u/ParkInsider

A month has 4.33 weeks, which is a pretty large discrepancy vs considering it has 4 weeks. That's about 4 weeks a year, half a day a week or two hours a day you just skimmed off the top.

Like, my wife will start a calculation of how much we spend on food per week and then multiply that by 4 to get how much we spend on food per month, and then by 12 to get to our annual food spending, and then wonder why there's a gap.

Or, at my job, we sell services and sometimes my colleagues show the client a schedule of fees.

• Week 1: $1,000.00
• Week 2: $1,000.00
• Week 3: $1,000.00
• Week 4: $1,000.00
• To be billed Month 1: $4,000.00
• Week 5: $1,000.00
• Week 6: $1,000.00
• Week 7: $1,000.00
• Week 8: $1,000.00
• To be billed Month 2

And so on and so forth over a quarter. And that's in a contract!

Me mudei pro interior. Esse caralho é um inferno. O filho da puta do trem apita, acorda os filho da puta dos cachorros, a cidade inteira fica extremamente barulhenta durante uns quinze minutos em plena noite. Qual a fita porra. O trem, sabemos que você está aqui caralho, você é gigante e barulhento. Para que apitar cacete?!

I can't be the only person for whom the lack of hyphen makes reading a lot more difficult.

"Client provided documents": Ok, where's the rest of the sentence?

"Man eating shark": tasty fish meat, ngl

"Small business owner": Ok, sure, not really clear why you need me to know their height but that's fair. What size business do they own?

I’m wondering whether Spanish speakers when learning PT-BR, tends to retain/use certain pronoun constructions more consistently in everyday speech. Almost as faux-amis, but not quite because they are more "correct" in a certain sense.

Things like: “Queria lembrar-lhes que...” instead of "Queria lembrar vocês que..." ("correctly" but incorrectly using the indirect-object clitic pronoun instead of the direct object pronoun), “Vou lavar-me o cabelo” rather than "vou lavar o cabelo", "Vou lhe dizer" instead of "Vou falar para você".

Is this common? Is it even almost a tell that someone is a Spanish speaker?

Think about it. Every other grammatical concept carries information that helps you understand or produce the language: Verb tenses, syntax, categorías gramaticales, etc. all help you explain why or how.

For example:

Te llamé para que me digas. Verb tense is wrong. You can build knowledge off of that.

Or:

Te llamé para que dijeras a yo. Indirect object pronoun is missing. You can generalize that, in Spanish those are used, and placed a certain way. Those are useful labels on concepts.

But if someone says:

dijerás

Nobody is going to correct them by saying that dijeras is grave, not aguda.

That label adds absolutely nothing.

You’d simply say:

“It’s pronounced dijeras, just like every other word that ends in "s" and has no accent mark” That’s all the information the student needs. "It's grave because the stress falls on the second-to-last syllable". That's a tautology. Do we teach geometry by saying "It's a triangle because it's a polygon with three sides."

The fact that dijeras belongs to a category called grave is just a consequence of its pronunciation and it's reflected in its spelling. It doesn’t explain anything beyond what the reading or hearing the word already tells you. Likewise, if someone writes dijerás instead of dijeras, the correction isn’t “it’s grave.” The correction is simply that the accent mark is wrong because the word is pronounced dijeras. Once again, the category contributes nothing.

As far as I can tell, in modern Spanish there is no situation where knowing the labels aguda, grave, esdrújula, etc. gives you information that isn’t already completely contained in the written word or its pronunciation.

Maybe they were useful before Spanish spelling became standardized. Currently they are simply useless labels. Labels that native speakers always get wrong, by the way (but no native speaker (outside of Medellín and Córdoba lol) get the pronounciation wrong).

Ironically, I think these categories would be much more useful in English. It would actually be handy to say, “No, category is esdrújula,” instead of saying, “It’s CATegory, not caTEGory.”

Visiting for the first time and I'm shocked at the cost of living. $40 for a 10-minute taxi ride (although I did eventually find one that charged $20, but still). $180 at Super Value for one big grocery bag of snacks. Basic meat, rice, veggies on Kraven ends up costing $35-$40.

I'm trying to be reasonable with expenses, I don't like to spend much (even though it's on company dime), but god damn shit's expensive here. I'm on Nassau, by the way. Sure it's an island, but still. How much do regular people here make?

My company's lawyers we're sure I wouldn't need any kind of permit before coming to the Bahamas to visit clients and prospects. Yet, one officer insisted I needed a work permit.

I cannot find a source that corroborates that a work permit be necessary for visiting a client, taking them to the restaurant, discussing what a project would look like. Is this normal?

I'm from Canada and I'm quite familiar with the NE USA, first time in Florida. What's up with urinal placement? It's so low! They're like two full feet below the dick, giving the urine ample time accelerate and maximize the splash.

Right now, if I want to know how comfortable it’ll be outside, I have to mentally combine temperature, humidity, wind, chance/intensity of precipitation.

I don't really care, I just care about how it feels. They should go -10 to +10.

