TIL: Today I Learned

[Takhisis]

And from MC's article, back to the Japanese and Jews:

After the Nazis gained power in Germany, Japan decided to not expel Jewish refugees from China, Manchuria, and Japan.​

Here in Buenos Aires there's still some (by now old) Jews who are nicknamed ‘the Japanese’ because they escaped from what used to be Poland-Lithuania with Japanese passports.

 

[Kaitzilla]

TIL Lion Air Flight 610 crashed and killed 189 people because the plane wrongly thought the nose was too high and pointed the nose at the ground.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air_Flight_610

The pilots fought the automatic system, but eventually lost because they weren't aware it existed and didn't know how to turn it off.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...ckId=signature-journalism-vi&imp_id=109371320

A nasty pop quiz, with your lives on the line.
The machine won.


Fallout from this might end up being severe.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...n-boeing-with-a-22-billion-jet-order-at-stake

The crash of a Boeing Co. plane that killed 189 people in Indonesia is spiraling into a $22 billion feud between the aircraft maker and one of Asia’s most influential aviation bosses.

In a rare public dispute between the planemaker and one of its biggest customers, the head of PT Lion Mentari Airlines has threatened to cancel an order for billions of dollars worth of jets because of what he says is Boeing’s unfair reaction to the crash.

The man standing up to the U.S. aviation giant is Rusdi Kirana, Lion Air’s owner, and while he was little known to the public outside Southeast Asia before the crash, he’s something of a legend in the industry. Eighteen years after he and his brother rented a Boeing 737-200 to start a service from Jakarta to Bali, Kirana, 55, has turned Lion Air into Indonesia’s largest airline, with one of the biggest order books in the world.

 

[Zkribbler]

Here in Buenos Aires there's still some (by now old) Jews who are nicknamed ‘the Japanese’ because they escaped from what used to be Poland-Lithuania with Japanese passports.

Now that's funny/

 

[Gori the Grey]

(from Lawrence O'Donnell): that every senator has an official office and then, separately, an unlabeled "hideaway" office!

 

[Takhisis]

Now that's funny/

Argentina's the only place I've ever met Yiddish-Spanish interpreters; believe it or not, there's still people who use Yiddish at home, enough that they have ridiculously stereotypical accents when speaking the vernacular outside the home.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

TIL Lion Air Flight 610 crashed and killed 189 people because the plane wrongly thought the nose was too high and pointed the nose at the ground.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air_Flight_610

The pilots fought the automatic system, but eventually lost because they weren't aware it existed and didn't know how to turn it off.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...ckId=signature-journalism-vi&imp_id=109371320

A nasty pop quiz, with your lives on the line.
The machine won.


Fallout from this might end up being severe.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...n-boeing-with-a-22-billion-jet-order-at-stake

Boeing has also been sued by the family of one of the victims of the crash in Chicago. The plaintiffs allege Boeing failed to adequately training and instructions in addition to defective instruments.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/us-lawsuit-blames-lion-air-crash-on-boeing-s-dangerous-airplane

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned that a band I hear on the radio every so often actually comes from a few towns over. Kind of neat.

 

[Zkribbler]

TIL Best Picture winner The Unforgiven was inspired by John Wayne's last movie The Shootist which was inspired by John Wesley Hardy.

 

[Old Hippy]

today learn that tomorrow is national popcorn day, Jan 19th... so make sure you have a big bowl of popcorn on hand...

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-popcorn-day-january-19/

 

[Zkribbler]

224 languages are spoken in Los Angeles (according to the LA Almanac). Last I heard, it was 110.

 

[Hrothbern]

224 languages are spoken in Los Angeles (according to the LA Almanac). Last I heard, it was 110.

It does matter how you count that

When you have for example some Ethiopians living in your city
Is that 1 language or almost a 100 languages (that Ethiopians speak)

 

[Zkribbler]

When you have for example some Ethiopians living in your city
Is that 1 language or almost a 100 languages (that Ethiopians speak)

I'v always seen these measure the primary language spoken in the home.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned that there's a programming language designed to be easily used by Pikachu.

 

[Hrothbern]

I'v always seen these measure the primary language spoken in the home.

Me too
And when those Ethiopians come from different tribes, they will speak different languages at home.

I lived for a while in a neighborhood in Amsterdam with around 35,000 people (orginally build in 1920 with 60,000 people).
The primary schools there had in total over 60 nationalities already. Especially African children with multiple languages.per nationality.

 

[Bamspeedy]

(from Lawrence O'Donnell): that every senator has an official office and then, separately, an unlabeled "hideaway" office!

The series 'Designated Survivor' had a senator who had a 'hideaway office' that was secretly converted into a bomb shelter. Still not plausible being a bomb shelter and all, but at least the 'hideaway offices' that someone can slip off to in 'seconds' is now more believable. (though being a freshman senator who would likely got an office far away in the basement, it's not likely he could make it from the senate floor to this 'office' in 6-8 seconds or whatever time it was in the show).

https://www.rollcall.com/news/-202612-1.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...e5a5b61/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eb51bc5258d5

 

[GoodSarmatian]

TIL that I've been mispronouncing my name in English for 20 years.
It's a yugo name with an a in the first syllable.
I always pronounced it like the a in can, but according to the podcast/youtube vids it's like the a in path.

 

[BenitoChavez]

always pronounced it like the a in can, but according to the podcast/youtube vids it's like the a in path.

But the a in can and path are pronounced the same. Maybe it depends on accents?

 

[yung.carl.jung]

I think he meant the "a" in path is more of a british "a" and the one in can is actually pronounced like an umlaut "ä"

cän

 

[GoodSarmatian]

But the a in can and path are pronounced the same. Maybe it depends on accents?

What ?!
No !?!

I think he meant the "a" in path is more of a british "a" and the one in can is actually pronounced like an umlaut "ä"

cän

Yes, that's it.
Can as German E or Ä, path as German A.

I blame the German school system. I was taught British English as proper English.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I was taught British English as proper English.

Yes, that was the fundamental problem....