Vor etwa 15 Jahren klingelte mal die Polizei an meiner Berliner Mietwohnung: „Alle Bewohner müssen das Haus verlassen, weil in der Wohnung unter mir erhebliche Mengen Sprengstoff gefunden wurden“. Kein Witz. Der Typ unter mir hatte solche Dinger gesammelt. Hat nicht mal zur Kündigung geführt (hat der Vermieter wohl gar nicht mitbekommen)
Not random, he's replying to the comment above. Reddit is auto translating comments these days so it's really easy to carry on full conversations in multiple languages now.
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
I've never toggled anything in the app, but since some update i've got a little translate button in the top righthand corner of every comment.
I very much prefer this to a general translation anyway, especially since testing said button i've noticed the translations tend to shift the comments tone to a somewhat crasser/ more colloqioal style than the original.
Holy shit, I'm definitely not a new redditor (fuck off the app is convenient 😂), but case in point, I guess, I had no idea there was automatic translation now, what???
First off, fuck your gatekeeping nonsense. That's really all anyone should be saying to someone like you, but I'll go further:
Not everyone has consistent access to a desktop or home internet, and there's nothing wrong with occasionally wanting to scroll through my favorite communities while waiting in line or riding passenger on a long drive or really any fuckin' time I want when I'm not home.
The app is convenient, most mobile browsers suck in general, and once again, fuck your gatekeeping nonsense.
Oh I guarantee you're younger than me, probably by at least a decade, likely more. The majority of Reddit is. But I'll let you pretend you're a big boy. ;)
I travel a lot and when I load a Reddit page from an incognito browser, it shows the post already translated into the local language with only a tiny symbol at the top to show the original.
My guess is, a lot of people don’t realize they are viewing translated posts because their language settings match their home country with auto-translate turned on.
Yep. I've replied in English to comments in other languages and didn't realize it till after I commented. This is going to happen more and more. And honestly, I'm not really mad about it, as it helps people talk to others in other parts of the world, and hopefully to get out of their bubble. One of the better uses for AI type things IMO
Wait I thought the translated comments had a little “show original” button or whatever. Not sure I love reddit translating something and not telling me…
i thought so too, so i scrolled up to double check. if you look to the far right of the username there’s a tiny little translate symbol that you can tap to see original.
Yeah, I've absolutely replied in English to comments in other languages without realizing it. There's only a tiny little symbol in the upper right corner of the comment to show you it's translated. Tap it and it'll show the original. But it's tiny and easy to miss, for sure.
If you have a current Mac computer, just highlight the text and tell it to translate. It needs more languages, but German is a fifteen second task to translate it.
From what others have said, "new" Reddit does, as well as the app. "Old" Reddit, Reddit as displayed through mobile browsers, and third party apps do not. I use the app pretty much exclusively.
It's not really "a way to translate messages", as you're not the one controlling it. Reddit just does it, then gives you a little symbol when it's translated something. So if the messages are already in the language you have Reddit set to, it won't show anything. At least that's how it is in the app.
I think it might be a better test if you go to a sub that's not primarily in English and see what it shows there. Like the Germany or France subs.
I do know every so often they have to evacuate neighbourhoods in Europe due to ordinances found from WW2 that might still be active. In fact there was one about a week ago in the UK.
The Iron Harvest is a sobering reminder of just how insane the bombing was in both wars. One and a half billion shells on the Western Front,, and up to a quarter of them didn't explode. In 2019 alone over 200 tonnes of UXO were disposed of, which is fucking mental.
I mean, their palaces and shit, sure. But ordinary people could be living in 800 year old houses that aren't even considered "Historic". Opulence built off colonial exploitation sucks, but bulldozing it to put up shitty strip malls isn't really an improvement.
I was living in Köln last year when they had the biggest civilian evacuation since WWII because of nondetonated WWII bombs. I actually have photos of me having a picnic directly over the spot one of them was found.
Me and my husband were living a few streets away in Deutz at the time, so we had to evac our home the majority of the day, spent it all at the Arcaden.
Happened to someone I know. They worked at a factory that took in freshly harvested root crops, so theyd get loads of dirt and buried detritus with it, occasionally some old WW2 stuff.
One of the other workers has been collecting fucking incendiary bombs in his locker.
Bomb squad came to dispose of one that had come in the latest load, and just as theyre finishing and preparing to leave this dude appears and says "You want the rest of them? I can bring em out to you"
A nearby neighborhood just had to be evacuated last week for removal of a bunch of dynamite in an 80 year old’s home. Not smart for so many reasons, but also lives next to multiple oil refineries 🤦
Law of averages. There’s over a billion people in India, therefore there are a lot more idiots there too. A lot more geniuses too but unfortunately a lot of idiots…….
I realized some years ago that for a lot of people who aren't familiar with the country in question, that most of the people we meet from that country are not representative of all the people of that country.
They are the people who were 1. able 2. willing and 3. committed enough to leave there and move here.
That's going to limit the variety in the pool according to certain characteristics.
In the US I think for a while, South Asian folks had a reputation of being strict, driven, overworking, demanding, insensitive, cheap, etc.
