@MicheleV_AK Yikes! Apparently there's a story told by Japan's polar researchers that seeing a black spot in an arctic ice field means that you're too close to a polar bear's nose and liable to end up as dinner.
DDG's translation feature sometimes goes off the deep end, but it seems to do a reasonable job with the text of the post by @sayuri_t_h and the quote from VP Kamala Harris "I am glad he’s safe. Violence has no place in America" re TFG's golf course incident which a Japanese news show caption rendered in Japanese to mean "It was good he was safe. Violence doesn't exist in America." https://songbird.cloud/@sayuri_t_h/113149653691086077 As OP says, Japanese media needs to translate accurately. #LostInTranslation#Japan
Little Glee Monster - Dear My Friend feat.Pentatonix / THE FIRST TAKE "...musicians and singers performing in a single take. ONE TAKE ONLY..."
Heard this in spring of 2021, the 2nd year of the pandemic. Thus "Pentatonix remote shot in LA, and Little Glee Monster shot in Tokyo at separate places in one take only and combined into one."
French novelist, playwright, journalist Émile Zola was born #OTD in 1840.
Zola achieved fame for his series of novels called "Les Rougon-Macquart," which consists of twenty novels depicting the social, economic, and political landscape of France during the Second Empire (1852–1870). Some of the notable novels in this series include "Germinal," "Nana," and "La Bête Humaine."
A friend of a friend was killed in Palestine a couple of days ago near the Jordanian border. She was the head of HEAL Palestine and had two gorgeous tiny kids. Her husband is stuck in North Gaza and can't get to any of them. She was killed by Hamas, it appears, 90 rounds shot into her car, in a case of mistaken identity or a struggle over money, whether she would hand over donations given to her organization.
I, like ... cannot breathe.
This entire insanity has to stop. Everyone is desperate. Everyone is terrified. And responding by killing everyone and then moving across a border and killing everyone else, even if complete annihilation of history and population were possible (it isn't, really) just adds more trauma and hate.
This situation is INTOLERABLE and a ceasefire is the first step needed to begin to move in a new direction. Nothing about any of this is ok.
If you respond to this post, or any post, to justify genocide I will block you.
"Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba is set to become Japan's next PM after...defeating economic security minister Sanae Takaichi [who cites Margaret Thatcher as role model]" https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240927/p2g/00m/0na/062000c 🔸Seems a slim majority of LDP members were worried that Takaichi was too right wing to prevent centre-right voters swinging to opposing CDP leader Yoshihiko Noda in a general election, thus saving #Japan from wannabe Thatcherite "TINA" policies.
The antimony hardens the lead and prevents shrinkage and deformation when the alloy cools from a melt in a mold to make the moveable type.
It meant that high quality clear text could be repeatably printed on mass (unlike previous printing that used carved wood blocks that deteriorated quickly) /3
Heads up to Kia owners/potential buyers: Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they'd found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles—dozens of models representing millions of cars on the road—from the smartphone of a car’s owner to the hackers’ own phone or computer. By exploiting that vulnerability and building their own custom app to send commands to target cars, they were able to scan virtually any internet-connected Kia vehicle’s license plate and within seconds gain the ability to track that car’s location, unlock the car, honk its horn, or start its ignition at will.
It is clearly plausible that the US state of Missouri may have just executed an innocent man, even after prosecutors tried to stop the execution. I wrote about his case, about capital punishment, and about the last words that inmates say before they die. https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-last-statements-of-death-row-aa2
Mahalo to the folks at the ʻImiloa Astronomy Center for inviting a group of us from the STScI to come to the island of Hawai'i to collaborate, and for organizing a trip to the summit of Maunakea and a tour of the Keck observatories. What a special, beautiful, otherworldly place!