I don't know for dogs but I read that other species have different "accents" depending on their group and where they live.
Apparently, animals like dolphins, orcas and whales have different "accents". And birds apparently also sign differently depending on their group and location.
Like, some ducks quack differently, from one region to another. I don't think this can hamper simple communication, but there is apparently variation in their calls.
I face the same specific issue. I started with the French (Canada) layout years ago but now Windows sets the default to Multilingual/CSA because it has been made the official one by the government a number of years ago.
So now everyone that got used the "old" one has to fiddle with keyboard settings every time they use a new Windows session/computer.
And it's not exactly a breeze to switch, as Windows often keeps the multilingual one and switches back to it when you use a different application. Gotta make sure to delete the multilingual and leave only one layout. It's a real annoyance.
Well, the tower was also supposed to be temporary and yet, it's still there 137 years later.
The last liberal government in Québec did that, but for a transit line (the REM).
They killed the only profitable commuter train line (DM) and literally gave it to a for profit entity (CDPQ) so they can transform it into a metro line. So now the public transit entities cannot compete with the private one, and even has to pay it royalties for something like 99 years.
I repeat, the public transit entity (ARTM) cannot compete against the for profit one, AND must pay it royalties for every passenger.
So now the ARTM doesn't have the revenues from its defunct most popular commuter line, and must pay royalties on top of that. Public money, going straight into a for profit organization.
The new light rail line was not even working in 2023 and the public already had to pay $2.4 million to the CDPQ.
And those defending that model say that the CDPQ is a retirement investment firm that is profiting Quebecers, but their goal is still to make money. Unprofitable lines will be cut or never developed, even if needed.
They are literally privatizing public transit and some people are encouraging it saying that's how we now have to build transit. It's the way of the future!
Meanwhile the public transit entity says it's not sure it can now maintain some of the other commuter lines and will have to look into cutting expenses and/or service.
Sigh...
EDIT: Source for the price the ARTM has to pay: https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/rem-hikes-per-passenger-payment-from-artm-even-before-it-starts-running
It depends what. Plastic recycling is mostly a scam/fraud and does not fix nor change much.
The industry has long known that plastics recycling is not economically or practically viable, the report shows. An internal 1986 report from the trade association the Vinyl Institute noted that “recycling cannot be considered a permanent solid waste solution [to plastics], as it merely prolongs the time until an item is disposed of”.
In 1989, the founding director of the Vinyl Institute told attendees of a trade conference: “Recycling cannot go on indefinitely, and does not solve the solid waste problem.”
Despite this knowledge, the Society of the Plastics Industry established the Plastics Recycling Foundation in 1984, bringing together petrochemical companies and bottlers, and launched a campaign focused on the sector’s commitment to recycling.
In 1988, the trade group rolled out the “chasing arrows” – the widely recognized symbol for recyclable plastic – and began using it on packaging. Experts have long said the symbol is highly misleading, and recently federal regulators have echoed their concerns.
Cited article, and the report's source
Recycling paper, metal and glass will help and make a difference, keeping in mind that we need to use less in the first place. However plastic recycling is broken by default, pretty much everywhere.
Why is it sad? No lawn to care about. No snow to remove in winter. No garbage day. No electricity bill. No roof or windows to change. No water heater to worry about.
I much prefer to rent than be stuck owning a condo where I have to deal with the other owners and plan maintenance. And I wouldn't want an "affordable" house that is much too big, in a suburb or in the middle of nowhere, where a car would be a necessity, and another thing to own (or rather pay for).
As far as I am concerned, owning a home is a social construct. A goal imposed on us by capitalism. Our collective dream, should be to own a home in the middle of nowhere before we're too old to have a family, with obviously, a car! But I never wanted to have a "death pledge", nor a family, nor a house, nor a stupid condo. Renting is perfectly fine for a whole lot of people. It's not something to be sad about. The only sad thing is that we don't have enough cheap housing of any kind for everyone.
Around here we have "half furnished" apartments that include appliances.
I've always lived in a place where they are included with the rent. So I don't have to move them up and down the stairs or the elevator every few years. Also, if they break, the landlord just change them.
To me, winning a refrigerator would be a burden. I'd have to store it and sell it. I'd prefer what it's worth in money.
Four to five weeks of vacation is pretty standard in Europe and I don't think it has anything to do with productivity. AFAIK, a German or Belgian would pretty much get the same amount of vacation. I'm in Montreal and the standard by law here is two weeks but my contract with a local employer is giving me four weeks. And, I'm still working when I'm working, even if I have some vacation time at some point?!
I took eight weeks this year. So you're saying I (or a French person?) am not getting anything done when I work, because I took some extended vacation time?
I know this behaviour from big corporations is not exclusive to French companies but my type of work allows me to work from home and I've never seen a company despise WFH so much than my once French employer.
This was before the pandemic and I had the habit of working from home with my previous employer when I was sick. When I changed employer to work for a French hosting company in Montreal, they were adamantly against WFH. Even if sick. They preferred that you missed a day (or two, you know, take your time to recover!1!!) from work, taking "generous" sick days, than letting anyone from the lower ranks WFH. This was a pretty big red flag for me. Anyway their work culture was pretty toxic and I ended up quitting after a few months, but the "no work from home even if sick" policy is the first thing that hit me when I started there.
My current employer allows me to WFH and I've been looking a bit around to see if I could find something else, but they mostly all seem to require some sort of hybrid schedules at the office now, which obviously sucks.
The pictures make it seems more than what it is. From the video I've seen, he only does two pathetic jumps and barely gets off the ground.