If you have plans to globalize your brand, don’t make the mistake of using software translation rather than human translators. Also, be sure to do your homework to find out whether your branding will be a cultural let-down in a foreign market.

Here is a collection of some memorable translation blunders:

Mercedes Benz’s market name in China was translated to “Bensi”, which meant “rush to die.” Which is not an ideal name for a car company. Fortunately, the company realized the mistake and changed its name to “Benchi”, which means “run quickly as if flying.”

https://medium.com/@bethworthy/famous-ex...440312bbad


Finger licking good!

Hello. And Bye.

From Mazes and Monsters to Dark Dungeons, D&D was a lot scarier in the 1980s.



These days your life isn’t complete if you aren’t part of a role-playing gaming group, but it wasn’t that long ago that playing Dungeons & Dragons was seen as a surefire ticket to madness and damnation.



During the 1980s, D&D became associated with violence and idiot suicide, casting a spell over the media that resulted in some strident anti-fantasy propaganda.



The game became an instant hit among mid-70s “indoor kids,” who were looking for a fun way to exercise their imaginations and play around in a vast, complex world of magic and mystery. Unfortunately, that same desire for escape often goes hand-in-hand with depression and other feelings of isolation.



The catalyzing event that started the moral panic over D&D was the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III in 1979. Egbert was a gifted computer programmer studying at Michigan State University, having been accepted at the age of 16. While at the school, he was involved with a D&D group that would sometimes do a little LARPing in the privacy of the university’s underground steam tunnels. Egbert disappeared into the steam tunnels in August of 1979, with the intention of committing suicide by overdosing on quaaludes.



Egbert’s family hired enterprising private detective William Dear to find their son. During his search, Dear learned of Egbert’s D&D hobby, and made it the focus of his investigation. Egbert’s disappearance came to be blamed on a “Dungeons and Dragons game gone awry.” Dear concluded the game had driven him mad, that he lost the ability to discern reality from fiction and had gone off on some insane, delusional quest. Of course when the media got wind of this, it planted the seeds of D&D as a corruptor of youth, and maybe even worse.

The controversy surrounding Dungeons & Dragons continued throughout the 1980s. When the second edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was released in 1989, TSR removed all mention of demons and devils, and skewed gameplay to more heroic actions as opposed to the more ambiguous tenor of the first edition. As the 1990s moved on, attention moved away from the evils of pen-and-paper roleplaying games, and focused on violent video games or other cultural boogeymen.

D&D eventually got its devils back, and enough room from its 1980s image to publish such great sourcebooks as The Book of Vile Darkness. However, in those circles where reference to Harry Potter and talk of fantasy violence is still seen as a ticket to the dark side, D&D is still the bad boy of roleplaying.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/th...ns-dragons



https://youtu.be/5hJdhL1Ni_w

The reality in 2022, yes it's a DUDE!

Rachel Levine has been named one of USA Today’s Women of the Year.

Dr. Levine spearheaded Pennsylvania’s response to COVID-19 after cases were first reported in the state in March of 2020.

She served as the Health Department’s Secretary from 2017 to 2021 before joining the Biden administration as the Assistant Health Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

With the move, the 64-year-old became the first openly transgender four-star officer in the Uniformed Services and the first female four-star admiral.


   

This is too much it's a FUCKING DUDE!

https://rumble.com/vwr8in-archbishop-car...order.html



New future disasters may include ecological and Internet Emergencies.

Economically squeezing every man, woman, and child.

Creating a religion of humanity

A Meta Monad!

In other words a Leviathan machine to rule the world.

He calls for a return to Christian morality, family values, and real education.

Mentions Neo-malthusian project

He also calls for an international congregation of economic, labor, university, and health care leaders to come together and form a body to counter the NWO agenda.

The video, part of a concert documentary called For Those About to Rock: Monsters in Moscow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mtilj2gKz0

...captures a nation in the flux of late perestroika. Red Army soldiers have been called in to do crowd control, clashing against a seething sea of concertgoers. The show’s organizers repeatedly come on stage to plead with the crowd to refrain from violence, lest the authorities shut it down. “Remember why we are here,” they say, “to celebrate our victory.” Yet there are also people in army uniforms enjoying the music along with everyone else, flashing devil horns and lolling their tongues as if they’re in need of an exorcism.

https://www.vulture.com/article/eddie-va...ories.html

Bands that played that day included AC/DC, the Black Crowes, and Pantera. If you’re of a certain age and musical persuasion, it’s oddly touching to see Pantera’s Dimebag Darrell (RIP), replete with a razor-blade necklace, do a stink-face shredding thing on his guitar while lead singer Phil Anselmo screams, “We’re taking over the entire country!” (A riff on the line “We’re taking over this town” from the song “Cowboys From Hell.”) But nothing compares to Metallica galloping on stage, lithe and frizzy-haired, to open their set with “Enter Sandman,” a once ubiquitously annoying song that, in hindsight, was one of America’s most influential cultural exports of the time, inspiring a distinct look that inundated both Eastern Europe and high schools around the world: tattered jeans, greasy locks, black Metallica T-shirt. The response from the crowd in Moscow is joyous havoc, a catharsis years in the making.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/...oscow.html

I like graphics

   

Simple question.... Why does Biden and the Dems refuse to tap the unlimited American oil reserves?

