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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾<p>Dear gawd I know Google Translate can be dire, but man this is the most dire I've seen yet lol!</p><p>Original text:<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/%E5%88%98%E5%AD%A6%E4%B9%89%E7%BB%88%E4%BA%8E%E5%88%87%E5%A4%A7%E5%8F%B7%E4%BA%86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>刘学义终于切大号了</span></a>#<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/%E6%BA%90%E4%BB%B2%E7%BB%88%E4%BA%8E%E5%88%87%E5%A4%A7%E5%8F%B7%E4%BA%86" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>源仲终于切大号了</span></a># 《念无双》剧情的发展节奏还是很快速的呀,这次刘学义出演的源仲终于切大号了,有狐族大祭司源仲终于可以上线了! 热剧观察的微博视频</p><p>Anyway, the translation (according to Deep Seek) is:<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Liu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liu</span></a> Xueyi Finally Switches to His Main Account# <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Yuan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yuan</span></a> Zhong Finally Switches to His Main Account# The plot development of A Moment But Forever is really fast-paced! This time, Liu Xueyi's character Yuan Zhong has finally switched to his main account, and the high priest of the fox tribe, Yuan Zhong, is finally making his appearance! [Hot Drama Watch's Weibo video]</p><p>"切大号" (qiē dà hào) literally means "switch to main account" - a gaming/metaphorical term referring to a character revealing their true/powerful identity. Yup, if you've seen the episode this came from you'd get it. LOL</p><p>There's a lot of slang on Weibo, and relying on Google Translate could literally get you the opposite meaning of what the poster is trying to say.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Cdrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cdrama</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LearningLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearningLanguages</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Mandarin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mandarin</span></a></p>
Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:<p>Thanks to Ian <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/Liu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liu</span></a> I discovered at <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/fosdem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fosdem</span></a> that <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a> has a “ministry of digital affairs”, which make them more resilient to cyberattacks while supporting the community effort of Taiwanese localisation for <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floss</span></a> software. Maybe in a couple of decades Italy will follow this good practice.</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>The Egyptian government may have given $10 million to Donald Trump in 2017, <br>♦️violating U.S. law<br>—but the investigation into the payment was <br>💥squashed by Attorney General William Barr. </p><p>The Washington Post reports, citing unnamed sources, that<br> an investigation began in 2017 that <a href="https://c.im/tags/Egyptian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Egyptian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/President" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>President</span></a> Abdel Fattah El Sisi ⭐️was seeking to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 election campaign. </p><p>Federal investigators discovered in 2019 that, only five days before Trump was sworn into office, <br>⭐️nearly $10 million in cash was withdrawn on behalf of an organization linked to Egyptian intelligence. </p><p>In the U.S., receiving funds from overseas is a federal crime. Federal investigators were trying to prove if any money actually moved from Egypt to Trump, <br>and 🔷if that had anything to do with Trump’s decision to boost his campaign in its final days with $10 million of his own money. </p><p>But the investigation was 🔥halted by Trump’s Justice Department, <br>which blocked FBI agents and prosecutors from accessing bank records that could provide the evidence. </p><p>In the fall of 2019, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a> questioned whether there were sufficient grounds for the investigation to continue. </p><p>Barr directed the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in D.C., Jessie <a href="https://c.im/tags/Liu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liu</span></a>, to examine the intelligence herself, <br>and instructed FBI Director Christopher <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wray</span></a> to provide “adult supervision” on FBI agents Barr said were “hell-bent” on pursuing Trump’s records. </p><p>Whether Wray (also appointed by Trump) did anything in response isn’t known, <br>but in June 2020, the prosecutor Barr chose to oversee the investigation, Michael <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sherwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sherwin</span></a>, closed it down, citing insufficient evidence. </p><p>👉 “Every American should be concerned about how this case ended,” said one of the Post’s sources. <br>“The Justice Department is supposed to follow evidence wherever it leads<br>—it does so all the time to determine if a crime occurred or not.”</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/184514/bill-barr-investigation-trump-egypt-sisi-millions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/post/184514/bi</span><span class="invisible">ll-barr-investigation-trump-egypt-sisi-millions</span></a></p>
Tech news from Canada<p>Kotaku: The New York Times' Latest Puzzle Seems Awfully Familiar <a href="https://kotaku.com/new-york-times-connections-only-connect-puzzle-wordle-1850553072" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kotaku.com/new-york-times-conn</span><span class="invisible">ections-only-connect-puzzle-wordle-1850553072</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/kotaku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kotaku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/victoriacorenmitchell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>victoriacorenmitchell</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/thenewyorktimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thenewyorktimes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/humanactivities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanactivities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/corenmitchell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corenmitchell</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/humanbehavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanbehavior</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/connections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>connections</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/onlyconnect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>onlyconnect</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/crossword" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crossword</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/tpuzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tpuzzle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/puzzles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>puzzles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/leisure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leisure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/liu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liu</span></a></p>
Megan Marie Hart<p>TURANDOT</p><p>Dramma lirico by Giacomo Puccini</p><p>🗓️ Dec. 29<br>🕢 19:30 <br>📍 Staatstheater Darmstadt</p><p>Turandot: Soojin Moon<br>Calaf: Aldo di Toro<br>Timur: Johannes Seokhoon Moon<br>Liù: Megan Marie Hart<br>Ping: Frederic Mörth<br>Pang: David Lee<br>Pong: Michael Pegher<br>Altoum: Lawrence Jordan<br>Mandarin: Myong-Yong Eom</p><p>Operachoir &amp; Staatsorchester Darmstadt<br>Conductor: Johannes Zahn<br>Stage director: Valentin Schwarz</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opera</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/turandot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>turandot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/puccini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>puccini</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/liu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Darmstadt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darmstadt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hessen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RheinMain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RheinMain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operaSinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>operaSinger</span></a></p><p>ℹ️ <a href="https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/turandot.464/#event-8719" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">staatstheater-darmstadt.de/ver</span><span class="invisible">anstaltungen/turandot.464/#event-8719</span></a></p>