There are parts of the world where outdoor spaces are basically unusable for most of the year because it’s either too hot or too cold.

When the temperature is reasonable, you can use parks, forests, lakes, rivers, beaches, pedestrian malls, bike paths, etc. Many cities have public basketball courts, tennis courts, skate parks, hockey rinks, and similar things. In some less busy areas you can even use the streets. Street hockey and/or street futbol are pretty common in some areas.

But, extremely hot weather, or extremely cold weather can mean that being outside is terrible. You can dress warmly for winter, and that’s fine to do sports. So, you could go cross-country skiing in the winter in a park. But, you can’t really just hang out outside when it’s -10C.

It would be great if there were more indoor options for places with bad winters and/or bad summers.

Because it would be nice to have a card number that looked plausible that could be used in movies. Imagine if every phone number in a movie had to be (555) 555-5555. It would break your suspension of disbelief.

Too bad the Visa and Mastercard ones are so obviously fake.

It doesn’t seem to be the case, but it would be interesting if there were CC numbers that were meant to be used in movies, similar to how 555-XXXX phone numbers are never real.

That’s the thing about 2025, the sadness mines always go deeper.

Astronaut is a job, and it’s one of the jobs that’s the most difficult to do, and has the lowest acceptance rate in the world. People who are actual astronauts dedicate a career to it. The pay they receive is relatively low for their talent. And, they typically have to do a lot of PR events. It’s a grind, but it’s rewarding to have one of the most unique jobs in the world.

Putting on a bandage doesn’t make you a doctor. Unclogging a toilet doesn’t make you a plumber. And going into space, even into orbit, doesn’t make you an astronaut. If you actually get to orbit, I’ll give you “space tourist”. But, if you’re just barely getting above 100 km, you’re a “high altitude tourist”, nothing more.

And, as for “mission”, a mission has a purpose, and just having fun for a few minutes while you’re in the upper atmosphere isn’t an actual mission.

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Amanda Nguyen’s story is so sad too. The way the Blue Origin PR piece tries to spin it just makes it worse, IMO.

She always wanted to be an astronaut. While she was at Harvard she interned at NASA. The way the Blue Origin PR movie tells her story, her dreams of being an astronaut were interrupted when she was raped at Harvard in 2013. She then spent time fighting for the rights of rape survivors and never became an astronaut. But, in the Blue Origin PR piece’s version of events, that’s all fine because now her dream of being an “astronaut” is finally coming true, because she was launched into the upper atmosphere in a penis rocket and spent a few minutes in space.

The letters are right there! How did you mistranscribe “you’re” to “your”? This is a comic, there aren’t even a lot of words you have to copy.

No, only in Quebec. There’s a bit of French spoken in Ontario (especially on the border with Quebec), and maybe 30% of the population in New Brunswick, but in other provinces it’s not even the second most spoken language.

For example, Manitoba’s most widely spoken languages are 1M English, 33k Tagalog, 30k Punjabi, 19k German and 15k French.

Whatever you say, bud.

I’m not defending taco bell, I’m just saying that they serve tacos. Why are you so convinced that they don’t?

I have relatives in Mexico, I visit regularly and we go for tacos all the time. There are lots of varieties of different kinds of tacos. Meat-stuffed tacos are not the norm in Mexico. Most of them only have a little meat and a lot of sauce. That’s what allows them to be sold incredibly cheaply. You can easily get a dozen tacos from the taco stand on the corner for what one taco will cost at taco bell. Because they’re so cheap, you can get a lot of variety from just one visit: suadero, lengua, carnitas, etc.

Taco Bell isn’t as good, and the flavours aren’t completely authentic, but it still obviously a taco. When my cousin visits Canada/USA he prefers to get burritos (from Chipotle) because he can’t get them where he lives in Mexico and he loves them. He doesn’t get tacos because they’re tacos, and he can get much better ones in Mexico.

I’m not sure if this is supposed to be a joke or something, but yes. More than 90% of the people in Quebec speak French. More than 50% speak English, but for most it’s a second language.

Taco Bell sells tacos that are reasonably close to Mexican street tacos. Obviously not as good, but it’s a small soft tortilla with fillings, that’s what you get in Mexico too.

Burritos are also Mexican, though they’re not as common across the whole country as tacos. The modern burrito comes from Ciudad Juarez right on the border with Texas.

Most of the rest of the Taco Bell menu isn’t authenitcally Mexican, but I’d say their core menu items are tacos and burritos.

They’re not at all snobby. The French in France are snobby. If you try to speak to them in French and it isn’t Parisian-style french, they’ll try to switch languages on you because they can’t bear to have their dear language mangled like that.

The Quebecois aren’t snobby, they’re just obnoxious about preserving their language and culture. And it gets pretty absurd. Around the world stop signs say “STOP” even in French speaking countries. But, in Quebec they mostly say “Arret”, and when a local English-speaking community has stop signs that say stop, vigilantes sometimes change them to Arret.

Nope. The Canadian government just sighs and wishes Quebec wouldn’t be such a problem.

So, apparently it comes from “quesada” which was a form of cheesecake, and the “illa” diminutive ending. Over time it has come to mean a fried tortilla with cheese and other fillings… except…

In Mexico City, quesadillas don’t necessarily have cheese in them. The rest of the country makes fun of them for it. But, if you’re ever in Mexico City and want a nice cheesy quesadilla, be sure to order a “quesadilla con queso”.

Damn it, now I’m hungry.

This is also why the modern trend is making YouTube videos. The people who do that are frequently hoping the channel takes off and they can get paid. It’s not just public service or documenting an interest. The scientists of the early 1800s were frequently people who didn’t have to work. They had estates that generated money for them, allowing them to pursue science as a hobby.

I don’t really care about the idle rich. It’s good when society is rich enough that the non-rich can spend their time making YouTube videos.