2023年12月4日 星期一

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“One of the reasons it’s moving from being a niche social media phrase into the mainstream is, it’s just fun to say,” he said. “When it comes off your tongue, there’s a little bit of joy that comes with it.”





Donald J. Trump


Everyone is asking why the recent presidential polls were so inaccurate when it came to me. Because they are FAKE, just like much of the Lamestream Media!
Facebook:Joe Biden 是 2020 年美國總統大選的預測當選人。
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Climbing will make its Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2020. Meet the people who will craft the routes for Olympians to scale

The sport's obstacle courses must be artfully designed
ECONOMIST.COM


Rock-climbing has gone mainstream


Is mainstream politics, as we know it, on the brink of extinction?

The new divide in rich countries is not between left and right, but between open and closed


How to fight back against anti-globalists
ECONOMIST.COM



When a Robot Is the Life of a Party


Improvements in technology for getting machines to talk and move about, as well as a drop in the price of components, have robots rolling into the consumer mainstream.

Video: Robots as Humans
Photos: Futuristic Robots, Past and Present
Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. We saw two examples of this last week. The first came when a new search engine - Cuil (www.cuil.com) - was unveiled. The launch was an old-style PR operation. Some influential bloggers and mainstream reporters had been briefed in advance, and whispers were circulating in cyberspace that this would be Something Big. Cuil would be the 'Google Killer' everyone had been waiting for.


High Tech Computer unveiled a new version of its popular "Touch" smartphone, as the Taiwanese firm seeks to challenge better-known rivals like Apple.



lamestream

leym-streem ]
Informal:

adjective

noting or relating to traditional print and broadcast media, when regarded as lacking the fairness, creativity, etc., of independent online news sources.
noting or relating to a person or thing that has achieved mainstream popularity but is perceived as no longer original, creative, etc.

noun

traditional print and broadcast media, when regarded as lacking fairness, creativity, etc.:The lamestream has suppressed information about the suicides.

unveil
verb [T]
1 to remove a curtain-like covering from a new statue, etc. at a formal ceremony in order to show the opening or completion of a new building or work of art:
The memorial to those who had died in the war was unveiled in 1948 by the Queen.

2 If you unveil something new, you show it or it make known for the first time:
A new government policy on forests is due to be unveiled in April.

Idioms & Phrases
life of the party
A lively, amusing person who is the center of attention at a social gathering. For example, Eileen was the life of the party, telling one good story after another . [First half of 1800s]

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