Sometimes they aren't even mistakes. A classic one is "Diet Water". In Japanese, the word "water", as in the English loan word that they have adopted, refers to flavoured health/energy drinks. They have a word for actual water, "mizu", as you might expect.

Google already has: https://fonts.google.com/

Not all made by Google, but all open source.

If you filter by language you can see that some languages are not very well covered.

What conspiracy? China has announced they plan to land humans "around 2030", and the progress they have shown on a lander suggests that they are on track for that. They have heavy lift rockets capable of performing the mission with lunar orbit rendezvous (the same as NASA is planning), and they have already soft landed probes and rovers on the moon. They have a history of sticking to their announced timescales, which tend to be conservative.

Therefore the question is if NASA can get there first. Starliner is floundering, SpaceX's Starship is ambitious and they have a lot of work to do (man rating, in-orbit refuelling, and likely an unmanned trip around the moon). Then Blue Origin or SpaceX need to demonstrate a working lander, and that likely means an automated landing and return to orbit before a crew can go. NASA also needs to demonstrate lunar orbit rendezvous for whatever craft they end up using too.

It's December 2025, so they probably have around 4-5 years maximum, although China may go even sooner.

At the moment I'd say it's even odds if it is a US or Chinese lander that touches down first.

There aren't many good open source fonts for Japanese. There weren't even that many good ones for Latin languages, until Google started releasing some under free licences.

By "good" I mean good coverage of all characters, proper keming, good hinting so that they render well and consistently on screen and in print, etc. It's a lot of work, and Japanese has a lot of characters.

We shall see I guess. I wouldn't put money on SpaceX being the first to land crew on the moon though. They are scheduled to do it second anyway, but I think Blue Origin has a better chance of having a lander ready for whenever NASA is good to go.

Depends how you count it. They did multiple practice attempts before managing to land New Glenn.

Blue Origin is impressive though, they seem to have a much better system than SpaceX. Their rocket can take larger diameter payloads than Falcon Heavy too.

It took every other company that has managed it a few attempts too. It's just hard. They did get their dummy payload to orbit this time, which is significant for this new rocket.

Note that they will be the first to land an orbital rocket. Other Chinese companies have landed sub-orbital boosters before.

They have a few firsts under their belt already. First methalox and first methane rockets to orbit, in the world. Fart powered rockets are pretty cool.

There was that period in the 2000s when faux Celtic symbols were popular. They looked cool for about 5 minutes, then they were too common.

Most people with Chinese characters don't seem to have bothered to figure out what the actual word they want is, they just pick some that sound kinda like the English version, or what some website claimed it was. Often they end up being kinda funny to people who can read Chinese. I met a guy who thought he had is name in Japanese on his arm, but it actually said "Paula".

Same goes for clothes. Super Dry print complete nonsense on their clothes, for some reason. Not even a mistake, it looks like they just randomly selected some text that looks cool from multiple sources, fragments of words here and there, and mashed them all together. At least my Japanese shirt that says "assumption is the mother of screw-up" is attempting to make sense.

It's supplementary information that the buyer should be aware of. If an area is liable to flood, they can look to see what measures the owner has put in place to prevent that, or if the elevation of that particular house is higher than the water is likely to rise.

Of course, even if that particular house doesn't flood, having a flood in that area is still a problem. It might limit the owner's ability to travel, it might cause utilities to be cut off for days on end.

It might also affect insurance. In the UK, if your house is within so many metres of a river or lake, you tend to pay more even if it has never flooded. Same with large trees near the property, which may fall on it in extreme weather, or cause its foundations to shift due to roots undermining them.

The main issue is that he doesn't communicate much. For years people have reported issues on GitHub, he hasn't interacted at all with them, but they get quietly fixed in the next release. That was fine until this happened, and people were scrambling to find malware-free versions, and looking for updates.

He put out a statement saying he would publish a new version with a new signing key, and at that time explain exactly what happened. So far there has been a beta with the new key, and no other updates, which is pretty much how he has always done things.

To make matters worse, people on Reddit and on Github have been pointing to versions they claim are not infected, but with little evidence beyond maybe a VirusTotal scan. Given the lack of information from the developer, it is unwise to trust them.

It's a shame because SmartTube is one of the best apps ever. YouTube, with ad blocking, SponsorBlock (skips over in-video ads), and DeArrow (replaced clickbait thumbnails and video titles with descriptive ones), and many quality of life features like disabling auto-translation and having easy access to playing videos incognito.

Hopefully it recovers quickly. Normally he gets updates out within days or even hours when YouTube breaks something, and it's been several days already.

Has it? They still operate in China, and Chinese law requires them to cooperate with the government, store Chinese user's cloud data in-country, and more.

Meanwhile Google did actually decide not to enter the Chinese market. Maybe you are getting them confused.

Last I checked the local government said so. They have indemnified waymo in every market they have launched their taxi service. I don't think that would hold up if they killed a human being, at least not one that isn't homeless, but so far it's held up for the more minor stuff that's happened.

Basically waymo cannot be cited for traffic violations and killing a pet is just a traffic violation. The most they could be held responsible for would be the value of the pet which is usually under $100.

It's that we all know this is a grift and we're all trying to figure out how the grift works.

I can think of a few possible things but I don't have enough of a finance background to really say for sure of what they are up to, but I know damn well that billionaires don't just hand out billions of dollars for the hell of it. There is a reason that Bill Gates is still one of the wealthiest people on the planet despite telling us 20 years ago he was going to give away his fortune.

Billionaires have been lying to us for as long as we've had billionaires, some of us just figured that out

But given this administration's history of corrupting everything they touch it's not something we should get behind from this administration because it's almost guaranteed to turn into some kind of scam that puts money in their pockets.

There is nothing wrong with a sovereign wealth fund per se if your government is relatively uncorrupted. Ours is not, the Trump administration is without a doubt the most corrupt and criminal administration in American history and that is saying a lot.

Simply put you cannot expect good things to come out of this administration even if the underlining ideas are fine. And I don't think that's any kind of exaggeration or partisan bickering. The Trump administration is openly murdering Venezuelan fishermen in the lead up to another war for oil without even the slightest pretexts. That alone should tell you we are in for a bad time. You don't have to be a genius to extrapolate from that data point and the dozens of other data points like the illegal tariffs or the huge bribes like the cryptocurrency or the jet Qatar gave the Trump or the fact that the taxpayer is going to be retro fitting that jet for his use...