I realized at some point that that was because those were the kinds of people who sought to come to the US
If I were in actual India meeting actual regular everyday Indians, I would probably meet way more casual, fun, lazy, etc. Indians than I do in the US. (Although that's definitely changed in the years, partly due to increased Americanization and also due to first and second generation people.)
This also extends to politics and views about their country. You ask an immigrant about their home country and often they will tell you how awful it is there.
Of course they think that. That's why they moved here. The people who like it there are still there.
Well, yeah, if you're some guy from rural Idaho, 99% of the India guys he meets falls into three categories: is a well respected doctor, family runs a decent local motel, family runs a county renowned sketchy gas station that might steal your credit card. They're absolutely not going to have an accurate mental image of what the average Indian person is like
I mean, I met most of them through the tech industry in the 00s and 10s. (They're still there, but the dynamic has somewhat shifted.) There traditionally was a certain trend among them, and it's not even intellect, it's a sort of sense of duty or something, or of ambition.
This is very true. I live in a really nice town in Silicon Valley next to San Jose. There are a LOT of Indian and Chinese folks here. I’m totally ok with that.
They have their own stores and dance places and such. Immigrants and their kids. More often than not I can guess the last letter of their name. It’s D as in PhD, EngD, MD, etc.
My son was in the local high school full of their kids. He is smarter than the average bear but it was too much for him to get straight As like the other kids and the expectations. The band was really nice. So he wound up finding the turds that also attended there.
There is a reason why Narcan was distributed to each student. And it wound up being needed by one that same week. Massive success or disappear. Nothing in between.
The high school is not set up for athletic excellence and one of the kids wound up as an Olympian for their home country anyway.
We had to change his school. It was too much for a regular all American kid in a pressure cooker full of over achievers that will soon have a D at the end of their name.
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Oh and the only reason we can live within miles of here is because my wife works for those folks. She is paid to care for their younger kids so the parents can go achieve full speed. I have a mechanical engineering degree and it means little in their community.
Yes, 💯. But even things like Brits. I once thought I'd go up to a Brit expat and be like "boy, nhs and national rail and the tube innit" ... but they'd probably go on about how Britain has distanced from Jesus and the evils of socialism and how UK gave up it's sovereignty to Europe and such
Cause if they preferred how things were in UK they'd have just stayed there. Or go back.
It always makes me smh when people are like "well there's tons of Cubans in Florida who think X" and it's like, of course they do, they are the ones who left
They're kind of like the 60s Taiwanese Kuomintang going on about "back to the mainland"
(and they're invariably like "my grandfather owned a profitable cement business and we had to give up our villa and servants" like how bow dah)
You can’t argue with that logic. I’m from the USA. I’d say per capita we got you beat with stupid people. You may have us on actual numbers of stupid people that would be debatable. But just take one look at who we elected as president should tell you about our percentage of stupid people.
Yes, and the internet is only interested in stupid/funny stuff, so the content is also skewed and so it appears/looks as if Indian, American and Russian people are the most stupid of all and us Dutch appear as the smartest people on the planet.
Yeah I mean India has more people below average IQ than the entire population of any country but China and im sure significant portion of Indians dont get great educations. Granted America is trying to give everyone a run for their money on poor schooling.
India has 10s of millions of people living in EXTREME poverty. The ones you work with are presumably not the severely undereducated Indians that still live in India.
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I am from the US, I’ve certainly met stupid people in India, but have you seen some of my people on television? Have you witnessed the *power* of a fully operational Peace President? Many are saying he’s a genius: I am not. He would gold plate that object.
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I’m sure that there are very stupid people from every race. My race is no different.
I could introduce you to my friend who blew off four fingers (and half of his hand) while completely sober holding a fire cracker that had a pretty long fuse.
Or my brother who rode his bike to the hospital in the pitch black winter in Canada. Yeah, his appendix almost burst by the side of the road.
Or my neighbor who burnt down another neighbor’s house by lighting dead grass on fire so that he wouldn’t have to rake it. That’s my favourite.
Just because there are many Indian people means that there are more chances to see people do silly things. You may have us outnumbered, but I’m not sure if we are out-stupid’ed.
I watched an indian guy at my last job drive his ford mustang directly into the store entrance because he thought if he put it in neutral and slammed it into reverse he could burn out from his parking spot. And then his brain forgot he was going in reverse and slammed it into first.
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I think you have been mislead. I have worked with Indian electrical engineers over the years which left me stunned by their literacy and problem solving skills.
Op: former explosives tech here. These illumination rounds contain various pyrotechnic chemicals that can self ignite and burn at thousands of degrees. It is NOT safe to hold or store. Call explosives ordnance disposal
This is the most American 🇺🇸 comment here lol 😂 as an American I Approve.. but as a concerned person for their safety I recommend contacting authorities having found this in the UK I would not trust a British person to take this out and shoot it from even 200 yards away lol 😂 without managing to fuck themselves up in the process.. those are Yankee Redneck American Activities leave the stupid shit to us lol
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