Lost in translation?
When I used voice search on Google and said the word “Democrats,” Google translated it as “demon crabs.”
Hmmmm.
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When I used voice search on Google and said the word “Democrats,” Google translated it as “demon crabs.”
Hmmmm.
Sounds accurate.
If you want some hilarity for the day, first read the letter from the Poynter Institute editor:
https://www.poynter.org/letter-from-the-editor/2019/letter-from-the-editor/
And then get a better idea of what happened from this Hot Air entry:
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/05/03/poynter-blacklist-unreliable-news-sites-turned-unreliable/
Ha, ha. Democrats were certainly crabby in the Senate on Wednesday. Maybe Google is really up-to-date.
Jordon B Peterson often speaks of lobsters and hierarchies, but demon crabs, that’s a malevolent match, almost an evil hegemony.
DemonRats would have been much more suitable.
I’ve heard folks refer to the Dems as Demon Rats.
They seem to epitomize “crab mentality”: “if I can’t have it, neither can you.”
Our phone service transcribes voice messages and sends them to emai (I never pick up my phone unless caller ID shows someone I know).
We sometimes send the more hilarious ones back to the caller with our answer.
The geeky side is that voice recognition software doesn’t always work well with regional accents, although the problem more often comes from someone talking too fast and/or not enunciating clearly (that is, it applies to just about everyone in the world today).
My favorite is the Denver politician Ed Perlmutter, whose ads claim to come from Ed Pro Moter.
Edward – well, that list didn’t last very long. Who knew there were that many (500+) sites even claiming to be news (and some of those included were not; they are thinktanks) — how many more are out there that were not included?
(Left wing, of course; they seem to have swept up all the right wingers.)
I intend to peruse the list and pick up some more reading material, now that I know who the Left disapproves of most.
Here’s the archive of the pulled post (pulled pork?), via one of the linked stories.
Grab it before it goes dark.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190430181750/https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/unreliable-news-index/
Demon Rats. That is a Demoncrat Neo.