Spez (or one of their admin monkeys) perma-banned me from Reddit after like 7 years, for of all stupid things, posting actual facts about Elon Musk and his Boring Company's "Not A Flamethrower" contraption.
Wasn't any hate speech. Wasn't misinformation, I even posted reference links. Wasn't anything inappropriate or gory. Just straight up facts.
That was not all that long before Elon bought Xhitter.
Gotta love the irony huh? Fuck Spez and Musk.
It looks like it already did haha!
Oh well, at least it wasn't mine. 🤷♂️
I had already spent years doing occasional side work with around a dozen if not more folks originally from India. Most, except the oldest of the elders spoke good if not excellent English. But there's pretty much always gonna be at least a subtle accent, if not a heavy accent with secondary languages.
I thought I understood the fella clearly, but it was both a combination of his accent plus the strange sentence structure context that threw me totally off.
He said he was 'updating his tiles', but I misunderstood his vowels, so I heard 'updating his towels'
And why the hell would he use the word updating, he was literally having all the carpet removed in 44+ rooms and having tiles installed, not 'updated'.
So even the context clues didn't add up, I never guessed he was talking about the tile work he had been planning for months.
He was half paranoid and didn't trust doctors. He was hoping that enough rest time and drinking Ensure would allow him time to heal on his own.
And I wasn't allowed to call an ambulance, he slept on a couch packed with guns and straight up told me he'd shoot emergency people if I called them without his authorization..
Yeah, he was a bit eccentric, to say the least.
Not like I really cared to give any details, but aside from his prior existing health issues, he basically died from swallowing grits and eggs that were way too hot and he basically boiled his esophagus.
What's worse is that he was old and stubborn and refused to go to the hospital for like 5 months, and he spent the last month of his life finally in the hospital, but way too late. ☹️💀
TL;Please Don't Read - Make damn sure your food ain't too hot.
Ouch. Good luck with that 🤞
LOL, I know, I was trained to use an old-school industrial lathe and milling machine in high school back around the year 2000.
You know those memeish signs that basically says don't stick your dick in the machine? Yeah, I think the Nokia 3310 was tougher than the average human male sausage and potatoes..
But you didn't answer the most important question. Did the lathe survive? 🤔
Indeed, and understandable. Modern AI does tend to do fairly well these days, but obviously no system is ever going to be perfect.
Not even our own ears are perfect. That's why humans have the sense to ask questions sometimes, like "Hold up, I didn't understand you, what did you just say?"
And if you check my other comments, you'll catch an interesting story of mine over the misunderstanding of a simple spoken vowel..
Meh, true that. Hell, I dunno how to properly cross post on Lemmy, nor do I bother doing that anyways so whatever. 🤷♂️
Honestly I haven't studied foreign languages all that much, but I've heard the accents that come from a variety of regions and countries.
The last time I got confused about anything spoken in English by an Indian man, I mistook 'tiles' as 'towels'.
I totally lost out on a tile installation job offer over that, because of a misunderstanding over what's basically the pronunciation of a particular vowel.
Like, in the back of my head, I'm wondering why this hotel owner is telling me he's updating his towels, when really he said tiles. He was offering me a job..
I didn't find out until he got others to do all the work ☹️
Vowels can be extremely important in communication...
Seriously, what the fuck is this?
They are strays at our city park, some heartless prick dropped them off around last April. They need a forever home, somewhere with a wide open but fenced in field to play. And yes, they must be adopted together.
We do what we can in the meantime, keep them fed, watered and cleaned up. But we cannot adopt them, apartment rules forbid it, plus they're too hyperactive to stay indoors for long.
Edit: They're both males.
Clearly it ain't scissors, but what actually is it?
Edit: Found!
Miniature Faux Clamps Pretend Play Medical Doctor Play Toy
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1741522236/miniature-faux-clamps-pretend-play
That's actually my old hairbrush. I just pressure washed it, so it's totally clean. The faded ends of the bristles are because the brush itself is over 25 years old.
Yup