Okay I’m so thuriughley confused by the people who read tsc and are hung up on the cheese drawer- isn’t that a normal thing? Like i thought everyone had a cheese drawer
As much as I want to be a wholly joyous about the fact that Henry Kissinger is finally fucking dead, as he deserves... There's a lot of me that can't help being upset with. With the fact that he lived to 100 years old. He got better medical care, better housing, and a better, more stable life for those 100 years than billions on this planet ever going to see and he did it specifically through exploitation, state sanctioned murder, and lies. He lived to 100 years comfortably on a legacy of violence that rarely threatened his personal comfort. I want to be joyous that he's finally dead, because the world IS better with him dead, but the reality is he won a long time ago.
“One of the jury members was the mother in law of Blanka and another one owns the dance studio where her dancers are employed. I’d rather not use the n-word but it does smell of nepotism”
- Swedish commentator about how Polands jury voting in their elections was rigged
Transgender people are now banned from legally changing their gender in Bulgaria, according to the country’s Supreme Court, which issued a ruling that is automatically binding on all other courts.
“The current law does not provide for the possibility for the court to allow the change of the data regarding the gender, name and uniform civil number in the acts of civil status of an applicant who claims to be transgender,” the decision states.
Until now, some Bulgarian judges assumed that the legislation in the country allows legal gender change, but only explicitly after a court decision.
In the Supreme Court, however, other judges ruled in the opposite direction, and the country was condemned several times in cases before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg for the lack of a clear regulation. (...)
The decision was dedicated to the sharp political and public debate on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, which was finally repelled after a campaign filled with misinformation spread by nationalist parties on social networks.
this isn't just a uk or north-america problem. it's worldwide, and that's not a coincidence. right-wingers everywhere are coordinating in suppressing trans people, sometimes as part of an open effort to also suppress all queer people and gender non-conformity, as well as abortion and equal rights for women; sometimes it's more covert (like in the uk). but here it's overt. the same tactics and use of social media, the same arguments, the same end goals--it isn't simply a usamerican conservative or uk terf thing. it's everywhere and in some countries the situation is becoming that much more dire with little pushback or acknowledgement.
Not to get controversial here but the fact that young queers capitalize on the AIDS crisis like it personally happened to them while also doing less than nothing to address a current pandemic is so shallow and disturbing, especially since newer research is showing that covid has some connection to autoimmune deficiency syndromes, and all the actionless verbiage about the importance of disability justice and the inherent plight to social justice queers see themselves as having becomes so clearly actionless.
It’s frankly foul to hype yourself up with some audacious belief that you would’ve crawled up on the steps of the US capitol screaming for the US government to acknowledge AIDS and HIV as legitimate, and to take proper precautions when this shit is HAPPENING and you are beyond silent. You expect me to believe you’d be some raging social justice activist when you can’t even put a piece of cloth on your face now? Get over yourself for real lmfao
In 2020, Uma Mirkhail got a firsthand demonstration of how damaging a bad translation can be.
A crisis translator specializing in Afghan languages, Mirkhail was working with a Pashto-speaking refugee who had fled Afghanistan. A U.S. court had denied the refugee’s asylum bid because her written application didn’t match the story told in the initial interviews.
In the interviews, the refugee had first maintained that she’d made it through one particular event alone, but the written statement seemed to reference other people with her at the time — a discrepancy large enough for a judge to reject her asylum claim.
After Mirkhail went over the documents, she saw what had gone wrong: An automated translation tool had swapped the “I” pronouns in the woman’s statement to “we.”
(...) Whether automated or not, translation flubs in Pashto and Dari have become commonplace. As recently as early April, the German Embassy to Afghanistan posted a tweet in Pashto decrying the Taliban’s ban on women working. The tweet was quickly ridiculed by native speakers, with some quote tweets claiming that not a single sentence was legible.
“Kindly please don’t insult our language. Thousands [of] Pashtun are living in Germany but still they don’t hire an expert for Pashto,” posted one user, researcher Afzal Zarghoni. The German Embassy later deleted the tweet.
Seemingly trivial translation errors can sometimes lead to harmful distortions when drafting asylum applications.