Admittedly, I could be smarter and/or less sleep deprived, then maybe I wouldn’t be having trouble taking in all the technical information. So I’m not saying this is a bad article. But is there a thesis hidden somewhere (even a tl;dr, as the cool kids say)? I made it about half-way through without knowing what the actual problem is before I gave up (see above lack of smarts and sleep). I THINK it’s suboptimal audio quality? (Which, admittedly again, probability says it is, given this is about headphones)

tl;dr: me no brain good but me interested, eli5?

Weil ich kein Bock hab, von Ami-Kultur überrannt zu werden? Meinetwegen.

Both the US troops in Germany and the German speakers in the US speak English, they don’t need a translation. I don’t want a version tailored to me, I’m questioning why this one exists if they wouldn’t put thd effort in to tailor it to anyone.

Yes I want to keep my culture, that’s exactly my point. I don’t want bad translations pushing the US version. Bad enough that basically all the Christmas entertainment media we get is US centric. It would be so easy to include a sentence about local traditions in this translation but nobody put the effort in and I am left to wonder why the translation even exists in the first place.

I don’t blame you for not including my culture. I blame the translation that I feel confident in assuming is meant to be aimed at me for not including my culture.

I’m talking specifically about the translation. Are you saying the German and other versions are meant for a US audience?

That does make the process clearer, yes. Thank you.

If you’re implying I should read the article: I have.

I don’t get it. The kid called the wrong number - and that’s why that tracking thing exists. Huh?

What exactly are they “tracking” anyway?

Edit: in case you decide to continue reading this trainwreck, I only ask this one courtesy of you: be aware that my issue is with the translation and nothing else, least of all the tracker itself. Cheers.

Personal gripe: Looking at the actual tracker page noradsanta.org, I thought it was a funny idea to translate this very USian thing into other languages without, apparently, accounting for local traditions. It says, for example, that in most countries Santa Claus only comes when children sleep, between 9pm and midnight on 24th Dec. That’s not true for German traditions: we get our presents in the evening on Christmas Eve. He also doesn’t come down any chimneys. (In some places there isn’t even a “Santa Claus” who brings the presents but a kind of angel child figure vaguely associated with Jesus.)

Yes, it says “most countries” but the cynic in me can only see this as a kind of cultural imperialism where the US/Anglosphere tradition is given priority over any local one. I don’t even celebrate and I’m still annoyed…

(The translation is wonky in places too (“Jetzt kannst du mit dem Verfolgen des Weihnachtsmannes beginnen”), even ignoring the content not being localised, but oh well.)

Apparently they expect you to lead a team. A team of other people, not dogs or horses or birds or some such. Ew.

isolated uninhabited island

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A good knowledge of wildlife is required for the job,

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while excellent people skills are highly desirable.

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… okay…

If nothing else, it’s “look at all these people using our services, that’s proof we’re awesome, even on the free tier, so imagine what you’ll get if you pay us!” ¯\⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

modern revival of a similar invention featured at the 1970 Osaka Expo

Hurra.

I wasn’t seriously asking why, I was pretending to be offended that antifascists from eastern regions of Germany (“Ost”) are supposedly more important than those from western regions :) this whole affair is obviously ludicrous and nothing but an excuse to persecute and intimidate their opponents.

Antifa Ost

What, why specifically them? Are we not good enough? Time to burn some cars, comrades!

(dear friends in the US administration: this is a joke.)

I figured OP wants the former and who am I to deny them?

What do you mean, “using AI”? Did you vibe-code? Does the AI help with journalling? If the latter: who wants that?

Yes, Daleks are not robots, they’re squishy tentacle space nazis inside mobile battle casing pepperpots that they call War Machines. The Terminator T1 however looks vaguely like such a pepperpot if you squint and are Doctor Who brained.

Fyi: your title says Lilo, your text says Stich.