We’ve been Evicted. All the old keep the place going money needs are moot now.

Temporarily staying in a pet friendly hotel

Looking to raise $100-200 today toward tomorrow’s room and other expense for getting our stuff out of the house .

We are going to be renting one of those PODS units to store our bigger and decorative things
Would be a help at this point.

If you can give please do so.

If you cannot, please boost

i should make an edit of gran turismo that says gran autismo

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one of my best longtime fire-tested friends, Sylvie, is in a terrible situation.

they're a trans ukrainian furry artist and after russia invaded, their father died and now they have to provide for their sick family at a grueling factory job.

paypal doesn't work in ukraine, so i have to reroute money to them.

***just please WRITE "TO SYL" when you donate to me.***

I WILL POST RECEIPTS

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In #Palestine, the land of the Nativity and the Prophet’s Night Journey, a Muslim woman gently embraces her Christian sister with pure love… without pretence or hypocrisy, just genuine love. ❤️
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please help.

i don't think i need to explain. you understand and i understand.

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trying to call euler with his number but it just keeps going

most ppl assume evil wuffy is evil because its evil but its actually just a good wuffy with charge, parity and time reversed

sometimes people follow me and i wonder if they just don’t recognise who i am or didn’t read my bio

@aisling i just cried like a baby that got dropped to the floor because i started thinking about how little i remember my life and how much i miss home but there’s no home anywhere but it’s okay because your shitposts bring the worst out of me and I love you for that

Suggestions for a digital camera for photography I could carry around everywhere that lasts a long time under $200?

There is a concept that some of you might find helpful - "subjective units of distress".

Many years ago, I was struggling badly with my life, going through one mental breakdown after another. I asked my psychiatrist: "How can I live my life if my anxiety goes from 0 to 60 in the matter of seconds?". The psychiatrist said: "But Nina, no one, including you, goes from 0 to 60 instantly. It just feels this way."

So, he explained, human brain is silly and usually cannot tell the difference between not being distressed (SUDS 1) and quite distressed (SUDS 7). As long as we keep functioning, our internal brain state and suffering in it seems to be almost invisible for us.

If I am at SUDS 2, and accidentally spill morning coffee on my blouse, it will probably raise my distress to SUDS 4 or 5, but I will change to a new blouse and go to work.

If I am at SUDS 7 after a doctor's call, and spill coffee on myself, I'll go from being calm to a sobbing mess faster than you can say "therapy".

Keep track of your SUDS!

good luck Portugal

⛺ The housing crisis is reaching a breaking point in Portugal. We need your attention.

Yesterday, peaceful protests brought together tens of thousands of people across the country - and ended with brutal police violence. Here’s what’s going on. 👇 1/7

I have some spicy takes today, as someone who did hobbyist translations of English songs to Mandarin for a long while.

Constructed languages have no space in localisations, most of the time.
This doesn’t include translation as an art form–yes, absolutely translate things to Toki Pona or Esperanto–translation is, however, a very complicated topic that cover very complicated and nuanced topics such as “artistic intentions,” “utilitarian values,” and “multilingualism,” and more. What you have to keep in mind is that I’m going to only talk about a specific subset of this topic, being “official translations of forms of arts, and official translations of documents”

You should never celebrate when an official translation is included for a conlang, because most of the time, the proposal that caused the decision is the apparent utilitarian value of including a translation in a conlang, which is

• Not a virtue of translation and localisation that anyone should celebrate
• Not applicable to conlangs

There’s a reason my examples are the two languages touted as “international languages.”
International languages is an utilitarian pipedream. There is no usefulness to a language constructed to be “international” or “universal,” because as every other facet of translation and localisation would tell you, there is no such thing as an Universal or Neutral language. Every language is biased by everything surrounding that language and anyone who throws a shiny mix of different European languages with many sounds that often only exist in European languages and no sounds that don’t, is selling you snake oil.

In fact, the moment you consider translations for its utilitarian values for any forms of art–you’ve already lost the entire point. Hollow Knight, and its sequel, Hollow Knight: Silk Song, both launched with horrific Mandarin translations. Silk Song had the privilege that the sequel had a very large Mandarin-speaking fanbase at launch and very immediate community feedback, and the developers bit the bullet and let the community translators fix up the game for them. This was never fixed for the first game, but the first game was just as badly translated.

This is the result of the idea that, a Mandarin translation simply translates to “capturing” the Mandarin speaking market. It is a utilitarian value decision, and the translation was outsourced to the lowest bidder. This is why it is impossible to have a sustainable job as a translator in the first place. Our work is not valued because our work is considered utilitarian, our work is considered factory labour and our work is to be replaced by machines the moment they’re capable.

Then you might ask: what about documents? They’re supposed to give information only, they have no artistic intentionality to speak of.

… My question for you is: translations for whom?
Is it for the people from developing countries whose languages simply are not regarded at all on the international stage? No! Because said international languages are also just as hard to learn as any other European languages. These “international languages” are just a blend of different European languages, and sometimes borrowing words from non-European languages. And I say this as a native mandarin speaker who learned English as a second language, well beyond the age of natural language acquisition. These languages are just as inaccessible as any other European languages to me, if not more simply because they often make use of sounds that are incredibly hard for me to pronounce.

Is it then for the same Europeans who just don’t speak the lengua franca?
No! I have never seen a document translated to one of these international languages, that don’t also already have translations for all the big European languages!

Who is it for then? Who is it for.
I ask that all the time and I realise that it is for people who think that languages are a kind of utility to be automated and maximised, who take The Tower of Babel way too literally.

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Doodling on the train

It is not safe to turn on your computer.

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