Eirick

Professional Photographer turned Computer Scientist. he/him

[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.

[Eirick @edlphotographic]

@RachelBitecofer Maybe that data center in Russia that Ukraine blew up had removed a lot of Maga

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they've exhausted all other options." — Winston Churchill

[Eirick @edlphotographic]

@cineculture_x I wonder why the studio couldn't make the executive take a pay cut to ensure the workers were paid fairly.

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@therealcraigr @hollyrandall Birthday twins.

[Eirick @edlphotographic]

@deesnider @MTV @TwistedSisterNY My guess is that it was funded by someone who is interested in sanitizing history.

[Eirick @edlphotographic]

@Justplaying76 This is right next door. And on my Birthday. Beautiful.

[Eirick @edlphotographic]

@HollyHotwife @vincentjonesxxx Ok that's awesome. We are birthday twins.

[FiveThirtyEight @FiveThirtyEight]

Arizona's measure protecting access to abortion will pass, ABC News projects.

The measure establishes a constitutional right to abortion until viability, with exceptions for later pregnancies.

Follow live updates: https://t.co/7uqncCg20T

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Live from New York, it's Saturday night.

[Tom Winter @Tom_Winter]

NEW: The FBI, ODNI, and CISA say two videos spread online -- one purporting to show a man from Haiti voting illegally in Georgia and one accusing someone associated with Harris' ticket of taking a bribe from a U.S. entertainer -- are fake. And they say they were made by Russia.

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[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Inflation has now fallen to 2.1% – nearly at its 2% target.

While critics said we needed a recession to lower inflation, we did it while creating 16 million jobs and growing our economy at the fastest rate of any presidential term in the 21st century.

[Team Katie @TeamKatiePorter]

Calling all families with fourth-graders 📢

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@OAK_Updates, @JrRangerTigran, and I wrote about our work to expand this program and get more kids outdoors. 👇

[Whats Up Tucson @whatsuptucson]

From my DMs:

"Hi, I found an SD card while on a hike on the David Yetman trail. It has some beautiful pictures including some of these grad photos. I’m trying to find the owner of the SD card. If I tweet you with this information, will you share it on your page?"

[Arizona Daily Star @TucsonStar]

Delivery of some mail-in ballots in Pima County delayed https://t.co/3RJ2mOSqma

[Brian Jordan Alvarez @brianjoralvarez]

What if there is literally no way to miss out on or waste your life. What if laying in bed or playing on your phone is just as interesting and full of life as “getting out there“ and “doing it“

[Eirick @edlphotographic]

@killedbygoogle I remember how well this worked when MA Bell was broken up. Not sure if this is a good idea...

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Excellent guide on who to block if you’d like to stop disinformation from popping up in your feed. Musk is on that list.