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4 hours agoNGL, I dig the idea of Sodium plants:
Not sure how practical they are outside the general idea, but it looks promising.
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Origjnal comment was reported, probably for the whole “Taiwan isn’t a recognized country”. As noted, that’s largely a true statement.
Reported as propaganda, but here’s the thing… Technically correct is the best kind of correct, right?
Only 12 agencies recognize Taiwan as an independent state. TWELVE. A short enough list that I can copy/paste it:
Belize, Guatemala, Haiti, Holy See (Vatican), Marshall Islands, Palau, Paraguay, St Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Eswatini and Tuvalu.
That’s it. Even the US doesn’t explicitly recognize an independent Taiwan. The UN rejected membership in 2007.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united-nations/68163/how-taiwan-lost-its-place-at-the-un
I wouldn’t go so far as to call it “Green” until we have a better way of disposing the waste that doesn’t involve creating new warning signs that can still be read and understood 10,000 years from now. :)
If it’s still a danger in 5,000 years, that’s not “green”. :)
Great story on the signage though!
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200731-how-to-build-a-nuclear-warning-for-10000-years-time
I just bought a dozen yesterday, $4 and change. Didn’t seem SUPER expensive. I could have dropped the per-egg price if I bought 18, but I don’t need 18 eggs…
“In war, truth is the first casualty.”
Which, ironically, has been mis-attributed to any number of people.
62·11 hours agoSome day, kids using social media will be child abuse…
Imagine having a place that not only allows freedom of speech, but PRIDES itself on freedom of speech, then denying and prosecuting speech they don’t like.
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Even with humans, there are good translations and bad translations.
Some of my favorite authors did not natively write in English and the translators did a stellar job of capturing the nuance of the original.
I can’t imagine AI giving anything other than a straight denotative translation. It would be readable, but with no soul.
Here’s a passage from Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s “The Shadow of the Wind” in Spanish (“La sombra del viento”):
“En una ocasión oí comentar a un cliente habitual en la librería de mi padre que pocas cosas marcan tanto a un lector como el primer libro que realmente se abre camino hasta su corazón. Aquellas primeras imágenes, el eco de esas palabras que creemos haber dejado atrás, nos acompañan toda la vida y esculpen un palacio en nuestra memoria al que, tarde o temprano —no importa cuántos libros leamos, cuántos mundos descubramos, cuánto aprendamos u olvidemos—, vamos a regresar. Para mí, esas páginas embrujadas siempre serán las que encontré entre los pasillos del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados.”
The English translation:
“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return. For me those enchanted pages will always be the ones I found among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”
Google translate:
“I once heard a regular customer at my father’s bookstore comment that few things leave a lasting impression on a reader as much as the first book that truly makes its way into their heart. Those first images, the echo of those words we think we’ve left behind, stay with us for a lifetime and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, how much we learn or forget—we will return. For me, those haunted pages will always be the ones I found in the aisles of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”
Can’t tell if 4/1 gag or not! Brilliant!
The control group would be people vaccinated who never got covid.
If the premise is long covid is caused by the vaccine, and some vaccinated people never got any form of covid (Hi! That’s me!) then you can be reasonably sure the vaccine doesn’t cause long covid.
Similarly if you have people with long covid who never got the vaccine. They got covid, then long covid. That would mean the vaccine is not a factor in long covid.
I can’t recall if I already banned them here or not for their genocide apologia. I did just ban them in politics for that bullshit.
Aha, somebody else did it 7 months ago.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=67131
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Phone functionality is the least of my problems, I need an open source replacement for Android Auto / Apple CarPlay.
Not sure how that would work, you’d either have to emulate it to talk to the infotainment system, or get all the infotainment producers to add an open source layer… Sounds like a nightmare either way.
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Blog content is not allowed.
Internal US News is not “World”.