Selfies of woman "dripping in diamonds" on cruise led to her arrest for jewelry theft, police say
https://lemmy.world/post/32069231
Selfies of woman "dripping in diamonds" on cruise led to her arrest for jewelry theft, police say - Lemmy.World
Lucy Roberts managed a jewelry store for a year and would bring jewelry home
with her, falsifying inventory records. She left the job and later went on a
cruise, sending selfies to her former coworkers and telling them how much fun
she was having. Police arrested her at the airport when she returned to the UK.
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system
https://lemmy.world/post/31314429
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system - Lemmy.World
Crossposted from https://mander.xyz/post/31996365
[https://mander.xyz/post/31996365] Have your fingers ready for scrolling! Or you
can click the little icon in the bottom right to have it move automatically at
the (scaled) speed of light, but at this scale it’s slow. Or you can click the
symbols at the top to jump directly from planet to planet.
What English translation of _The Three Musketeers_ do you like?
https://lemmy.world/post/30929378
What English translation of _The Three Musketeers_ do you like? - Lemmy.World
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/30928435
[https://lemmy.world/post/30928435] ----- In middle school I read The Three
Musketeers and enjoyed it overall. Later in high school a movie adaptation of
The Count of Monte Cristo was released and I enjoyed it enough to read the book.
I feel like I lucked out in picking up the Robin Buss translation. It was a
recent translation based on the most complete original texts he could find. He
explained how the first anonymous English translations would sometimes edit the
story to fit English sensibilities of the era or simply not be very good at
translation. The book is full of endnotes explaining things, like references
that would’ve been obvious to contemporary readers but are largely lost to
anglophones over a century later, or things that simply don’t translate well,
like an important scene where a character uses the formal vous tense instead of
the informal/familiar tu tense but this distinction doesn’t exist in modern
English. It made me want to re-read The Three Musketeers in a translation by
Buss, but the only other Dumas work he translated before his death at the age of
67 in 2006 was The Black Tulip. Have you read Buss’s translation of The Count of
Monte Cristo? Have you found a similar translation you liked for The Three
Musketeers? Searching online the most helpful listings I’ve found are a couple
old Reddit threads where it seems like the two recommendations are those by
Richard Pevear or Lawrence Ellsworth.
@manxu@piefed.social explores the human flaws that undermine online dating
https://lemmy.world/post/30633457
@manxu@piefed.social explores the human flaws that undermine online dating - Lemmy.World
@manxu@piefed.social [/u/manxu@piefed.social] previously worked on a dating app
for a large Internet corporation and got some interesting insights as they
examined the data from their service
Lost and Found: The Unexpected Journey of the MingKwai Typewriter
https://lemmy.world/post/30453689
Lost and Found: The Unexpected Journey of the MingKwai Typewriter - Lemmy.World
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/30443525
[https://lemmy.world/post/30443525] A fascinating history of a unique prototype
for typing the Chinese language long thought lost
[Admiral Wonderboat] Physical Media Forever
https://lemmy.world/post/30401961
[Admiral Wonderboat] Physical Media Forever - Lemmy.World
@admiralwonderboat@mastodon.social [/u/admiralwonderboat@mastodon.social] among
other places Alt text ::: spoiler Spoiler Jen is loading DVD’s into a donation
box. Admiral: Stop!! You can’t get rid of our DVD’s! What if the streaming sites
go down?! - Admiral: What’ll we watch if there’s an apocalypse? The NEWS?! Jen:
You’re right! DVD’s are essential for survival! - Admiral: We still have a DVD
player, right? Jen: I mean… probably :::
Found this old post. Wonder if they’re still using AOL?
https://lemmy.world/post/29937821
Found this old post. Wonder if they’re still using AOL? - Lemmy.World
Alt text: ::: spoiler Spoiler Overheard in the Newsroom post from May 18, 2016
Editor, while reading a viewer email: “Huh. A guy with an AOL email address
doesn’t like the new graphics. Imagine that.” :::
Once again: “a bad driver never misses their turn”
https://lemmy.world/post/29009800
Once again: “a bad driver never misses their turn” - Lemmy.World
And another bad driver will not be looking at the road and plow into multiple
people. Here’s a source from People magazine
[https://people.com/driver-does-worst-thing-highway-11726910]. > Drivers
involved in the crash suffered bumps and bruises but no life-threatening
injuries, [Fox 8] reported. Their vehicles were extensively damaged.
Moving Freight Train Hit by Tornado (2009)
https://lemmy.world/post/27520513
Moving Freight Train Hit by Tornado (2009) - Lemmy.World
Onboard camera in rear-facing engine recorded the event. No one was in that
engine, apparently the last of 4 hauling the train. No one was hurt on the
train.
