“Velasquez was not a pharmacist at the store, and the store’s pharmacy itself was closed at the time of the shooting.”

Dude wasn’t even a pharmacist…

He also said Musk wasn’t in charge…

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-doge-white-house-layoffs-0fcdbb692717c63203ef971cb9807b35

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!

They are.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war

https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-sniper-killed-child-in-gaza-1-day-after-ceasefire-went-into-effect/

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

Removed as a duplicate, original posted here:

https://lemm.ee/post/59940156

!LemmySilver@lemmy.world

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.

Re-posted from Dropsite which is not allowed due to being a substack blog.

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Somehow, this double posted. Removing the one with fewer comments.

She’s self reporting 4 days while posting to social media, so take it with a grain of salt.

Kind of puts a pin in Nessie then, if we can find a small camera lost 55 years ago but not a giant animal.

"banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds…

a four-year prison sentence with two years suspended, to be served under house arrest, and a €100,000 ($108,000) fine.

Her party, National Rally (RN), was ordered to pay €2 million in fines for the €4.1 million that it was accused of embezzling."

Anonymous to us, not anonymous to the publisher.

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