Notices by eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social), page 14

@xconde No, the example renders the words "dolphins" without kanji, using the phonetic hiragana characters いるか (i + ru + ka). This may be in order to help Japanese learners like me, or to help native Japanese readers who may not be familiar with the reading of 海豚.

What is a bit odd is that the hiragana alphabet is used, and not the katakana alphabet, which is more commonly used for animal names. That spelling would be イルカ (also the sounds i + ru + ka, but in a different alphabet).

@emmreef All I see is a strong virile masculine man heroically blocking a dangerous, potentially life-threatening punch, swung by what is obviously an antifa agitator. In a manly way.

One of the great things about the internet is that it allows incredibly talented people to be discovered, who would otherwise probably remain locked in obscurity.

Case in point: this eight-year-old boy from Brazil, Ruan Vitor, who composed and sang a song called Amaheceu.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=SH_Jwz7v-PE

I'm no expert when it comes to singing, so I leave it to others to assess if I'm right to be blown away.

(If I caught a glimpse of this website here on Mastodon, please let me know so I can credit you and follow you.)

https://whatiftrumpwins.org/ is an interactive website asking you to imagine of what could happen if Trump were to win the election, and how you would react.

It takes a cue from Gene Sharp, the author of "From Dictatorship to Democracy," a guide to effectively fighting a dictatorship, by offering practical tips on how to fight back.

I remember learning in high school that nazism in 1930s Germany was born out of the desperation, humiliation and helplessness of the working class.

I think somewhere along the way, somebody forgot the "So let's make sure that never happens again" part.

There's probably some symbolism to be found in the fact that this debate is being held on the side of a trashcan.

Yesterday, I visited our new offices for the first time.

Check out this stairwell. To the right: the stairs. In the middle: a glass wall. On the left: a narrow hallway, with doors to the toilets, doors which swing _outward_. I should add that all doors in this building are set so that you need to push extra hard to open them.

Two times in one day, I saw someone walking down the hallway and almost getting knocked over by someone swinging open the door to exit the toilets.

@BethanyBlack Stephen Fry wrote a cautionary tale about all these kinds of shenanigans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_History_(novel)

When you hear the term "wild animal," the first thing that comes to mind are probably fierce, potentially violent animals like lions, bears or snakes.

But a bunny rabbit nibbling on some grass in the forest, or a crow flying around in a crowded city, are just as much "wild animals."

Once you remember that, it's only a small step to realizing that if animals could use a word to describe this state, that word wouldn't be "wild."

It would be "free."

In many ways, Star Trek was ahead of its time, like in this episode, where they warn about the dangers of Data mining

I'm following the devastating news from Slovenia, where one month's worth of rain fell in 24 hours. It's the biggest natural disaster in the young country's 32-year history. Large parts of the country are flooded. I can't even begin to imagine the time and money needed to recover from this.

But it's hard to find non-Slovenian coverage of this disaster. Press agencies like Reuters and AP are reporting it, but newspapers in, say, Germany or the US aren't picking it up.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/floods-hit-slovenia-forcing-evacuations-disrupting-transport-2023-08-04/

On a Star Trek Federation starship, does the mess hall have a menu item called "Deflector Dish"? If so, what's in it?

#startrek