Error'd: Trauma Bonding

During this, America's national season of shared trauma, ourregular contributor Mr. Bargle shares a bit of levity whichmay lighten your mood ever so slightly.

Argle Bargle explains

"My girlfriend is Thai. She speaks English, but not on anadvanced level, so when we chat, I typically translate toThai. I learned long ago to reverse the translation tomake sure the translation says what I meant. My girlfriendtook a leave of absence from her research position to bean entrepreneur. April 13-15 is the holiday of Songkran:Thailand's New Year celebration. She said she would toobusy to chat with me until the 15th. I mentioned that the15th is America's tax day. As a precaution, I translatedit and then reversed. The attached image is clearly notan error, but it's a helluva WTF. On the left is LOL...tax day in the USA in Thai. On the right is.... OMG."

Modernist Allie C. wonders "This is from my daily USPS delivery digest. How does an API deliver a package - maybe some new compression format?"Carrier pigeons, Allie. Lots and lots of carrier pigeons.

Rene remarks"Sure, there are checkboxes to turn a feature off; but acheckbox with a bare No labelis somewhat counterintuitive."

Confused Bart confesses"I have many questions. Was the problem report I was tryingto generate generated? And who or what generated the errormessage reporting on the generation of the error report?"

Gamer Phil B. catches Fortnite out"Talking about an early release ..."

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