They didn't define "quality", which is a noun that decrees an adjective is present? The missing comma about halfway through? The oxford comma opportunity? The fact the sentence is incorrect on the surface level by making an assumption that any translator does those actions?

I am an old dinosaur. The subtitles I was raised on kept all honorifics. They kept all cultural references, and put a little note across the top of the screen in tinier subtitle font explaining it. They sometimes even just explained a pun or a wordplay with a translator note. That is how I know hana can mean flower or nose, kitte can be stamp or cut.

And sometimes, yes, the translation said "All According To Keikaku (TL note: Keikaku means Plan)". Which is dumb and was memed on. But hey, learned a new word, and didn't lose the meaning of the story.

Nowadays, you get the lolcowlizers subtitling in "hey sissy" for "Ohaiyo gozaimasu, Onee-sama".

Objectification certainly does exist: In Vietnam, when leading generals were discussing strategies that involved gassing their own troops, acceptable losses and whatnot, that was reducing the men involved into merely active objects.

Objectification of women, though, not nearly so common. For they are viewed as so inherently valuable, that an active effort to reduce that perception is still giving special consideration.

I hereby lay claim to all albinism. White alligator eats someone? Blame whitey.

"It is optional. We will come for you if you do not comply." really has that COVID-era energy to it, doesn't it?

"You should show respect to your superiors." (machine translation) was translated into English as (by the localizers) "You're one of those GamerGate Freakshows, aren't you?".

The point of the conversation isn't "The Machine-God Hath Spoken, All Praise The Machine-God!", it's "Fuck it, machine translating everything then just giving it a once-over for legibility is 99% chance better than what they're actively doing right now."

I tried running the image through a secondary art AI as a reference image and just re-iterated the description of the work as the prompt, but it didn't work well. The baseline is just too vague for it, it had a lot of trouble parsing what that hat was, and what was going on with the gloves, which it turned into some kind of hip decorations and just made new hands/arms.

As a test, I tried translating "I no longer keep track of my kills, I am a tool merely for my master's use." into Japanese, and then back into English, to hopefully approximate AI's translation, which I will then compare with what the localizers did in Fire Emblem to a very similarly spirited speech made by a ninja:

Machine Translation: "I don't keep a record of my killings anymore, I'm just a tool for my master to use."

Actual Highly Paid Left-wingnut Localizer Translation: "..." "..." "..." "..." "..."

So, you know, hmm, hard to judgement call it, but I'd say the machine translation MIGHT get across the gist of the message a bit clearer than what those propagandizing SJWs do.

I'll take a latka cake... AND EAT IT!

He was literally drawing the Statue of David, the ur-example of "artistic nude", at the time.

Anesthesia with in-vitro fertilization procedures on a naturapath kick not wanting to metallically insert a baster instead, could have validity. 99.999% isn't 100%.

I believe the act of creating life, then going "nah, torch it or something IDK", is known in some circles as "Playing God".

"How can we blame video games for this clear case of psychological torture causing the victim to lash out against their aggressor?" is unfortunately out of vogue, too many normie mainstream gamers now pretending Elden Ring is the hardest and most violentest game evar, so it'd become too immediately obvious the journos were full of shit, as they always are.

I remember one school shooting case, someone actually had the audacity to stand on camera and say "I knew [the shooter] was a bad guy, that's why I stole from him and beat him. The fact he later shot up the school, wow, see, my actions were justified!"

"A sudden explosion killed 10, including a promising austere religious scholar, preaching at the time about the word of his peace god of peaceful peace."

Hey, it's not like 6% (and those are who admitted to committing a felony) of the overall vote could swing an election that's almost always 49-51, could it?

Don't put yourself down like that. Your comment isn't retarded, it's just... trying its best.

Anyone who categorizes a procedure as "100% always bad, never do it, or 100% always good, no matter the circumstances, nothing between" is lying to themselves.

Barbers cut pieces off you all the time, your hair. By their logic, that must mean they must be fine with barbers cutting other chunks off you too.

Doctors giving known poisons to patients? What we call "Rat poison" is one of the most common things doctors will give patients as a blood thinner if that is called for.

A drug that'll turn your brain off? Anesthetic, I mean, pretty important to turn people's brains off during some of those surgeries.

Everything has context. Even chemical castration, the procedure that many "trans" people undergo nowadays, was at one point a known punishment for pedophelia and/or sexual assault to at least mitigate some of those potential damages in future, a (questionably, depending on your hard-on-crime levels) valid medical use of the tech.

If the USA annexes Mexico, all Mexicans get to be anchor parents and "undocumented migrants" to America, AND they can pay for a wall along a random stretch of land within the American nation.

Of course Scrooge was hated by the Left: He was a middle class single business owner who employed locally rather than outsource to China.

Scrooge's trauma is just that: trauma. He has PTSD over Christmas. Everything bad happens then. His breakup. The deaths. His father. The dude has legit mental illness, and because it IS legit mental illness, the left hates him for it. And it takes three spirits to basically shock therapy him back into normalcy: Past identifies his problems and makes him acknowledge those problems. Present identifies his current lifestyle and his pathos, and alternatives he can take to his current lifestyle choices. And Future explains how it leads to a negative space. That's... Just alcoholism counseling.

EDIT: A major plot point in the movie is Scrooge doubting the ghost of his business partner, because he worries of food poisoning. "There is more gravy than grave to you, good sir.". Scrooge doesn't have the money to buy properly preserved and safe food, he's immediately fully expecting potato blight hallucinations because of his buying habits. Look at ANY rich person... Even the ones who "totally live like normal people" ain't buying moldy potatoes to save a few cents.

Not your age. It's the next generation. You'll just be the right-wing equivalent of the hippie geezer.

You notice that it's always interacting with little kids, to prove they're members of society or some shit. It's never "Drag Queen #Trashtag Challenge" or "Drag Queen Public Street Cleaning Hour".

Amazing how it happens in Ohio and not some more densely populated state...

Well, I wouldn't want to donate to a charity that had systems in place to be too white and privileged in the first place.

If it's dominated by white and privileged by chance or by natural consequence of competence factors, that's one thing, but if they're admitting they did something naughty by sacking them all, that's clearly an admission they were all the ists and isms. I hope they go bankrupt, showcasing their evil by firing those people.

So it'll cost a few resources... C'mon, man, what's the worst that happened to the Irish if they lost a few potatoes to feed some foreign mouths?

One of the "Stars": Star Wars, Star Trek, or Star Gate. Or you know what, even Star Craft.

Sci-fi is incredibly important in driving technological innovations and inventions. It's amazing what people see as a fantasy on screen, and then go "but how could that happen for real?". And of the science fictions, Trek and Wars are likely the most influential, though one is more space fantasy, they both still inspired programmers and scientists and engineers alike.

My future comfort, my future health, my future convenience, all are at risk because Star Trek sucks now. Which is a VERY weird thing to say, but oddly enough, is true. The fewer inspired inventors, scientists, engineers, and programmers we have, the worse off we all are, opportunity-cost-wise.