This is beyond ludicrous, @elonmusk. This is exactly the kind of colonial attitude we are sick of!! Just because the Maldives is a small country with a smaller language community doesn’t make Dhivehi disposable. Don’t demean us with these mangled, machine‑generated caricatures of our language. If you can’t be bothered to treat Dhivehi with basic respect, then stop translating altogether…or hire actual Dhivehi‑speaking Maldivians to build a proper system. We’re not here to be patronised by tech bros who think “small” means “inferior”!!
BREAKING: Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei says that the US and Israel had believed that after one or two days of attacks, the Iranian people would overthrow the government, but that had been a “gross miscalculation.”
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Japan’s PM BLUNT on taking sides in Iran–US–Israel conflict
When questioned by an opposition lawmaker on why she condemned Iran but not the US or Israel, PM Sanae Takaichi replied:
‘Because I am meeting President Trump shorty. That’s all’
She then shrugged and stepped away
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Today, visitors and locals can easily reach both remote and nearby islands via air-conditioned speedboat ferries operated by RTL or on private speedboats. In earlier times, these journeys were undertaken on traditional vessels like dhoanis and baththels, which offered none of the amenities found in modern speedboats—some provided no shade whatsoever against the relentless tropical sun.
This photograph was captured by Professor Clarence Maloney, an American anthropologist who carried out fieldwork in the Maldives from 1974 to 1977. I'm unsure which island the dhoani in the image hailed from. The photo was shared with me by my friend, Professor Frank Heidemann, a German social anthropologist.