just so it shows up in the notes: this is an extremely good thing, which is why you will see the internet/cell companies revolt against it– it will prevent them from selling your data to spamcall companies and selectively throttling their competitor’s sites, among other things.
also remember that the internet has basically replaced phone service entirely now, with most phones now simply operating via VOIP. legislating the internet the same way as landlines were is really a no-brainer, it’s the same service in a slightly different form.
my century-old great grandfather taking a sip of whatever concoction 8-year-old me brewed for him by using every button on the soda fountain instead of the iced tea he asked for
“kids are getting indoctrinated into transgenderism” did you know that left handedness increased from 3% to 12% when they stopped beating left handed children.
And, fun fact, it plateaued! Just in case you were confused and suddenly afraid that the world would be exclusively lefties now that we are no longer enforcing right-handed-ness.
Does that sound similar to any other stupid viewpoints you might have? Hmmm?
Sometimes you watch a show, love it, join the fandom, and have a great time.
Sometimes you watch a show, love it, join the fandom, and have a okay time.
Sometimes you watch a show, love it, join the fandom, and have a bad time.
Sometimes you watch a show, love it, take a look at the fandom, and see the fandom equivalent of a nuclear mushroom cloud telling you in no uncertain terms that it’s best to keep enjoying the show well away from the fandom. And possibly upwind.
Sometimes you watch a
show, love it, join the fandom,
and have a great time.
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sunshine gives you wrinkles and laughter leaves lines and late nights will stamp bruises beneath your eyes. life will always leave its mark on you. live it anyway!!!
The image of life will never be worth more than the doing of it!!!!!!!!!!!
The image of life
will never be worth more than
the doing of it!!!!!!!!!!!
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This is the first time someone’s pointed something out about the way we behave I didn’t even realise and found myself realising they are entirely right
This right here ⬆️ is why machine translation will never replace learning a language, because language learning is about so much more than just vocabulary. Now, in this case Australians and Americans speak the same language, so at some point they might be able to figure out where their conversations with each other are going wrong (as seen above). But now imagine a German and an American and no-one speaks the other’s language and they’re just going back and forth with DeepL. In Germany talking about your achievements a lot and unprompted is often seen as bragging. A German and an American who don’t speak each other’s language and have never learned anything about cultural differences will eventually go away from that conversation with the German thinking the American is inpolite, braggy and self-centered and the American thinking the German person is reserved, cold and boring.
You can expand that concept to business letters and emails. Sure, I can put my business emails through DeepL and maybe I’ll even end up with a grammatically correct translation (it’s not a difficult text most of the time) but because of cultural differences the writing style needs to be very different in some cases! The example that stuck out most to me back when I was studying translation is a payment reminder our teacher showed us. Germans will just write “Final reminder: We have not yet received payment. Please pay the outstanding sum to the following account by [date] or we will be forced to take legal action” and it’s fine. The British letter looked completely different; something along the lines of: “We’re terribly sorry but we do not seem to have received payment in the above-mentioned case yet. Could you please double check if everything went alright and the payment has gone through? If it hasn’t we would be grateful if you could make sure we receive it by [date]”. Sure, a British company and a German company sending a reminder like that abroad could just put their own standard letter through DeepL, but if a German person got a British reminder like that they’d just be like “Lol, no need to be so pompous about it, why not tell me clearly what you want!” and well, if a British person got a German reminder, they’d probably be very offended. Now imagine that for correspondence that’s actually important for your business relationships with companies abroad. Yeah, you don’t want to be using DeepL for that.
Grammar makes language comprehensible; culture makes language alive.
Grammar makes language
comprehensible; culture
makes language alive.
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I kinda want danny who’s been adopted by the wanyes to be schmoozing it up at a gala (because listen nothing is funnier than the image of Gotham elites being like oh whats this one’s gimmick cus all the other’s have something only for danny to just be a dude) only for like the giw to raid the place to get danny ( cus he’s a ghost? Cus he’s a Fenton? Who knows)
Only for danny to pick up a bottle chug it smash it and vault out a window shouting you’ll never catch me alive
Now this increases his reputation with most Gothamites and rouges and absolutely worries the fuck out of the batfam why is the government chasing you danny and hiw are you so good at running
It was supposed to be a normal gala, everyone attending and maybe smuggle in Danny’s official introduction to the public.
Danny didn’t really mind, having been lectured and taught by Sam during the times of suffering they’d had to go through together.
Yet, since waking up, he’d had a bad feeling.
Good thing he listened to that bad feeling, considering the situation he is at right now.
(He had looked at Dami when he saw the agents pile in, handing him his glas and grabbing the bottle. He ignored the scowl in favor of shouting, “Viva la revolution!”)
The comm crackles to life as he smashes one of the GIW agents with a bottle of champagne over the head, grabbing another and downing in one go.
He passes Jason, grinning like a feral cat and swiping another GIW agent to the ground.
(At that moment, the forced-to-be-here Jason watched wide eyed, a soft “What the fuck” leaving him as he held his glass.)
“Get him!” Multiple guns were pointed at the running teen. The guests and the waynes were pressed to the walls of the room and murmured.
Danny jumped, kicking the agent down and ducking from the shoots.
He’s running to the tall windows, opening one and sending his farewells.
“You will never catch me alive!!”
And jumps out, a flurry of colourful laser shoots following.
The agents pile behind the window, shouting incomprehensibly.
(One of guests leans towards Mr. Wayne, sipping her champagne. “Say, Bruce, are you sure he isn’t from Gotham City?”
The man in turn blinks, smiling charmingly despite the demon’s fighting in his head at what’s going on. “I… was pretty sure, maybe he just fits in?”
The Lady laughs, dumping her rest of the drink on a agent and making a haste retreat.
Bruce is only half sure that, that was someone he knew and just disguised.)
Bruce is only half
sure that, that was someone he
knew and just disguised.)
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[Image description: A screenshot from the Mulan movie during the scene in which Shang is disappointed to find out that Mulan is a woman and leaves her out in the snow. A speech bubble has been drawn to look like Shang is telling her what the anonymous message said to OP. /End description]
One time my buddy took some shrooms and drank and started having a really bad time so we tried to watch a bunch of chill stuff to calm him down and the only thing that worked was How It’s Made so we watched that for a few hours. He really liked the episode where they make marbles
Y’know what? Fuck you. *Plays an acoustic guitar version of your leitmotif to show you still have tenderness and care in your heart, and compassion for others*
yeah? well fuck YOU *plays a music box version of your leitmotif to show that this is your home and its comfortable and nostalgic here*