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   Caesar Wirth (cjwirth@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 03-Nov-2025 21:11:06 JST Caesar Wirth

   Shipping a package in Japanese. For special handling options, it had a phrase I hadn't seen before: 天地無用

   Apple's native translate feature said: "Heaven and earth are useless"

   Which I mean... yeah, sure, that's what the characters seem to imply: "heaven, earth, nothing, use"

   Looking further, it just means like, "don't flip upside down"

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     Rocketman (slothrop@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Nov-2025 21:11:21 JST Rocketman

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     @cjwirth wait… does this imply that all those mysterious Oriental proverbs with their deep wisdom are really translation errors? And they all just mean mundane stuff like “stir gently” or “silica gel - do not eat”?