t do so. Why would you do that to people?

A carefully planned and executed action could be good (I don’t know France well enough to comment for sure there) but doing it right would likely take years.

What’s happening in the US is tragic and haphazard (and likely illegal, but fat lot of good that designation does these days).

It’s a super easy mistake to make (have done it trying to get to the Japanese consulate to get my visa before moving to Japan).

Killing time whilst finishing my morning coffee.

Human urine was collected and used for many things (mostly the ammonia). Human feces was used as fertilizer in a lot of the world until very recent times and collected in certain areas.

wrong

Incorrectly

Technologically, it does feel like that sometimes, but it would seem not.

In my case, I’d probably be OK having studied French and German (and reading things by Chaucer and Gauer). Though French != Norman French, so that may cause some issues.

Heh, that’s specifically why I qualified it as ‘position on earth’.

It is really easy to mess up and end up on the Ambassador Bridge. I did it going to the Japanese consulate in Detroit but, luckily, there is a little u-turn place if you notice quickly enough (or at least was… and I’m not sure how legal that u-turn was, but I’m sure they see it all the time).

He’s not doing it alone. The Republic administration and all its enablers, corporate and private from money and votes, is endorsing this behavior.

If I snapped you back in time 650 years

2025 - 650 =1375

Its the 12th century

1375 is the 14th century. Which do you mean?

Answering the actual question, nothing good would come of it if my location on earth didn’t change. Being the only white person in rural northern Japan well before Europeans came in the 1500s would probably not be a good situation for me. The language, at least the written one, was very different. Being the Nanboku-chō era, things would probably be not great since it was in the midst of 60ish years of war with two different people claiming to be in charge. I can’t find, at least before my coffee kicks in, exactly what kinda state Mutsu Province, as it was then called, was in at the time.

I’m in my mid-40s and grew up mostly around central Ohio and don’t remember hearing it.

I put coffee grounds in the french press and cover with newr-boiling water (~90c) which agitates and mixes things. 5 minutes or so later, I just pour my first cup

I would argue it depends upon the buzzing device, but bzzz for all of them is indeed arbitrary. Even IPA doesn’t represent sounds that humans can’t produce, so it wouldn’t suffice, but them’s the breaks.

Not all British accents are non-rhotic to begin with. Exposure to the sound and ability to reproduce it, even if not a lot in speech, means that the onomatopoeia, if used, should be the same.

In languages where a sound doesn’t exist, it gets more interesting. In Japanese, bzzz is not pronounceable and for a buzzer (or something like a phone in vibrate mode) they will say ブー (buu) which is just the syllable bu with a long u sound (think of a crowd booing, but the o vowel there is different to the Japanese u vowel).

No amount of effort or practicing worked for me. I don’t know if it’s some kind of visual issue, a mental issue, or what. I do have aphantasia, so that might be related? I cannot reproduce something I see. It’s just like the data that make up the thing don’t make sense in a way I can put it on paper,

“you kill it, you fill it”

Setting aside the topic, is this a common phrase? DDG had all of around 4-5 hits. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it before.

single-use plastic pod of coffee (or hot cocoa or tea) put into a machine that runs water through it to brew the beverage.