For those who'd like a chuckle at how sideways translations can go, take a look at English as She is Spoke, circa 1883.

The book was meant to be a serious attempt to offer a Portuguese to English translation guidebook. Unfortunately, the (Portuguese) author knew no English, but he knew some French and he knew a guy who knew French and some English.

It's still in print - there is even a version with a Foreword by Mark Twain: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.powells.com%2Fbook%2Fe...
 

"It is not something for nothing. It is something for your money. A capital investment."

Quite right. Sorry, I didn't mean it literally. It was more along the lines of whether they could find a way to not expend effort.

Now that could be because the job market sucks. There's a limit to what you can do there.

But there was the hint that they were looking for a means to replace labor with just investment. Which works when you start off with a lot of money, but kinda falls flat if you have little to start with.

If it were a real hustle - effort going into creating value - then call it a hustle.

But this is just another case of people looking for 'something for nothing' and avoiding a real hustle.

It's not that most of us don't share a desire to have an easier life (financially). But, except for a very few, the rest of us have to work. It's dangerous (for society as a whole) if groups of people start to feel like working for a living is 'optional'. What kind of mindset does that create/reflect? You put yourself at a disadvantage compared to those (at home or abroad) who are willing to put in the effort. You'll pay for it eventually...

"Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on"

I'm thinking my definition of intelligent and yours are different...

"...with a clear case and LED lights ($349)..."

"...125,000 gigabytes per second..."

"...50,250 Gbps..."

Try to be consistent between bits and bytes.

I could be wrong, but this seems to touch on the larger issue of 'let's do it because we can, not because we should'.

This seems to be a mindset that is rampant these days. Someone comes up with a clever idea and everyone just leaps on it. (ChatGPT, 'filters', AI companions, deep and wide data mining, etc.) Seems to me a mindset that comes from greed, fear of being left behind, fascination with the newest shiny object, a search for self reassurance, etc. None of those seem like motivations that lead to a more mature society.

I believe the faster we leap to 'the new', the sooner we cheapen our humanity. I mean, we could "choose" to not extract/stockpile/use everyone's personal data.

Now get off my lawn!

I only skimmed the article, but am I the only person who thinks that, if we had a situation or field of diagnosis where doctors were only getting it right 20% of the time, we would throw some research/education/analysis at it? Because 20% correct (or 80% incorrect) seems kinda concerning and I would think would lead to a lot of brouhaha or lawsuits?
Maybe it's just me.

What a tease. The cloud is "close to Earth", "40 moons in width".

Oh, it's 300 light-years away.

Judging by the headline - "...Unmployment" - DOGE must have convinced someone that letters cost money and we need to slash how many vowels we use.

"...along with slower wager growth"

I thought online gambling was booming...

(sorry - couldn't resist)

"...inhalable particular matter has fallen..."

Which particular matter are we talking about? Possibly the particulate matter that is particular to some cities?

"...it came equipped with rover-penetrating radar..."

Couldn't they just peek around the rover?

Lens manufacturers have been offering firmware updates for some years now. And it seems that, like with other devices, the firmware update sometimes goes sideways. Example;

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpetapixel.com%2F2024%2F02%2F...