Seems like that would massively depend on the length of your hair.

USA during WW2: concentration camp. Only for the Japanese, though, Germans were A-OK!

Does it? OCR is still pretty bad, it’s definitely going to be more annoying than plaintext. It might be worth it, but that doesn’t really make it that much less of a pain in the ass to deal with. You might need to use symbols that aren’t alphanumeric (along the lines of QR codes) to make the conversion to plaintext more reliable. I don’t think we have something like that right now.

What if you start sending encrypted letters and don’t write your name on it anywhere? Though that would definitely be annoying for the recipient.

Well, if not talking about disability is more important to her than getting more money … though she sounds like the type who will just pester you for additional money if she falls short.

Oh yeah. It sucks trying to search for tips, solutions etc. when you only know the localized terms, and it’s rare that help resources in different languages are even somewhat useful and up-to-date.

Also, localized voice acting tends to be lame. For one reason or another they’re rarely as good as the original ones. Conversely, I found that German voice acting for games that were originally written in German can be quite good - it seems that localization just doesn’t have the same energy as the original.

I suppose I’m relatively spoiled as a German.

FAAMG or whatever they call themselves now) are now laying off massive amounts of workers to replace them with poorly implemented AI.

I do remember setting my webbrowser to English to avoid YouTube’s absurd automatic title translations, and that was before the LLM hype …

Other countries pass laws that require big majorities all the time. Why are 40+% of senators against it in the first place?

Trying to identify the one issue that prevents sensible laws seems like a fool’s errand to me.

Fairly obvious if you grew up in a non-anglophone country. It’s part of the reason why certain kinds of people set their machines to English even if everything is localized well. And it’s not just error messages, most of the good learning material is in English, too, especially for niche or very recent software.

Makes me wonder what kind of device you’re using in the shower, though.

Same with Robert ‘Muller’. His name’s spelled Mueller, so by German language rules it would seem it should be pronounced ‘Müller’ (‘ue’ in English being a substitute for the umlauted ‘u’).

This one gets a pass from me because the German vowel “ü” doesn’t exist in English. Are you going to complain to ze Germans that they can’t natively pronounce the th, too?

Israel is in Asia.

In February 2024, Epstein, along with four other Jewish elected officials from New York (Liz Krueger, Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Brad Lander and Lincoln Restler), signed an open letter on the Gaza war. The letter condemned Hamas and other groups in the Middle East for attacking Israel and seeking to foment antisemitism and anti-Zionism around the world, while also criticizing the Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu for civilian deaths in Gaza, its settlement policy in the West Bank, and leniency towards violence by Israeli settlers. The letter’s signatories called for the Israeli government to prioritize negotiations to release hostages held in Gaza and voiced support for a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.[6]

Seems like a somewhat decent guy for a politician, too.

There was a reddit sub called r/196. It’s kind of free-form, but the community is definitely LGBT+-friendly (as is the whole blahaj server) and has a lot of queer-themed memes.

!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is pretty good

AFAIK, freight trucks/lorries can contact each other, through radio. But imagine how much worse road rage would be if you could shit-talk other drivers over radio. Would be funny, though.

Many (maybe most) non-anglophones are already doing that …

… depending on your definition of “local”. Where are the big anglophone servers located, anyway?

Do they show any kind of remorse, like “I didn’t think it would be that bad”, denial “I don’t believe [bad thing] actually happened”, or are they straight-up going “serves them right, fuck them kids”? If it’s the third option, I wouldn’t even let them into my house anymore.

Did they also pick the car rental company for, assuming there is more than one option in your area? Increasingly sounds like nepotism or similar …

Maybe they don’t have faith in your choice of car or diligence with keeping it presentable.

Or maybe someone is doing a nepotism.

Silence, peasant!