spoon is too big

[Overly Trev’s Future @OverlyTrev]

SpaceX Caught Ship 42 and I got Emotional

[CombatPigeon96 🚀 @CombatPigeon96]

OHHHH MY GODDDD

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

WHAT DID I JUST WITNESS?!?!? I just watched a Starship reenter after over 22 hours in orbit AND GOT CAUGHT BY THE TOWER!!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! Huge congrats @SpaceX @elonmusk

[LEC @LEC1224]

Mänskligheten levlade just upp och jag fick leva för att se det.

[Techniques Spatiales @TechSpatiales]

Voici un engin de 52m de haut et de 100t qui fait des cabrioles dans le ciel.
Et qui se fait attraper par une tour de lancement.
Après avoir passé 24h sur orbite.
Et mis plus de 35t de satellites sur orbite.
On est enfin au 21è siècle.

[Nerdrotic @Nerdrotics]

Winner

[spoon is too big @Curtainclanger]

#RXTRON

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[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

My friend Ayako has translated American movies and TV shows into Japanese subtitles for 22 years.

Above her desk, taped to the wall, is a handwritten list.

"American sentences that do not exist in Japanese."

She let me copy it.

1. "I'm good."
Means yes. Means no. Means I'm full, I'm fine, I'm leaving, and please stop asking. She has translated it 31 different ways. She thinks she was right about half the time.

2. "Bless your heart."
She translated it as a blessing for six years. Then a woman from Alabama explained it to her, very sweetly. She had to go back and fix four movies.

3. "Hold my beer."
Japanese has no phrase for the moment right before a man does something stupid for a cheering crowd. She subtitled it "Someone please call an ambulance." Nobody has ever complained.

4. "Love you, bye."
American men say this to their fathers. On the phone. Fast. Like "see you later." In Japanese, "I love you" to your father is a deathbed sentence. The first time she subtitled it, the whole Japanese audience thought the father was dying.

He was asking about the Cowboys game.

5. "Come here."
An American sees someone crying, says two words, and opens his arms. In Japan, we ask "Are you okay?" and look very carefully at the floor.

6. "Proud of you, kid."
Japanese has the words. Japanese fathers just don't use them. Ayako has typed this line more than 400 times. She had heard it in her own house zero times.

Her father is 78. A retired machinist. The quietest man I know. He speaks maybe ten words of English.

Last spring, he went to see a movie she had translated. Alone. He didn't tell anyone.

That night, her phone rang.

He said it in English. Exactly the way the American dad said it on the screen.

"Proud of you, kid."

Then he hung up. Immediately. Before she could say a word.

Japanese fathers have not changed that much.

She sat on her kitchen floor for an hour.

He didn't say it in English because he forgot the Japanese.

He said it in English because in English, it was allowed.

America, you think you're just talking. Love you, bye. Come here. Proud of you.

You've been handing the whole world words we didn't know we were allowed to say.

Some of us are finally using them.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

We survived Obama

We survived Biden

Get up

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

This guy flew too close to the sun and got suspended.

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

There's a saying on American social media:

"Be the American that Japanese people think you are."

I'm Japanese. I've lived in Tokyo my whole life.

So let me tell you what we actually say about you, when you're not in the room.

"When someone falls down on the street, we pretend not to see. We're protecting their pride. Americans run straight at them. They don't care about the pride. They care about the knee." (Office worker, 38)

"An American will stop four lanes of traffic for a family of ducks. And then everyone in the cars claps for the ducks." (Taxi driver, 61)

"If you lend an American a pen, you will never see it again. If you need a kidney, they'll ask your blood type." (Nurse, 45)

"At kids' soccer games, they cheer when the other team's kid scores. The other team's parents look confused. Then they cheer too." (Youth soccer coach, 52, lived one year in Ohio)

"A man sneezed on a bus in Chicago. Eleven strangers said 'Bless you.' He said 'thank you' eleven times. Nobody on that bus thought this was strange." (University student, 21)

"At an airport in Texas, I watched a soldier try to pay for his lunch. The cashier said someone already had. He asked who. She said, 'Somebody who didn't want you to know.'" (Retired teacher, 70)

"American fathers cannot braid hair. But they will watch a video at midnight for an hour so their daughter's hair looks right on picture day." (Hair stylist, 33)

"I ran the Chicago Marathon once. Strangers stood in the cold for hours holding signs for people they will never meet. At mile 20, a man I'd never seen read the name off my bib and screamed it like he'd raised me." (Runner, 48)

"When Americans get lost, they ask a stranger. If the stranger is also lost, they become a team." (Tour guide, 39)

"They ask the waitress her name. And then they remember it." (Restaurant owner, 66)

And one more. From my father. He's 76. He doesn't say much about anything. This is the longest thing I have ever heard him say about another country.

"Every time something terrible happens in America, I watch the news, and I look for one thing.

The people running toward it.

There are always so many."

So, America.

You don't have to become the Americans we think you are.

We're not imagining you.

We're remembering you.

[Stolzer 🍯🐝 @Stolzler91]

"Only a Sith cares for White People"

[New California Neighbor! @NewCaliNeighbor]

"I didn't 'sell' your mother Ani! I only LEVERAGED her asset value by getting a reverse mortgage on her. I'm getting older, I earned my retirement, and I want to take an all inclusive star cruise around Bespin!

[Wizard of the Swamp @OfSwamp56903]

They're my credits, Anakin! I paid into the system! The Republic owes me those credits!

[Adeptus Liberatus @theRWMillennial]

How can I be expected to take care of my daily responsibilities when I have to like all of these all-time Anakin bangers?

[Angus M @dirtman]

This is the future the Jedi stole from you

[Zeion Achillor @ZeionAchillor]

"Your thoughts dwell on your mother."

"I miss her."

"Afraid to lose her, I think, mmm?"

"What has that got to do with anything?"

"Everything. Extremely dangerous to our democracy, this is."

[Cinder Mountain @CinderMountain]

Desert primatives killed Anakin's mother.

Universal healthcare killed Anakin's wife.

A corrupt, multicultural Republic stole Anakin's future

A self-indulgent religion lead by feckless cowards constantly ridiculed Anakin's aspirations.

His Empire ruled the galaxy.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

“But the people voted for endless immigration! This is a democracy!”