As I said to the waiter at the Bavarian restaurant,
we shall prepare for the best, and hope for the wurst.
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For the time being, I think I'm just going to concentrate on becoming the best possible support system for my cat.
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I just saw this today, & wondered whether I should be seeing "Translate" links underneath posts in different languages? (I'm using Firefox on an iMac.) If not, is the translation service something you could add to beige.party?
If that's not feasible, or if it's not something you want to do, or if you're in it up to your earlobes right now with TikTok-egress-related problems, that's perfectly okay.
Thanks & Beige Bless 🙏
https://fedi.tips/is-there-a-built-in-language-translation-system-on-mastodon/
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Okay; but why wouldn't it work to launch a "ClimateCoin" or a "UBICoin," and spend the ridiculous proceeds on climate and human initiatives?
If TFG can generate $58 billion almost overnight, couldn't we generate enough to fund a food bank or support some homeless people?
https://geekdom.social/@FantasticalEconomics/113855752882285783
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I am increasingly unsure about the bona fides of any of the non-US-based alternatives to Gmail; but I'm beginning to like whoever writes Tuta's media posts:
"Being Germans, we might not be the most competent in making jokes. ;)"
https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/113840031795031192
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A storytime example of a notable difference between English and ASL:
I had a friend who was both a hearing person and a native speaker of ASL. Both his parents were deaf, so ASL was his first language, but he also grew up hearing & speaking English.
His parents often asked/told him to act as an interpreter for them & other adults in the deaf community. One time when he was in his early teens, his dad asked him to come translate at a doctor appointment for one of his dad's deaf friends, a rather august man who carried a lot of respect in their community.
What my friend didn't know until they got there was that this wasn't a just a routine checkup with a GP: this was a urologist appointment for erectile dysfunction, which was not an area my teenage friend was at all comfortable sharing about with adults.
But, since he was unable to just sink into the floor and disappear, he gritted his teeth & tried to get through it.
He was managing, mostly, throughout the exam, until the doctor instructed the friend/patient to "become erect."
There are lots of ways to say this in English, crudely, euphemistically, & everywhere in between. There are two ways to say this in ASL.
One is to raise a single finger through an arc from horizontal to vertical, which my friend feared would create an, um, literally belittling sort of comparison to the patient's erectile equipment. The other way is to make the same arc using the entire hand & forearm.
After a brief but intense welter of embarrassed indecision, my friend opted for the forearm gesture.
No one actually died of embarrassment, the urologist appointment eventually ended, and the deaf friend opted for other translators for his future appointments.
But ASL is indeed a separate language from English.
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Not me. Written English can be read aloud, and spoken English can generally be expressed in writing (certain dialects, etc., can be a little hard to convey). There's a one-to-one correspondence of words & grammar.
ASL has a different grammar and a different vocabulary. Some concepts are expressed very differently. There's no one-to-one correspondence.
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You know, I think Trump is showing some poor strategic thinking with this annexing Canada business.
Why not annex Mexico instead?
He'd get plenty of natural resources to exploit, even more poor people to tax, and lots of Imperialist Brownie Points™️ .
Plus, it'd solve the border crisis in one fell swoop!
/joke/
/sarcasm/
/noble & respected citizens of Mexico, please don't come for me/
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Weirdo MAGA-nut Universe Thought Experiment:
I wonder if TFG realizes that, if Canada became a 51st state; that would mean two more senators and a metric fuckton of new Congressmen & Electoral votes, all representing people who'd be pissed as hell at Trump & all his Weirdo MAGA-nut buddies.
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For the first time "today," I feel awake, alert, & ready to do things.
It's three o'clock in the morning. 😭
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If I'm so wonderful & outstanding & truly deserving of your lovely meme of positive affirmation, then why isn't there any AltText?!?
[#]subtoot
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My wrist keeps hurting at the spot where they took that tiny little scraping for a bone graft from 30 years ago; and I don't like it.
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$0.50 off of frozen potatoes! Uh, woot, I guess.
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Just looked at the clock to see if it's midnight yet.
Not to see if it was 2025, though: I was wondering whether the new week's worth of Wednesday-Wednesday grocery specials had dropped.
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For a long time, I thought Boxing Day was called that after its tradition of a pugilistic contest between the Lord of the Manor & a champion chosen from among the servants.
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Seriously thinking of investing in a large stack of postcards to be sent to the White House over the next four years, each with the same two words:
"Dude. Seriously?"
https://journa.host/@w7voa/113699331548957332
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This could help explain a lot, including maybe the recent US Presidential election.
"...Covid-19 and the brain: an insidious loss of moral reasoning
"Initially dismissed as a result of post-lockdown awkwardness... this behavioural shift now appears to have a biological component. Covid-19... ...is now recognised as a vascular disease that affects multiple systems in the body, including the brain.
Even infections whose symptoms appear ‘mild’ can lead to long-term neurological changes, with symptoms such as emotional dysregulation, impulsiveness, and aggression becoming more common.
Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Adam Kaplin of Johns Hopkins University describes a phenomenon he calls “Covid-induced disinhibition,” in which individuals exhibit drastic personality changes after infection.
According to Kaplin, it is not the virus itself but the immune system’s inflammatory response to Covid-19 that can alter brain function, particularly in areas governing impulse control, empathy, and emotional regulation. These changes can manifest as uncharacteristic aggression, a diminished capacity for social norms, and a skewed sense of entitlement.
Covid isn’t just changing how we feel physically, it’s reshaping how we think and act."
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/12/19/audience-row-macbeth/
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I love this idea of strikes hitting big companies right at crunch time.
Retail employees striking right before Christmas could be only just the start. Imagine florist industry employees striking right before Valentine's Day & Mother's Day, egg producers striking the week before Easter, candy factory workers going on strike six weeks before Halloween...
Not strikes on the big day, which tends to alienate consumers & (imhe) not get much result; but in the run-up to the big day, right when the managers & corporations are scratching their heads over building up their inventories.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/12/20/starbucks-workers-union-goes-on-strike-in-us-cities
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They don't use a pickle-shaped ball, they don't play wearing pickle suits, and the courts aren't even located in abandoned pickle factories.
I mean, what's even the point?
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