-10 = dangerously uncomfortable due to cold, wind and humidity, -5 = sweater weather, 0 = neutral (not sure yet what that means), +5 = t-shirt weather, +10 = dangerously uncomfortable due to heat, no wind, high humidity.

And then precipitation would be marked with another symbol, like +3 🌧 = pleasant but rainy.

You could glance at a forecast and instantly know what to wear for the day.

I just realized that when seeing others say "wallstreetbetd is freaking out, while I'm down 0.12% over a month".

I don't even know how to display the performance of my investments in my investment app. I just look at month-end balance after sending my monthly deposit and check if I'm on track to meet my retirement goals, risk profile and liquidity needs.

I don't need to know historical performance because it doesn't inform my decisions.

This question is topical because of the current fearmongering about AI taking our jobs. This doesn't seem like a problem on the surface, because the goal of an economy is consumption, not keeping people busy.

However, let's say you push this ad absurdum and say that every single job will be replaced by AI, how do people acquire the goods and services they want to consume (which, for the sake of argument, are cheaper but not free)?

At the world cup, fans had to buy tickets before they knew the identity of the teams that would play.

It stands to reason that fans would prefer to watch their favourite team play, instead of another team. So, it stands to reason that providing them that information before buying the ticket would generate economic value.

However, when measured by GDP, having 50,000 fans pay $1,000 each to watch a soccer game they don't care about has the same impact as having 50,000 fans pay $1,000 to watch their favourite team play.

What is this an example of?

Like a lot of people, I recently visited the USA and was shocked by their 20th century payment habits.

I authenticated a credit card transaction by drawing a penis on a piece paper. Guy took it, will add it to his tally at the end of his shift, and everybody will assume that I was me. If I were to call my bank and say it wasn't me, they'd refund the money and block my card.

The USA runs that way. For some reason, the idea that someone would draw anything other than their authentic signature is not covered as an edge case in this billion-dollar business.

I think they used to compare your signature to the one on the back of your credit card, and I think that that is the spirit behind the process, but everybody seems to have forgotten that a signature is not an identifier nor an authentifier unless matched with a trustworthy original.

I find it stupid, thank you.

J'ai voyagé pas mal dans les dix dernières années et je me rappelle pas de voir une ville avec un système de tarification du transport en public aussi épais.

Je catch pas comment ils ont encore des petits bundle (très utiles en 1995, quand tout était papier) à acheter, genre passe de trois jours, passe de 7 jours, passe de nuit, passe de mois, passe de trimestre.

Si le but est de mettre un cap de $X sur combien une personne peut payer pendant une période de temps Y, il suffit de... faire ça... comme ils font... partout ailleurs...

À chaque fois que je visite Montréal, je me fais une petite planification d'utilisation du métro... Bon, je vais aller ici, ici, ici, ici, ici, là la fin de semaine je vais dans les laurentides, là après ça je vais aller ici, ici, ici. Pas sûr que la passe de la semaine vaut la peine... Mais si je décide d'aller ici, aussi, en fin de compte? Ah ben là oui."

Au lieu de juste tapper ma carte de crédit sur le lecteur, qui capte mon numéro de carte et arrête de charger après X$.

C'est gênant à quel point c'est stupide leur système man.

I’m thinking of examples similar to Flat Earth in the natural sciences or chiropraxy in medicine: ideas that are still popular among some groups but are largely rejected by the relevant academic discipline.

One example that comes to mind is the labor theory of value in economics, which retains a substantial following in some circles and still be present in debates to this day. Are there comparable examples in sociology, political science, anthropology, urbanism, law, etc.?

I’ve lived in both Brazil and Argentina, and yesterday I was talking with a Colombian colleague. Something I’ve noticed throughout Latin America is what seems like a very widespread belief that the nominal value of a currency somehow determines people’s purchasing power. In Argentina and Brazil, “he earns in dollars” is so prevalent as an indicator of some kind of income level that it's become a joke within my friend group. Or instagrammers saying things like “Europe is obviously expensive because of the euro né, but here are some tips to save on your Italy trip” as if Denmark was cheaper than France. And then yesterday my Colombian colleague told me it’s difficult to sell products in Brazil because “their currency is 5 to 1,” but that's why Panama and Bahamas are such good markets, while Colombia is “4 to 1" (that last bit of logic really baffled me because she ackownledged the fact that the nominal value of a currency has no meaning by removing the last three digits).

This seems to be a uniquely Latin American feature. I've never heard a Swede say "damn Greeks with their incredible purchasing power" or a Japanese not go to Canada because CADJPY = 100.

My question is: where does this come from? Are you guys taught this in school? Is it just a whole metonymy and people don't actually mean what they say literally? Is it limited to Argentina and Brazil where they had periods of parity with the dollar, and then huge inflationary shocks with equivalent generalized purchasing power loss?

New to Houston, sweating my balls off. I've seen dozens of weirdos with hoodies or jackets in the past two weeks. What gives?