I'm a simple minded person but isn't it Biden's job to protect and serve the American people? I know stupid thought sorry about that. Current policies are crushing the average working class person. Inflation is going through the roof and will get much worse.

The proposed solution? Buy oil from Venezuela and perhaps do backdoor deals with Russia (Just because they can and do things like this)?

Couple the above with the fact this is causing China to threaten the admin with "severe consequences" if sanctions are put on them for aiding Russia in any way as they are with credit card processing and many other pre arranged deals including a gas pipeline into China from Russia.

The political capital of Biden is done. For God's sake he tried to call Saudi Arabia and they didn't even answer the phone! Geopolitically he and the US look like the dumbest people on the planet after the Afghan disaster and his globalist brown nosing policies.

On top of that, he is pledging $200 million to Ukraine for weapons. What are the American people, piles of excrement? What are we supposed to fight with if we need to? Rocks?

It's all politics with Uncle Joe. He has way too much baggage and clearly his mental capacity is "failing". I'm being kind with that statement.

The worst part of this entire disaster is the fact the United States is going to have an even bigger crisis and that is the big white elephant in the room. That is of course, illegal immigration. All of these distractions are acting as a smoke screen to hide the real crimes of human trafficking being done on the largest scale ever known.

The scary part about the last thing is nobody knows who or what is coming across the border in the millions. Nor do we know the effects it will have for decades. The end game is obvious!

One only needs to see what has been happening across the pond in Europe to see how mass immigration from the "Arab Spring" has devastated culture and societies across their continent.

America is being invaded right in front of everybody literally hidden in plain site. It won't remain hidden for long. They are coming for our guns next and as we speak.

Sorry I hate politics it's the most vial reality humanity must endure. The simple fact of everything is the left and right paradigm used for division as it was designed and intended. We are Americans and unity is the only way forward. Divided we are lost.

The USA is not perfect by any stretch but its foundation of freedom is worth fighting for.

And now a little humor

https://youtu.be/L9s5a1JNz2M?t=375

Interesting how the stories are changing on Covid like a thief in the night.

This should shed some light on the sudden change in "deadly" Covid

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...1221009887

Trust the science or so they say.....:


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Or the US government giving over a billion dollars to mainstream media outlets to report what THEY wanted about the virus.

How about the 9 pages of side effects from the Pfizer vaccine they wanted to have hidden from public view until 2095. Yeah nothing there either. I mean who cares about 9 pages of side effects right?
This can be found everywhere online, Google will even help.



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A recent letter from Ontario Health to local medical practices on how to coerce people into getting the jab.



The above is just interesting facts (verifiable of course)



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Very reliable and proven COVID cures, hope it helps somebody.

Personally I don't know nothing, I just know what I observe and read. The only thing I do know is trust nothing, question and verify everything!

An interesting perspective from General Flynn

https://gettr.com/post/pzud7t1763

Profound coming from the mind of somebody who knows more about the back channels than just about anybody for the last 20 years. This was obvious based on the initial bombing strike locations corresponding exactly with biolab locations on maps from years prior. Those of us out of the loop can easily see from that an intent of protecting ones sovereignty. Putin even warned of his impending actions for months. The deception and mendacity is astounding #smokescreen The eerie thing is they are probably hiding something much worst in the background of the distraction #pureevil

An Art form of great Quality
Choose to click or not click!

That is the question....

Regarding the enchantments created by the medium in which I call like to call 'The Flickers'. An old term. A 'magic' word used by people long since dead when Magic lanterns became something more...

I'll try to get to more on magic words at the end of this post.

The problems and dangers of time travel. Sometimes, it's real hard getting back to the future. Ah well, I guess that's just the pro's and con's of hitch hiking. The guide on the galaxy is pretty good for that. All this led to a bit of visual psychology. You know, the hypnotism of the flickers. Symbolism of imagery combined with sounds and music. Looking at iconography and how it can be used for enchantments. Showing major contentions in the psychological injections of ideas and fantasies into our minds and ultimately our human spirit. These injections include both positive and negative stimulus.

Which ingredients for enchantments are the best kind? We could use humor as an example. Divide it in two. One side comedy, the other satire. Comedy is positive. Satire is negative.

Visuals in black and white. Silent film era...Positive and negative flickers of thought! Yeah, I know these are old flickers of enchantment, but, I think they're pretty good. Those old enchanters really knew what they were doin.

Harold Lloyd - Satire



His films seem to mock the human condition and enjoy doing it. Extreme situations of danger and personal catastrophe . Master at editing and clever camera work. Willing to do own stunts at great hazard.



Charlie Chaplin - Comedy

Comedy with etiquette and finesse. Positive in a world of suffering. The tramp should never talk. He says enough by his genius at silent lucid gesture.

Can this be a magical word of enchantment?

In those days your subtitle count was the measure of your art...

Now, I gotta ask, is this really good etiquette at the table?